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Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryTo all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills back. With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to ...
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Thu May 2008
Human Reproductive Scientists Apply Skills To African Mammal Conservation
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryScientists expert in the field of human reproduction have turned their attention to one of Africa's rarest and most iconic carnivores, the Ethiopian wolf. Though it has eluded captivity, the 400 remaining wolves have not escaped the attention of reproductive biologist Professor Bob Millar, Director ...
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Sat Apr 2008
24th Annual Meeting Of European Society Of Human Reproduction & Embryology
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryReproductive medicine is one of the most exciting scientific and clinical areas. Every month brings announcements of research developments, medical 'firsts', new rulings by regulatory bodies, or ethical controversies - often sparking heated debate among practitioners in the field themselves, as well ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Predator-Prey Interaction Recreated In A Petri Dish
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryThe hunter-versus-hunted phenomenon exemplified by a pack of lionesses chasing down a lonely gazelle has been recreated in a Petri dish with lowly bacteria.Working with colleagues at Caltech, Stanford and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Duke University bioengineer has developed a living syste ...
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Sat Apr 2008
How Salmonella Escapes Immune Defenses
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistrySalmonella are wily and obnoxious bacterial invaders--escape artists capable of evading multiple immune responses and causing a harsh and debilitating intestinal infection.Researchers have come closer to understanding how these bacteria manage to thwart two major categories of immune defenses at onc ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Oral Drug For Pain From Cone Snails And Plants
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryMolecules from cone snail venom and African plants are being used by Queensland researchers as a blueprint to develop an oral drug to treat chronic pain.Professor David Craik and Dr Richard Clark from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have received $218,275 from the National Health and Medical ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Kosan Presents Preclinical Data On Nuclear Export Inhibitors, Novel Anticancer Agents, At AACR
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryKosan Biosciences Incorporated (Nasdaq: KOSN) presented preclinical data on its proprietary nuclear export inhibitors (NEI) showing potent in vitro and in vivo activity as well as tolerability in leukemia xenograft models, and further elucidating the NEI anticancer mechanism of action correlating ...
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Sat Apr 2008
HIV Might Spread More Quickly Within The Body Than Previously Thought, Monkey Study Indicates
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryEach rhesus monkey cell infected with the simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, produces at least 50,000 viruses over its life span, suggesting HIV spreads more rapidly than previously estimated, according to a study by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratories, the ...
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Sat Apr 2008
KXO1 Can Inhibit The Growth Of Many Cancer Cell Types In Culture And The Growth Of Human Colon Cancer Cells In Animal Models
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryA novel compound, KXO1 (KX2-391), is a potential new cancer drug to prevent or treat recurrent and metastatic cancer, according to a study presented by Irwin H. Gelman, PhD, Department of Cancer Genetics , Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), at the 2008 annual meeting of the ...
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Sat Apr 2008
A Potential Sugar Fix For Tumors
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryResearchers at the Duke School of Medicine apparently have solved the riddle of why cancer cells like sugar so much, and it may be a mechanism that could lead to better cancer treatments.Jonathan Coloff, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Jeffrey Rathmell's laboratory in the Duke Department o ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Getting Drugs To Tumors Quickly And With Less Toxicity Requires Novel Drug Delivery Methods
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryAs promising cancer therapies and drugs emerge, researchers strive to find ways to deliver them to patients with minimal side effects. At the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, April 12-16, researchers report that therapies delivered by "trojan horse" peptides and t ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Regenerative Medicine To Help Wounded Soldiers
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryThe Department of Defense (DOD) has announced that Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will spearhead the search for innovative ways to quickly grow large volumes of bone tissue for craniofacial reconstruction for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.The ...
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Sat Apr 2008
News From The Burnham Institute
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryNew Focus on Children's HealthBurnham Institute for Medical Research will unveil the new Sanford Children's Health Research Center at a ceremony on Burnham's campus on Friday, April 25. Fred Levine, M.D., Ph.D., director of the center, will introduce the newly appointed Sanford Investigators. The ce ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Critical Detail Of Cellular Defense Against Genetic Mistakes Discovered By Researchers
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryResearchers are closing in on a completed diagram of how human cells protect themselves against constant genetic mistakes that contribute to most diseases, according to a study to be published in the April 18 edition of the journal Cell.The blueprint for the human body is encoded in genes. Gene expr ...
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Sat Apr 2008
How Cells Generate Asymmetry - Protein Coating Tiny Vesicles May Play Key Role
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryMost common tools are intrinsically asymmetric, which is necessary for their function. For example, knives and forks have handles for grabbing and tips designed for cutting or punching. Likewise, most cells are asymmetrically shaped. This "polarity" is necessary to perform vital functions for the bo ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Fully Differentiated Cells Can Be Reprogrammed To Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryFully mature, differentiated B cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the use of an egg according to a study published in the April 18 issue of Cell.In previous research, induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells have been created from fibroblasts, a specific type of skin ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Study Finds Mice Can Sense Oxygen Through Skin
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryBiologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the skin of mice can sense low levels of oxygen and regulate the production of erythropoietin, or EPO, the hormone that stimulates our bodies to produce red blood cells and allows us to adapt to high-altitude, low-oxygen envi ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Merial Selects Genostar's IOGMA Metabolic Pathway Builder Bioinformatics Software
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryGenostar, a developer of bioinformatics software that enables biologists and bioinformaticians to expertly mine and analyze diverse biological data, announced that Merial, a world leader in animal health, has purchased its IOGMA(R) 3.4 Metabolic Pathway Builder software. Genostar's IOGMA(R) 3.4 Meta ...
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Sat Apr 2008
Genetic Study Finds Chance Helps Determine Fate Of B. Subtilis Bacteria
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryAn investigation of the genes that govern spore formation in the bacteria B. subtilis shows that chance plays a significant role in determining which of the microbes sacrifice themselves for the colony and which go on to form spores.B. subtilis, a common soil bacteria, is a well-known survivor. When ...
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Sat Apr 2008
'Nanodrop' Test Tubes Created With A Flip Of A Switch
Categorie : Biology / BiochemistryResearchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new device that creates nanodroplet "test tubes" for studying individual proteins under conditions that mimic the crowded confines of a living cell. "By confining individual proteins in nanodroplets of water ...
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Sat Apr 2008