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Boston University biomedical engineers win major grant for pursuit of the '$1,000 Genome'

... less would bring DNA sequencing into the realm of routine medical care, enabling doctors to diagnose and treat patients more effectively based on their individual genetic profiles. ...

Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection

...ingestible and insertable non-invasive imagers for routine screening of pancreatic and gastrointestinal tumors; sensors that can detect food- and water-borne pathogens. "The ultimate goal is to develop reliable and inexpensive detection and imaging products that can be used in a doctor’s office or p...

Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology

...ng the grant program as an incentive to expand the routine use of genomics in medical research and health care. Xiaohua Huang, a professor of bioengineering in UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, leads the effort at UCSD to develop a promising technology that shrinks what is currently being done in larg...

Fast test for low blood flow in dogs detects early heart trouble

... was the same as that typically used in humans for routine stress testing: 140 micrograms per kilogram per minute, for five minutes. When forced to pump faster, healthy heart tissue and surrounding blood vessels will adapt, while unhealthy, blocked ones will slow blood flow. These changes are not usuall...

'Failed' experiment yields a biocontrol agent that doesn't trigger antibiotic resistance

...As he was puzzling out why what should have been a routine procedure wouldn't work, he made a discovery that ...t mutations into an ordinary bacterial plasmid - a routine task for the experienced scientist - but every attempt failed to produce a live bacterium. Plasmid...

HIV-1 kills immune cells in the gut that may never bounce back

... incidence of colonic polyps or colorectal cancer, routine monitoring practices will have to be re-examined, with HIV-positive patients receiving colonoscopies earlier and perhaps more frequently than current recommendations allow. In the laboratory, these findings should give researchers another angle with ...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...le the sequencing of an individual's genome during routine medical care. The ability to sequence an individual genome cost-effectively could enable health care professionals to tailor diagnosis, treatment and prevention to each person's unique genetic profile. The new grants will fund nine investigators de...

British cattle give TB to badgers, finds UC Davis expert

...ot-and-mouth disease in England temporarily halted routine TB testing of cattle, infection rates in badgers doubled. At this time, infected cattle remained in their herds and the researchers suggest that this allowed them to transmit the disease to other cattle and to badgers. "Our findings helps to explain...

Researchers to study why dead zone returned to Lake Erie

...f the area, Scavia said. It was discovered through routine monitoring of the lake. The Great Lakes contain 18 percent of the world's surface freshwater and 90 percent of the surface freshwater in the U.S. They serve as the focus for a multi-billion dollar tourist and recreation industry, supply 40 million...

Temple University Hospital investigates treatment for cervical dysplasia

... than 3 million women have an abnormal result on a routine Pap test. Of these women, about 300,000-500,000 receive a diagnosis of moderate to severe cervical dysplasia, caused by certain high-risk HPV strains. "The prophylactic vaccines, which are highly effective in preventing the initial HPV infection, h...

Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine

... current technology - to make genome sequencing a routine diagnostic tool in medical care. The reduced cost may allow doctors to tailor medical treatments to an individual's genetic profile for diagnosing, treating, and ultimately preventing many common diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and ...

Protein averts cell suicide but might contribute to cancer

...r the DNA damage that exists." DNA damage is a routine problem for cells, Suo says. For example, every cell loses more than 10,000 DNA bases daily. Dedicated repair enzymes fix 80 percent or more of this damage, but the rest remains. Cells use Y-family enzymes to bypass that remaining damage when mak...

Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

...ible bronchoscope through the nose or the mouth, a routine procedure. physicians treat small to medium sized airways with Bronchial Thermoplasty (BT). The BT device generates radio frequency/thermal energy and reduces areas of underlying smooth muscle in the airways. The procedure is completed in three treat...

Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test

...s this test so important. "While such testing is routine in Western countries -- and used repeatedly over the course of treatment to see if interventions are effective -- it's unavailable to many people in the developing world, especially in rural areas." For the first two years, Baeumner will work on de...

Circumcision: A proven strategy to prevent HIV

...dollars could be saved if male circumcision became routine in sub-Saharan Africa. "This is really the first good news we've had in quite a long time. If we can reduce the risk of infection by such a substantial amount then we can save a lot of lives." In December the National Institutes of Health halte...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...l also develop a robust production environment for routine computational analysis, using PRAGMA member-developed tools, including Grid Datafarm (Gfarm) and Community Scheduler Framework (CSF4), while making any new software publicly available through open-source licenses. The funding to the University of ...

Using dental X-rays to detect osteoporosis

...are-based approach to detecting osteoporosis using routine dental x-rays, by automatically analyzing specific characteristics of the radiographic trabecular bone pattern. These features include, among others, the thickness, the amount of fragmentation, and the main orientation of the structure of the trabecu...

Update on census of world's most endangered cat -- Female Amur leopard found dead

...phy of the Russian Academy of Science, conducted a routine snow-track census of leopard numbers. World Wildlife Fund led the 2007 census of Amur leopards. WWF says encroaching civilization, new roads, poaching, exploitation of forests, and climate change had contributed to the leopards?plight....

Penn researchers replace organ in adult mice using 'single-parent' stem cells

... developing stages and not so much a factor in the routine function of adult tissue, which was the ultimate goal for deriving these stem cells." To study uniparental stem cells and the possible effects of genomic imprinting, McLaughlin's team created an experiment in which they would attempt to reconstitu...

Amur leopard still on the brink of extinction, scientists say

...phy of the Russian Academy of Science, conducted a routine snow-track census of leopard numbers. "The recent census confirmed once again that the Amur leopard survives on very shaky ground," said Pavel Fomenko, biodiversity conservation program coordinator at the Far-Eastern branch of WWF in Russia. Fo...

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