'Extinct' bird rediscovered in Mexico
...Programs at American Bird Conservancy. "It opens a door to a range of possibilities that we hope will lead to the establishment of a protected area if more birds are found." The Cozumel Thrasher is a medium-sized (23 cm. long) bird, similar to a mockingbird. It is brown and white with a long, curved bi...Human periodontal ligament stem cells isolated for the first time
...hey have their wisdom teeth extracted, opening the door for biology-based regenerative treatment later in life of advanced periodontal disease." The article is titled, "Multipotent Postnatal Stem Cells from Human Periodontal Ligament," and it was published in the July 10, 2004 issue of The Lancet. The au...Therapeutic cloning no longer a dream, says scientist who produced first cloned embryonic stem cell
...n the meantime, we believe that we have opened the door to an extraordinary revolution in medicine, where one day transplanting organs from other donors will become a thing of the past, and where millions of people with have access to life-saving therapies developed from their own DNA," he said....Bacteria spill their guts to aid researchers in quest for new antibiotics
...losing pores within a cell's membrane may open the door to the development of new antibiotics. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are studying a protein, called MscL, found in the membrane of the single-cell bacterium Escherichia coli. The protein is essentially an emergency-response ...UK researchers develop way of predicting a woman's 'reproductive' age
...be a real advance," said Dr Wallace. "It opens the door to the possibility of screening women for early ovarian ageing. These women may be at increased risk to their general health from the effects of having an early menopause."...Fox Chase Cancer Center's Alfred Knudson Jr. named 2004 Kyoto Prize winner
...shift away from mainframe computing and opened the door for the personal computer revolution; and Prof. Jurgen Habermas, a philosopher at the University of Frankfurt and permanent visiting professor at Northwestern University, whose communicative action theory and discourse ethics support a commitm...Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
...y available in a living pharmacy right outside the door and along the sides of trails rather than deep in the forest could lead governments to encourage and promote traditional medicinal practices," Stepp said. "They are readily available, cost nothing to gather and are often more effective." Moerman, au...Scientists find second way to kill cancer cells: Discovery opens possibilities for new therapies
..., which does trigger an immune response, then, the door will be opened to a whole new and less toxic way to treat cancer." Despite long-term use, the action of chemotherapeutic agents to kill and stop the growth of cancer cells is not well understood. The agents have proven to be effective treatments ...22-amino acid bacterium created by Scripps scientists
...dified organism. This proof-of-principle opens the door for making proteins within the context of living cells with three, four, or more additional amino acids at once. The article, "A twenty-two amino acid bacterium with a functional quadruplet codon" is authored by J. Christopher Anderson, Ning Wu, St...Wisconsin chemists find a new chink in TB's armor
...rom the University of Wisconsin-Madison, opens the door to the development of a new family of antibiotics to treat diseases that still claim as many as 3 million lives annually worldwide. "Most of the treatments we have for these diseases date from the 1950s," says Laura L. Kiessling, a UW-Madison profess...UCLA scientists decipher how the brain retrieves and stores our oldest memories
...ia." Silva believes that the new findings open the door for greater scientific understanding of the molecular mechanisms and biochemistry of cortex storage. "Now that we know where to look, we're one step closer to developing drugs to target genes or processes of the brain that may be related to memory ...PTC Therapeutics' researchers identify biochemical pathway important for modulating cell growth
...chilles' Heel of tumor cell growth and opens a new door in the development of therapeutics." (more) Expression of genetic information is an ordered, multi-step process that proceeds from DNA to RNA to protein. Deregulation of any step in this process can lead to a number of diseases. Messenger RNA and ...Biological cause of one form of blindness identified by SLU researchers
...the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), opens the door to the development of new treatments. The research was based on genetic information provided by several blind members of a South African family. The laboratory of William Sly, M.D., chair of the department of biochemistry at Saint Louis Universit...High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
...act that they will have good colleagues right next door and that they will be working on similar problems, but perhaps with different techniques. Five of them, for instance, work on different aspects of circadian rhythms. "Even within Houston, we have tremendous biomedical sciences," Dryer said. "We h...ORNL's nanobiosensor technology gives new access to living cells molecular processes
.... This minimally invasive nanotechnology opens the door to explore the inner world of single cells". ORNL's work was most recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and has appeared in a feature article of the journal Nature. Members of Vo-Dinh's research team include postdoctoral...Inflammation, hypertension are focus of major new MCG research program
...hip between the two, a finding that could open the door for a new approach to treating hypertension. "We know there is a correlation between low levels of pro-inflammatory mediators, called cytokines, and high blood pressure," said Dr. R. Clinton Webb, chair of the MCG Department of Physiology and princi...AChemS: Cutting edge research in taste, smell, & chemical irritation
...e compounds, the identification of which opens the door for synthesis of the pheromone and its potential use in lamprey control. [ Read More ] Does Big City Air Pollution Damage Our Sense Of Smell? Although big city air pollution is known to damage nasal tissue there has been no study of the effect of ...Bay area to get unique x-ray microscopy resource
...e choice of x-ray beam energies will also open the door to multiple labeling of proteins. This means scientists will be able to use the microscope to study protein complexes as well as individual proteins. XM-2 should also prove to be a powerful tool for utilizing tomographic imaging techniques in x-ray...Study: Mimicking viruses may provide new way to defeat them
...enting this approach, but the findings do open the door to a broader way of thinking about antiviral strategies." Yin says the next step is for researchers to test these ideas inside living cells....Policy review in Science calls for Bush Administration to protect wild salmon
...ith endangered wild salmon, thus opening the legal door to delisting the wild populations. As a consequenc... way for development. We should not open the legal door to maintaining salmon only in hatcheries. The science is clear and unambiguous; as they are currentl...