Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
PHILADELPHIA − Concentrated chemicals derived from green tea dramatically boosted production of a group of key detoxification enzymes in people with low levels of these beneficial proteins, according to researchers at Arizona Cancer Center. These findings, published in the August issue of Can...Role of thyroid hormones in slumber under investigation at Rutgers
...ls of thyroid hormones and the compounds which are derived from them in the brain during circadian rhythms and during sleep and waking. Additional research will include observations of the effect of microinjections of thyroid hormones in sleep-related brain structures of rats. As in the Rutgers-Camden sci...UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
...s study showed that two embryonic stem cells lines derived in similar manners, and therefore expected to behave similarly when differentiating, did not. Using the same techniques to prod the two embryonic stem cells lines to differentiate, Sun found that one line had a bias to become neurons that are found i...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...ons that physicists studying coated soot particles derived to deal with shortcomings in the Lorenz-Mie theory. Jensen and the students from Denmark also called upon their mother tongue, Danish, to pick apart a little-known paper published in 1890 in Denmark by the physicist Ludvig Lorenz, one of the two name...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
...re have been few functional studies of the neurons derived from embryonic stem cells, said Sdhof. People in t..., because different embryonic stem cell lines were derived under diverse conditions, the possibility existed that cell lines would produce neurons with distinc...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
...n methods (some of which are available now), 2) be derived from feedstocks grown on degraded land, or 3) be produced from solid wastes or agricultural residues. Administrators: The California Air Resources Board will require additional resources to develop and enforce the new standard. It is imperati...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
...or infertility. Parthenogenetic ES (pES) cells are derived from embryos created by artificial activation of e...s generated by somatic nuclear transfer (ntES) are derived from embryos that are created when the nucleus of an egg is replaced by the nucleus from a body cell...Discredited Korean embryonic stem cells' true origins revealed
... the world's first human embryonic stem cell to be derived by parthenogenesis, a process that creates an embr...clear transfer-derived stem cell line was actually derived from the woman's egg alone," Daley says. The Koreans' 2004 paper, published in Science, was retrac...MGH researchers confirm that bone marrow restores fertility in female mice
... own eggs. Consistent with our past work, cells derived from the donor bone marrow are getting into the ov... the studys senior author. Although these oocytes derived from marrow cells dont appear competent, at least thus far, to make fertilizable eggs, marrow does c...Stem cell therapy rescues motor neurons in ALS model
...scent brain cells known as neural progenitor cells derived from human fetal tissue were engineered to secrete a chemical known as glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), an agent that has been shown to protect neurons but that is very difficu...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...genesis of non-pluripotent myoblasts and the cells derived from mature, human skeletal muscle, the report states. These studies build upon recent research illustrating the value of chemical approaches for providing tools that differentiate lineage-committed cells into other cell types. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMME...Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
...here the abundant biology is fueled by methane gas derived from ancient carbon in the sediments, Johnson says. The glass sponges so-called because their skeletons are made of silica (the same material as beach sand) come in un-sponge-like shapes similar to cups and funnels. They range in color from creamy...Strains of laboratory mice more varied than previously thought
...ientist. Weve established that laboratory mice are derived almost entirely from a single subspecies, not three as previously believed. The Jackson Laboratory is a world-wide source for more than 3,000 genetically defined mice. With support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of...Using stem cells to help heart attack victims
...nformation on the electrical activity of stem cell derived cardiomyocytes. In the longer term, this could facilitate their use in regenerating the damaged hearts of heart attack victims. Dr Chris Denning, of the Universitys Wolfson Centre for Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering & Modelling, said: Human embryon...System to analyze beating heart stem cells could lead to heart attack treatments
...nformation on the electrical activity of stem cell derived cardiomyocytes. In the longer term, this could facilitate their use in regenerating the damaged hearts of heart attack victims. Human embryonic stem cells promise unrivalled opportunities. However, they are difficult, time-consuming and expensive ...Study identifies new gene therapy tools for inherited blindness
...tudying new and previously established sites, they derived some basic rules or "grammar" that seem to govern how the sites work. "We've by no means finished defining this grammarit's going to be a major task," he explains. "But what we know now has allowed us to create entirely synthetic cis-regulatory elem...Breast cancer and hormone therapy -- A looking-glass mirror?
...and health authorities actually declared that data derived from observations in the postmenopausal population are less valuable. Nevertheless, during the past few months, several studies have used databases on the incidence of breast cancer, on the one hand, and sales of HT on the other hand, in order to sug...CTRC enrolls first patients in novel phase II study for sarcoma -- living virus destroys cancer cell
...Institute for Drug Development, REOLYSINs name was derived from the human reovirus, a mild virus that occurs naturally in the environment. This novel therapy has shown success because the reovirus replicates in and destroys the cancer cells within the patients body, said Mita. Cancer cells have several ...Charting ever-changing genomes
...emble their lists, the Ecker team poured over data derived from old-fashioned gene-chip technology, in which 25 nucleotide-long samples of every gene expressed in an Arabidopsis cell are spotted onto a tiny glass slide known as a microarray. The chopped up genomes of the different strains were then allowed t...UC Santa Barbara scientists clarify molecular basis of interferon action
...lecules.) The researchers cultured human cancer derived cells with very low PKR or none at all. This allowed them to test the role of PKR in the cell. We found that with low PKR there is less apoptosis in response to some stimuli, said Zhang. (Apoptosis is cell death or suicide. It is a strateg...