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UCF nanoparticle offers promise for treating glaucoma

...ymers now used in most eye drops. Seal and his team created a specialized cerium oxide nanoparticle an...enzyme that produces carbon dioxide. Seal and a team of collaborators including Sanku Mallik, of North Dakota State University, developed the research on...

Reconstructing the biology of extinct species: A new approach

An international research team has documented the link between the way an animal moves and the dimensions of an important part of its organ of balance, the three semicircular canals of the inner ear on each side of the skull. The team's article on its research will be published o...

Human genetic 'deserts' are teeming with significant life

... ”, Professor Reymond will say. He and his team are among the many international collaborators working together on a pilot project to use as a ‘reference set’ by the ENCODE consortium, launched in 2003 by the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the US National Institutes of Health, w...

Researchers identify protein pathway involved in Parkinson disease development

...therapies to treat the disease. The research by a team of Emory University scientists will be published J...n Emory University School of Medicine and research team leader. "We believe the PINK1 and TRAP1 pathway may be a future target for therapeutic intervention...

3-D ultrasound scanner provides in-depth view of the brain

...ly image the brain of a dog. Guided by the device, team member Srinivasan Mukundan of Duke Medical Center ... is the latest in a series of developments Smith's team has made since developing the first 3-D ultrasound scanner in 1987 for imaging the heart from outsid...

The mouflons of the Kerguelen archipelago

The team of Denis Réale, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Ecology and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at UQAM, recently published some remarkable research findings. Reconstructing the genetic history of a population of mou...

Researchers develop buckyballs to fight allergy

A research team has identified a new biological function for a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle called a buckyball – the ability to block allergic response, setting the stage for the development of new therapies for allergy. Allergic disease is the sixth leading cau...

Study identifies 5 genetic themes key to keeping stem cells in a primitive, flexible state

...m cells, based on the genes they express. Now, a team of Canadian scientists has identified 1,155 genes under the control of a gene called Oct4 considered to be the master regulator of the stem cell state. A comprehensive molecular definition of stem cells is emerging: according to this research, stem c...

Revealed -- Mosquito genes that could be controlling the spread of killer viruses

...immune systems, but also numerous differences. The team aims to discover which of these genetic differences could explain why one type of mosquito transmits dengue and yellow fevers, while the other transmits malaria. Beyond the present descriptive work, functional studies will be needed to clarify exactl...

Ancient retrovirus sheds light on modern pandemic

...IV infection today. These findings, reported by a team of researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research ...ee genome. "When the chimp genome was sequenced, a team of scientists at the University of Washington led by Evan Eichler found the largest difference overa...

Scientists close in on missing carbon sink

... atmospheric CO2," was written by an international team of scientists led by Britton Stephens of the Natio...lobe for decades but never before synthesized. The team found that some 40 percent of the carbon dioxide assumed to be absorbed by northern forests is inste...

Ice Age extinction claimed highly carnivorous Alaskan wolves

...mammoths and saber-toothed cats, a Smithsonian-led team of scientists has added one more: a highly carnivorous form of wolf that lived in Alaska, north of the ice sheets. Wolves were generally thought to have survived the end-Pleistocene extinction relatively unscathed. But this previously unrecognized ...

Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life

...e icebergs’ complex impacts, the multidisciplinary team of researchers carried out the most comprehensive study ever done of individual icebergs and their immediate environment, taking a wide array of measurements – physical, biological and chemical, and using satellite images provided by NASA. At the...

St. Jude study shows genes play an unexpected role in their own activation

...lecules called neurotransmitters. The St. Jude team showed that each gene that responds to CREB choose...tribute equally to activating a specific gene. The team also found evidence that other proteins can act as back-up co-factors for CBP/p300. “This more co...

Definitive evidence found of a swimming dinosaur

... of swimming by a non-avian therapod dinosaur. A team led by Rubén Ezquerra, Fundación Patrimonio Paleontológico de La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain, discovered the prints in an area long known for its abundance of terrestrial dinosaur trackways dating from the early Cretaceous 125 million years ago. The team'...

Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage

...eir DNA. In designing the new therapy, Kyrkanides’ team chose to work first with vectors based on feline i...tion. Despite the strong results, however, the team will seek to deliver the same gene therapy with a different vector in the next phase of experiments....

'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders

...o figure out that their environment has changed, a team led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found. The results, appearing today in the online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience , reveal a new mechanism of learning in the brain, which might serve in humans as a target for t...

Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO

... is over before launching HIV care programs, say a team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in this week’s...onvene an expert team, and only five weeks for the team to summarize the evidence and prepare draft guidelines. The guidelines were then discussed at a two-...

Researchers use MRI to predict recovery after spinal cord injury

...ined within 24 to 48 hours of injury. The research team studied three measurable imaging parameters: maximum spinal cord compression (MSCC), maximum canal compromise (MCC) and length of lesion (LOL). They also looked at other factors, including bleeding within the spine, swelling and soft tissue injury. ...

Avian influenza survivors' antibodies effective at neutralising H5N1 strain

...ments for the virus, according to an international team of researchers. In a study published today in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, the researchers have shown how specific antibodies taken from avian flu survivors in Vietnam can be reproduced in the laboratory and prove effective at neutralising ...

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