Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible
Foreveryone doing or reading a paper about microarray-based experiments,reproductibility, especially inter-lab, is the #1 concern. Can I trustthese results? If I redo the same experiment in one month, will I beable to compare both? The NIH recently demonstrated that microarrays experiments performed in d...Sangamo BioSciences demonstrates its ZFP treatment protects cells from HIV infection
Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. today announced that data from its program to develop a ZFP Therapeutic for HIV/AIDS were presented at the 45th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Washington, DC. The study represents the first demonstration that cells can be made resistant to HIV infection by treatment with Sangamo's proprietary zinc finger DNA-binding pr...New research demonstrates bone-marrow derived stem cells can reverse genetic kidney disease
The discovery that bone-marrow derived stem cells can regenerate damaged renal cells in an animal model of Alport syndrome provides a potential new strategy for managing this inherited kidney disease and offers the first example of how stem cells may be useful in repairing basement membrane matrix defects and restoring organ function. Led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ce...Xie Lab demonstrates the role of microRNA pathway
Ting Xie, Ph.D., Associate Investigator, and Zhigang Jin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Xie Lab, have published results showing that the microRNA pathway is essential for controlling self-renewal of germline stem cells and somatic stem cells in the Drosophila ovary. The paper, "Dcr-1 Maintains Drosophila Ovarian Stem Cells," was published on the Web site of Current Biolo...Doctor demonstrates `psychic surgery'
Dr. Narendra Nayak of Kasturba Medical College recently did an Orbito at Jayangar National College at Bangalore. The `psychic surgery' exposure programme was aimed at clearing confusion in the minds of the audience about psychic surgery and explode the myths involved in such treatments.// Dr Nayak explained that psychic surgeons usually perform surgeries on persons with pot bellies. He...Mouse Model Demonstrates Immune System Reaction In Chlamydia Infection
Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have mapped out the way immune system in mouse models responds to germs in the genital tract //during the initial stage of Chlamydia trachomatis infection. The study is published in the July 24 early edition online of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and could prove important in the development of vaccine against the disease....Coversyl Demonstrates Clinical Benefits in Elderly Patients
Coversyl(R) in PEPCHF Trial, has been the first agent to demonstrate clinical benefits in elderly heart failure patients with diastolic dysfunction.// The drug appears to provide a number of clinical benefits toelderly people with chronic heart failure according to the results of a study of ACE inhibitor Coversyl(R) that was presented at the World Congress of Cardiology today. The s...A New Research Demonstrates HIV-1 In Resident Immune Cells Of Human Testis
A new research has found that the human testis harbors HIV-1 in resident immune cells, providing an explanation for the persistence of virus in semen even after effective// highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). A related report by Roulet et al., “Susceptibility of human testis to human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection in situ and in vitro,” appears in the December issue of The A...New Therapy for Lipid Disorder Demonstrates Varied Results
Preliminary research suggests that use of a novel, potent drug to treat cholesterol disorders decreases triglycerides and increases// HDL-C, the 'good' cholesterol, but also raises some safety concerns, according to a study. Several different classes of drugs are used to treat lipid disorders. Fibrates reduce the liver's production of a triglyceride-carrying particle and speed up rem...