Mouse with designer liver has enhanced glucose tolerance, insulin response
A collaborative effort led by The Burnham Institute's Gen-Sheng Feng has created a mouse with improved glucose tolerance and insulin activity in the liver, and generated new findings about insulin-signaling in the liver that could prove useful in understanding the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. These results, to be published by Nature Medicine in May, were made available to the scientific commu...Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency
Breeding rice with higher levels of iron can have an important impact on reducing micronutrient malnutrition, according to a new study in the Journal of Nutrition. The research, conducted by scientists from the Philippines and the United States, is a major step forward in the battle against iron deficiency, one of the developing world's most debilitating and intractable public health problems aff...Researchers report technique for freezing and preserving genetically enhanced pig embryos
Researchers led by a University of Missouri-Columbia professor of reproductive biotechnology have reported success in freezing and preserving swine embryos that were created by in vitro techniques and that carried modified genetic material. After thawing and transfer to a surrogate mother, some of the embryos went on to produce live piglets with new genetic traits. In a paper posted today...Fish growth changes enhanced by climate change
Changes in growth rates in some coastal and long-lived deep-ocean fish species in the south west Pacific are consistent with shifts in wind systems and water temperatures, according to new Australian research published in the United States this week. “We have drawn correlations between the growth of fish species related to their environmental conditions ?faster growth in waters above a dep...Making mice with enhanced color vision
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and their colleagues have found that mice simply expressing a human light receptor in addition to their own can acquire new color vision, a sign that the brain can adapt far more rapidly to new sensory information than anticipated. This work, appearing March 23 in Science, also suggests that when the first ancestral primate inherited a n...Luminol-enhanced Assay for Superoxide Anion (O2 face="Symbol" )
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DNAPolymerase Stratagene DNA polymerase* by making simple modifications to PCR reactionconditions. In this update, we d...Unique Enhanced DNA Polymerase Delivers High Fidelity and Great PCR Performance
Improve reliability of PCR reactions with Herculase enhanced DNApolymerase Stratagene enhanced DNApolymerase,* a novel enzyme formulation that providessuperior performance in both routine and demanding PCR applications. Previous...Enhanced siRNA Delivery and Long-term Gene Silencing
5.1 Retro System enables researchers to study the long-term effects of reducing the expression of specific genes in cell culture models. These retroviral vectors make use of H1 or U6 Polymerase III promoters...Combined modality approach for effective treatment and enhanced survival in bile duct cancer
Hilar cholangiocarcinoma is a type of bile duct cancer. Conventional therapy for this for of cancer is to remove (resect) the tumor, which may require removing part of the liver. Survival for patients// with this type of operation is only 25 to 35 percent, and many patients cannot be treated this way because the tumors can involve both sides of the liver. Cholangiocarcinoma is a relati...Enhanced Gene Therapy Outcomes Following Latest Revolution And Refinement
Investigators and patients alike look forward to the day when it will be possible to correct the effects of abnormal genes by supplying the body with normal ones. Gene therapy refers to the treatment of a genetic disorder by inserting // normal genes into abnormal cells. The hope is that the transferred genes will cure the basic defect rather than merely alleviating its damage. Getting...Incidence of iron deficiency reduced by nutrient enhanced cereal- rice
A cereal and health correlation study confirms that fortified rice reduces deficiency of iron in subjects. This has become possible by techniques of plant breeding that have incorporated traits// and made rice that has higher levels of iron in it. The study was conducted by Philippine and American scientists. This study is important as iron deficiency is a major health problem around the...Visually impaired prefer specially enhanced TV
A scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute (SERI) found that increasing the contrast of details of certain sizes made television watching more enjoyable to the visually impaired. // The U.S. study provides information that could help develop an electronic device to help millions suffering eye diseases. People who may benefit from such a device include those suffering from macular deg...ASO Calibrator (Latex-Enhanced Immunoturbidimetric)
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EAGAN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Imprime PGG(TM), aninvestigational new drug from Biothera that enhances the innateimmune system response, increases the effectiveness of Avastin(R)(bevacizumab) to kill cancer cells, according to new preclinicalresearch presented yesterday at the 2007 American Society ofClinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago. Researchers at the Brown Cance...Ultrasound-enhanced systemic thrombolysis
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