Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss
...ulty. Patients leave the hospital the same day and will be followed for two years as part of the study, an...e initial 10 patients. For the next 20 patients we will randomly select which eye will receive the ASR chip. In addition, post-operative vision testers will......nthesis and gene delivery, announced today that it will officially launch its new NittoPhase?solid support for oligonucleotide synthesis at the TIDES meeting commencing in Boston on May 1st. The joint development of this solid phase support product was announced on November 8th, 2004 by Kinovate’s sole sh...Chemists identify key gene in development of type 1 diabetes
...is being tested in animals to determine whether it will help in the actual treatment of ongoing type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, the more common type. Results are not yet available from these tests, the researchers say. Although nobody knows the exact cause of type 1 diabetes, and there is no cure, t...International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort
...etic variation than originally envisioned. The map will accelerate the discovery of genes related to commo...e end of February 2005, however, the group already will have reached completion of its first draft of the human haplotype map, or HapMap, which will consist...Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles
...is being tested in animals to determine whether it will help in the actual treatment of ongoing type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, the more common type. Results are not yet available from these tests, the researchers say. Although nobody knows the exact cause of type 1 diabetes, and there is no cure, t...Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene
... weakest PROP solution. "This type of information will one day help to improve the diets of our children by allowing us to devise better strategies to enhance fruit and vegetable acceptance in children who are sensitive to bitter taste," comments Mennella. "It may be that childhood represents a time of h...New Insights Into HIV Immunity Suggest Alternative Approach to Vaccines
...t Duke University Medical Center. The researchers will report their findings in a forthcoming issue of Science. The results were published online April 28, 2005, in Science Express. The antibody-producing portion of the human immune system is broadly divided into two categories. The first, innate B cell...Researchers develop rapid diagnostic tool for pathogen identification
...ogens in a couple of hours with minimal labor, and will allow comprehensive detection of co-infections.?/p> “The high multiplexing capability and sensitivity of the approach is provided by using the digital molecular weights of small molecules to code for the identity of the pathogens and detection of...Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip
...ulty. Patients leave the hospital the same day and will be followed for two years as part of the study, an...e initial 10 patients. For the next 20 patients we will randomly select which eye will receive the ASR chip. In addition, post-operative vision testers will...Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks
...ites known as apicomplexans. Results of the study will appear in the March 15 issue of Proceedings of the... glue spots have to be cut off at the back or they will jam the belt, greatly reducing the parasite's ability to move and thereby infect a host. A postdoct...Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge
...ions of the uterus and its contents, a number that will rise as more children are born premature. In the study, a team led by Staci Bilbo, PhD, injected a group of 49 rat pups on postnatal Day 4 either with the common intestinal bacteria E. coli, with salt water, or with nothing. In rats, Day 4 is like t...Nonlinear Dynamics announces more details of its global partnership with PerkinElmer
...d in a press release issued last week, PerkinElmer will distribute Nonlinear's full range of 1D, 2D and ar...ent that the extensive fruits of this relationship will continue to benefit the proteomics community for many years to come." ...Asthma gene clusters identified
...at genes are turned on during an asthma attack, we will conduct studies to see if this genetic profile can...arch is a good example of research that we believe will benefit patients, based on the use of novel algorithms and analysis from computational medicine. In ...... expression clinical database of patient specimens will fuel and accelerate clinically meaningful and scie...tudies. Clinical annotation for each tissue sample will enable researchers to form testable clinical hypotheses for use in future treatment decision making....Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see
...stability, as well as good vision, in patients. We will continue to do research and development in this area so that we can make the devices even safer and less expensive in the future." Both Afshari and Dohlman agree that their hope is for increased use of keratoprosthesis in the third world. "Worldwid...Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed
...e second most powerful computer cluster on campus, will be used to analyze everything from the behavior of...e biological scales, but this powerful new cluster will enable us to integrate models over many of these scales, which will make it possible for us to predi...Genetically modified rice in China benefits farmers' health, study finds
...ersity of California, Davis. Results of the study will appear in the April 29 issue of the journal Science. "This paper studies two of the four GM varieties that are now in farm-level preproduction trials, the last step before commercialization" says study co-author Carl Pray, an agriculture, food and r...Use of Insecticides Linked to Lasting Neurological Problems for Farmers
...T, have been banned or restricted. These findings will be available online in April, and published in the...e health of the agricultural population. The study will provide information that agricultural workers can use in making decisions about their health and the...Molecular Motors Cooperate In Moving Cellular Cargo, Study Shows
...r motors are working together," Selvin said. "This will help us further understand these marvelous little machines." ...... among children and teenagers in the past 30 years will have life-shortening effects in the future -- perh...life expectancy, which assumes that past increases will continue indefinitely. Most forecasts of life expectancy are based on historical trends, but the aut...