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Stem cells act through multiple mechanisms to benefit mice with neurodegenerative disease

...urological diseases. "Dr. Snyder's team has extended the promise of stem cell therapies to children with special-needs, including those with Sandhoff disease." said Fia Richmond, founder of Children's Neurobiological Solutions Foundation and mother of a brain-injured child. "The CNS Foun...

Synthetic peptide targets latent papilloma virus infections

...d spreads as these cells divide. The UC Berkeley team created a protein fragment, or peptide, that succe...shows that HPV works the same way. The UC Berkeley team created a short peptide that binds to E2 in hopes that this synthetic peptide would prevent E2, and ...

UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic

...rnment scientist and educator, joined the research team last year as a UTSA research associate professor and has more than a dozen trips to both the Arctic and Antarctic to his credit. His outstanding contribution to sea ice research was recognized in 2004 when the US Board of Geographical Names honored ...

Massive coral death attributed to earthquake

...ure the recovery process continues," he says. The team found coral reefs ranging from highly diverse asse...t areas of table corals inhabiting surf zones. The team also documented, for the first time in Indonesia, extensive damage to reefs caused by the crown-of-t...

Bisexual fruit flies show new role for neurochemical

...es are carried through the brain. A UIC research team led by David Featherstone, assistant professor of ... information transfer." Featherstone and his lab team found that glia cells are the source of the excess ambient glutamate. Along with neurons, these poor...

Common gene version optimizes thinking -- but with a possible downside

...a quarter century of investigations by Greengard's team that ultimately linked this pivotal protein to depression and substance abuse as well as to schizophrenia," added NIMH Director Thomas Insel, M.D. To understand DARPP-32's role in the human brain, the NIMH researchers used genetic, structural and...

Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

...re how the device affected ankle function. The U-M team has no plans to build a commercial exoskeleton, but their results suggest promising applications for rehabilitation and physical therapy, and a similar approach could be used by other groups who do build such technology. "This could benefit stroke...

Chlamydia vaccine a step closer to reality

...of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), said a team of researchers had already identified certain proteins that were able to protect against Chlamydia infection. "We've been testing these proteins as part of animal trials...and we think we've got the answer. It is possible that within three to five...

Sheffield scientists light up bacteria

...tion. Being developed by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the University’s Departments of Chemistry, Engineering Materials and the Dental School, the sensor will have widespread applications beyond the initial project. Dr Steve Rimmer from the University’s Department of Chemistry, sa...

Anti-wrinkle compound causes pathological reaction in skin cells

...tood. In vitro tests conducted by Dr. Marceau’s team revealed that the application of DMAE induces a quick and spectacular swelling of skin cell vacuoles called fibroblasts, which act as reservoirs and interface between the inside and the outside of the cell. In the hours following the application o...

Newborn brains grow vision and movement regions first

...hool of Medicine. Another key finding by the UNC team is that boys, on average, are born with brains about 10 percent larger than the brains of girls. This is consistent with the pattern seen in adults, Gilmore said -- men typically have a brain about 10 percent larger than that seen in women. "What's...

Research finds music training 'tunes' human auditory system

... consistent with studies by Kraus and her research team that have revealed anomalies in brainstem sound encoding in some children with learning disabilities which can be improved by auditory training. "We've found that by playing music -- an action thought of as a function of the neocortex -- a person...

A new study of living cells could revolutionize the way we test drugs

...Andre Geim at the University of Manchester and his team have set out to make the first measurement of a ce...rent of just 10 moving electrons. It has given the team confidence that equipment sensitive enough to measure a cell’s heartbeat can be developed. "We al...

Renegade RNA -- Clues to cancer and normal growth

...00 known microRNAs found in human cells, Mendell's team discovered one lone microRNA "miles away" --- in c...A has a different combination of blocks. Mendell's team realized that six building blocks at the end of the wayward miR-29b microRNA were noticeably differe...

NASA predicts nongreen plants on other planets

...e for Space Studies, New York. Kiang worked with a team of scientists from the Virtual Planetary Laborator... Meadows, an astronomer who heads the VPL. The VPL team is using a suite of computer models to simulate Earth-size planets and their light spectra as space ...

Cold sore virus might play role in Alzheimer's disease

...id Howard Federoff, M.D., Ph.D., the leader of the team and professor of Neurology, Medicine, and Microbio... disease; and some had no ApoE gene at all. The team found that the virus infiltrates brain cells about the same no matter which gene is involved. But th...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

...r three weeks of therapy," Cramer said. The UCI team is now using what they learned from study participants to create a "son of HOWARD," with improved hand-robot connections and more software options to individualize therapy and keep patients interested. Stroke is a major cause of long-term disabi...

Cancer-killing invention also harvests stem cells

...96228, Proceedings of the ASME, June 2006. King's team includes scientists at StemCapture, Inc., a Roches...differentiated into other, useful cells. King's team can capture significant amounts of cells of the lymphatic and circulatory systems, and potentially m...

Antifungal drug kills TB bug

...edicines for tuberculosis) project, the Manchester team set about trying to find alternative drugs that co...20 different types." Even more exciting for the team was the knowledge that existing anti-fungal drugs already target P450s as a way to treat, for exampl...

Secret of worm's poison pill box protein could produce new natural insecticide

... The researchers at Warwick HRI, together with a team of colleagues with expertise in the Structural Biology group in Biological Sciences and in Chemistry at The University of Warwick, as well as Coventry and Nottingham Universities, found that the protein was formed from four sub units in the shape of...

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