The amendment to the law on green Genetic Engineering inhibits innovation and research in Germany
...ion of the DFG this assumption is not backed up by experimental data. The inappropriate risk assessment leads to increased red tape and hampers the transfer of the findings of basic research to economically viable processes and products. The draft amendment also intends to hold users of genetically modified orga...Chemoradioimmunotherapy for advanced breast cancer: hope for the future?
... in the development of breast cancer tumours). The experimental treatment, termed 'chemoradioimmunotherapy', combined chemotherapy, radiation therapy and immunotherapy in one. The chemotherapy component consisted of vinorelbine-tartrate (a cytotoxic drug used in the treatment of breast (and other) cancers), the r...Protein controls acid in cells by direct detection of volume changes, study finds
...emann and his colleagues improved upon an existing experimental technique in order to study the NHE transporters and how acidity changes within a cell. The existing method involves skewering a single cell on a tiny, hollow needle called a pipette. Dr. Hilgemann's group made their pipette larger to make a larger h...Therapeutic cloning no longer a dream, says scientist who produced first cloned embryonic stem cell
...ny of stem cells. Although the procedure is highly experimental and still needs refinement, its publication was gr...or whether we need to make small variations in our experimental procedures. But this will become clearer as we proceed. "In the meantime, we believe that we ha...Mice with hyperactive Wnt10b gene eat all they want, but have half the body fat of normal mice
...n artificially high amounts in fat tissue from the experimental mice. Wnt10b is one of a family of 19 related proteins. Wnts (pronounced "wints") regulate the complex changes that take place as an embryo grows. Part of this process is the development of fatty adipose tissue, which contains fat cells called adipoc...New computational tools to aid in protein research
...solves complex algebraic equations that relate the experimental data to the protein's geometry. "Our algorithm requires less data and yet the resulting protein structures are incredibly accurate," says Donald. Unlike previous techniques, Wang's equations can be solved exactly in a manner similar to solving the qu...APS Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Translational Research Conference, Sept. 8-11
...earch on the underlying mechanisms responsible for experimental and clinical IBD. Reflecting the "translational" nature of the meetings sponsored by the American Physiological Society, clinical, pharmaceutical and biotech researchers will highlight novel IBD therapeutic strategies. Media registration and infor...Stem cells commit to a future of fat with one signal
...l fate, say the researchers. "With our new experimental system, we were able to demonstrate that one protein, BMP4, can commit stem cells in both culture dishes and live animals," says Lane. "Now we have a way to look for all of the players that cause stem cells to commit to become fat cells." His...Newly grown kidneys can sustain life in rats
...moved the remaining original kidney in control and experimental rats. To help resolve uncertainty about which kidn...the bladder and the new kidneys in a subset of the experimental rats. Rats with no new kidneys lived for two to three days, and rats whose new kidneys were disconne...Molecule that 'blocks' key bacterial enzyme may lead to new antibiotics
...e in separate reports how each team used different experimental methods to reach the same conclusions. "It was only last year that we solved the structure of this molecule, just 21 amino acids long, remarkable both in its size and its structure," said Ebright, a participant in the original structural st...JCI table of contents, 15 June 2004
...asive imaging of myocardial angiogenesis following experimental myocardial infarction AUTHOR CONTACT: Albert J. Sinusas Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Phone: (203) 785-4915; Fax: (203) 737-1026; E-mail: albert.sinusas@yale.edu View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-j...1st International Conference on Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease
...ees will have preexisting knowledge of principles, experimental design, and results of completed studies in the field of cell therapy for cardiovascular diseases. A wide cross-section of members of basic and clinical researchers, from academic, industry, and regulatory communities will be in attendance. Date: W...Strengthening independent junior research groups in collaborative research centres
...tute of the University of Bonn and constitutes the experimental centre of the new Transregional Collaborative Research Centre "Electromagnetic excitation of subnuclear systems". Physicists at the Universities of Bochum, Bonn and Gieen are cooperating to study the internal structure of protons and neutrons with a ...Proteins transform DNA into 'molecular velcro'
... condensin found in the bacterium E. coli . Their experimental procedure consisted of attaching one end of a DNA molecule to a tiny plastic bead held by suction onto a micropipette. They then caused the DNA molecule to extend by flowing liquid past it, and exposed it to a solution containing the bacterial conden...Junk DNA yields new kind of gene
...for transcription factors, also did not hold up to experimental scrutiny. There had been hints all along favoring the third model. In this one, transcription of the nearby SRG1 somehow prevents an activator from binding the SER3 promotor. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, a powerful method for imaging the loca...Brain disease research, particle physics meet in the middle (ware)
...on teams, NMI funds smaller projects that focus on experimental middleware applications. As a leading part of the emerging cyberinfrastructure, NMI software and services are used by thousands of researchers and educators in the United States and beyond....U-M scientists use 21st-century technology to probe secrets of M. tuberculosis
...nguli, Ph.D., programmed their computer model with experimental data from studies - directed by University of Pitt...me. Mathematical models are a valuable addition to experimental research, because they make it possible to study complex biological systems with many variables in w......ion of a controlled-NOT logic gate for photons, an experimental source of single photons, and a prototype quantum memory device are among the highlights of a talk focusing on photon-based quantum information processing. Devices such as these are vital in the development of optical quantum computers, which could d...More news in the battle between the sexes
By employing experimental evolution to study the effects of mating within an...en from the University of Zrich subjected flies to experimental evolution for 44 generations and looked at the fitness consequences of evolving under high, low, or ...Combination therapy dramatically improves function after spinal cord injury in rats
...bination therapy using transplanted cells plus two experimental drugs significantly improves function in paralyzed rats, a new study shows. The results suggest that a similar therapy may be useful in humans with spinal cord injury. The study was funded in part by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders...