Viruses found in untreated city water
...olecular testing methods, researchers attempted to culture the enteroviruses and hepatitis A viruses to see if they were infectious. None of the enteroviruses sampled were infectious, although three samples were positive for infectious hepatitis A viruses. During the study period, however, no cases of hepati......sted by CERN. Sharing is in the mandate and in the culture of CERN. Sharing knowledge is essential for a centre of excellence in particle physics, with a mandate to make its results freely available. The tradition of the Organization to work without borders and cultural barriers, associated to its location o...Rice engineer wins prestigious Annunzio Award
...James Thomson, the first researcher to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells; Nobel laureate Dr. James Cobey, an active leader in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines; influential architect Michael Graves, who designed several buildings on the Rice campus; and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a pioneer in the...Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
... have often been accused of the homogenization of culture on a global scale. (8-11.45 a.m.) Anthropologies of Cancer: A dialogue about cancer as an anthropological object - risk and culture, health disparities marked by ethnicity; the role of the state, etc. (10.15-Noon) Urban Violence in a G...Effort to control trade in great white sharks gets teeth from international community
Vilified in popular culture as a relentless man-eater, the great white shark finally received today global recognition as a persecuted species worthy of protection, as participants of the 13th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and F...Study using robotic microscope shows how mutant Huntington's protein affects neurons
...gram that allows a microscope to match images in a culture dish to images it has stored and to manipulate its controls to look at the same neurons over and over again - like time-lapse photography. This allowed the investigators to follow changes in a single neuron or a group of neurons over a period of day...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...t nutrient levels in a series of chemostats--glass culture tubes that provide nutrients and oxygen and siphon off wastes. In one set of chemostats the communities remained isolated from one another. In another set, Forde periodically made a series of transfers between communities, sucking up a pipette full o...Antibiotic identified as potential anti-cancer candidate
...t studies showed that the Pdfs were active both in culture and in the living organism, thus potentially derailing the usefulness of these antibiotics for specifically combating infectious agents. In previous studies, Scheinberg and colleagues had found that actinonin had an antiproliferative effect on human...S1P1 essential for tumor growth and is blocked by RNA interference
... they successfully blocked S1P1 expression in cell culture and that when they injec-tion of the S1P1-specific interfering RNA into tumors in mice, these also showed repressed S1P1 expres-sion. In conjunction with loss of S1P1 expression, new blood vessel stabilization and growth were compromised and tumor gr...Stony Brook University medical researcher developing new medication to prevent colon cancer
...sociation for Cancer Research. "Studies in cell culture and animals have shown that this new aspirin is hundreds to thousands of times more potent than traditional aspirin in inhibiting the growth of colon cancer cells and quite effective in preventing the development of colon cancer in laboratory animals......pes, offering cherished natural beauty and vibrant culture that draws million of visitors and an increasing number of new residents. Welcoming new people brings new opportunities for economic development and the resulting pressures upon the landscape and its residents. Maintaining quality of life amid these ...NIH funds new bioinformatics resources at UT Southwestern
...experiment that mimics the immune response in cell culture can integrate the gene expression and proteomics data with results from other investigators focused on clinical trials research." BioHealthBase collaborators from UT Southwestern include Dr. Stephen Johnston, director of the Center for Biomedical Inv...Trojan-horse therapy blocks buildup of Alzheimer's plaque
...ach to Alzheimer's disease protects brain cells in culture by drastically reducing the neurotoxic amyloid protein aggregates that are critical to the development of the disease. The treatment involves dispatching a small molecule into the cell to enlist the aid of a larger "chaperone" protein to block the ac...Diabetes drug works by enhancing fat cell energy production
...ne, work through mechanisms that involve fat. Cell culture work has indicated that rosiglitazone alters the mitochondria of fat cells, both in their structural features and in the types of proteins they produce. Mitochondria are what make the cell's energy. Silvia Corvera and colleagues, from University of ...JCI table of contents November 1, 2004
...ne, work through mechanisms that involve fat. Cell culture work has indicated that rosiglitazone alters the m... and found that it was markedly lower both in cell culture and in implanted tumors in mice. The authors then put the SEMA3F gene into human melanoma cells. In ...Researchers grow sperm stem cells in laboratory cultures
...h.D. The researchers succeeded in developing the culture medium containing the precise combination of cellu...duce a large number of spermatogonial cells in the culture medium, and then implant the cells into recipient animals. These animals could then pass the new tr...Growth factors confer immortality to sperm-generating stem cells
...elf-renewing cells that produce sperm to exist in culture indefinitely. Their findings will be presented th...ience's online Early Edition. After being kept in culture for three months, the stem cells restored sperm production, and therefore fertility, in infertile mi...Researchers discover transport molecule that allows boron into cells
... group showed that human cells with NaBC1 grown in culture specifically took up boron from solution when compared to arsenic, which is chemically similar to boron. Arsenic was unable to enter cells. Similar activity was found in many cell types isolated from mouse and rat tissues. Dr. Muallem's group no...New source for heart bypass replacement blood vessels: Fibrin-based TEVs
...develop strength and reactivity after two weeks in culture The researchers concluded that "fibrin-based TEVs hold significant promise for treatment of vascular disease and as a model system to address interesting questions with regards to blood vessel development and pathophysiology." Replacement of large (...Genetically engineered corn poses no immediate threat to Mexican crops
...Free Trade Association (NAFTA). In a country whose culture and identity revolve heavily around corn, or maize the crop was first developed here thousands of years ago the thought of imported GM varieties contaminating indigenous plants frightens many citizens, said Allison Snow, a co-author of the report a...