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Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells

A year ago, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers discovered that the spleen might be a source of adult stem cells that could regenerate the insulin-producing islets of thepancreas. In a follow-up to that unexpected finding, members of thesame team now report that these potential adult stem cells produce aprotein previously believed to be present only during the embryonicdevelopmen...

Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down

New biomolecular technologies have largely failed to deliver the hoped-for knockout punch breakthrough against the defences of disease-causing bacteria, says a leading Canadian specialist in antibiotic resistance. Techniques such as genomic sequencing and high throughput screening were expected to make the development of new antibiotic compounds easier and more productive. But in most cas...

Men Estimate Men's Risks Of Common Disorders Higher Than Women Do, And Vice Versa

New research from University of Glasgow researchers on lay perceptions about gender differences in health reveals that both men and women believe health risks are higher for their own sex than for the opposite sex. But, it also shows that males think that men are fitter and females think women are more athletic. Professor Sally Macintyre in the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at...

Say what? Bacterial conversation stoppers

While a chattering crowd of various species of bacteria is essentially a microbial tower of Babel, certain snippets of their chemical conversation are almost universally understood. HHMI researchers have found that bacteria of different species can talk to each other using a common language ?and also that some species can manipulate the conversation to confuse other bacteria. The interspe...

Reversal of role for a viral protein associated with the development of lymphoma

Important messages require accurate transmission. Big genes are especially challenging because they combine many coding segments (exons) that lie between long stretches of non-coding elements (introns). During processing, introns are snipped out and exons pasted together to form a template for proteins called messenger RNA (mRNA). Mistakes in RNA processing can reduce the expression of a function...

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Low Abundance cDNA Cloned Using Stratagenes Human Universal cDNA Library

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A Versatile Power Supply for All Electrophoresis Applications

Douglas Drake Michelle Cayouette Lisa Filippone Bob LeSchofs Stratagene 4000 Power Supply Stratagene has developed the new SmartPower...

Versatile Vectors for Ponasterone A- Inducible Control of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells

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Human Universal cDNA Library Array I

Jean-Michel Llias Leonardo de Leon Bruce Jerpseth Sandra Soares Stratagene Stratagene has organized over 145,000 high-quality clones from a universal cDNA libra...

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Demand for universal flu vaccination

Numerous lives could be saved each year, if only everyone over the age of 60 had a flu jab. According to vaccine experts, Dr. Gregory Poland fe that universal vaccination in three regions// over two flu seasons reduced mortality from the disease by 40 to 50 per cent. Clearly vaccination can be a life-saver, yet take-up rates are still only around 70 per cent. Dr Poland proposes some c...

Age should not rule out visectomy reversal

For couples who want to have a baby after the man has had a vasectomy, reversing the vasectomy offers a reasonable chance for pregnancy even when the woman is 35 or older, according to a new study. In this scenario, the chance for success is comparable to that of one cycle of a type of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in which sperm is directly injected into an egg. Besides reversing a vasect...

Treatment For Reversal Of Effects Of Sleep Deprivation In Brain

Researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine had discovered a drug that can help in improving performance by reversing the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain. The research results were published in // current issue of the journal Public Library of Science- Biology, and may go a long way in helping workers working in shifts, medical professionals and defense people who...

Technical Reversal Of Virginity Now For Rs.20, 000!

There has been a high demand for hymenoplasty, a surgical procedure performed to restore a woman's technical virginity, in Gujarat//. While several organizations claim it to a scientific triumph, and some others argue that the procedure further compromises the position of women in conservative India, Gujarat surgeons are finding it to difficult to cope up to the demand. More and more...

Review of Reversal of Spread of Diseases in Africa

African heads of state plan to meet this week in Abuja, Nigeria, to review the progress achieved in reversing the spread of infectious diseases// like HIV/Aids, malaria, tuberculosis. Five years ago the leaders had set a target of increasing health spending to at least 15 per cent of national budgets in order to accelerate a continental response to the pandemic of Aids as well as othe...

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Xanthus Presents Novel Approach for Autoimmune Disease Reversal with Symadex

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2007 - XanthusPharmaceuticals, Inc today presented data demonstrating thatSymadex(TM) reversed the clinical and pathological signs of chronicdisease in an animal model for multiple sclerosis. The presentationwas made by Stephen J. Karlik, Ph.D., Professor of DiagnosticRadiology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,together with rese...