Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue
Researchers have created a way to transform the dead bone of a transplanted skeletal graft into living tissue in an experiment involving mice. The advance, which uses gene therapy to stimulate the body into treating the foreign splint as living bone, is a promising development for the thousands of cancer and trauma patients each year who suffer with fragile and failing bone grafts. The findings w...Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships
Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced the launch of MedScan?Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, a Natural Language Processing-based tool for automated extraction of biological facts from scientific literature, MEDLINE abstracts, and other text sources. A demo version of MedScan is available at www.ariadnegenomics.com. MedScan leverages hand-crafted dictionaries of protein and chemical names, and...Microbes convert 'Styrofoam? into biodegradable plastic
Bacteria could help transform a key component of disposable cups, plates and utensils into a useful eco-friendly plastic, significantly reducing the environmental impact of this ubiquitous, but difficult-to-recycle waste stream, according to a study scheduled to appear in the April 1 issue of the American Chemical Society journal, The microb...'Accelerated evolution' converts RNA enzyme to DNA enzyme in vitro
This "evolutionary conversion" provides a modern-day snapshot of how life as we understand it may have first evolved out of the earliest primordial mix of RNA-like molecules-sometimes referred to as the "pre-RNA world"-into a more complex form of RNA-based life (or the "RNA world") and eventually to cellular life based on DNA and proteins. Nucleic acids are large complex molecules that store and...Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions
A multi-institutional team of researchers has found that people with long-standing, severe paralysis can generate signals in the area of the brain responsible for voluntary movement and these signals can be detected, recorded, routed out of the brain to a computer and converted into actions -- enabling a paralyzed patient to perform basic tasks. In the 13 July 2006 issue of Nature, the r...Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Colorimetric Assay Kit from Alpco Diagnostics
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Authorities in Himachal Pradesh's tourist resort of Kufri have finally found a way to solve the problem posed by horse dung scattered on hill treks - and even profit from // it. Kufri, 16 km uphill from here, is visited every day by hordes of tourists, with many of them riding horses. There are about 700 horses in that mountain resort. Health officials, however, have pointed...Bacteria Can Convert Flame Retardant Into Toxic Form
A new report published online in the Environmental Science & Technology, the journal of the American Chemical Society, says that bacteria present in the soil can convert// a commonly used flame retardant compound in the US to toxic forms that could prove harmful to human health. The finding, by a team of environmental engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, suggests these...Breakthrough in Converting Blood Groups
European scientists have identified two novel enzymes that could help convert blood groups A, B and AB into the universal O group.// The shortage of blood available for transfusion to those in need essentially arises precisely because of the shortage in the O group that could be donated to any one. Now an international team led by Henrik Clausen of the University of Copenhage...Green Box Converts Car Fumes into Biofuel
Three friends in North Wales are trying their bit to solve the problem of carbon emission. They have developed a box known -green box- which can convert car fumes into biofuel. The box can be fixed underneath the car in place of the exhaust. this box traps the unwanted gases. These unwanted gases are also called green house gas such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide and they add...Converting Left-hander to Right-hander also Changes the Brain
A study of converted left-handers, natural lefties who have switched over to right hand use, has shown that such a shift changes the way their brains are organized, and how hard particular regions work. The researchers say while some areas in such peoples brains continue to retain characteristics of a practising lefty, other areas switch to the patterns of a righty....ACE - REA Hypertension / Cardiac Evaluation, Cardiovascular 001-RK-ACD Angiotensin Converting Enzyme
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