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Study of genomic DNA leads to new advances in cancer diagnostics

... smear assay, which is similar to methods commonly used in diagnostics laboratories (such as Pap smears), ...uld be applied to such a purpose. The authors also used flow cytometry to characterize melanomas of varying invasiveness. Further study will be required to ...

Breakthrough method in nanoparticle synthesis paves the way for new pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

...size and morphology of nanoparticles, which can be used in pharmaceutical synthesis and novel biomedical a...plate for mesoporous structure, while the other is used to limit the growth of the particles to nanometer dimensions. This method can be used to create a v...

Influenza vaccine uses insect cells to speed development

...he resulting virus is then harvested, purified and used to produce the vaccine. In addition to the long de...antibody response in humans. "Since all the media used here are chemically stable and commercially available, the process can be easily scaled up for comme...

Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective

...ening in the United States. The Yale/Harvard study used different data and methods than another study by VA, Duke and Stanford researchers, yet both teams reached roughly the same conclusions. "The publication of these papers represents a golden opportunity to jump-start the expansion of HIV testing serv...

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

...rom highland cattle breeding where pastures may be used all year round. The analysis says "new landowners...keholders had limited impact on the resources they used and did not have the means to induce major environmental changes, such as altering the flood pulse b...

X-Ray Beams And Fruit Fly 'Flight Simulator' Aid Scientists' View Of Muscle Power

...uscles store energy during each beat that is later used to help flap the wings or expand the heart after c... directed by Tobey Clark, built a rotating shutter used in the earlier experiment. IMF scientists Carl Silver and Gill Gianetti fabricated the high-speed de...

UF Researchers Map Bacterial Proteins That Cause Tooth Loss

...ues to cause such devastation. In this study, they used cutting-edge molecular research techniques to map ...sequence of roughly 2,000 proteins. “The approach used in this study is very exciting,?said Hansel Fletcher, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology ...

UCSD team discovers specialized, rare heart stem cells in newborns

...1+ cells were found in newborn rats, the UCSD team used sophisticated genetic methods to tag the progenitor cells in living embryonic tissue and in the newborn heart of mice. With these techniques, they were able to show that the isl1+ progenitor cells were spontaneously able to form cardiac muscle tissue...

Love at first smell

...nt for many animals, including humans. Humans have used perfumes for thousands of years. However, it seems that our choice of perfume should depend on our MHC genes. Perhaps these results explain why some perfumes smell good on some people and terrible on others." Professor Thomas Boehm, Max-Plank Societ...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...lecular biology research. Affymetrix technology is used by the world's top pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotechnology companies as well as leading academic, government and not-for-profit research institutes. More than 1,200 systems have been shipped around the world and nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed papers...

New Treatment Rivals Chemotherapy For Lymphoma, Study Finds

... complete, rival any kind of treatment that's been used for follicular lymphoma, including chemotherapy re...es the tagged antibody. Nuclear medicine scans are used to assess how quickly Bexxar reaches the tumor and how quickly the radiation disappears from the pat...

Carnegie Mellon scientists develop tool that uses MRI to visualize gene expression in living animals

...en the chemist's job to develop agents that can be used to enhance MRI contrast," said Eric Ahrens, assist...e being expressed," Ahrens said. Existing methods used to image gene expression have limitations, according to Ahrens. Some methods cannot be used in livin...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

An international team of scientists has used gene therapy in two separate studies to renew brai...opeful Parkinson's patients. But the gene therapy used in monkeys represents a different way to deliver the GDNF to the brain, causing the body to produce ...

FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Type I and Type II Diabetes

...s with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Symlin is to be used in addition to insulin therapy in patients who can...ey disease, and vascular disease. Symlin is to be used only in combination with insulin to help lower blood sugar during the 3 hours after meals. Symlin wi...

Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

...may benefit from a new gene therapy approach being used by cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center to grow new blood vessels in the heart. The phase II clinical research study uses vascular endothelial growth factor-2 (VEGF-2) in the form of a solution containing a DNA plasmid that is delivered u...

PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay

...e world's first cruelty-free insulin assay, a test used to measure insulin levels in individuals with diab...g a synthetic replacement for the fetal calf serum used as a culturing medium in millions of medical tests every year. After months of painstaking detectiv...

Self-assembled nano-sized probes allow Penn researchers to see tumors through flesh and skin

...luorophores within the polymersome membrane can be used to optically image tissue structures deep below the skin ?with the potential to go even deeper," said Michael J. Therien, a professor of chemistry at Penn. "It should also be possible to use an emissive polymersome vesicle to transport therapeutics d...

Special Imaging Study Shows Failing Hearts Are 'Energy Starved'

... team of cardiologists and radiologists at Hopkins used MRS to provide direct molecular-level measurements...tment of Medicine. For the study, the researchers used an MRI device that combines conventional magnetic resonance imaging with spectroscopy to provide not...

Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

...ide industry. Solid support is the base structure used in the synthesis of oligonucleotides, including di...ith Nitto Denko is another example of how Isis has used its expertise in RNA-based drug discovery and development to work with partners in bringing innovati...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

...c variants are deleterious, the HapMap also may be used to help to pinpoint genetic variations that contribute to good health, such as those protecting against infectious diseases or promoting longevity. "We are excited by the opportunity to apply our technology to all publicly available SNPs. This effor...

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