From embryo to placenta, gene transfer in primates a success
...yo." The engineered embryos were then implanted in surrogate rhesus macaque mothers and carried to term. One of...not the protein is produced." Golos notes that the surrogate mothers carrying the engineered embryos developed antibodies to the jellyfish protein at about mid-p...California gnatcatcher: Umbrella species failure?
...t any single species will function as conservation surrogate may be an error worse than making decisions without the use of umbrellas at all," he says....Team identifies promising alternative to waste incineration
...stroy chemical weapons agents, and recently tested surrogate waste types for DOE to assist the Department in it...eration." If "Silver II" is successful in treating surrogate mixed waste, the process will likely be tested and possibly used for several difficult waste streams...Scientists prove mature adult cells can be cloned
...f implanting the cloned embryos into the womb of a surrogate mouse at this point, the embryos were grown in tissue culture to make ES cells. From the 1,000 nuclear transfers attempted, the researchers were able to establish only two ES cell linesone from a B cell and one from a T cell. Then in a second step, t......a cat. A kitten, named "cc," was born to "Allie" a surrogate mother, on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2001. The kitten ...sting with transfer of the cloned embryos into the surrogate mother and delivery of the kitten. cc is under the medical care of Drs. Rugila and Howe, both veteri...Study boosts suspected link between mothers gum disease and both premature birth, low birth weight
...se. Its not just that periodontal disease is a surrogate marker for poor oral hygiene or other socioeconomic factors just sort of jumbled together, the scientist said. The fact that were finding specific organisms that can cause growth and delivery problems opens up a whole new avenue for preventive care....Discovery Channel special watches OSU chimps learn to read
...nge serves the OSU chimps as a surrogate for the leaves. Boysen's team is teaching the two primates to use their limited vocabulary in different ways, such as making a request. "Right now, they are using them (the words) function...Methamphetamine drastically increases virus' ability to replicate in brain tissue
...ine immunodeficiency virus - a surrogate for HIV - to methamphetamine increases those cells' ability to replicate the deadly virus as much as 15-fold. The finding, if confirmed by ongoing animal studies, could ...UT Southwestern researchers discover better tests to detect congenital syphilis in newborns
...eonatal IgM antibodies seems to be the best single surrogate marker for substantiating infection of the infant." The blotting test, similar to an AIDS diagnostic tool, is a molecular technique for detecting IgM antibodies in the serum of infected infants. "I believe that this work, spanning more than a decade,...Other highlights in the June 19 issue of JNCI
...r vasculature that could serve as more appropriate surrogate end points for treatment efficacy than microvessel density....Cloning pigs and drug discovery among 'hot' topics
...splantation offers the opportunity to identify new surrogate markers for monitoring the effect on cell function of certain drugs and immune response following transplantation," she explained. With appropriate timing and dosage of immunosuppression, tolerance is more likely to result, says Dr. Thomas E. Starz...Smithies wins top award from Massry Foundation
...aid. "Thus, the simple house mouse has long been a surrogate for genetic studies of humans. However, initially, very few examples of mice with spontaneous, known mutations of specific genes were identified and studied. The dream of genetic scientists was to create a systematic collection of mice that had mutat...Biologists new experiment may vindicate Darwin
...val. The bristle number is being used as a sort of surrogate for a trait that might affect survival in nature, such as the camouflage coloring of a moth. This survivability variable was missing in previous studies since in them the only thing being selected for or against was the choice of habitat itself. Eve...JCI table of contents: October 1, 2002
...eatures like us that do vomit. Fortunately, such a surrogate response exists: PDE inhibitors reverse the anesthetic effects of a different class of drugs called alpha2-adrenoceptor agonists, and this is thought to act via the same mechanism as the unwanted side effects. As Robichaud and colleagues report in t...Not all mammals vomit -- or how to study emesis in mice
...eatures like us that do vomit. Fortunately, such a surrogate response exists: PDE inhibitors reverse the anesthetic effects of a different class of drugs called alpha2-adrenoceptor agonists, and this is thought to act via the same mechanism as the unwanted side effects. As Robichaud and colleagues report in t...Estrogen linked to more efficient regulation of a woman's heartbeat
...vidence of nonlinear structure was obtained by the surrogate data test. CD, ApEn, and LLE were negatively correlated with age. Results The short-term heart rate variability analyses reveal that a woman's heart rate is characterized by a higher CD, ApEn, and LLE when compared with that of a man in the middle ...Two landmark fertility studies give hope to young male cancer patients
...ouse eggs, transferring the resulting embryos into surrogate mice. A total of 62 mice were born from 123 embryo... into rabbit eggs and transferred embryos into two surrogate rabbits. One became pregnant and gave birth to one baby, the donor origin being confirmed by coat co...Failures in primate cloning may signal impossibility of human reproductive cloning
...ll with a donor nucleus is implanted into a living surrogate female in an attempt to make a successful pregnancy. "The chromosomes do not split properly," said Dr. Schatten, who also is professor and vice chairman of the departments of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and of cell biology at th...Early-life environments shape development of stress behaviors and learning abilities in mice
...parison purposes, they also transferred embryos to surrogate females within the same strain. At birth, all mic...transferred as embryos to and also later reared by surrogate BALB females demonstrated an increase in stress-reactive behaviors. These mice were less likely to e...University of Idaho, Utah State University team first to clone equine
...cases. Veterinary examinations of the foal and its surrogate mother showed them to be in good health, Woods said. The foal romped with its surrogate mother during a news conference on the UI campus this morning to announce its birth. The foal's DNA ...