With an eye on safety, UF experts explore cellular mechanisms of gene therapy
...is combined with a corrective gene - AAV no longer zeroes in on the same target, Flotte said. Instead, UF's experiment showed that a protein in the receiving cell helps "tie up" the ends of the recombinant AAV so that it acts as if it were a tiny independent chromosome within the cell's nucleus, Flotte said...'Smart bandage' diagnoses danger before infection takes hold
...ope. The "smart bandage," as it's been nicknamed, zeroes in on a type of molecule called lipid A on the surface of Gram-negative bacteria. In an earlier publication, Miller showed how he was able to create a complementary molecule that binds to lipid A, while his newest research shows that it's possible to...UCLA researchers invent first technique to image Alzheimer's onset
... developed the first tracer molecule that visually zeroes in on the brain lesions caused by Alzheimers disease," said principal investigator Dr. Jorge R. Barrio, UCLA professor of medical and molecular pharmacology. "This non-invasive method will help us monitor new vaccines and drugs designed to prevent an...Pattern recognition method zeroes in on genes that regulate cell's genetic machinery
...ve developed a practical computational method that zeroes in on the genes responsible for controlling the genetic machinery of a cell. In a paper published online May 12 by Nature Genetics, the researchers from Stanford University and Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel report that their...Ethical guidelines needed before 'nutrigenomic' groceries come to market
...r interpretation. As nutritional genomics research zeroes in on more specific links between specific foods and diseases, the line between foods and drugs may become more blurred. This could pose challenges for governments, which have tended to regulate food and drugs differently. Governments are already gra......e microscopic pits, which represent binary ones or zeroes depending on their size, are etched in concentric tracks circling the midpoint from the inner to the outer edge of a CD. "It is these pits which we transform into miniature test tubes," Nolte said. "Each pit can hold a trace quantity of a chemical th...