Scientists discover that host cell lipids facilitate bacterial movement
...the actin cytoskeleton, and this model promises to yield additional insights into how these phospholipids control the cell's actin cytoskeleton. Our discoveries provide additional fundamental clues as how cells move." These findings may also open the door to using PI3-kinase inhibitors or other agents tha...Placenta Is A Rich Source Of Blood Stem Cells
...ed into the blood and then collected. Both methods yield only a limited number of blood stem cells. For more than a decade, scientists have believed that blood stem cells are made only in the embryo itself, within the region of the developing aorta. No role was suspected for the placenta, which has been s...Color-blind method opens new doors in DNA sequencing
...nating the need for further software processing to yield readable sequence information. "Genome sequencing, by its very nature, is a process that begs for precision, and the number of mistakes that can be tolerated is extremely low," said Curl, University Professor, the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Prof...Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down
...he mapping of bacterial genomes has not yet helped yield solutions to the problem, says Dr. Davies. He adds that our understanding of the activity of microbes must extend beyond the newspaper headlines reporting outbreaks of these "superbugs," so that we can put the role of these organisms in the proper e......dded to the dendrimer in sequential steps. And the yield of useful particles drops with each successive ste...ee months per synthesis, and a significant loss of yield for each step, that approach just wouldn't be practical. Instead, the Baker group will create a lib...