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Chemists create 'Superbowl' molecule; May lead to better health

...ch year on Australian television. Super Bowl XXXIX will be played at ALLTEL Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla.,...medicinal value, Sherburn says. "I'm sure that we will be able to encapsulate compounds such as [the anticancer drug] taxol in the near future," he says, b...

DNA Molecules Used To Assemble Nanoparticles

...t wouldn't be practical. Instead, the Baker group will create a library of single-functional dendrimers that can be synthesized in parallel, rather than sequentially, and then linked together in many different combinations with the DNA strands. "So it's like having a shelf full of Tinker Toys," Baker sa...

Bioartificial kidney under study at MCG

...l kidney containing billions of donor kidney cells will help intensive care patients with kidney failure s...ed. This month, Dr. Szerlip and MCG Medical Center will join a Department of Veterans Affairs and National Institutes of Health study to do just that. But ...

Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells

...or injury. Much sooner in the future, the advance will allow researchers to create motor neuron modeling ...l to humans," says Zhang. The next step, Li says, will be to test if the newly generated neurons can communicate with other cells when transplanted into a ...

New push for public health, AIDS spending at African Union summit

...ists hope this weekend's African Union (AU) summit will net commitments to boost government spending on pu..."We are definitely optimistic that this time there will be some movement, that this time there will be not just talk about an HIV strategy for the AU but ho...

Molecular biology fills gaps in knowledge of bat evolution

...undwork for further research that, Springer hopes, will expand the coverage of classifications of bats from the family level to the genus level and probe in more detail into the bat evolutionary record. He also plans to compare the completeness of the bat fossil record with that of other mammals. ...

A new mechanism of regulating RNA degradation

...ch, proteins that naturally interact with the bait will be pulled out of the pool of cellular proteins. They found that Upf1 grabbed onto Staufen1 (Stau1). Stau1 is a well-known RNA binding protein and some of its functions in the common fruit fly Drosophila are understood. "But no one knew what Staufen1...

FDA Approves Human Hookworm Vaccine for Phase I Safety Trials

...ch, proteins that naturally interact with the bait will be pulled out of the pool of cellular proteins. They found that Upf1 grabbed onto Staufen1 (Stau1). Stau1 is a well-known RNA binding protein and some of its functions in the common fruit fly Drosophila are understood. "But no one knew what Staufen1...

Deficient DNA Repair Capacity Associated With Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer

...sured easily and quickly, the scientific community will be able to clearly understand the role of DNA repair capacity in the development of cancer and possibly to develop interventions to reduce cancer incidence and mortality," they write. ...

Genes In The Interferon System Important In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

...s of ahuge 'interferon puzzle,' with whose help it will be possible todiscover the mechanisms behind the d... the interferon effect. Further functionalanalyses will be necessary to map the molecular mechanisms in detail.Besides the Rheumatology Clinic at Uppsala Ak...

University of Manchester makes made-to-measure skin and bones a reality using inkjet printers

...er have developed thebreakthrough technology which will allow tailor-made tissues and bonesto be grown, si...istechnology we are able to build a fragment which will fit exactly. Wecan place cells in any designed position in order to grow tissue orbone."This breakth...

Protein discovery could unlock the secret to better TB treatment

...uncovering the molecular structure of this protein will lead the way to designing drugs which enable treatment of dormant and multidrug resistant TB. In England and Wales around 400 people die each year from the disease. The top challenge for TB control in the European region is multidrug-resistant TB (M...

W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...oundation to researchers at the School of Medicine will help fill this gap by funding a study to develop n...t provided by the Keck Foundation, the researchers will create new techniques for harvesting microbial communities along the length of the intestine and seq...

It's not all genetic: Common epigenetic problem doubles cancer risk in mice

...ng the risk that a cancer-causing genetic mutation will trigger a tumor there. Roughly 10 percent of peopl...roughly doubles the risk that the genetic mutation will cause a tumor," says postdoctoral fellow Atsushi Kaneda, Ph.D. "Double the risk may not seem like mu...

Columbia research lifts major hurdle to gene therapy for cancer

... atColumbia University Medical Center. "We hope it will be particularlypowerful in eradicating metastases ...tch can be exploited to produce genetherapies that will only kill cancer cells even if the therapy entersnormal cells.As an example, the researchers constru...

Growth in the sea comes down to a struggle for iron

... to respond differently. Wells and his colleagues will be studying the possibility that small variations ...ant ecological consequences as well. Their results will contribute to the diverse oceanographic understanding needed to determine whether or not adding iron...

Poor prenatal nutrition permanently damages function of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas

...he mother to the baby, the baby's pancreatic cells will be programmed abnormally," said principal investigator Mary-Elizabeth Patti, M.D., Assistant Investigator in Joslin's Research Section on Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "The effect doe...

Emory Study Tests Bone Marrow Stem Cells to Improve Circulation in Legs

... repair damagedones.Patients in the clinical trial will be given an injection of either agrowth factor cal...oweeks. The level of EPCs in the volunteers' blood will be measuredbefore, during and after administration of the drug or placebo. Thestudy is randomized an...

Controversial drug shown to act on brain protein to cut alcohol use

...We can only hope that anti-alcoholismpatchs or gum will be available in a close future; it would help fix aproblem that we've been struggling with for ages. A naturally occurring hallucinogen advocated by some clinicians as apotent anti-addiction drug has been rigorously studied for the firsttime, confirm...

Neuronal 'traffic jam' marks early Alzheimer's disease

...hat seen in Alzheimer's. One of the questions they will also ask is whether amyloid plaques poison the transport machinery. If the experiments do, indeed, confirm the predictions of the transport hypothesis, then neuronal cultures could prove valuable in testing diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, said...

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