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New technology to speed up research into Huntington's disease

A new tool developed at Cambridge University represents a breakthrough in the race to find treatments to help sufferers with Huntington's disease. Researchers have developed an effective new method of testing cognitive decline in mice with the disease, using ...

Powerful genome ID method extended to humans

...ng cancer biology a faster and more cost-effective tool than traditional DNA sequencing. A student-led group from the laboratory of Michael Waterman, USC University Professor in molecular and computational biology, has developed an algorithm to handle the massive amounts of data created by a restriction ...

Scientist's persistence sheds light on marine science riddle

...uilding the Malacolog database for many years as a tool for research, summarizing information on the names and distributions of species of mollusks, but I had not anticipated asking this particular evolutionary question," said Rosenberg, Vice President for the Center for Systematic Biology and Evolution a...

From a lowly yeast, researchers divine a clue to human disease

... how Sen1 works in yeast, Brow provides a powerful tool other researchers can use to better understand the interplay of the protein and gene regulation in human disease. "This work gives a method to start examining what the defect is in humans," he says. In the past, says Brow, researchers looked at r...

Ancient ape ruled out of man's ancestral line

...e by Australopiths. Rather it is thought the first tool maker was Homo habilis, whose evolution is believed to have led directly to man. Rather than being older than Homo habilis ?and a possible direct ancestor ?Little Foot is more likely a distant cousin. His remains are cemented in hard mineral depos...

Hormone linked to brain's cravings for food and other energy sources

...ng this region pharmacologically is an interesting tool to explore," said Horvath, chair of the Section of Comparative Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and professor of comparative medicine, neurobiology and obstetrics, gynecology & reproductive sciences. In this study, Horvath and colleagues fo...

Scientists find new way to manipulate DNA

...field of gene therapy, allowing scientists another tool to control the length of the strands of DNA. In genome sequencing, the first step is to take the genome and break it into small pieces to reassemble it into the DNA strand that is best for further biochemistry, Solomon said. ...

High-throughput oncogene mutation detection in human cancers by mass spectrometry-based genotyping

...eotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA. But while this tool is mostly used to understand how single letter (or nucleotide) changes in genes might correlate with disease risk in normal individuals, the researchers adapted it to look for known point mutations in genes that make them oncogenic. They chose onc...

For Pacific white shrimp, gender matters when competing for food

...mp that grow more efficiently will be an important tool to maximizing production. ...

Detecting microalgae in coastal waters

...itech Inc. have been awarded $270,274 to develop a tool for improved detection of microalgae by the Cooper...to determine their safety, as well as an effective tool for scientists and researchers." Dr. MacIntyre will work closely with the Weeks Bay, AL.; Grand B...

New tool helps blood specialists improve patient care

...ogy Practice Improvement Module (PIM), a web-based tool physicians use to complete their practice performance assessment requirement for recertification. Participants in ABIM's Maintenance of Certification program, must complete several self-evaluation steps, including reviewing patient charts and answeri...

Friendly bacteria in alcoholic milkshake could fight food allergies

...believes that the milky drink could be a promising tool in the prevention of allergies. "In the future, maybe we can screen out the certain components (bacterial strains or bioactive peptides) from kefir and utilize them in medicine," he said. Also in this weeks Chemistry & Industry, UK firm Rigest...

Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack

...on a map. Instead Longini and colleagues rely on a tool called stochastic modeling to take into account real-world unpredictability, as well as many factors about the disease and the affected population. In constructing these models, Longini and colleagues begin with assumptions about how people interact ...

Special chip provides better picture of salmon health

...to monitor the health and performance of salmon, a tool which could both save the salmon industry thousands and also help conserve dwindling wild salmon populations. Atlantic salmon are the most important farmed fish in the UK and a disappearing species in the wild. They are particularly vulnerable to i...

UCSD researchers create roadmap to integrin activation

...in (GP) IIb-IIIa, provides a powerful and flexible tool for studying therapeutic targets along the pathway that impacts the activation process. This activation leads to changes in the cells' surface receptors ?changes that enable platelets to bind to the wall of blood vessels and to one another. "The r...

Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site

...ut what to expect. We developed this web site as a tool to gather information on side effects, and to help answer these questions," said Golomb. The site will provide access to a broad group of people, facilitating the opportunity for patients to confidentially share information about their experience, ...

Experimental vaccine protects mice against deadly 1918 flu virus

...entifying antibodies that neutralize this virus, a tool that could help contain future pandemic flu strains. These findings are important, the researchers say, to understanding and preventing the recurrence of the H1N1 influenza virus that caused the 1918 pandemic and to protecting against virulent flu st...

Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible

...f Dr Bartsch because it may provide a motivational tool that is a broad set of concrete, tangible, and rapid benefits of sobriety: cognition, chemistry and brain volume," wrote the associate professor of diagnostic radiology and psychiatry at Yale University. Prof Mason believed this was a particularly v...

Coral reefs are increasingly vulnerable to angry oceans

...a more unpredictable climate. "The predictive tool we have developed allows managers to assess the vulnerability of their reefs to extreme wave events," said Madin. "The ability to estimate the potential damage on a reef for different disaster scenarios could help managers plan for economic losses as...

Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos

...ement of laws and regulations remains an essential tool for conserving biological diversity," Hobbs says. "This sounds so simple, but it has been controversial." ...

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