MGH researchers confirm that bone marrow restores fertility in female mice
...izable eggs, marrow does contribute something that allows a resumption of fertility in female mice sterilized by chemotherapy. In a 2005 paper published in the journal Cell, Tillys group found that the ovaries of female mice that had received bone marrow or blood cell transplants after fertility-destroyi...New aerogels could clean contaminated water, purify hydrogen for fuel cells
...lity for doing these kinds of measurements, and it allows you to wash away a lot of old assumptions about what kinds of materials you can and cannot look at," Chupas said. ...Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...developed a working prototype screening plate that allows scientists to quickly expose zebrafish to ALS and mix chemicals together. What once took weeks or months to screen thousands of potential cure-carrying chemical solutions may soon take days, and with far fewer research staff involved. A streamline...UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute partners with Abraxis BioScience
... officer of Abraxis BioScience. This relationship allows both organizations to gain access to important research that may have the potential to change the way diseases are treated. Abraxis has an established history of developing innovative technology, said Dr. Leonard H. Rome, CNSI associate director an...$9 million EPSCoR grant to foster integrated research
...recent renewal is the third and what it does is it allows us to attract and retain faculty, recruit outstanding graduate students and really enhance the education experience for undergraduates who are involved. The project, Resilience and Vulnerability in a Rapidly Changing North: The Integration of Physi...Females more prone to brain damage from alcohol abuse
...aboratory process involving advanced robotics that allows large numbers of genes and their complex interactions to be observed, Wiren and Hashimoto examined 5,000 genes from the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain implicated in complex planning, personality expression and social behavior, and is involv......ting data are stored in a searchable database that allows scientists to determine exactly when and where each animal was seen. Searching through Robison's survey data, Zeidberg found no observations of Humboldt Squid from 1989 to 1997. During 1997, however, large numbers of Humboldt squid were seen for a ...Scientists discover new way to study nanostructures
...e of Technology have discovered a phenomenon which allows measurement of the mechanical motion of nanostructures by using the AC Josephson effect. The findings, which may be used to identify and characterize structural and mechanical properties of nanoparticles, including materials of biological interest, a...Purdue-IU researchers explore new method for early disease diagnosis
...imes more visible, Raftery said. "This technique allows us to profile a class of biomarkers - molecules that indicate disease - that would otherwise be very difficult to detect," he said. "The increased sensitivity could allow doctors to diagnose a range of diseases at very early stages. We examined genet...Research study describes the role part of the brain plays in memory
...cycle or playing an instrument. Declarative memory allows us to remember things such as specific moments of our lives, names of people, what we ate for lunch, the capitals of the world, etc. The malfunctioning of this type of memory is one of the most common symptoms found in those suffering from Alzheimer'...Foxes get frisky in the far north
...aternity associated with it. Multiple paternity allows a female to increase the genetic variation contained in a single seasons reproductive output, says Carmichael. This increase in variation might improve the odds that at least one cub in a litter will be optimally adapted to its current environment or...Conservation Leadership Program announces 2007 awardees
...ne Carter, CLP Executive Manager. And this support allows the Programme to maximise conservation impact in these unique places around the world. This years awards were given to 26 teams in the following categories; three leadership awards, seven follow-up awards and 16 future conservationist awards. Team...NY Stem Cell Foundation's 2nd Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference
...hart. The Foundations work is important because it allows support of those activities which, at present, the federal government, through the NIH, will simply not support, said Dr. Nurse. Its a delight to work with people who are passionate about trying to find new cures, added Melton. And its a pleasure in ...Immune system 'escape hatch' gives cancer cells traction
...or cells can be tagged with a fluorescent dye that allows them to glow when they are not bound to T cells, Florida researchers measured the immune response in mice to various foreign proteins, with and without injections of MDSCs. They found an 80 percent suppression of the immune response in the presence ...Chitin from lobster shell shows great healing and bio-stimulant properties
...opment. Prof. Peniche points out that "this work allows for the first accurate and comprehensive results of a university study on chitin and chitosan. The study starts at the extraction of these compounds from polluting waste of the Cuban fishing industry and it goes on to cover these products characteris...Unraveling the physics of DNA's double helix
...changes in force as they pulled. The AFM technique allows precise measurements of forces within individual molecules down to one pico-Newton--a trillionth of a Newton. For a sense of scale, the force of gravity on a two-liter bottle of soda is about 20 Newtons, Marszalek noted. They captured the range of...Researchers witness natural selection at work in dramatic comeback of male butterflies
...al selection is the next step. The suppressor gene allows infected females to produce males, these males will mate with many, many females, and the suppressor gene will therefore be in more and more individuals over generations." Charlat worked with Gregory Hurst, a reader in evolutionary genetics at Univ...Scientists find brown fat master switch
...ered in Spiegelman's lab, and the gene UCP1, which allows cells to release large amounts of energy as heat. If continued research demonstrates that engineering fat precursor cells with PRDM16 and implanting them in mice works as an obesity preventive, the investigators say a similar intervention is theore...Insulin sensitizer also serves as energy-conserving signal to the brain
...e first time, a potential long-term regulator that allows energy to be stored efficiently, namely, adiponectin. The findings offer critical insight into adiponectins influence over the central nervous system and suggest that selective inhibition of the chemical in the brain may represent a novel therapeutic...... So Collins and Lu defined a modular system that allows engineers to design phages to target specific biofilms. As a proof of concept, they used their strategy to engineer T7, an Escherichia coli-specific phage, to express dispersin B (DspB), an enzyme known to disperse a variety of biofilms. To test th...