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Lack of the enzyme, acetyl CoA carboxylase 2or ACC2, appears to turn the adipose or fat cells of mice into fatburners, explaining in part why the animals can eat more and weigh lessthan their normal counterparts, said Baylor College of Medicineresearchers.The report that appears online today in the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences. "Westudied the fat cells in these mic...Fundamental Finding Yields Insight into Stem Cells, Cancer; Opens Door to Drug Discovery
Few things about growing older are asinevitable and obvious as “going gray,?yet scientists have been unableto explain the precise cause of this usually unwelcome transformation.In a report posted today on the Web site of the journal Science,researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s HospitalBoston say they have found the cellular cause of graying hair whileinvestigating th...Transport System Smuggles Medicines Into Brain
Parrots, long a favorite pet animal, are attractive to owners because of their vibrant colors. But those colors may mean more to parrots than what meets the eye. For more than a century, biochemists have known that parrots use an unusual set of pigments to produce their rainbow of plumage colors, but their biochemical identity has remained elusive. Now, an Arizona State University researc...UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile
Camouflaging an impotent AIDS virus in new clothes enables it to hunt down metastasized melanoma cells in living mice, reports a UCLA AIDS Institute study in the Feb. 13 online edition of Nature Medicine. The scientists added the protein that makes fireflies glow to the virus in order to track its journey from the bloodstream to new tumors in the animals' lungs. "For the past 20 years, ge...New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers
People with a form of synesthesia in which they see colors when viewing letters and numbers really do see colors, researchers, led by Edward M. Hubbard of the University of California San Diego, have found. What's more, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of their brains reveals that they show activation of color-perception areas. The researchers said their findings lend support t...EasyCode Macintosh Software from AutoMate Scientific, Inc
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The outgoing U.S. president Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of the most controversial presidents ever. He created history by becoming the first American president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives. Only because he managed to win at the senate did he save himself and his country further damage. He has been the center of many burning controversies throughout...Parke-Davis (India) runs into rough weather – Court orders attachment of asset
The global merger between Warner-Lambert and Pfizer on the Indian front has run into rough weather due to the legal problems faced by Warner-Lambert’s subsidiary Parke-Davis (India). A local court in Hyderabad has ordered the attachment of its assets located in the city. The vacation court of the Ranga Reddy district civil courts has ordered attachment of plant and machinery of Parke-...Biotechnology industry expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002
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PHILADELPHIA, July 3, 2007 ? Researchers in Slovakia havebeen able to derive mesenchymal stem cells from human adipose, orfat, tissue and engineer them into “suicide genes” that seek out and destroy tumors like tiny homing missiles. This gene therapy approach is a novel way to attack smalltumor metastases that evade current detection techniques andtreatments, the researchers...Stanford Researchers Track Human Stem Cells Transplanted Into Rat Brain
STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Researchers at theStanford University School of Medicine have illuminated the pathtaken by human neural stem cells that were transplanted into thebrains of rats and mice, and found that the cells successfullynavigate toward areas damaged by stroke. The research group placed miniscule particles of iron insidestem cells to act as cellular bea...Schepens Scientists Identify Key to Integrating Transplanted Nerve Cells Into Injured Tissue
Discovery promises to make retina, spinal cord and other centralnervous system transplants possible BOSTON, April 26, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at theSchepens Eye Research Institute, an affiliate of Harvard MedicalSchool, have identified a key mechanism for successfullytransplanting tissue into the adult central nervous system. Thestudy found that a molecule known as MMP-2 (which is...Callisto Intends to Move Guanilib into Clinical Trials in Ulcerative Colitis
Announces Positive Data in Animal Models of Ulcerative Colitis NEW YORK, April 05, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CallistoPharmaceuticals, Inc. , a developer of new drug treatments in thefight against cancer and other major health threats, announcedtoday additional data confirming efficacy of Guanilib, afirst-in-class compound currently being developed for the treatmentof inflammatory bow...European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
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