Melvin Weinstein wins 2004 BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology
...e and appropriate interpretation of positive blood cultures are also classic, and invaluable, resources. He has made vital contributions to clinical decision-making in other areas of infectious disease medicine, in studies comparing laboratory measurements of bactericidal activity and therapeutic success in t...DFG establishes first German-Sino Research Training Group
...cus on the effectiveness of the media in different cultures as well as how media and media techniques determine how their own history is written. The new Research Training Groups include: Prospective Design of Human and Technological Interaction, Technical University of Berlin Conformation Conversions ...High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
...partments biology and biochemistry with distinct cultures and different teaching loads. In merging the two, we recruited new faculty at pretty much all levels, from junior to mid-level to senior faculty, that built a distinct synergy created by finding people who would work well together not just scientifi...Researchers caution against linking strep, neuropsychiatric disorders
...often feel fine. In addition, nurses obtain throat cultures from the children every month, and whenever children have a sore throat, or when their obsessive-compulsive symptoms or tics worsen, doctors examine them. The study will be completed next year....East African artifacts support evolution of symbolic thinking in Middle Stone Age
...h are still produced by African Khoi-San (Bushman) cultures today, are typically produced by breaking the shell into small pieces, which are then drilled and strung on a fiber or sinew. The strung shell fragments' edges are then smoothed and rounded as a group to produce uniform beads. The site was discovered...Researchers say US military accidentally introduced tree pathogen to Italian estate
...uiting bodies, allowing researchers to obtain pure cultures for analysis. But when the researchers analyzed the genetic material, they unexpectedly found a telltale insertion of a piece of DNA in the mitochondria known to be present in North America, but not in Europe. Researchers in Garbelotto's lab had ju......lly developed methods for freeze- drying bacterial cultures used to make cheese and yogurt. Their method, now in use commercially, reduces storage and transportation costs for food processors. "The idea now," explains de Pablo, "is to extend the technology to mammalian cells." He cites blood products as an ex...Human genome-wide RNAi library for biotech and pharma research
...er of studies with different animal and human cell cultures as well as in whole animals, where the method has been shown by Hannon's group to trigger stable, heritable gene silencing. In addition, the sequence-validated library of short hairpin RNA molecules targets each one of more than 10,000 different hum...Researchers identify the pattern of gene-expression changes for tuberculosis in a living host
...en was active in an animal model. Infection in lab cultures previously the only way that tuberculosis has been studied at the genetic level did not express the same genetic responses in the tuberculosis pathogen. The new findings indicate that infectious diseases need to be studied in live animals models if...'Protein-only' prions confirmed in FSU yeast study
...s, albeit from a different angle. Also using yeast cultures as a model, Weissman's group isolated and identified two distinct yeast prion strains caused by "protein-only" prions. Collectively, the research helps resolve the most puzzling question in prion research, King said. Since prions were first hypoth...NETs protect against pathogenic bacteria
...ntists were able to find NETs in experimental cell cultures as well as in tissue samples of dysentery and human biopsies of appendicitis....Pacific leatherback turtle could go extinct in 10 years
...lining and the poaching of turtle eggs, which some cultures regard as a delicacy. Long-lining is a practice in which ships extend up to 90 miles of fishing line with as many as 8,000 hooks, many of which unintentionally capture and kill sea turtles instead of their intended targets of fish. "The Pacific leath...Immerge reports PERVs most infectious to human cells not part of germ-line DNA of mini-swine
...could infect some human cells in laboratory tissue cultures (Patience et al., Nature Medicine ; 3: 282-6, 1997). The new data regarding exogenous PERV was generated in a collaborative effort between Immerge and the academic research group of Professor David Onions and Linda Scobie at the University of Glasg...Researchers adapt RNA interference to study gene function on a large scale
...They then applied each of these dsRNA molecules to cultures of Drosophila cells and assayed how knocking down the function of a targeted gene affected cell numbers in the cultures. This basic measure, said Perrimon, revealed genes that are not only involved in general cell growth, but also in the cell cycle...World's largest-ever sea turtle symposium to address plummeting populations of sea turtles
... and the poaching of turtle eggs, regarded by some cultures as an aphrodisiac. The leatherback sea turtle, which can grow to nine feet in size and up to 2,000 pounds and pre-dates the dinosaur, is one of the species on the brink of extinction. In 1982, 115,000 reproductive female leatherbacks graced the coa...Findings could aid efforts to harness nature for making drugs
...refully controlling fermentation time caused yeast cultures to produce an enzyme called ferulate 5-hydroxylase...ring the composition of nutrients fed to the yeast cultures and controlling the fermentation time caused the gene to be "expressed," producing 45 percent more o......ssee, have each made an H5N1 vaccine virus in cell cultures which could be used to mass produce a vaccine. Neither have been tested yet against the specific H5N1 strain found in Vietnam but both protect animals against similar strains. Standard production methods do not work for H5N1 vaccines, partly because...Scientists at Scripps Research describe new strategy for the synthesis of glycoproteins
...sylated proteins are produced in microorganisms or cultures of eukaryotic cells, like yeast or Chinese hamster... glycosylated proteins in E. coli. Bacterial cultures like E. coli have been used to produce proteins cheaply and easily for years, but it has never been ...Researchers reveal early steps in clone development
...sed to house the cells in the laboratory. "We have cultures that work very well for embryos and cultures that work very well for adult cells. However, we still need to find the optimal culture media for cl...Fox Chase Cancer Center study: Novel DNA-repair gene mutation can cause resistance to cancer drugs
...ancer, such as irinotecan. The research used cell cultures of mouse cell lines, including mice in which the Med1 gene has been inactivated. "Clinical validation of these hypotheses may have significant implications for treatment selection," Bellacosa and his co-authors conclude. "Additional understanding of...