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Researchers discover way to make cells in the eye sensitive to light

Researchers have discovered a way to makelight sensitive cells in the eye by switching on a single gene.According to research published online today in Nature, the team fromImperial College London and the University of Manchester, havediscovered that activating the melanopsin gene in the nerve cellscauses them to become light responsive, or photoreceptive. Usingmouse cells, the resea...

Researchers find how protein allows insects to detect and respond to pheromones

University of Washington TechTransferrecently licensed software that will give scientists a huge advantagein the fight against disease.The software, known as Rosetta, predicts how proteins fold, informationthat is highly valuable to biological and biomedical researchers.UW Tech Transfer's Digital Ventures licensed Rosetta software withoutcharge to the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), a...

Researchers Uncover Key Step In Manufacture of Memory Protein

A cellular enzyme appears to play a crucial role in the manufacture of a protein needed for long-term memory, according to a team of researchers led by scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. The protein is known as mBDNF, which stands for mature brain-derived neurotrophic factor. In an earlier study, another team of...

U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified a newly emerging illness, named staphylococcal purpura fulminans. The disease begins as a respiratory tract infection, which then is infected by Staphylococcus aureus. The infection then moves to the lungs, making superantigens (bacterial toxins that activate large numbers of T cells), often leading to death due to hypertension and shock....

NYU researchers simulate molecular biological clock

For many years, DNA and proteins have beenviewed as the real movers and shakers in genomic studies, with RNA seenas little more than a messenger that shuttles information between thetwo. But researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Researchand Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that smallRNA molecules called microRNAs regulate thousands of human genes--morethan...

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Vector NTI Suite 7.1 for Mac OS X Sequence Analysis Software (academic & government researchers only) from Invitrogen

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Medical College researchers receive new grants to enhance discovery of heart-protecting anesthetics

Zeljko Bosnjak, Ph.D., professor and vi...

NimbleGen researcher to lead $415K DNA project

Albert, director of advanced research for NimbleGen, will be the lead investigator on a two-year, $415,000 grant award that is part of the...

Tapping hidden assets: Wisconsin researchers who can create jobs

released figures that show why the rest of us should be very happy that Wisconsin is a hotbed for scientific research. The numbers demonstrate that investment in research is n...

Genomics researcher Hood joins NimbleGen board

Hood, who is co-founder and president of the Seattle-based , will serve as chairman of NimbleGen...

Researcher wants to commercialize adult stem cell discovery

Sieber-Blum, a professor of cell biology, neurobiology, and anatomy at the , leads a research team that has applied for a patent on its work to isolate, grow, and...

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Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

Placing ear tubes in young children who develop fluid in the ears does not improve speech, hearing or psychological development, according to new research. Currently there are two reasons for ear tube surgery -- persistent, severe ear infections and liquid in the inner ear cavity of an otherwise healthy child. Doctors have been concerned that if surgery is not used in the second case, ch...

Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids

Epilepsy in kids is almost a nightmare to their respective parents, that too when it is resistant to the treatment. Researchers identified three factors that may increase a child's risk of having intractable epilepsy - a form of the disease that does not respond to commonly used drugs. Children who have their first epileptic seizure before their first birthday which is also called sympto...

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

Drug abuse,has been at its best of raise over the past decade or two and with the increased incidence of consumption of drugs in teens.Researchers at a conference sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse said that the drug known as ecstasy has a negative impact on blood flow to parts of the brain and that the effect can persist for weeks. ECSTASY is the name in vogue for the c...

Researchers trick Alzheimer's Enzyme

According to researchers in Scripps Research Institute, chemists have tricked an enzyme essential in Alzheimer's disease into blocking its own debilitating action.// A team led by Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless developed the chemical trick, called "click chemistry," to make a molecule that blocks neurotransmitter destruction caused by the brain enzyme acetylcholinesterase. The destr...

Researchers find new HIV hiding place

According to researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Texas, they have found a new place in the body where the AIDS virus can hide out, even in the face of powerful drug therapies.Dr. George N. Pravlak, a senior scientist at the National Cancer Institute in Texas, //found that their findings show a type of NK (natural killer) cell a significant cell of the immune system could be infected b...

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NIEHS Researchers Identify Enzyme Critical in DNA Replication

BETHESDA, Md., July 5, 2007--In this weeks issue of Science,researchers from the National Institute of Environmental HealthSciences (NIEHS) and Umeö University in Sweden report animportant discovery about a critical new role that an enzyme calledDNA polymerase epsilon plays in replicating DNA in higher organismssuch as yeast and perhaps even humans. The study places us one ste...

Stanford Researchers Find Brain Pathway of Depression in Rats

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 5, 2007 - Scientists' huntfor the cause of depression has implicated so many suspects andfound so many treatments with different mechanisms that thecondition remains an enigma. Now researchers at the StanfordUniversity School of Medicine have identified one unifyingprinciple that could explain how a range of causes and treatmentsfor depression converge...

Researchers Discover Method for Identifying How Cancer Evades the Immune System

PHILADELPHIA, July 3, 2007-- One of the fundamental traits of atumor – how it avoids the immune system – might becomeits greatest vulnerability, according to researchers from theUniversity of Southern California. Their findings,demonstrated in human breast and colorectal cancers, indicate thata technique for determining a tumor’s “immunesignature,” could be...

Researchers Discover Gene For Rare Skin Disorder

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007-Researchers funded in part by theNational Institutes of Health have identified the gene thataccounts for most cases of Goltz syndrome, a rare skin disorderthat can also affect bone and eye development. The cases appear to result from a defect in the gene known asPORCN, which contains the information needed to make a protein,referred to by researchers as porcupine...

Prolexys Pharmaceuticals and Columbia University Researchers Publish Study on Anti-Tumor Properties of a Selective Small Molecule Anti-Tumor Agent With Novel Mechanism of Action

SALT LAKE CITY, June 14, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- ProlexysPharmaceuticals and announced today a publication describing theproperties of the selective small molecule anti-tumor agent,erastin. Prolexys and Columbia applied the company'schemi-proteomics technology to understand the mechanism of actionof erastin. The results, to be published in the June 14, 2007 issueof the journal Nature reveal...

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