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Drug That 'Tags' Decision-making Areas Of The Brain May Aid

Along with aiding efforts to study addictedsmokers, a new drug that attaches only to areas of the brain that havebeen implicated in may help studies of people battling other disorders such as Alzheimer’sdisease and schizophrenia.Developed by UC Irvine Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers...

New species from old data

In a new study, researchers present a “cautionary tale?about what may go wrong when using the fledgling science of proteomics to devise a diagnostic test for cancer. In the February 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center detail why an experimental test intended to identify early ovarian cancer from a...

“Nano-scissors?laser shows precise surgical capability

)is quite a challenge; its about 1 mm in length. A research team fromthe University of Texas at Austin developed a method of laser-assistedsurgery to work on these little beasts, being able to section a singleaxon (the "arms" of a neuron) with g...

New Clues Add 40,000 Years to Age of Human Species

Nearly 40 years after an historic anthropology expedition to Ethiopia's Lake Turkana basin, researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting human bones found at that time are roughly 195,000 years old. The researchers believe the findings may bolster the “Out-of-Africa?hypothesis that suggests we all trace to an ancient line that first evolved in Africa and then displaced other hominids as recent...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

In a project that already has benefited animportant field of biomedical research, scientists have deciphered thegenomes of two closely related strains of Cryptococcus neoformans, afungus whose importance as a human pathogen has risen in parallel withthe HIV/AIDS worldwide epidemic and the increased use ofimmunosuppressive therapies.The study, posted online January 13 in Science Express, rev...

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Antibodies for Studying NMDA Receptor Protein Expression and Synapse-Specific Immunolabeling

Danny Q. Hoang Michael Browning Xinping Yang PeterPingerelli Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. Stratagene introduces affinity purified antibodies for NMDA receptorsubunits that are useful for studying expression of the NR2A, NR2B and NR2Csubunit proteins...

Greater Amplification Specificity with New Hot Start PCR Enzyme

Taq DNA polymerase makes hot start simple and efficient Jonathan Eads Frances Bai Ronda Allen Holly Hogrefe <p align="...

Gene-Specific Primers for NMDA Receptor Subunits

Robert Buchner Peter L. Pingerelli Michael D. Browning Mary Ellen Simcox Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. Stratagene is now offering gene-specific primer sets for the rat and humanNMDA receptor. In this article, we describe using these primers in reversetran...

Tissue Specificity for Mutation Parallels Tissue Specificity for Cancer

transgenicrodent mutation assay Centre for Environmental Health, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada transgenic rodent mutationassay,* which carries the E. coli lacI transgene in a retrievabl...

Improve Amplification Specificity with Hot Start PCR Enzyme

Taq2000 features a modified version of Taq2000 with hot start capability. Using SureStart Taq, hot start is in- corporated into PCR protocols previously optimized with Taq DNA...

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Endangered species may be successfully cloned in another animal's womb

Scientists for the first time have found a way for the survival of endangered animal species of the world. In a major breakthrough a Massachusetts scientists who engineered the feat has managed to clone cells from an endangered animal (Asian Gaur) and successfully impregnated an Iowa cow with the clone. The scientific journal Cloning has reported in its upcoming edition that...

Special proteins to fight TB identified

Heat-shock proteins, which are protective substances, produced by the body in stressful situations may help the immune system kill the TB bacteria, researchers in the UK report. According to a report in the June issue of the journal Nature Medicine, these heat-shock proteins, which are special proteins produced by the body help cells survive stressful times and bolster the immune system...

Decision making made easier

Audio-visual communication has always been an effective utility tool to the field of medicine. An interactive video disc is helping patients make important decisions about their treatment. The days when doctors told you what treatment to have are long gone. Patients today expect to participate in the decision-making process.// But sometimes this is difficult, when the clinical evidence gi...

Smoking can depreciate intellegence

Smoking in old age appears to be linked to intellectual impairment over the age of 64, research has found. A team from the Institute of Psychiatry in London carried out a community survey of an area of England They studied more than 630 people aged 65 and over. Smoking and drinking habits were recorded at the beginning of the study. The volunteers' intellectual powers were also asses...

Lecithin lowers cholesterol absorption in body

Nutrition researchers at Kansas State University have published the first evidence that the absorption of cholesterol is reduced by another compound in the egg, the lecithin.The research was done by Sund I. Koo, Yonghzhi Jiang and Sang K. Noh. A peer-reviewed research paper by the three researchers, “Egg phosphatidylcholine decreses the lymphatic absorption of cholesterol in rats,” as in...

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Rapid Flu Tests May Prove Especially Helpful This Season

On October 5, Chiron Corporation notified the CDC that none of its influenza vaccine (Fluvirin) would be available for distribution in the United States for the current influenza season. In the wake of this sudden removal of nearly half of the anticipated American vaccine supply, medical officials and the general public have grown increasingly alarmed about the scarcity of vaccine and the ris...

Study Shows Ixabepilone Demonstrated Clear Activity in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Resistant to Anthracycline, Taxane, and Capecitabine

- Phase II Results Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology - NEW YORK, July 06, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Results from aPhase II study - which will be published in the August 10, 2007issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) and are nowavailable as an Early Release Article at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jco.org/">www.jco.org - demonstrate thatixabepilone, a Br...

Phase III Clinical Trial with 4-Month Long-Acting Formulation of Triptorelin: Ipsen Decides Not to Perform Further Administration

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 11, 2007 - Regulatory News-Ipsen(Paris:IPN) announced today that the preliminary data from theongoing phase III study for its investigational 4-month formulationof triptorelin do not support the expected sustainable blood levelsof triptorelin for a duration of 4 months in all patients.Therefore, Ipsen has decided not to perform the secondadministration as planned...

International Movement Disorder Specialists Receive New Information About the Use of Once-Daily Azilect in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease

Results presented at the Movement Disorder Society's 11thInternational Congress in Istanbul, Turkey KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 08, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Newinformation on the use of AZILECT(R) (rasagiline tablets) for thetreatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) was reported this week at TheMovement Disorder Society's congress in Istanbul, Turkey.Once-daily AZILECT was approved by the FD...

Targeting Specific Mutations Reveals Promising New Approach to Treating Genetic Disorders; Preclinical Data Published in Nature

PTC124 Targets Nonsense Mutations; Addresses Underlying Cause ofGenetic Disorders and Restores Protein Function SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., April 23, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Newpreclinical data published online in the current edition of thejournal Nature show that PTC124, an investigational new drugdesigned to bypass nonsense mutations, was efficacious in apreclinical model of Duchenne muscular...

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