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New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows

..., Ph.D., adjunct assistant professor and assistant research scientist in biostatistics; Qian Dong, M.D., a radiology fellow; Christina Tsien, M.D., lecturer in radiation oncology; Suresh Mukherji, M.D., associate professor of radiology; Douglas Quint, M.D., professor of radiology; Stephen Gebarski, M.D., prof...

Solution to Pollution: New Bacteria Eats Toxic Waste

...iples to microbial biotechnology, said Sims. “This research is extending itself to the world, and we are reall...y to treat the contaminated sediments.?/p> The research involves many levels of cooperation between the sciences and engineering fields but also extends to ...

Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice

... rare form of muscular dystrophy, according to new research in mice conducted by medical geneticists at Duke University Medical Center. Infants born with the inherited muscular disorder called Pompe disease usually die before they reach the age of two. The researchers also said their approach of targeting cor...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

...me sequence will benefit a widerange of biomedical research into the increasingly significant humanpathogen. S...nd drug discovery."Scientists in the C. neoformans research community - including Heitmanat Duke and Jennifer Lodge at Saint Louis University (SLU) School ofMed...

Poplar trees redirect resources in response to simulated attack

...rees in response to a simulated insect attack. The research provides new insights on a long-debated theory abo...m Tufts University and Stony Brook University, the research is reported in two articles, to be published in Plant, Cell & Environment (June 2005) and in New...

Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery

...stdoctoral fellow at Purdue; and Richard Haasch, a research scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The work is part of overall research being carried out by an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers who are members of a Cent...

Scientists discover the cellular roots of graying hair

...o prevent or treatmelanoma, and to the extent this research is revealing the life cyclesof melanocytes, which ...ncomplete maintenanceof melanocyte stem cells.?The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, andNishimura received funding from The Shiseido ...

Researchers identify target for cancer drugs

...essor of Biology at MIT. At the heart of this new research is a protein called Akt, an important player in the regulation of cell division and survival. Abnormally high activation of Akt has long been implicated in a variety of cancers. If Akt travels to the cell membrane, it is switched on and promotes cell...

Fundamental Finding Yields Insight into Stem Cells, Cancer; Opens Door to Drug Discovery

...o prevent or treatmelanoma, and to the extent this research is revealing the life cyclesof melanocytes, which ...ncomplete maintenanceof melanocyte stem cells.?The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, andNishimura received funding from The Shiseido ...

Scientists rid stem cell culture of key animal cells

...a senior scientist at WiCell, a private, nonprofit research institute. "This work completely gets rid of the need for feeder cells," says Xu. "It also significantly reduces the daily labor of preparing the feeder cell-conditioned medium." "It is important that the culture of human ES cells be simplified so t...

Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation

...he authors believe that the worrying aspect of the research is that a degradation of the most vulnerable, most...ision makers if mangrove protection is an aim. The research team argues that early detection of such changes should be adopted and is essential for the preventi...

Weizmann Institute scientists develop a new approach for directing treatment to metastasized prostate cancer in the bones.

...o prevent or treatmelanoma, and to the extent this research is revealing the life cyclesof melanocytes, which ...ncomplete maintenanceof melanocyte stem cells.?The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, andNishimura received funding from The Shiseido ...

Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects

...mation indeed boosted insect survival. Sword is a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, Lorch is a postdoctoral fellow in biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Gwynne is a biology professor at the University of Toronto at Mississa...

Protein Packages Found To Activate Genes; May Be What Regulates Development And Disease

...athologist at Harvard Medical School. He is also a research associate at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T., where a complex analysis of packaging of two entire human chromosomes was done for the first time. Besides Bernstein, the investigators included Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Stuart Schrei...

First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases

...unction.The scientists say the map will accelerate research on brain tumors andneurological diseases that resu...n that is a common symptom ofmetastatic tumors.The research was funded by the Charles Dana Foundation, the NationalInstitutes of Health, and individual fellowsh...

New research questions basic tenet of neuron function

...ing neurotransmitters in both modes. However, new research by UT Southwestern scientists appearing in the Feb. 17 issue of the journal Neuron suggests that two distinct types of synaptic vesicles are responsible for the two different modes of neurotransmitter release ?one type of vesicle for spontaneous rele...

U-M scientists find genes that control growth of common skin cancer

...hpathway is effectively inhibited.Funding for this research was provided by grants from the NationalCancer Institute and the National Institute of Arthritis andMusculoskeletal and Skin Diseases....

Weill Cornell Research Reveals Secrets Of Trafficking Within Cells

...editors have chosen to highlight the Weill Cornell research due to its quality and broader significance to the field. "This is a kind of cellular fine-tuning, and we know that deficits in this fine-tuning can wreak havoc on health," said Dr. Timothy Ryan, Professor of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical Co...

Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects

...mation indeed boosted insect survival. Sword is a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, Lorch is a postdoctoral fellow in biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Gwynne is a biology professor at the University of Toronto at Mississa...

New Study from Affymetrix Laboratories Points to Changing View of How Genome Works

...laboration with the National Cancer Institute, the research team used high-density GeneChip(R) microarrays to ...d function of every cell in the body. Most disease research has focused on studying these protein-coding genes, even though they make up only about two percent ...

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