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A sweet step toward new cancer therapies
...n very early stages, but we hope that by measuring unique sugars it may be possible to develop diagnostic tools or therapeutic agents to specifically target them," Hakansson said. ...White blood cells of cancer-resistant mice overwhelm natural defenses of cancer cells
The discoverers of the unique mouse line that is resistant to cancer have begun ...e renders the white blood cells capable of sensing unique diffusible and surface signals from cancer cells and responding to those signals by migration and ph......oss and his colleagues found that zebrafish have a unique ability to regenerate cardiac muscle after major injury. They further suspected that illumination of the fishes' ability might offer important insights into "how heart regeneration is naturally optimized." In the current study, they found that hear...Cloned mice created from fully differentiated cells, a milestone in cloning research
...nulocytes are well characterized white blood cells unique for their segmented nuclei and the numerous granules in the cells' cytoplasm. Surprisingly, the granulocytes were the most efficient donor cells for nuclear transfer among the different lineage cells, with 35 to 39 percent becoming a blastocyst, an...One-of-a-kind imaging probe reveals secrets useful for drug discovery
...tom by atom. But what made this particular method unique is not the extreme power of the magnet, which at 600 megahertz is fairly standard, but the extreme sensitivity of the probe - the component that is inserted into the magnet to obtain chemical information from the samples. Developed by scientists at ...Living view in animals shows how cells decide to make proteins
...cess to dice and splice genetic material to create unique and varied proteins. The scientists say the findings, made in mice, help explain a key wonder of human biology: how the same genes found in every cell of an individual’s body can produce different proteins in different tissues and organs. These vari...Triple threat: World fin trade may harvest up to 73 million sharks per year
...ber of sharks represented in the fin trade using a unique statistical model and data from Hong Kong traders. When the figures were converted to shark weight, the total is three to four times higher than shark catch figures reported to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). "Without...Seagrass ecosystems at a 'global crisis'
...osystems and their biodiversity." Seagrasses ?a unique group of flowering plants that have adapted to exist fully submersed in the sea ?profoundly influence the physical, chemical and biological environments of coastal waters. They provide critical habitat for aquatic life, alter water flow and can help...'Killer' B cells provide new link in the evolution of immunity
...ia School of Veterinary Medicine have discovered a unique evolutionary link between the most primitive innate form of immune defense, which has survived in fish, to the more advanced, adaptive immune response present in humans and other mammals. The finding, which appears in the online version of the Octo......in the fully grown egg, about a tenth of which are unique to egg cells. Interestingly, the process of getting ready for fertilization requires more genetic activity than early embryo development. There's a far greater diversity of RNAs in the egg cell than in the two-cell embryo, perhaps because the embryo ...NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective
...agnosis, treatment and prevention to each person's unique genetic profile. The new grants will fund nine i...ed, massively parallel DNA sequencing system using unique base analogues and the sequencing by synthesis approach, in collaboration with a group at Columbia ......terial from parents to recombine, giving rise to a unique new genome. But how did sex itself evolve" Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have found clues to one part of this complex question in ongoing studies of the ne...Ongoing collapse of coral reef shark populations
...k—the whitetip and grey reef sharks—by employing a unique combination of fisheries-independent abundance estimates and measurements of the survival and reproduction of individual sharks. Their findings show that reef shark abundance on reefs open to fishing are about ten times lower than on unfished reefs. ...Household transmission of SARS: Lessons learned
...spiratory protective measures. SARS presented a unique public health situation, in which urgent prevention and control measures neededto be taken, while at the same time the identity of the infectious agent was unknown. ...Common ancestry of bacterium and plants could be key to an effective new treatment for chlamydia
... an effective cure for Chlamydia infections. "The unique connection between the Chlamydia bacterium and plants had been proposed by others," said Thomas Leustek," a professor in the department of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers' School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (formerly Cook College)...Genome archaeology illuminates the genetic engineering debate
... for insertion into an array of plants, generating unique genomes not achievable by conventional breeding," Messing said. "We could engineer plants to provide a more sustainable, healthy and productive source of food, while reducing the environmental impacts of their cultivation." ......iversité Pierre et Marie Curie in France has found unique bacterial symbiosis with mussels. Symbiotic associations between bivalves (mussels) and bacteria allow the former to benefit from the bacteria's ability to chemosynthetically (without light) derive energy from the chemical compounds produced and use ...Scientists crack genetic secrets of human egg
...ademy of Sciences that they have identified genes unique to the human egg. The identification opens the way...sented in thehuman egg to identify those which are unique to the egg. They teamed with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School inBosto...LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look
... in Saskatchewan, among others, showed the drug is unique and has some intriguing properties that need to be explored further." ...Clue found to Epstein-Barr virus' ability to form and sustain tumors
...st into RNA and then into protein. Mutating the unique segment of amino acids prevented EBNA-1 from transforming resting B cells into proliferating cells. Under normal conditions, a cellular protein binds this 25-amino acid segment of EBNA-1, allowing transcription of viral and cellular genes regulated ...Other Tagsstuck 2stuck 3stuck 4atomic 2atomic 3atomic 4Other Contentsimmunizationimmunizationimmunizationimmunizationimmunizationanthraxanthraxanthraxanthraxanthraxblindblindblindblindblindblindblindmediastinalanterioranterioranterioranterioranterioranterior
(Date:12/2/2009)...ADELPHIA New study results strengthen the evidenc...iod of time have an increased risk for developing ...risk factors. , "This provides one more reason ...d senior author Michael J. Thun, M.D., M.S., vice ...research at the American Cancer Society. "Colorect...
(Date:12/2/2009)...ILADELPHIA People who smoke their first cigarette...evels of cotinine, a by-product of nicotine when p..., regardless of the number of cigarettes smoked. ... risk of lung cancer, our results suggest that smo...ecially at risk for lung cancer," said researcher ...
(Date:12/2/2009)...ILADELPHIA Exposure to secondhand smoke for a pro...rease the risk of breast cancer, even in women who...stion of whether exposure to side-stream smoke cou...nresolved," said Peggy Reynolds, Ph.D., senior res...Center,s Berkeley office. "While no single epidemi...
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(Date:12/4/2009)...Case Western Reserve University researchers, from ...discovered two new metabolic pathways by which pro...e, known as 4-hydroxyacids, are metabolized. The p...lomics and mass isotopomer analysis. The findings ...rug of abuse gamma-hydroxybutyrate, also known as ...
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