Immune system 'escape hatch' gives cancer cells traction
...t an attack. By explaining some of the precise biological workings of MDSCs in cancer the teams findings suggest why experimental cancer vaccines have to date been plagued by T-cell tolerance, a weakened rather than strengthened immune response, says Jonathan Schneck, M.D., Ph.D., one of the studys authors....Co-operation between GSF and clinic improves outlook for sarcoma patients
...ysis of deep hyperthermia for cancer therapy up to biological research in the areas of immunobiology and cell bi... were especially interested together with related biological research - in the question whether certain sarcomas could be better treated with a combination of hy...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
...e graft scaffold that anticipates the defect sites biological and mechanical requirements for ACL regeneration. ...shelf product, due to the demanding mechanical and biological requirements of a functional ACL. We are delighted that the AOSSM has recognized this important wor...Semiconductor membrane mimics biological behavior of ion channels
...flexibility and better electrical performance than biological membranes. Built from thin silicon layers doped wi...cules and ions, thereby mimicking the operation of biological ion channels, said lead researcher Jean-Pierre Leburton, the Stillman Professor of Electrical and C...EPA foregoes opportunity to improve nanotechnology oversight
...ntial that EPA move quickly to recognize the novel biological and ecological characteristics of nanoscale materials. It can do this only by using the new uses provisions of TSCA, a subject not mentioned in the EPAs inventory document. With the approach outlined by EPA and because of the weaknesses in the law, t...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...land Security Bio watchdog . . . Effects of a biological attack could be minimized through a new system that focuses on early identification and rapid response. The system, developed and operated by a team that includes Oak Ridge National Laboratory, integrates information obtained from diverse sources and...Major breakthrough in understanding how HIV interferes with infected cell division
...ed to cellular proteins in order to modulate their biological activity or induce their degradation. The researchers demonstrated that association of Vpr with this ubiquitinating complex, also called an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, is essential for the defect in cell division induced by Vpr. Further characteriz...CU researchers discover evidence of very recent human adaptation
...s lead author and a Cornell assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology. "We aimed to...arlos Bustamante, a Cornell assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology. "Rather as humans have populated the world, there has been str...Bernese Mountain Dogs prone to Borrelia burgdorferi infection
...lection for an infectious disease become sick. The biological reasons behind infection with the bacteria and the consequences for Bernese Mountain Dogs are currently unknown....Brightly colored birds most affected by Chernobyl radiation
...k reaches the surface. There are no studies of the biological consequences of such variation in natural levels of radioactivity, but we suggest that some of the consequences can be predicted from the present study....Researchers use new approach to predict protein function
...ese methods will speed the task of identifying the biological roles of some of the hundreds of thousands of proteins whose functions have not yet been discovered. Rather than trying to do (laboratory) experiments on 30,000 compounds to determine if they are substrates, with this approach you might do experime...Wiley extends publishing partnership with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
...ocess safety and emerging technological areas like biological engineering and sustainability....A first-principles model of early evolution
...gy, Shakhnovich et al present a new model of early biological evolution the first that directly relates the fit...operties of their proteins. Key to understanding biological evolution is an important, but elusive, connection, known as the genotype-phenotype relationship, wh...Study provides new data about the laws governing embryo development in organisms
...thematical models that simulate the functioning of biological systems. Specifically, a study of wing formation i... tool for describing in silico new properties of a biological system and being able to corroborate them subsequently in vivo. In this regard, Buceta, who leads...Maynard Olson receives $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize
... Now he is working to apply genome science to real biological problemsstarting with the bacterium that kills man...em in hundreds of small laboratories to solve real biological problems such as those posed by infectious disease. So, as he has done several times before, he is s...MIT, BU team builds viruses to combat harmful 'biofilms'
...tic biologist Drew Endy, an assistant professor of biological engineering. Though phages are not approved for use in humans in the United States, recently the FDA approved a phage cocktail to treat Listeria monocytogenes on lunchmeat. This makes certain applications, such as cleaning products that include p...A compound from olive-pomace oil gets 80 percent slowing down of HIV spread
...as it is not still on the market and has a greater biological activity. Prof. Andrs Garca-Granadoss team intends to continue working in the design and implementation of new maslinic acid by-products to fight against HIV, as well as in other innovative research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry of Scie...Global community listens to TAU genetic researcher at EU Conference on Hearing Loss
...eld of research, genomics, aims to investigate the biological mechanisms that can lead to hearing disorders. Prof. Avrahams work demonstrates that geopolitical issues should not be allowed to hinder academic and scientific collaboration. Her laboratory at the Sackler School has taken part in discovering key ...'Virtual' mouse brains now available online
...I microscopy to image the micro-anatomies of small biological specimens. The NeuroImage study describes the ways his group have devised to manipulate the signals to achieve varieties of contrasts and resolutions. For instance, the technology can discriminate grey matter from the white matter within mouse brai...Tiny tweezers and yeast help St. Jude show how cancer drug works
...nanotechnology have helped scientists to develop a biological hypothesis that was subsequently tested by follow-up experiments in a living organism, said Mary-Ann Bjornsti, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Molecular Pharmacology. Delft University nanotechnology researchers in the laboratory of N...