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NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step

...ntific honor, is bringing the promise of stem cell research one step closer to reality. Arinzeh, PhD, assista...g the use of stem cells to induce bone repair. Her research will help diabetics whose impaired bones will not properly heal. She is using adult stem cells, in c...

Agilent Technologies releases automated literature search tool for biology researchers

...ol was developed within Labs to facilitate our own research collaborations and has proved very successful for us. We are excited to provide this to researchers everywhere so that they can analyze their own data more effectively and put it into a biological context." With the Agilent Literature Search tool, r...

New methods of gene delivery using lasers

...e bio-medical field and St Andrews has outstanding research groups in this area. The new method -which involve... to develop new biomedical devices. Although other research groups have touched on this area, the St Andrews group have greatly simplified the technique by usin...

Breakthrough method in nanoparticle synthesis paves the way for new pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

...ovel biomedical applications. This groundbreaking research was recently featured in the leading Chemistry journal, Angewandte Chemie, and a United States patent has been filed on the invention. Research Scientist Dr. Yu Han and IBN Executive Director Prof. Jackie Y. Ying have developed a fluorocarbon-mediat...

RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide

...k will be accessible on the Web to the various RNA research communities using servers hosted at BGSU. Some researchers focus on the sequences of RNA molecules, while others study their 3-dimensional structures. A major focus of the project will be to integrate the databases of RNA sequences and 3D structure....

Examination of internal 'wiring' of yeast, worm, and fly reveals conserved circuits

...ughly studied species: yeast, worm, and fly,. The research team completed a rigorous statistical comparative analysis of a total of 14,145 yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), worm (Caenorhabditis elegans), and fly (Drosophila melanogaster) proteins with 38,965 known interactions. Their PathBLAST tool generated...

X-Ray Beams And Fruit Fly 'Flight Simulator' Aid Scientists' View Of Muscle Power

...nstitute of Technology (IIT) and Caltech performed research to answer that and other questions. The research team, including David Maughan, Ph.D., research professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at t...

Scientists discover that host cell lipids facilitate bacterial movement

...r mechanisms behind this infection technique. The research appears as the "Paper of the Week" in the March 25 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal. Listeria causes a variety of diseases, the most severe being meningoencephalitis, an...

UF Researchers Map Bacterial Proteins That Cause Tooth Loss

...n. In this study, they used cutting-edge molecular research techniques to map all the proteins ?known as the proteome ?produced by P. gingivalis. Ultimately, the researchers were able to fill hundreds of gaps in the organism’s sequence of roughly 2,000 proteins. “The approach used in this study is very excit...

UCSD team discovers specialized, rare heart stem cells in newborns

...February 10, 2005 issue of the journal Nature, the research identified the isl1+ progenitor cells in the tissu...progenitor cells won't grow a whole new heart, our research has shown that they can spontaneously become cells from specific parts of the heart by simple co-exp...

Scientists solve structure of key protein in innate immune response

...suited to bind to certain bacterial products. The research appears as the "Paper of the Week" in the March 25 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal. The innate immune system uses the CD14 receptor protein to recognize several microbi...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...e by accelerating the translation of basic genetic research into tools for better diagnosis, prognosis, and tr...inska Institutet/Affymetrix Translational medicine research projects will use sufficiently large sample sizes to establish true clinical relevance of both gene ...

New Treatment Rivals Chemotherapy For Lymphoma, Study Finds

... other treatments have failed. The newly published research involves Bexxar as a first-line treatment for this disease. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the nation's sixth leading cause of cancer death, is a cancer of the lymph system, which is part of the immune system. Lymphoma spreads easily through the lymph syst...

Carnegie Mellon scientists develop tool that uses MRI to visualize gene expression in living animals

...or over a month in the same cohort of animals. The research showed no overt toxicity in the mouse brain from the MRI reporter. ...

Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves

...hings could be evolutionary." Blank presented her research at the 2004 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, held, Nov. 7-10 in Denver. Blank's finding that Cyanobacteria emerged first in fresh water lakes or streams is counterintuitive. "Most people have the assumption that Cyanobacteria cam...

Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations

...his field can help the Mediterranean region. Once research priorities were identified, delegates went onto to...erve Euro-Mediterranean partnerships in the health research domain. The workshop also laid the groundwork for networks of potential partners to meet and discuss...

Scientists discover how fish evolved to float at different sea depths

...s to stay motionless at different water depths. A research team led by Dr Michael Berenbrink, a Comparative P...ern fishes in their environment." Dr Berenbrink's research will be published in Science magazine on Friday, 18 March 2005. ...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...stitute and Genetics Institute who was part of the research team. The protein, called GDNF, short for glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, is believed to preserve brain cells and could provide protection against Parkinson's disease. But its use has been debated since trials in humans ended last year ...

Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

...blood vessels in the heart. The phase II clinical research study uses vascular endothelial growth factor-2 (VEGF-2) in the form of a solution containing a DNA plasmid that is delivered using catheterization to heart tissue that has been damaged from insufficient blood flow. Once the catheter reaches the tar...

PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay

...ed to humane alternatives to the use of animals in research and you want to conduct research of your own that requires using animals as part of the testing, what do you do? In the case of the P...

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