Conflicting views on embryonic and adult stem cells complicate research in stem cell therapeutics
...r vial, forcing NIH to subsidize cell culturing or offer supplements to its grants in order to cover the extra cost. Quality control is another critical issue in stem cell therapies, where assessing products containing combinations of active substances and live cells become extremely complex. Addressing th...TIGR president discusses significance of finding anthrax toxin
...omparative genomics of this family of bacteria and offer insights into the physiology and evolution of anthrax and its close relatives, based partly on TIGR's sequencing of numerous strains of the pathogens. Using both DNA sequence analysis and comparative genome hybridization of more than 20 stra...UCLA researchers recreate patterns formed by mammalian cells
...d patterns. Demer also notes that the research may offer a greater understanding of how artery cells calcify and turn to bone in atherosclerotic heart disease. "Our ability to recreate cell patterns may ultimately help us learn how to better control them, leading to new ways to treat certain conditions l...MIT technology jump-starts human embryonic stem cell work
...ified "a host of unexpected materials effects that offer new levels of control over hES cell behavior," the team writes, demonstrating the power of quick, easy screenings....Volcanic soils yield new clues about the emergence of powerful chiefdoms in Hawaii
...he successes and failures of the early Polynesians offer important lessons for tropical forest management today. "Just as land influenced Polynesian societies, Polynesian societies influenced land," he wrote. "Those societies faced the challenge of making a transition from intensive, exploitative use of th...NIH launches first center in Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
...on to cells and proteins, the Kalypsys system will offer researchers the ability to screen small, whole organisms, such as zebrafish embryos or yeast, against a large array of chemical compounds. A high-resolution photo and a low-resolution video of the Kalypsys system are available at: http://www.genome....OUP launch a new Open Access Journal on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
...l Products Research Center which is enabling us to offer the journal freely online." eCAM is an international, peer-reviewed journal that encourages rigorous research in this new, yet ancient, world of complementary and alternative medicine, and will be of particular interest to biologists and biomedical r...OneWorld Health CEO outlines mutually beneficial collaborations between industry, nonprofits at BIO
... said OneWorld Health will seek out companies that offer executive loan or sabbatical programs that would allow their employees to lend their talents to the nonprofit pharmaceutical company in specific programs. The panel consists of: Chair: Tom Brewer, Senior Project Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundat...DCI donor services begins distribution of tissue implants
...ping container. "Human tissue implants can offer patients substantial benefits in terms of increase...o our programs, DCI Donor Services can continue to offer high quality tissue for transplantation." Initially, DCI Donor Services will have a limited ...'Noisy' genes can have big impact
...ht also produce variability among cells that might offer evolutionary advantages. Noise in genes might also be a trigger for the formation of tumors, said O'Shea. In cases where cells lose one copy of a gene through mutation, the reduction in gene number increases the noise in gene expression. This increas...'Dissecting sleep' by studying the strange phenomenon of cataplexy
...ounter sleep drugs cause drowsiness. The findings offer new insights both into normal sleep and narcolepsy... sleep and wakefulness. Their latest findings also offer insight into the basic molecular mechanism of narcolepsy and cataplexy. Humans with narcolepsy have ......Anthony Leggett of the University of Illinois will offer some reflections on the theory of this crossover region, pointing out that much of what we know about the system relies on approximations (H1 1). v) Atom Chips Recent advances in atom interferometry and quantum optics may lead to a whole new class ...Innovative 'self healing' bandage to help diabetics
...ts with diabetic ulcers and in the long-term could offer a more effective, quicker and cost efficient way of treating many types of slow-healing wounds such as pressure ulcers. The bandages are already available for patients with severe burns. The bandages have been developed by CellTran Ltd., a spin-ou...Promising research: From employment issues to virology
...) Humanities and Social Sciences Many companies offer older employees the possibility of early retirement, enabling younger and supposedly more productive employees to move up. The combination of an extended life expectancy and constantly decreasing employment is one reason for the crisis in Germany's s...20 May AAAS lecture: Computers that Respond to Human Emotion
... saying 'we don't like this' it should respond and offer the user the option to turn itself off or apologize." However, Picard is quick to explain the distinction between human feelings and functions that operate on a similar level in a computer. "We might give the computer a set of software functions that......nces and writing workshops. The colleges also will offer summer workshops for Philadelphia area teacher In the lower Rio Grande Valley, where the population is 88 percent Hispanic and the unemployment rate is triple the national average, the University of Texas-Pan American will equip a mobile teaching la...NPS Pharma and VIMAC Ventures locate at MaRS, a major new research and enterprise center in Toronto
...Centre scheduled to open in March, 2005, MaRS will offer a full set of programs and services to accelerate commercialization in medical and related sciences. "By choosing to establish a presence at MaRS, NPS and VIMAC are tapping into a world of opportunity concentrated in the heart of Canada's business an...JCI table of contents, 17 May 2004
...the kidney in response to damage in this organ and offer new insights into the mechanism of kidney dysfunction. TITLE: Induction of B7-1 in podocytes is associated with nephrotic syndrome AUTHOR CONTACT: Peter Mundel Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA. Phone: 718-430-3219; Fax: 71...Artificial light-dark cycles expose circadian clocks at odds with each other
...ch could eventually lead to a cure for jet lag, or offer help for day-shift workers switching to a midnight schedule, when it can take several days of the new routine before the body stops exerting a strong urge to sleep, de la Iglesia said. "Many of the people employed on shift work are internally desync...Protein keeps cold fish from becoming frozen flounder, new study shows
...and blood products for transplantation, where they offer protection against freezing, improving viability and extending maximum storage periods. They have also been applied in cryosurgery, a technique in which tumor cells are killed by freezing, because AFPs modify the shape of ice crystals into more destr...