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U-M scientists discover identifying markers for primitive blood-forming stem cells

...0 to 12 of the best classical markers combined. It reduces the skill and time required to pick out a hematopoietic stem cell and makes the process simpler and less labor intensive." "Many of the current markers we use to purify HSCs are expressed as a gradient from high to low across the hematopoietic cell ...

Method slashes quantum dot costs by 80 percent

...h the heat-transfer fluid Dowtherm A, for example, reduces the overall materials cost of making quantum dots by about 80 percent. Quantum dots are tiny crystals of semiconducting materials - cadmium selenide or CdSe is the most popular flavor - that measure just a few nanometers in diameter. Most of the com...

The right drug at the right time

...h the heat-transfer fluid Dowtherm A, for example, reduces the overall materials cost of making quantum dots by about 80 percent. Quantum dots are tiny crystals of semiconducting materials - cadmium selenide or CdSe is the most popular flavor - that measure just a few nanometers in diameter. Most of the com...

NC State researchers redesign life for Mars and beyond

...nts. That gene, one of nature's best antioxidants, reduces superoxide, which in plants is a chemical signal given off when stressful conditions are encountered. This signal essentially puts the plant on alert, but staying on alert too long can be harmful: If not reduced quickly, the toxic superoxide will kil...

Hand sanitizer gel works

... an alcohol-based hand sanitizer gel significantly reduces the spread of gastrointestinal infections in the h...first randomized trial to show that hand sanitizer reduces the spread of germs in the home," says Dr. Thomas J. Sandora, a physician in the Division of Infecti...

Stroke treatment a step closer after trial

...molecule that causes inflammation and dramatically reduces the inflammatory markers," said Professor Rothwell, MRC Research Professor and the University's Vice-President for Research. "In the laboratory we were able to reduce damage to the cells by as much as half; if we could cut cell damage in patients by...

Novel protein complex enables survival in hostile environment

...of certain key genes gave rise to the archaea that reduces sulfate, but do not make methane. "But it is equally possible that the sulfite reduction system was developed in another organism and the methanogens acquired the sulfite reduction gene via horizontal transfer from that entity," Mukhopadhyay said. ...

How Fruitflies Know It's Time for Lunch

...g. Behavioral studies confirmed that too much hug reduces food intake and leads to stunted growth, while too little stimulates eating. Melcher and Pankratz selected a group of flies and blocked the synapses of their hug neurons to inhibit the neurons' activity. In contrast to control flies, which start feed...

Marathon of nano-sprinters

...e, which is shared by the pulling motors, strongly reduces the cargo velocity and leads to a highly nonlinear force-velocity relationship (PNAS, Advanced Online Publication, November 14-18, 2005). Molecular motors are nano-tractors for all kinds of cargo within the cells of living beings. They move in a ste...

Polio vaccination strategies assessed as eradication nears

...ure that once it is gone, it stays gone. One study reduces concerns that people whose immune systems were weakened by HIV would re-introduce poliovirus into the community. The other study looks at the how switching forms of vaccine from a live, attenuated vaccine to an inactivated version may affect communi...

Tuberculosis still a risk for patients receiving HIV drugs

...tal for immunocompromised patients. HAART not only reduces the viral load of HIV, but it also often helps to keep other infections such as TB under control. In fact, previous studies indicate that HAART can reduce the risk of TB in HIV patients by 70 to 90 percent. Although HIV-infected people living in indu...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

..., you could train them on another food source that reduces their chances of lead contamination, and that would be the marine mammals." At least one group of condors appears to be heeding that advice on its own, says Kelly Sorenson, executive director of the Ventana Wildlife Society (VWS) and co-author of th...

UCR environmental scientists propose chemical solution to cleaning California's Salton Sea

...al Quality. "Removing phosphorus from the inflow reduces algae growth, improves water clarity and decreases the odors common at the lake," said Christopher Amrhein , professor of soil and environmental sciences and the lead author of the paper. "We found that alum and polyacrylamide were highly effective ...

Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment

...treatment outcomes," says Jaksic. "Crucially, IMRT reduces the side-effects patients often suffer from radiotherapy and improves accuracy of dose delivery, and these are the most important impacts in the treatment of cancer." ...

Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments

... 100,000 lives a year. If a drug is available that reduces the mortality rate from that disease by 20 percent, it has the potential to save 20,000 lives each year. But if only 60 percent of eligible patients receive the drug, only 12,000 deaths will be averted. Closing the gap in care -- making it available...

Free HIV tests cheaper than charging when goal is preventing AIDS

...Research has shown that HIV testing and counseling reduces high-risk sexual behavior and prevents HIV transmission, Thielman said. Testing also gives people access to services such as antiretroviral therapy, treatment for sexually-transmitted diseases and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. ...

Newly identified mechanism helps explain why people of African descent are more vulnerable to TB

...t that provides color to skin absorbs UV light and reduces African Americans' ability to produce vitamin D. When the macrophages were stimulated by molecules of the tubercle bacillus that trigger Toll-like receptors, the research team found that cells cultured in serum provided by African Americans produced ...

Minimal genome should be twice the size, study shows

...e other essential for survival; each gene deletion reduces the available space for further reduction of the genome. "Including these alternative pathways into the minimal genome almost doubles its size." The researchers have developed a way of predicting bacterial genome content using two bacteria that hav...

Amazonian terra preta can transform poor soil into fertile

...phere. Slash-and-char, on the other hand, actually reduces greenhouse gases, Lehmann said, by sequestering huge amounts of carbon for thousands of years and substantially reducing methane and nitrous oxide emissions from soils. "The result is that about 50 percent of the biomass carbon is retained," Lehmann...

GPSDB, the free Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase

...phere. Slash-and-char, on the other hand, actually reduces greenhouse gases, Lehmann said, by sequestering huge amounts of carbon for thousands of years and substantially reducing methane and nitrous oxide emissions from soils. "The result is that about 50 percent of the biomass carbon is retained," Lehmann...

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