Biosensor-regulated gene therapy reduces heart attack damage in mice
... research. "Ultimately, this area of research will pave the way for development of 'smart' therapies for the heart that allow for early and rapid treatment of a wide variety of cardiac ailments." The USF researchers designed a molecule -- which they call a "vigilant vector" -- containing both a means to...JGI decodes wood & toxic waste-degrading fungus genome
...tive decay of wood 'in service' and may ultimately pave the way for developing effective and environmentally benign preservatives." JGI used the shotgun sequencing approach to attain over ten times coverage across the 30-million-base pair genome of P. chrysosporium. "By employing a predictive modeling st...Gene discovered for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a disabling genetic disease
... Syndrome Foundation, based in Avon, Conn. It will pave the way for genetic tests to confirm a diagnosis and provide comfort for parents who already have one child with the syndrome. It will raise awareness of the disease among physicians and scientists, and, most importantly, focus interest on better tre...Susceptibility of mice to mousepox offers promise of smallpox protection
...tible to mousepox than others. The discovery could pave the way to better protection for humans against the threat of smallpox, a related virus, as a weapon of bioterrorism. HHMI international research scholar Gunasegaran Karupiah, a scientist at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australia...UCSD biologists discover cell's defense mechanism against class of disease-causing bacterial toxins
...the National Academy of Sciences, could eventually pave the way for the development of new, more effective treatments for bacterial diseases that kill or sicken millions of people each year, such as pneumonia, strep throat, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever and toxic shock syndrome. The essential achievemen...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...s could stimulate further industrial interest, and pave the way for immediate applications in animals (e.g., dogs, horses) as well as human clinical trials....Rutgers-Newark biologist links presence of protein to spread of cancerous cells
...movement phenomenon, researchers may have begun to pave the way for the development of more specific approaches to treat cancerous cells. For example, chemotherapy agents act to eradicate any cell that is dividing. With this approach, healthy cells are destroyed along with unhealthy ones, leading to the d...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...researchers a better picture of highways and could pave the way to safer and more efficient roads. The focus of the project is a 50-mile stretch of Florida's Interstate 10 between Jacksonville and Tallahassee. Using remote sensing, Demin Xiong of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is gathering extensive inform...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
...out the world from a central location. "This could pave the way for smart oil fields, with sensor highways connected seamlessly for password- or encryption-protected monitoring from any Internet access site," says Pickrell. "This can revolutionize the oil services market." He also commended the students w......ome. The map that will result from this work will pave the way for development of improved varieties of tomato, and will also help scientists understand related plants, including potatoes, peppers, tobacco and coffee. A project led by Indiana University will study the genomes of the Compositeae, a group...