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Successful cell engineering may lead to mad cow prevention, say researchers

...edings of the National Academy of Sciences. Their success raises the possibility of introducing the same tec...resistant to a variety of diseases. Moreover, the success raises possibilities to develop similar disease resistance strategies in other animal species," West...

Spring migration of pink-footed geese under threat

...already seeing signs of decreasing annual breeding success and decreased summer survival as a result of poor body condition when the geese depart from the spring staging areas. Our model shows that naïve geese have much lower fitness than experienced geese, which are able to anticipate and adapt to changes i...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

.... Now, researchers have attained a ninety percent success rate in bone marrow transplantation and treatment ...thin the last 20 years. Advances include the high success rate for bone marrow transplantation for unrelated, matched donors and treatments using gene therapy...

NJIT engineer poised to take stem cell research a step forward

..."Treena's research is exciting because she has had success in crafting the right environment for stem cells to grow into other cells," said William Hunter, chairman of the biomedical-engineering department at NJIT. "She is working in a brand-new world of medical therapy." Her studies could lead to medical ...

New cellular flaw found in some virulent breast cancers

...about 13 percent. Clinicians have had some recent success in treating breast cancers with a mutated ErbB-2 gene, which are also referred to as being HER2-positive. The targeted therapy Herceptin blocks the mutation, improving the outlook for such patients, though it doesn't work in all cases. Sicinski said ...

Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health

... forms." Rittmann believes the key to achieving success through microbial ecology and biotechnology is to take advantage of microbial diversity as much as possible, particularly having different microbe to perform the same role. "It usually isn't just one organism, a superbug or magic bullet," says Rittma...

Absence of critical protein linked to infertility

...predicting uterine readiness for pregnancy. "The success rate for the practice of in vitro fertilization currently is, on average, about 25 percent," she said. "The major problem is that the conditions occurring when the embryo is transferred often are not the best in the uterus. It's not known if the uter...

Researchers test new way to quit smoking

...er if there is a measurable difference in quitting success rates between the two groups in our trial," said Dr Bullen. ...

Illinois pig to make history as source of first complete swine genome

...ational Research Initiative -- also recognizes the success of the university's participation in the Livestock Genome Sequencing Initiative (LGSI), also funded by the agency, said IGB Director Harris Lewin. "It's truly gratifying to have the USDA acknowledge the efforts of our LGSI and our national and inter...

U-M scientists identify major psoriasis susceptibility gene

...ge, diverse pool of study subjects is vital to the success of this type of clinical research," Elder says. "We are grateful to the 5,000 people who have participated in our psoriasis study so far. It has been a collaborative effort involving physicians, scientists and patients from dermatology departments at...

Gene-specific Ebola therapies protect non-human primates from lethal disease

...eatment. We look forward to additional findings of success using these PMOs." ...

St. Jude projects 90 percent cure rate for ALL

...age major organs or cause secondary cancers. "Our success reflects many years of dedication and research by ... the start of therapy. That's a key element of our success in raising the cure rate for ALL while limiting toxic effects of therapy." That success is based to...

El Nino events affect whale breeding

...tists found a strong relationship between breeding success of whales in the South Atlantic and El Nino in the western Pacific. The results are published this week in the On-line journal Biology Letters. Southern right whales migrate from the South Atlantic to the Southern Ocean to feed. Scientists know from...

Plant-derived vaccines safeguard against deadly plague

...st a bacterial pathogen." Mason. Critical to the success of the study was a collaboration set up with Anatoli Giritch, Victor Klimyuk and Yuri Gleba, who originally developed the plant expression system at Icon Genetics, located in Halle, Germany. The group's results are the first to use Icon's viral exp...

Computer simulation hints at new HIV drug target

... to each individual's therapy and to the long-term success of HAART for newly infected people. By one estimate, about 50 percent of patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in the United States harbor HIV viruses that are resistant to at least one of the available drugs. In fact, people with an infection ty...

How sperm crack the whip

...to patch clamp the cells, which was central to the success reported in this paper." Basically, Kirichok found that he could patch clamp the pipette into a microscopic "cytoplasmic droplet" that is present in sperm before ejaculation, but is usually lost in mature sperm. Patch clamp studies on spermatozoa w...

Major WHO study concludes calcium supplements can reduce complications during pregnancy

... to each individual's therapy and to the long-term success of HAART for newly infected people. By one estimate, about 50 percent of patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in the United States harbor HIV viruses that are resistant to at least one of the available drugs. In fact, people with an infection ty...

Males with elevated levels of testosterone lead shorter lives but have more success siring offspring

... that is, the combination of lifetime reproductive success and survival, in the wild or experimentally. Over ... with older males and realized higher reproductive success when they did so. While young males treated with testosterone increased their ability to attract old...

Scientists force viruses to evolve as better delivery vehicles for gene therapy

...Berkeley and at Ohio State University report their success in the current issue of Nature Biotechnology. "Directed evolution has mainly been done to change the activity of an enzyme - to make it more effective toward a new substrate or better able to catalyze a reaction, for example - or to make antibodies ...

Legume compounds may help cancer treatment

...al expertise and is looking to build on its patent success by attracting further funding to progress the rese...rofessor Peter Gresshoff said the current research success highlighted the importance of a critical mass of multidisciplinary biological scientists working tog...

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