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First-ever Compounds To Target Only Metastatic Cells Are Highly Effective Against Breast, Prostate, And Colon Cancers

...ls have remained elusive. However, a new avenue of research opened up when Dr. Huang's team noticed that the S...vide patients with a brand new kind of hope." The research was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Co-researchers included Ms. Dandan Sha...

Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine

...uses CbpA to bind to humancells,?said Beth Mann, a research laboratory specialist in Tuomanen’slab who developed the bacteria carrying mutated CbpA. Mann, co-authorof the paper, also showed that the long, paddle-shaped extensions ofthe protein must be folded in a specific way in order for CbpA to work.The dis...

New comparative toxicogenomics database

...uses CbpA to bind to humancells,?said Beth Mann, a research laboratory specialist in Tuomanen’slab who developed the bacteria carrying mutated CbpA. Mann, co-authorof the paper, also showed that the long, paddle-shaped extensions ofthe protein must be folded in a specific way in order for CbpA to work.The dis...

Taking Aim With Nanoparticle PEBBLEs

...iego, Calif., March 17, Kopelman will describe the research that he and his collaborators have been doing over...e School of Public Health; and Yong-Eun Lee Koo, a research associate in the chemistry department, College of Literature, Science and the Arts. To date, the re...

ASU researchers finds novel chemistry at work to provide parrot's vibrant red colors

... hard about parrot coloration," said McGraw. "This research is exposing a whole new world of color communication in parrots and the potential physiological and biochemical roles of the new molecules we found in our work." Details of the work are in a paper, "Distribution of unique red feather pigments in par...

Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals

...milar manner, and opens a fascinating new area for research on how elephants use vocal learning." Vocal learning is important because it enables an open communication system in which animals and humans develop new signals with shared associations. Recent playback experiments conducted by Karen McComb of Suss...

UCSD researchers maintain stem cells without contaminated animal feeder layers

...e maintenance of the human stem cells and enhances research without the problem of contaminating animal cells and their products." In a summary to their paper, the researchers noted that "the identification of activin A as a key factor in mediating these cellular events will help to unravel the biochemical p...

Transport System Smuggles Medicines Into Brain

... hard about parrot coloration," said McGraw. "This research is exposing a whole new world of color communication in parrots and the potential physiological and biochemical roles of the new molecules we found in our work." Details of the work are in a paper, "Distribution of unique red feather pigments in par...

Placenta Is A Rich Source Of Blood Stem Cells

...fusion'' of blood stem cells to the fetus. ''This research reveals a new organ for blood development,'' Orkin...n's Hospital Boston is home to the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries have benefited both children a...

Probing The Promise And Perils Of Nanoparticles

...cale Leroueil and Seungpyo Hong will discuss their research at the 229th national meeting of the American Chem...e membranes. Both Leroueil's work and the earlier research used model membranes to probe the effects of nanoparticles. Now, the research group is exploring the...

Open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems

...eir wettability (PNAS 102, 1848-1852 (2005). Many research groups around the world work towards the construct...devices will significantly change the way in which research is performed in the life sciences since they offer the ability to work with much smaller reagent vol...

Nanogen Issued Patent for Electronic Microarray With Memory

...stic products that add value to the company and to research and clinical laboratory customers," said Howard C....alth conditions. Nanogen's ten years of pioneering research involving nanotechnology may also have future applications in medical diagnostics, biowarfare and ot...

Researchers discover molecule that causes secondary stroke

...s that later causes the constricting vasospasm." A research team led by Dr. Clark has now identified the molecules that trigger vasospasm, a breakthrough, he says, that "raises hopes of developing not only new ways to treat the condition, but also a diagnostic test to determine which hemorrhagic stroke surviv...

Study shows nanoshells ideal as chemical nanosensors

...ty to chemicaldetection by factor of 10 billionNew research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ofScience finds that tailored nanoparticles known as nanoshells canenhance chemical sensing by as much as 10 billion times. That makesthem about 10,000 times more effective at Raman scattering than...

Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication

...milar manner, and opens a fascinating new area for research on how elephants use vocal learning." Vocal learning is important because it enables an open communication system in which animals and humans develop new signals with shared associations. Recent playback experiments conducted by Karen McComb of Suss...

Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health

...as surveyed in B. theta from the mice's guts. The research team found that 1,237 of the bacterium's 4,779 gen...nnenburg, Ph.D., W.M. Keck Foundation postdoctoral research scholar in the Center for Genome Sciences. "Instead of dying off when its usual source of food is go...

Researchers find missing genes of ancient organism

...sequences in distant parts of the DNA genome. The research led by Professor Dieter Söll in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale focuses on the most ancient organism with a known genome sequence. Nanoarchaeum equitans, is a member of a new phylogenetic kingdom in the Archaea contain...

Scientists identify genetic pathways essential to RNA interference

A research team based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)...process of RNA interference (RNAi), a powerful new research tool for inactivating genes in plants or animals. They used the RNAi process itself to find new gene...

Papers of DNA Pioneer and Nobel Laureate Francis Crick Added to National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science Web Site

...e, visual art, jewelry, and toys.?/p> During a research career spanning more than 50 years, the theoretica...for example, an early photo of Watson and Crick as research students at the Cavendish Laboratory, drafts of articles on the structure of DNA, and Crick’s unpubl...

Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra

...of conversations between Estes, who has been doing research in Alaskan coastal waters for decades, and Byrd, the supervisory biologist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. While working to save the endangered Aleutian Canada goose, which the foxes were driving toward extinction, Byrd had noticed ...

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