Tag: "useful" at biology news

Identified main genetic variants involved in response to HIV

...bed until now. Obtained information will be very useful in the long road to a more rational vaccine development. This and similar studies should push us toward more personalised medicine, where the most suitable drugs for each individual would be determined on the basis of their gene characteristics....

Blood test may help signal tumor's remission, return in throat cancer patients

...released by a growing tumor could one day become a useful tool for monitoring the effectiveness of chemother...r groups of patients to confirm if this could be a useful tool to monitor for cancer, infection, or other complications. In addition, because IL-6, IL-8, VEGF...

'Lucky 13' as new gene discovery offers further hope for childhood blindness

...ofessor Inglehearn hopes that the findings will be useful to inform and counsel the families most at risk, particularly within the Pakistani communities both in the UK and Northern Pakistan. The findings have been welcomed by Bruce Noble from Yorkshire Eye Research, which part-funded the research. "Ob...

Newly discovered antibody may be body's natural defense against Alzheimer's

...needed to definitively demonstrate whether IVIG is useful in treating Alzheimer's. Still, this discovery substantially boosts our understanding of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative illnesses, the experts say....

Marine phytoplankton changes form to protect itself from different predators

Suppressing colony formation is a useful strategy against copepods because they prefer to eat colonies of phytoplankton. A tiny single-celled organism that plays a key role in the carbon cycle of cold-water oceans may be a lot smarter than scientists had suspected. In a paper published Ju...

Mutating the entire genome

...ce by 2010 – an effort NIH says “will be extremely useful for the study of human disease.” Simpler, Faster Mutations in the Whole Mouse Genome Existing gene-targeting methods for deleting large segments of DNA are time-consuming and expensive because they require researchers to make multiple manipu...

Restricting hospital-based services during SARS outbreak had modest impact

...a’s new Quarantine Act and argues that it would be useful in only very limited circumstances....

3-D ultrasound scanner provides in-depth view of the brain

... dime-sized hole in the skull, may be particularly useful for the bedside evaluation of critically ill patients when computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment is unavailable, the researchers said. They report the development in a forthcoming issue of the journal Ultrasound in M...

'Virtual autopsy' helps identify drowning as cause of death

...the body. In addition, MDCT virtual autopsy may be useful as a pre-autopsy triage tool in mass casualty scenarios. "More and more, advanced imaging tools such as MDCT are being applied to forensic investigations," Dr. Levy said. "In the future, imaging in forensics may be just as important as imaging in ...

How brain pacemakers erase diseased messages

...l implants, Grill said. That could be particularly useful for zeroing in on effective settings for implants used to treat diseases, such as epilepsy, in which seizures occur only sporadically, as well as conditions, such as depression, in which symptoms can vary widely from day to day. "In the case of tr...

NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole

...PTHX tested technologies and methods that might be useful in other underwater explorations, including the long-term possibility of exploring the oceans hidden under the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. For the near term, NASA recently approved a project that will use these technologies to explor...

Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees

...end almost their whole lives in trees, making them useful models for how our ancestors moved around several ...d. Observations of orangutan movement should be useful for conservation efforts, according to Thorpe. These animals are seriously endangered, primarily due...

Smallpox outbreak: How long would it take for vaccines to protect people? Would it work?

...wever, provides benefits post-exposure, and may be useful in further preventing the spread of the disease. "If there were a release of the smallpox virus, we would vaccinate people immediately after the release," Frey said. "We'd move in and vaccinate people to prevent the spread." Frey said this res...

Catching cancer's spread by watching hemoglobin

...lood vessels just below skin growths would be very useful for distinguishing between malignant and benign skin tumors, and would remove the critical need for skin biopsies, which is especially helpful if there are multiple suspicious areas that need to be investigated. Since hemoglobin is highly concentr...

Scientists discover rare 'gene-for-gene' interaction that helps bacteria kill their host

...ticide use, so the more we know about it, the more useful it can be. "Insects are the major players in almost every ecosystem on the planet, so we need to know as much as we can about them." ...

UCLA AIDS Institute researchers find a peptide that encourages HIV infection

...d that can enhance gene delivery, you would have a useful tool." Retrocyclin-1 (RC-100) is a circular peptide that has been shown in previous studies to inhibit the infection of CD4 cells with HIV. RC-111 is also cyclic and has the same amino acid sequence as retrocyclin-1. In both peptides, the amino a...

Scientists develope a new model of artificial canine skin

... skin model, very similar to normal skin, which is useful for research and which represents an alternative to the use of animals in research. The model allows the study of those illnesses which most often affect dogs?skin without the need to use animals. To develop this model, cells from the epidermis (k...

DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis

...ate genomes." "This paper provides an extremely useful survey of tools and existing approaches for metagenome analysis and points out their weaknesses," said Natalia Maltsev, of the Bioinformatics Group, Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. "The simulated datasets co...

Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize

...utilized, the new minichromosomes are particularly useful because they allow scientists to add numerous gene...ction of multiple foreign proteins and metabolites useful for medical purposes. Because of their protein-rich composition, a part of the maize kernels (called...

DNA-damage test could aid drug development

...taking fundamental lab science and doing something useful with it," says Lodish, whose lab has extensively studied the process by which red blood cells are generated. Shuga first worked with postdoctoral researcher Jing Zhang in the Lodish lab to adapt techniques from an established cell-culture system base...

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