Fruit fly studies open new window on cancer research
Scientists studying the humble fruit fly have found a family of proteins that enhances the sensitivity of a cell to a hormone that can trigger abnormal growth and cancer. Their discovery could lead to a completely new approach to tackling some cancers and the development of new drugs to stop uncontrolled growth in a wide variety of tumour cells. The researchers at the University of Oxford,...'Shifty-eyed' Monkeys Offer Window Into Brain's Social Reflexes
Neurobiologists at Duke University Medical Center have found the strongest evidence yet that monkeys show the same keen 'social reflexes' that humans do -- shifting their attention in response to the direction of gaze of another individual. The researchers said their findings mean that monkeys can provide a critically important animal model of how the brain controls what humans pay attention to i...A new window into structural plasticity in the adult visual cortex
Neuroscientists have known for decades that the adult brain can reorganize neural pathways in response to new experiences, for example, by changing the firing pattern and responses of neurons. But it has remained an open question whether structural changes accompany this functional plasticity. In a new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Wei-Chung Allen Lee and colleagues rep...Membrane research opens window to benefits for plants, humans
A wilting, water-starved houseplant and flood-covered crops have something in common. That knowledge, gleaned from spinach and researchers on two continents, potentially could open the gate to advances in both plant and human health. The research, which appeared online this month in advance of regular publication by the journal Nature, involved a tandem of basic-science firsts that offer i...Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke
An experimental treatment that spares disability from acute stroke may be delivered much later than the current three-hour treatment standard ?a potential advance needed to benefit more stroke victims. Researchers at the University of South Florida found that human umbilical cord blood cells administered to rats two days following a stroke greatly curbed the brain's inflammatory response,...EasyCode Windows Software from AutoMate Scientific, Inc
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Description:WinMelt software is used to predict the melting profile of any DNA sequence up to 3,200 bases, which aids in optimizing placement of primers and GC clamps for mutation detection by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), constant denaturing gel electrophoresis (CDGE), and temporal temperature gel electrophoresis (TTGE)....Scion Image for Windows from Scion Corporation
Description:Image Analysis Software. PC Version of NIH Image....Windows image bug patched, but more found
Microsoft has patched the Windows vulnerability that could allow malicious programs to be installed when users viewed pictures on their computers. But security experts say the same part of Windows has even more problems than previously thought, opening up more holes. Giving in to pressure from users and security experts, some of whom were installing an unofficial fix not condoned by the...Windows exploit worsens as stop-gap measures fill in for official patch
<b...Madison biochip research offers geneticists a big view through a small window
Some biochips barely cover a human thumbnail, but they can hold over a half of a million samples of DNA. And because this emerging technology offers a view of so many tiny bits of information at once, it's perfect for studying relationships among the 30,000 genes of the human genome, which are one of biology's next major mysteries. Biochips, essentially slides with many tiny dot...Linux and Windows duke it out at ITEC
MILWAUKEE Advocates of Windows and open-source software vied for the support of an audience at the concluding presentation of Wednesdays session of the ITEC conference in Milwaukee. Marc Rassbach, principle of , said that open-source software provides a technically superior system, but Windows has a strong appea...Small-Tree extends G5 networking platform to G4, Windows and Linux
Inver Grove Heights, Minn The two- and three-port Gigabit Ethernet cards that "There are many multiple platform configurations going on in the computer center these da...Study Offers Window into Human Behavior, Brain Disease
UCSF scientists have identified a cell population that is a primary target of the degenerative brain disease known as frontotemporal dementia//, which is as common as Alzheimer's disease in patients who develop dementia before age 65. Because the cells arose only recently in evolutionary history -- in a common ancestor of great apes and humans-- and are particularly abundant in humans...A Transplant in Time - Scientists ID Window for Tissue Transplant
In hemophilia, a mutated gene prevents the production of a critical blood-clotting protein. Treatments for hemophilia and other such genetic diseases, when they exist//, may consist of risky blood transfusions or expensive enzyme replacement therapy. But what if the body could be induced to begin producing these proteins, say by transplanting healthy tissue with the abilities that are lac...Nurse Has Miraculous Escape as Window is Blown Off an Air Ambulance
Chris Fogg, a critical care nurse and a resident of Idaho in US had a miraculous escape while traveling by an air ambulance . He was flying with a patient and the pilot last Wednesday from Twin Falls, Idaho, to Seattle when a window was blown off. At that time they were flying at a height of 20,000 ft. Rapid decompression occurred when Fogg was unbuckled from his seat and rea...