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US woman gives birth to baby from world's first frozen donor egg bank

...infertility for over 15 years in both the academic university setting as well as private practice. Jeffrey Boldt, Ph.D., Scientific Director for CEI, has worked with many infertile couples over the past six years as he successfully developed and improved egg-freezing technology to allow for the use of the techn...

U of M researchers discover genetic key to treating deadly fungal infections

...ofessor of genetics, cell biology and development, university researchers have discovered that C. albicans can neutralize an antifungal drug by modifying one of its own chromosomes. The cell duplicates one arm of chromosome 5 and deletes the other, replacing it with the duplicate arm. The altered chromosome is ...

Connect the Quantum Dots

... Raymo and colleagues for these inventions and the university is in the process of finding an industrial partner capable of commercializing these inventions. Quantum dots, one of the smallest nanoscience research tools, range from 2 to 10 nanometers in diameter; nearly 3 million quantum dots would be needed to...

Researchers find cause of frontotemporal dementia

...he group worked intensively with neurologists from university memory clinics in Antwerp, Leuven, and Ghent. Genetic analyses of the DNA from FTDU families identifies defects that cause a shortage of progranulin. Progranulin is known in cancer research, where a surplus of this protein leads to tumors. What it do...

'LEGO-Like' building blocks to halt cell growth wins Hebrew University prize

... on June 13, during the 69th meeting of the Hebrew university Board of Governors. Qvit has shown through his research that it is possible to greatly increase drug delivery efficiency by designing specific molecular structures made up of known pharmaceutically effective peptides (small protein molecules) that...

'Mindless autopilot' drives people to underestimate food decisions

...rnell professor or nutritional sciences, asked 139 university staff and students to estimate how many decisions they make about food each day, the average response was 15. However, when the volunteers then answered specific questions about when, what, how much and where they ate and who made decisions about mea...

Technology for monitoring fetal oxygen during labor offers no apparent benefit

...his study of more than 5000 women delivering at 14 university hospitals throughout the United States, knowledge of intrapartum fetal oxygen saturation had no significant effect on the rates of Caesarean delivery overall or specifically for the indications of a nonreassuring fetal heart rate or dystocia," the au...

Researchers examine why food tastes bad to chemotherapy recipients

...an health," Dietrich said. Along with two of her university colleagues, Susan E. Duncan, professor of food science and technology, and YongWoo Lee, an assistant professor in the biomedical sciences and pathology department and a member of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineeri...

Chemical tests of cell growth enter third dimension

...nufacturer to develop the technology further. The university is expecting to license both technologies. ...

PET imaging shows young smokers quick benefit of quitting

...lthy Young Smokers." Researchers from the Japanese university also noted that improvement was "preserved" six months after the study's subjects stopped smoking, "supporting the value of smoking cessation for prevention of coronary artery disease particularly in the young," said Tamaki. "This study provided a...

New findings could lead to vaccine for severe malaria

...has been working with colleagues from KI's partner university in Uganda to study in detail how the parasite infects the placenta. Their results, which are published in the American scientific journal PNAS, can enable the development of vaccines and therapies to combat severe malarial infections. During one par...

U of M researchers invent 'flashy' new process to turn soy oil, glucose into hydrogen

... possibly be used as feedstocks. Schmidt and his university colleagues--graduate students James Salge, Brady Dreyer and Paul Dauenhauer--have produced a pound of synthesis gas in a day using their small-scale reactor. Here's how the new process works: The oil and sugar water are sprayed as fine droplets fr...

Research project tackles 'regeneration' gap

... Fueled by about $6 million in private donations, university support and state matching funds, "The Regeneration Project" will connect scientists who work with adult human stem cells ?the building blocks of self-renewal that exist within our brain, bone marrow and blood ?with scientists who study how tissues a...

Lower carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled power plants possible with technology development

...iary of TXU Corp., will donate $1.8 million to the university in support of Chemical Engineering Professor Gary ...al. “We are thrilled to team with a prestigious university such as UT Austin,?said Richard Wistrand, senior vice president and chief fossil officer, TXU Power....

Cancer that colonizes our bodies

...44. Following the Second World War, he pursued his university education in the United States and joined Tennesse...how genes repair themselves. He remained at the university past his mandatory retirement in 1992, continuing research for another 10 years. It was during his "...

New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies

...44. Following the Second World War, he pursued his university education in the United States and joined Tennesse...how genes repair themselves. He remained at the university past his mandatory retirement in 1992, continuing research for another 10 years. It was during his "...

Stopping plants from getting sick

...damage that fungi can do to crops. He then went to university to learn the tools for dealing with fungal infections of both plants and animals. Thirty years later, after a lifetime of work in both farmer's fields and the scientific field of fungal biology, Kronstad is being honoured for his work by the Ameri...

Misclassified for centuries, medicinal leeches found to be 3 distinct species

... from samples supplied by commercial providers and university laboratories that use leeches as model organisms. Their analysis clearly showed that the commercial and laboratory specimens were not Hirudo medicinalis, as they were labeled, but Hirudo verbana. In addition, the work showed that the specimens of ...

Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes

...a common analytical technique, widely available in university and industrial research laboratories around the world."...

Slowing the racing heart

...nd stroke," said R. John Solaro, UIC distinguished university professor and principal investigator of the study. Current treatment of arrhythmia requires destruction of tissue surrounding a chaotic pacemaker, followed by insertion of a mechanical pacemaker that can regulate the heartbeat. "Understanding...

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