The Female Health Company Switches to the NASDAQ Stock Market
CHICAGO, May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Female Health Company (NYSE Amex: FHC ) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the decision to switch the listing of its common stock from the NYSE AMEX LLC to the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC. Effective as of the opening of trading on T...Progen Technology Switches on Cancer Fighting Genes and Inhibits Tumor Growth
BRISBANE, Australia, April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Progen Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: PGL; Nasdaq: PGLA ) has released data that shows its epigenetic technology successfully inhibits tumor growth. The results of the pre-clinical experiments, presented by Progen's collaborators at the ...Top Hospital Switches To Cybernet Compact Computers To Save More Lives
After a series of tests that scanned and evaluated different computer systems, the IT staff of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIUMed) revealed that Cybernet iOne GX31 was by far the most reliable computer model for the university's hospital exam rooms. ...Lifeway Foods Switches to 100% Certified Hormone Free Milk
MORTON GROVE, Ill., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lifeway Foods, Inc., (Nasdaq: LWAY ), makers of the nutritious, probiotic dairy beverage called kefir, announced today that they are now using milk that comes from cows not treated with hormones. This 100% certified hormone free milk comes...Scientists locate disease switches
New perspectives in the treatment of disease The team, led by Professor Matthias Mann of Novo Nordisk Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen and the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany, have detected 3,600 acetylation switches in 1,750 different proteins. ...UCSF creates fast, affordable tool for finding gene 'on-off' switches
UCSF scientists have created a method of quickly identifying large numbers of the genetic material known as short hairpin RNA also called shRNA that turns genes on and off. The method, which the research team has used to create a library of 22,000 of these "on-off" switches for roughly 600 h...Research Studies on Molecular Switches of Gene
A single molecular on switch triggers gene activity that cause effects ranging from learning and memory capabilities to glucose production in the liver was discovered by scientists of St.Jude Childrens Research hospital . The on switch, a protein called CREB, is a transcription factora mol...Mutant Genes in High-Risk Childhood Leukemias Identified
...have hinted that some high-risk ALL cases might arise from mutations in genes that produce enzymes called kinases, which function as biological on-off switches in cells," said Charles Mullighan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant member in the St. Jude Department of Pathology and a co-first author of the study. "Such mut...Copper Eliminates Resistant Hospital Germs in a Worldwide Field Test
... in Hamburg, Germany, was equipped with door handles, door plates and light switches made of copper. Because the germs are not only transmitted from one hand to...rfaces with cooper alloys. Experience has shown that door handles and light switches are the most frequent surfaces of transmission. 50,000 casualties in Euro...Pediatric Researchers Find Possible 'Master Switch' Gene in Juvenile Arthritis
...ctor of the Center for Applied Genomics; and Edward M. Behrens, M.D., all of Children's Hospital. "There are only a few genes that may act as master switches like this to regulate autoimmune diseases," said Finkel, the chief of Rheumatology at Children's Hospital. "This switch we discovered probably has to ...St. Jude Study Shows How T Cell's Machinery Dials Down Autoimmunity
...ewswire-USNewswire/ -- A St. Jude Children's Research Hospital study shows that T cells, the body's master immune regulators, do not use simple on/off switches to govern the cellular machinery that regulates their development and function. Rather, they possess sophisticated molecular controls that enable them...Fragile X, Down Syndromes Linked to Faulty Brain Communication, Stanford Researcher Finds
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A discovery made by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine while studying mice may help explain how some people without a genetic predisposition to epilepsy can develop the disorder. In a study published this month in the Journal of Neuroscience , senior ...Plant biologists discover gene that switches on 'essence of male'
Biologists at the University of Leicester have published results of a new study into plant sex and discovered that a particular gene switches on 'the essence of male'. The study takes to a new level understanding of the genes needed for successful plant reproduction and seed production. Pro...Control switches found for immune cells that fight cancer, viral infection
July 9, 2008 -- Medical science may be a significant step closer to climbing into the driver's seat of an important class of immune cells, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report in Nature Immunology . The researchers showed that a single protein, HS1, enabl...Search for the 'on' switches may reveal genetic role in development and disease
DURHAM, N.C. -- A new resource that identifies regions of the human genome that regulate gene expression may help scientists learn about and develop treatments for a number of human diseases, according to researchers at Dukes Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP). The majority of DNA in...Researchers find signal that switches on eye development -- could lead to 'eye in a dish'
Researchers at the University of Warwick, funded by Wellcome Trust, have uncovered a crucial signal that switches on eye development. This discovery will greatly assist researchers looking at stem cells connected to eye development and opens up an avenue of research that could eventually lead to a...Beyond the DNA: Chemical signatures reveal genetic switches in the genome
Investigators from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have made a breakthrough in identifying functional elements in the human genome, according to a report published online today in Nature Genetics. While the DNA...'Exercise pill' switches on gene that tells cells to burn fat
By giving ordinary adult mice a drug - a synthetic designed to mimic fat - Salk Institute scientist Dr. Ronald M. Evans is now able to chemically switch on PPAR-d, the master regulator that controls the ability of cells to burn fat. Even when the mice are not active, turning on the chemical switch...Gene therapy research switches off joint inflammation; switches on genetic process of joint repair
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Albany Medical College, together with Rainforest Nutritionals, Inc. have demonstrated in a mini symposium held today at the 14th International Conference of the Inflammation Research Association (IRA) that a blend of natural botan...Flick of a protein switches immune response
A single protein can turn on and off a key component of the immune system by changing partners in an elegant genomic dance, said researchers at the University of Southern California and Harvard Medical School. Because autoimmune diseases ?such as arthritis, allergies and dozens of other illnesse...Nano machine switches between biological and silicon worlds
"Frankly, some researchers didn't think what we were attempting was possible," says Dr Keith Firman, at Portsmouth University and Mol-Switch project coordinator, funded under the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies initiative. "However, we got our molecular switch to work." The...Nanotubes find niche in electric switches
HOUSTON -- (March 9, 2009) -- New research from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, finds that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric motors and generators. The research, which appeared online t...Scientists discover repulsive side to light force
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