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Researchers use RNAi libraries to identify regulators of apoptosis and chemoresistance

...ntial themselves to induce cancer or simply play a supporting role also has been difficult. To determine the impact of genetic alterations associated with human melanoma, Yakov Chudnovsky; his advisor, Paul Khavari; postdoctoral fellow Amy Adams, and colleagues generated human skin tissue containing cells sele...

Ibruprofen and other commonly used painkillers for treating inflammation may increase the risk of heart attack

...ntial themselves to induce cancer or simply play a supporting role also has been difficult. To determine the impact of genetic alterations associated with human melanoma, Yakov Chudnovsky; his advisor, Paul Khavari; postdoctoral fellow Amy Adams, and colleagues generated human skin tissue containing cells sele...

Engineered skin offers clues to melanoma development

...ntial themselves to induce cancer or simply play a supporting role also has been difficult. To determine the impact of genetic alterations associated with human melanoma, Yakov Chudnovsky; his advisor, Paul Khavari; postdoctoral fellow Amy Adams, and colleagues generated human skin tissue containing cells sele...

3D Atlas Will Help Navigate The Spinal Cord

... spinal cord (when tissue becomes available), thus supporting both experimental and clinical approaches. ...

New Lab Research May Help Those Deafened By Immune System Attack

...found in the inner ear, called IESCA for inner-ear supporting cell antigen. This is a sign their immune systems ...ing attack on the inner ear. IESCA is found in the supporting cells that help make up the organ of Corti, a tiny but crucial structure inside the cochlea, or inne...

Stem Cells Found In Cerebellum; Possible Cell of Origin for Childhood Brain Tumors

...as been known about the origins of the neurons and supporting "glial" cells that populate this region. The Duke discovery of stem cells in the cerebellum suggests a possible origin for these normal cells and provides a starting point for understanding the basis of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant bra...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

...herapies. Central to this effort are the databases supporting the network, which will allow us to tie together data from diverse fields of science in ways not previously brought to bear on important health problems," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. The nine institutions receiving grants as ...

Fragment of yellow fever virus may hold key to safer vaccine

...s by grabbing the essential epitope on one and the supporting amino acids on the other, ter Meulen speculates. The findings may apply to the whole flavivirus family. The results confirm and extend similar studies in mice, but the human antibody-virus binding configuration looks more complex, ter Meulen said. ...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

... drug. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting the work, which is being led by Dr. Richard R. Tid...p; Melinda Gates Foundation was very interested in supporting our work." The group has since become one of the models for public-private partnerships to discover...

New complete muscle grown in the lab

...hnion Society is the leading American organization supporting higher education in Israel, with 17 offices around the country. ...

Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Spreading in Uganda

...t is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov. ...

Drug Offers Alternative to Surgical Treatment After Miscarriage

...t is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov. ...

Scientists find microRNAs regulate plant development

...rotein have numerous severe developmental defects, supporting the notion that regulation by microRNAs is critical for normal plant growth. Dr. Catherine Bellini at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå, Sweden and colleagues at several other institutions noticed that the ago1 mutant failed to ...

Genomic sequences processed in minutes, rather than weeks

...f PNNL's Advanced Computing Technology Laboratory, supporting research projects associated with high-end computing. Development of ScalaBLAST was funded primarily by the Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research as part of the BioPilot project, a larger joint research effort betwee...

UCR chemist part of team identifying new areas of gene regulation

...hat regulate genetic expression and form the major supporting structures housing the cell's DNA. Histones interacting with each other form a 'spool' around which DNA is wrapped in the cell. Grunstein, one of the scientists in the current team, discovered in 1991 that sites of histone acetylation, a modification...

UN: World in big ecological mess

...her period, some 60 per cent of ecosystem elements supporting life on Earth, such as fresh water, clean air or a relatively stable climate, are being degraded or used unsustainably, and the situation could become significantly worse during the first half of this century, according to the study. "Only by valuin...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...ason Phillips. The National Science Foundation is supporting the project with a five-year, $1 million grant it awarded to UNC in 2002. "This is a unique resource for scientists trying to understand the genes contributing to variation in traits of economic importance in crops," Vision said. ...

Building a protein name dictionary from full text: a machine learning term extraction approach

...hod compares favorably to other published methods, supporting the significance of our direct extraction approach. The method is strong in recognizing name variants not found in SwissProt. ...

Protein helps regulate the genes of embryonic stem cells

...hat group together to provide a molecular scaffold supporting the roughly 35,000 genes in the nucleus of every human cell. Histone modifications affect gene activity and include methylation, in which a methyl component is attached to the histone protein. The prevailing model is that methylation on histones ser...

Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus

...in the Preakness. However, two horses scheduled in supporting races at the Pimlico Race Course were not allowed to race due to the Churchill Downs quarantine. Because of the outbreak, the NYRA isn't taking any chances. "The New York State Racing Association has put in a directive requiring veterinarians to sho...

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