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Institute for Systems Biology Symposium Addresses Need for Better Computational Tools

...lete a project in less than a year that would have taken us approximately 100,000 years to complete with the current computational power at ISB. We have already predicted 50,000 protein structures and are well on our way to reaching the goal of between 100,000 - 150,000 structures." The project, funded by...

Stem cells from brain transformed to produce insulin at Stanford

... Until recently, people had though that stem cells taken from the brain would only be able to transform into brain-related tissues such as nerves and support cells. But a group at the Salk Institute in San Diego recently published a report in which neural stem cells transformed into cells that line blood v...

WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas

...use of the violent environmental changes that have taken place here," explained Dr Jack Chow, Assistant Dir... any one of them is noticed, the patient should be taken to a hospital immediately. * The patient should be given fluids to drink during transfer to the ...

New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

...nless problems are detected early and swift action taken to find substitute drugs, previously treatable dis... kills bacteria. “In the past, blood samples were taken and the serum concentration of the drug was measured and that number was used to make dosing decisio...

Promising new West Nile therapy cures disease in mice

...monoclonal antibody--after finding that antibodies taken from the blood of people who recovered from West N...ight the disease, and although all precautions are taken to purify the antibodies, the blood might harbor other potentially dangerous infectious agents. The...

Survey finds silver contamination in North Pacific waters

...rillion in samples of North Pacific surface waters taken during the cruise. This is about 50 times higher than baseline levels of silver in uncontaminated waters sampled by UCSC researchers on a previous cruise in the Atlantic Ocean. Because the natural background level is so low, scientists may be able to...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...f they could just have their core body temperature taken down in order to buy them time until the pathology reports come back and they can get on the right course of treatment," Roth said. "Today, physicians have no way of dealing with uncontrolled fever other than literally putting people on ice. Well, we...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

...f they could just have their core body temperature taken down in order to buy them time until the pathology reports come back and they can get on the right course of treatment," Roth said. "Today, physicians have no way of dealing with uncontrolled fever other than literally putting people on ice. Well, we...

Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis

...ccelerate the activity of a small number of prions taken from infected hamsters and placed in test tubes containing healthy brain proteins. When the healthy proteins had been largely transformed into prions, the samples were diluted over and over again and the process repeated, until the only remaining pri...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

...lex human behavioral state is processed. Moreover, taken together, our results and those of Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki, who studied men and women in longer love relationships, show similar cortical, VTA and caudate activation patterns, suggesting that these regions are consistently and critically invol...

Same-Sex Mating Discovered in a Toxic Fungus

...le genetic region, or locus. Most fungal isolates taken from people infected by C. neoformans are of the alpha mating type, said study lead author and post-doctoral fellow Xiaorong Lin, Ph.D., also of Duke. "Organisms, including fungi, usually exist in an approximately one-to-one sex ratio," Lin said. "Y...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...e who have not sustained liver injury but who have taken any of the medications in question also will be enrolled for comparison. In addition to enrolling patients as they are brought to medical attention, DILIN is establishing a registry of patients who at any time since 1994 developed severe liver injur...

Study: 'homemade' gene expression technology unreliable

...mples, one derived from mouse livers and the other taken from tissues of several mouse organs. According to the study, reproducibility between platforms and across laboratories was generally poor, but reproducibility between laboratories dramatically increased to acceptable levels when a commercial microa...

NIH Researchers Discover How Insulin Allows Entry of Glucose Into Cells

...rent study, the NIH researchers observed fat cells taken from mice and learned that the GLUT 4 vesicles are...rane. Next, the researchers plan to observe cells taken from mice having conditions resembling human disorders of insulin metabolism. Eventually, the resear...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

... other things, like noise and wind, that we hadn't taken into account," O'Connell-Rodwell says. "Salinas is a farming area with a lot of tractor and generator noise in the background. But Etosha is a very quiet seismic environment, so we're hoping to get a more realistic assessment of how far elephant vibr...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...rd the Blood Supply Since vCJD emerged, the UK has taken steps to reduce the risk of food-borne infections from consumption of contaminated bovine products. In 1999, the UK also instituted universal leukocyte reduction of blood to prevent the transmission of cell-associated vCJD prions. The UK also defers ...

Anammox bacteria produce nitrogen gas in oceans' snackbar

...onium from the ocean, which as a result can not be taken up anymore by other organisms. Algae and cyanobacteria only partly succeed in fixing the released nitrogen gas to form new nutrients that can be fed into the nutrient cycle again. In the article in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for...

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

...idenced clinically and/or by histology in biopsies taken about two weeks after the final dose in a number of patients," said Jennifer Hu, M.B.B.S., a clinical research fellow at Hammersmith Hospital (Imperial College) in London, who conducted much of the study. "In some cases necrosis was considerable." L...

What's really making you sick? Plant pathologists offer the science behind Sick Building Syndrome

...ions as well as discuss proactive strategies to be taken during house construction in order to control mold, insect, and mite-related allergens. The workshop will be held Saturday, July 30 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Austin Convention Center. Members of the media are extended complimentary registr...

Genetic therapy reverses nervous system damage in animal model of inherited human disease

...ected cells will be secreted into brain tissue and taken up by neighboring cells, Wolfe said. "In this case we see that storage lesions throughout the brain had been greatly reduced, even though gene transfer was limited to areas surrounding where injections had been made." The large animal study also dem...

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