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UF researchers kill resistant bugs one bandage at a time

... the chance germs will develop resistance. "These technologies are especially timely given the threats that are facing the American public, such as antibiotic-resistant bugs occurring in hospitals across the world," said Christopher Batich, Ph.D., a UF professor of biomedical engineering and one of the coating's...

New imaging technology shown to detect pancreatic inflammation in type 1 diabetes

...ention - has been the lack of direct, non-invasive technologies to visualize inflammation in the pancreas, an early manifestation of disease. Instead, clinicians have had to await overt symptoms before diagnosing an individual, by which time destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas has alre...

Quantum dots provide a faster, more sensitive method for detecting respiratory viral infections

...heir surface. "The problem with current detection technologies is that they take too long," says Professor of Pediatrics James E. Crowe, Jr. who collaborated with Associate Professor of Chemistry David W. Wright in the development. "When a patient with a respiratory illness comes in to the doctor, emergency room...

Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium

...ly reduced, phosphorus inputs are checked, and new technologies are developed for reducing phosphorus content of over-enriched soils, the report says. "This type of eutrophication is not reversible unless there are substantial changes in soil management," Carpenter writes in PNAS. The amount of phosphorus that r...

Why were the HIV prevention trials in commercial sex workers abandoned?

...ssing need to develop female-controlled prevention technologies that do not require the male partner's consent, and the protestors are getting in the way of such development. "Activist groups have now managed to derail several PREP trials, arguably the most important studies for those at high risk of acquiring HI...

Bacteria are key to 'green' plastics, drugs

...s a high priority for the chemical industry. Green technologies use renewable resources like agricultural crops rather than non-renewable fossil fuels, and they produce less waste. "Succinate is a high-priority chemical that the U.S. Department of Energy has targeted for biosynthesis," said process co-developer ...

Divergent life history shapes gene expression in brains of salmon

...estern Massachusetts, with new functional genomics technologies to simultaneously monitor thousands of genes in individual tissues. "Research like this was very difficult in the past because we lacked adequate tools to measure gene expression," Aubin-Horth says. "As a result almost nothing is known about the mol...

Drawing with DNA: 'Bioart' illuminates genomics

...West ?director of visual analytics and interactive technologies at the University of California, San Diego National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and research associate with the UCSD Center for Research and Computing in the Arts ?the "Ecce Homology" project is an ongoing collaboration among 11 biolog...

Gifts from the sea

...d out at the MBL, has led to advanced reproductive technologies including test-tube fertilization. Oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau): The broad, flat head of the toadfish contains a unique set of nerve wiring. The nerves leading to and from the toadfish brain are less tangled than those in humans and other creatures...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

... the newest and most sophisticated genome scanning technologies will allow us to unlock the mysteries of how the b...nal Genomics Research Institute. Genomic scanning technologies make use of the human genome sequence to visualize how gene flavors or aberrant amounts of genes can...

Researchers seek to discover what really happens when a virus enters the body

...ence of the disease. Employing applied engineering technologies to treatment will allow more intensive study of diseases at the cellular level. A greater understanding of the physiology of an illness will lead to more targeted treatments. ...

First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology

...rably relative to other non-traditional production technologies and some traditional cell culture methods as well." "Furthermore," Dr. Kay continued, "unlike other transgenic animal systems, the time from antibody identification to production in eggs can be as short as 8 months versus 18 months to 3 years for go...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...y and ecology of microbial communities, analytical technologies and bioinformatics." Banfield and colleagues at UC Berkeley supplied the bacterial samples and characterized genome information while Hettich and Nathan VerBerkmoes, a post-doctoral student in ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division, performed the mass sp...

Critical step traced in anthrax infection

..., according to Collier, was the integrative use of technologies applied to the testing procedures. Both cellular systems and model electrophysiological membrane systems were used to test the potency of the anthrax toxin. "We tried to bridge reductionist science with the in vivo situation ?we have to do both to ma...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...ealth finds that promoting cleaner, more efficient technologies for producing charcoal in Africa can save millions...sitioning to higher efficiency charcoal production technologies and sustainable harvesting, like those used today in countries such as Brazil and Thailand, greenhou...

Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV

...gh the use of regular screening with the available technologies appropriate to each age group," said Wayne Shields, president & CEO, ARHP. "One of the keys to making prevention possible is broader education of both women and providers, focusing on informed, shared decision-making." Survey Methodology A surv...

Newer imaging techniques may lead to over-treatment

Newer imaging technologies allow physicians to visualize more of the arteries in the lungs, including detecting small blood clots not previously seen, but seeing more may have little impact on the patient's outcome, a new study suggests. The study included 198 patients with s...

New Species of Coral Discovered Off Southern California

...ding the process of HIV infection. Modern imaging technologies facilitate real-time observation of virus-cell interactions. Many of these investigation methods require labeling of the object of interest, such as by introducing the genetic code of green fluorescent protein (GFP) into its genetic information. Ther...

Virologists make major step towards understanding the process of HIV infection

...ding the process of HIV infection. Modern imaging technologies facilitate real-time observation of virus-cell interactions. Many of these investigation methods require labeling of the object of interest, such as by introducing the genetic code of green fluorescent protein (GFP) into its genetic information. Ther...

Owl genomics presents a HEPATOCHIP for diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

...ations in human health with innovative and pioneer technologies within the international scientific community, provides the first product in early diagnosis and therapeutic targets in hepatic diseases. OWL Genomics is devoted to research into the diagnosis and prevention of liver diseases, through the combinatio...

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