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FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Home-Use Diagnostic Kits Marketed by Globus Media

...g Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to use unapproved home-use diagnostic test kits that have...he Internet by Globus Media, Montreal, Canada. The use of these products could result in false results that could lead to significant adverse health conseq...

PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0

...function (GO ontology) and knownpathways. Its main use is probably microarray analysis - it incorporateautomated GO surrepresentation analysis with graphical output. Best ofall, its available freely . A paper describing the Database is available freely in the Nucleic acids research Journal . AppliedBi...

International trial of two microbicides begins

... always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission," notes NIAID...o one of four equally sized groups. One group will use BufferGel before each act of sexual intercourse, one group will use PRO 2000, one group will use a p...

Breast Cancer May Be 'Uniquely Sensitive' To Inhibitors Of PI3K Pathway

... with drugs.?Only one PI3K pathway inhibitor is in use to date, but others areincreasingly being developed and tested, says Mills, who is discussingthe importance of this pathway at the annual San Antonio Breast CancerSymposium meeting. “At least 20 different companies have recognized theimportance of th...

Duke Chemists Isolating Individual Molecules Of Toxic Protein In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease

...known as amyloid fibrils. Atomic force microscopes use a sharp microscopic tip to image surfaces and detect energy differences by mechanically probing molecular surfaces. In a poster presentation at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting, the researchers will describe the first biophysical analy...

Genetic Variation Visualization - From EMBL

... with drugs.?Only one PI3K pathway inhibitor is in use to date, but others areincreasingly being developed and tested, says Mills, who is discussingthe importance of this pathway at the annual San Antonio Breast CancerSymposium meeting. “At least 20 different companies have recognized theimportance of th...

MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs

... always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission," notes NIAID...o one of four equally sized groups. One group will use BufferGel before each act of sexual intercourse, one group will use PRO 2000, one group will use a p...

New Mixing Method for Microchip-Sized Labs

... with drugs.?Only one PI3K pathway inhibitor is in use to date, but others areincreasingly being developed and tested, says Mills, who is discussingthe importance of this pathway at the annual San Antonio Breast CancerSymposium meeting. “At least 20 different companies have recognized theimportance of th...

Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells

...s hope of a new approach to growing fat tissue for use in breast reconstruction surgery and other clinical needs, and may even be important for curing type II diabetes. Douglas Kniss, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of biomedical engineering at Ohio State University, reported this progress in...

UCSD discovery may help extend life of natural pesticide

.... Their findings should facilitate the design and use of Bt toxins to prevent insects, which the researchers believe also possess the molecule, from developing resistance to Bt, extending the life of this natural pesticide. The study, published February 11 in the journal Science, details the structure ...

New RNA polymerase discovered in plants

..."It is a bit of a mystery how other organisms that use small RNAs and that also do methylation get by without a Pol IV. It might be possible that they have something equivalent, and maybe we haven't looked hard enough. " ...

NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step

...biomedical engineering at NJIT, is researching the use of stem cells to induce bone repair. Her research ...treatment for repairing bone defects, which is the use of allograft tissue, as well as newer treatments such as combining allograft with stem cells." One ...

Agilent Technologies releases automated literature search tool for biology researchers

... of genes and proteins of interest. Biologists can use the new plug-in to avoid the daunting task of manually searching for each gene and protein in the scientific literature and patents. "Mining past literature for information about proteins and protein interactions is a critical step for building mode...

New methods of gene delivery using lasers

... Physical Sciences Research Council) which aims to use light to enhance our understanding of biology and to develop new biomedical devices. Although other research groups have touched on this area, the St Andrews group have greatly simplified the technique by using an extremely simple and versatile minia...

The Bacteria's guide to survival

...ide for bacteria might include topics like "How to use your pili to keep your host from going apoptotic." A host's cells can respond to a bacterial infection with apoptosis, or programmed cell death. For bacteria that pass directly from host to host, this can pose a problem. If the bacteria are highly vi...

Influenza vaccine uses insect cells to speed development

...thod to control such an outbreak is the widespread use of a vaccine. The traditional egg-based method requires 3 to 6 months to develop the vaccine. With our cell-based method, the time from receipt of the virus strain to the final vaccine product would be shortened to approximately 1 to 2 months." Toda...

TEL2 gene cooperates with MYC gene to provoke B-cell lymphomas

...classic genetic mutations that physicians normally use to diagnose the disease. It will also be very interesting to study the effect of drugs that block TEL2 activity, since such an approach might one day represent an effective treatment for leukemia patients." Other authors of the report include Ayten ...

South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

...nergy production, mining and other changes in land use in and around the Pantanal. "Without extremely ca...rainage and destruction. Already, changes in land use and land cover account for about 1.6 gigatonnes (17%) of annual human-caused carbon emissions, the a...

Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor

...r hind legs and abdomen point toward the tree, and use their head-up fall through the air to take them feet-first toward the trunk. How they land is still a mystery, but evidently claws on their back legs act like grappling hooks to snag the trunk and hang on. "When they drop, they often glide away from...

Love at first smell

...it's important to have a mix of MHC types. Females use smell to identify partners with suitable MHC molec...ff School of Biosciences said: "Since sticklebacks use the same molecules to communicate information about their immune system as other vertebrates, this e...

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