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Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

...ed a protective "pouch" that should fit inside the portal vein, which feeds into the liver. This pouch would...structed the prototype, designed to fit inside the portal vein. This large blood vessel, about the diameter of an index finger, carries blood from the digesti...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...ass microbial life. To provide depth behind the portal page for each species, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium that holds most of the relevant scientific literature, will scan and digitize tens of millions of pages of the scientific literature that will offer open access to detailed ...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...searchers at KU in Korea will create an integrated portal environment for the computational pipeline using results of Korea National e-Science Project by the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST); and CNIC will develop a transparent web service layer for data access. USM will contribute its ...

NIH neuroscience microarray consortium launches high-throughput genotyping services

...CT. The Consortium can be accessed through its web portal at http://arrayconsortium.tgen.org . Initially funded in 2002 by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Microarray Consortium is now supported by these two inst...

Interaction between lymph and liver cells may affect immune response

...ypothesized that the fenestrations could provide a portal through which liver cells and T cells could interact or that the interaction could take place across gaps between LSECs. The study was conducted using mice whose livers had been injected with lymphocytes. The mouse livers were examined with two ty...

Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly

...t against diabetes. The mutant fly is serving as a portal for understanding the factors that determine how nutrition and stress set the foundation for metabolic syndrome and diabetes, why diabetes occurs more frequently as people age, and indeed why people live as long as they do. Dirk Bohmann, Ph.D., and ...

New GI technologies improve internal organ visualization

...ac axis, superior mesenteric artery, splenic vein, portal vein, splenic artery and hepatic veins. During the EUS, the researchers injected contrast to improve vascular visualization, and - performed angiography using several different gauge aspirate needles (19g, 22g and 25g). Pigs were then euthanized to...

New brain hormone puts brakes on reproduction

...ucing hypothalamus, which communicates via a blood portal with the anterior pituitary and stimulates production of the hormones gonadotropin, luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone. These hormones are dumped into the bloodstream and make their way to the gonads, where in males they stimulate ...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

...ERA will build on the NBCR software tools and user portal to explore the metagenomics data." NBCR has links to the UCSD School of Medicine, and co-investigator John Wooley is affiliated with the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. "Along with providing a novel approach to advancing funda...

Free access to a digital library for developing countries

...y, ecology and zoology will be available through a portal presented in several world languages, in-cluding Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. The project developing OARE is a partnership between Yale University, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the Food...

New cell transplantation technique restores insulin production in diabetics

...ultrasound guidance to inject donor cells into the portal vein of diabetic patients, which is accessed through the skin," said co-author Saravanan Krishnamoorthy, M.D., radiology resident at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. "This is a safe method of cell transplantation that could potentially bec...

Precise Timing Enabled Pig-to-rat Transplants To Cure Diabetes

...d -- directly into a key blood vessel known as the portal vein," Hammerman explains. In a collaboration with scientists at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Hammerman has received funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to transplant pig pancreatic primordia into diabetic primates. If th...

B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue

...formation is now available on Agilent's eArray web portal at earray.chem.agilent.com. On the same site, customers can examine the content of Agilent-manufactured commercial microarrays and design their own custom microarrays. Agilent-manufactured microarrays are based on the industry-standard 1" x 3" slide ...

Virus-host interactions at sea effect global photosynthesis

...formation is now available on Agilent's eArray web portal at earray.chem.agilent.com. On the same site, customers can examine the content of Agilent-manufactured commercial microarrays and design their own custom microarrays. Agilent-manufactured microarrays are based on the industry-standard 1" x 3" slide ...

Agilent Technologies releases probe sequence, annotation information for all its commercial gene expression microarrays

...formation is now available on Agilent's eArray web portal at earray.chem.agilent.com. On the same site, customers can examine the content of Agilent-manufactured commercial microarrays and design their own custom microarrays. Agilent-manufactured microarrays are based on the industry-standard 1" x 3" slide ...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

A new online portal consolidates decades of rich marine data, much of ...ncies and organizations providing marine data, new portal offers up decades of work by agencies and scientists dedicated to understanding the Gulf of Maine ec...

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