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MIT designs portable 'lab on a chip'

...t right away. Labs on a chip can also be used in traditional chemistry or biology labs to speed up processes such as DNA testing or screening for the presence of certain antigens. Only tiny amounts of reactants would be needed, and experiments could be done more rapidly and efficiently. "Instead of a thousa...

Flu shot effective against drifted influenza, nasal spray vaccine less so

...etic differences from the strains in vaccines, the traditional killed-virus flu shot was found to be effective in...uccessful at initiating antibody response than the traditional shot in young children. Monto and Ohmit will continue to follow study participants vaccinated ...

Friendly bacteria in alcoholic milkshake could fight food allergies

...p to protect against some food allergies. Kefir, a traditional fermented drink, is consumed in Eastern Europe as a health food, and is often used to wean babies, as it is easily digested. Food allergy prevalence is especially high in children under the age of three, with around 5-8% of infants at risk. Currently...

Abnormal overexpression of p53 is a predictive molecular biomarker

...n laboratory test that predicted poor outcome from traditional radiation and chemotherapy treatment for head and ...on of p53 has corresponded with a poor response to traditional therapies, as well as lower survival and a shorter time to disease progression." "Selecting those w...

Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity

...ey likely play an entirely different role from the traditional lower frequency gamma waves, Knight said. One theory is that brain oscillations organize neurons into cooperating groups: low-frequency waves synchronize the firing of large groups of neurons, while the higher frequencies synchronize smaller groups....

Vaccine for brain tumors shows promising results

...ebilitating side effects typically associated with traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Vitespen has been granted fast track and orphan drug designations from the Food and Drug Administration in both metastatic melanoma (skin cancer) and renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer). ...

Spelling out cancer on the nanoscale

...ell and follicular lymphoma patients. In parallel, traditional Western blots were performed to confirm BCL-2 and MYC levels. "Our strategy can be used to repetitively and quickly assess the levels of oncoproteins in cancer cells grown in the laboratory and in human patients," says Felsher. "It may prove use...

Engineer ramps up protein production, develops versatile viral spheres

... well-targeted capsids would be more likely than a traditional vaccine to elicit a strong and specific response. The capsid method is akin to advertising a product directly to the people who are most likely to want it. ...

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

...d over half of the mutations they identified using traditional DNA sequencing or other methods. They found that over 92 percent of mutations identified by the mass spectrometry method were validated in this manner, and believe that much of the difference is due not to the mass spectrometry method but to limitati...

Researchers make nanosheets that mimic protein formation

..., self-assembly offers substantial advantages over traditional manufacturing approaches, if we can design the building blocks appropriately. This is what we're trying to do." ...

Genetic study of Neanderthal DNA reveals early split between humans and Neanderthals

...nderthal's 3 billion total base pairs and utilized traditional sequencing technologies used for the Human Genome Project as well as the new parallel pyrosequencing method to clone and insert missing fragmented DNA and create a library of Neanderthal DNA. Unlike the libraries used to sequence the human genome, ...

Report calls for improved monoclonal antibodies against solid tumors

...oute, and schedule of administration; and use of a traditional or of a pre-targeting strategy.?They conclude the framework they offer “should facilitate critical choices among antibody constructs in clinical practice, clinical research, and preclinical research.?...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...disease, trauma and other causes. It moves beyond traditional transplant and replacement therapies to include the use of stem cells, soluble molecules, genetic engineering, tissue engineering, and advanced cell therapy. There is increasing research in regenerative medicine in both developed and developing coun...

Study shows enzyme builds neurotransmitters via newly discovered pathway

...olated and identified the enzyme Abh4 by combining traditional protein purification and functional proteomic technologies, concluding that Abh4 "displayed multiple properties" that would be expected of an enzyme involved in NAE biosynthesis. However, the authors of the study noted, the unique contribution that ...

Brown seaweed contains promising fat fighter, weight reducer

...olated and identified the enzyme Abh4 by combining traditional protein purification and functional proteomic technologies, concluding that Abh4 "displayed multiple properties" that would be expected of an enzyme involved in NAE biosynthesis. However, the authors of the study noted, the unique contribution that ...

Nanotechnology propels advances in regenerative medicine research

...olated and identified the enzyme Abh4 by combining traditional protein purification and functional proteomic technologies, concluding that Abh4 "displayed multiple properties" that would be expected of an enzyme involved in NAE biosynthesis. However, the authors of the study noted, the unique contribution that ...

'Conversation stoppers' fight deadly bacterial infections

...olated and identified the enzyme Abh4 by combining traditional protein purification and functional proteomic technologies, concluding that Abh4 "displayed multiple properties" that would be expected of an enzyme involved in NAE biosynthesis. However, the authors of the study noted, the unique contribution that ...

Artificial cornea offers better results for infants, some blind patients

...improving the vision of a group of people for whom traditional cornea transplants usually fail. The new work, sup...gh more than 100 surgical procedures, including 39 traditional cornea transplants that had failed, before the latest implant. In the new study, two of the children...

Powerful genome ID method extended to humans

...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 mapping technolog...

Mysterious 'neural noise' actually primes brain for peak performance

...d a new path to understanding our gray matter. The traditional approach has assumed the brain uses the same method computation in general had used up until the mid-80s: You see an image and you relate that image to one stored in your head. But the reality of the cranial world seems to be a confusing array of pos...

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