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Deep sleep short-circuits brain's grid of connectivity

...st of the brain is responding." The new technique promises science a way to see how the different areas of the brain communicate, Tononi says. Beyond helping illuminate the secrets of consciousness, the new study, which was directed in part by Marcello Massimini, a research associate in the UW Psychiatric I...

New type of rejection blocker protects kidneys after transplant

...ts damage the kidneys, the new class of drugs also promises to reduce the number of patients who need a re-transplant. "This is one of the exciting results of this study, considering that we have a critical shortage of organs for transplant," Vincenti said. Kidney transplant is the preferred treatment for mo...

Unexpected lock and key mechanism found for the assembly of tumor blood vessels

...go (UCSD) School of Medicine team in research that promises to lead to a new way to halt tumor growth by cutting off the tumor blood supply. The research team led by Judith Varner, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSD and a member of the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, made the surprisi...

Decisions, decisions: Male or female?

...July 28 issue of the journal Nature. The discovery promises to enhance understanding of infertility and even some forms of cancer and could eventually lead to the development of more effective treatments for both. Led by Van Doren and post-doctoral fellow Matthew Wawersik, the Johns Hopkins team used special...

A probe, not an echo

...caused by their varying attenuation patterns. This promises to allow non-invasive detection of lesions in clinical diagnosis, which represents the "holy grail" of medical imaging. The team found it possible to identify various anatomical structures within the kidney based on their distinctive attenuation cha...

Breakthrough isolating embryo-quality stem cells from blood

...ation of millions of high grade stem cells, but it promises a realistic alternative to embryo use if it can be scaled up. Meanwhile, it is already being used to isolate low-grade stem cells which can develop into skin. In collaboration with medical professionals in Leipzig, elderly patients are being treated ...

Hirsute Or Hairless? Two Proteins May Spell The Difference

...anistic understanding of hair follicle development promises to shed light on how skin cancer develops as well. ...

Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

...ations of Kinovate Life Sciences, this new product promises to deliver significantly improved technical and economic outcomes for all segments of the oligonucleotide industry. Solid support is the base structure used in the synthesis of oligonucleotides, including diagnostic probes and primers, antisense inc...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...erative medicine approaches, including stem cells, promises to have a place for both protection and repair in Parkinson's disease," said Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., director of the McKnight Brain Institute and a professor of neuroscience. "It is important to appropriately introduce the GDNF into the Parkinson's ...

Scientists discover that host cell lipids facilitate bacterial movement

...es regulate the actin cytoskeleton, and this model promises to yield additional insights into how these phospholipids control the cell's actin cytoskeleton. Our discoveries provide additional fundamental clues as how cells move." These findings may also open the door to using PI3-kinase inhibitors or other a...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

...erative medicine approaches, including stem cells, promises to have a place for both protection and repair in Parkinson's disease,?said Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., director of the McKnight Brain Institute and a professor of neuroscience. “It is important to appropriately introduce the GDNF into the Parkinson's d...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...ein that binds to specificsequences in the DNA and promises to be a very useful tool,?says Dunn.This research was funded by the Office of Biological and EnvironmentalResearch within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, theNational Institutes of Health, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.The...

W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...nteracting species. Ultimately, such understanding promises to provide new ways of fortifying health and preventing or treating a variety of diseases both inside and outside of the gastrointestinal tract." ...

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