Scientists see human kidney development through fruit fly eyes
...ut how cells are sorted--are questions we couldn't dream of asking by using the mammalian kidney," Cagan continues. "The fruit fly eye is a much more tractable and faster moving system. When we make discoveries in the fly, such as the roles of Roughest and Hibris, we can then look at the mammalian kidney e...Pediatric center to offer novel rehabilitation approach for spinal cord injury
...rganization like Kennedy Krieger helps realize the dream of improving the lives of children around the world who have spinal cord injury and paralysis." Advanced restoration therapies use methods such as functional electric stimulation (FES) to help patients with paralysis "exercise" muscles through activi...MIT tissue engineers implant viable, vascularized 3D muscles
... to work with Bob Langer for my postdoc, it was my dream to vascularize a tissue," recalls first author Shulamit Levenberg, who is now on the faculty of the biomedical engineering department at Technion in Haifa, Israel where she completed these studies. She chose to tackle muscles, since they depend on bl...Research casts doubt on circulating stem cells
...the white and red blood corpuscles are formed. The dream of many scientists is to breed other types of tissue from bone marrow-derived cells. In recent years a great deal of hype has been generated around the idea of a "cellular jack of all trades" not least because some studies gave grounds for hope. Usi...New technique could alter field of mouse genetics
...ticular one works," Xu said, "but this system is a dream tool for geneticists working with vertebrates and mammals." PiggyBac inserts randomly into the genome, with a clear preference for genes. This bodes well for its use in mutating genes and for identifying unrecognized genes in places of the genome tha...Still shellfish after 425 million years: Clam-like creature preserved perfectly in ancient fossil
...iscovery because it is something we never dared to dream we might see - an ancient fossil articulate brachiopod with its fleshy parts intact, and preserved in three-dimensions to boot. "Up to now, in all the millions of articulate brachiopod fossils scientists have examined, no-one has ever found anything...Breast tumors in mice eradicated using cancer vaccine
...ology finally being tested in cancer patients. The dream of the cancer immunotherapist is to provide an alternative and more humane way of controlling metastatic disease than current chemotherapies." The Listeria vector is currently being prepared for a clinical trial targeting a tumor antigen associated w...Rutgers' Wise Young named to Esquire's 'Best and Brightest of 2005'
...lyzed by an injury to the spinal cord. Today, the dream of therapies that restore function and feeling is becoming a reality, and Young is leading the search for cures. He sees stem cell research as an extremely important pursuit that holds tremendous promise for treating and curing a host of devastating ...Plants reveal a secret and bring researchers nearer a cleaner future
...o power our homes and offices is an unaccomplished dream due to the still inefficient technology for a better use of solar energy. The study of photosynthesis in plants could provide new clues by explaining how they absorb almost 100% of the sun-light reaching them, and how they transform it into other for...'Fish with chips' reporting from ocean top highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
...ered stocks. Science Suggests Smart Fishing "The dream of abundant and sustainable stocks ofcommercial fish is now one step closer, thanks to thisCensus of Marine Life program. The new data revealfor the first time those zones of the ocean where wehave the highest leverage for conservation and thussmart...Early California: A killing field
...ves, and how the world views the Golden State. The dream world of Disneyland, the glamour and glimmer of Hollywood, the Baywatch fun-in-the-sun culture all of this may trace a link to early historic descriptions of the land that now appear to be worlds apart from pre-European conditions." Himself a produ...Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease
...year, East Coast fever destroys the small farmer's dream of escaping poverty in Africa. Killing more than a million cattle and costing some $200 million annually, this tick-borne disease rages across a dozen countries in eastern and central Africa. Now, an international team of scientists has taken the fir...Tree of Life project grows more leaves and branches
...fe forms ranging from aardvarks to zoospores. "My dream is to be able to do grand-scale analyses of patterns of life across all of life," said David Maddison, the originator of the Tree of Life Project and a professor of entomology at The University of Arizona in Tucson. "So much of our understanding of b...Getting ACL tears to heal themselves
...like meniscus and rotator-cuff tears. Her ultimate dream is cartilage regeneration to repair joints damaged by osteoarthritis. No one has yet been able to repair cartilage, but Murray has discovered that even in bad osteoarthritis, cartilage has active, proliferating cells. She hopes to find another scaffo...New Arctic fossils fill evolutionary gap between fish and limbed animals
... the transition from water to land. "The find is a dream come true," said Daeschler, the Academy's curator of vertebrate biology. "We knew that the rocks on Ellesmere Island offered a glimpse into the right time period and were formed in the right kinds of environments to provide the potential for finding ...DNA sequencing contributes to sequence of honors for UH
...ential to make research that many of us could only dream about both plausible and cost effective," said Stuart Dryer, chair of the department of biology and biochemistry at UH. "In my own research on neurological diseases, we've often wished we could rapidly synthesize many variations of large naturally o...Robots manipulating animal behaviour
... agents interact with natural ones, is a long-held dream for many in the scientific community including those working on nanotechnology. Moreover, these systems are in keeping with emerging European research such as collective robotics and FET-funded projects such as Swarmbots. "We believe farming in Euro...Two UH grads a step closer to realizing 'The American Dream'
...thematics minor are getting closer to making that dream a reality. Karim received a Merage Foundation for the American Dream Fellowship, and Khalil received an Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship and Award of Excellence. "We are tremendously pleased that these students have received such national re...ACS News Service weekly press package -- June 5, 2006
...absurd inventions. However, its debut represents a dream come true for researchers who have strived for years to smooth the shape of common salt. Likewise for anyone who knows the frustration of coping with a saltshaker in humid summer weather. Table salt normally exists in those familiar cube-shaped crys...Developing countries take the lead in a global program to catalogue human mutations
... create the project the culmination of a ten year dream for the leader of Australia's Genomic Disorders Research Centre. "Four in five people will be affected by mutations at some time in their lives," says Richard. "That's why it's essential that we document and share all we know about these mutations...