Colleagues, friends gather to commemorate Nobel Laureate Axelrod
...ail: loukissj@mail.nih.gov ). Visitor parking is limited at NIH. Visitors are encouraged to use the Metro (Medical Center stop on the NIH campus, Red Line). The NIH, like all Federal Government facilities, has instituted security measures to ensure the safety of NIH employees, patients, and visitors. For i...Science study holds implications for gene therapy and stem cell biology
... human stem cells, because so far our insights are limited to mouse models." Dr. Baum said. Scientists, in general, experiment with related gene vectors to treat severe inborn disorders or cancer. There continues to be an increasing interest in gene therapy research with blood stem cells because these cells...Brain may be less plastic than hoped
... injury to the retina of adult monkeys. They found limited reorganization in the primary visual cortex. Their results contradict previous thinking. In a "News and Views" commentary published in the same issue of Nature, Martin I. Sereno, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, says the ...Lack of coherent cloning policies reflects polarized debate, limited understanding, study says
...eflect high awareness about cloning in general but limited understanding of its scientific feasibility. RAPIDLY EVOLVING SCIENCE LANDSCAPE Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is the technique currently in use to create embryos that are genetically identical to another animal or person, the report expla...Photos reveal new primate species
...highland mangabey in this forest is very small and limited in distribution. Ehardt observes that, "With the addition of another threatened species of primate to those species previously documented, the Udzungwa Mountains are arguably the most important site in Africa for primate conservation. The Udzungwas ...BC scientists coax gold particles to emit light strong enough to view single nanoparticles
...mmonly used in multiphoton imaging give out only a limited amount of light, 'burn out' quickly under continuous observation, and are prone to blinking on and off. "The gold particles, however, do not blink or burn out, even after hours of observation, and the brightest ones emit much more light than do mole...First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched
...fusion. As the donor population becomes even more limited with each additional residency deferral, it further reduces the potential number of people giving blood and can result in serious blood shortages. Despite all these safeguards, the risk of vCJD transmission via blood transfusion has not been elimina...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
...he says. "Like all creatures, humans perceive with limited spectra and sensory modes. We bias research with the unconscious and incorrect assumption that other animals 'see' the world as we do. Every time we discover otherwise, it expands the horizons of scientific knowledge and sends us the humbling and vit...Partnership focuses on compounds to protect against radiation exposure
... The Master CRADA, unlike a standard CRADA, is not limited to one compound, so it provides the flexibility to rapidly incorporate new candidate compounds into the research program. In addition to roughly 10 million U.S. military service members and first responders, it is estimated that 90 million civilians ...Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus
...new findings on vaccine effectiveness, involving a limited study of 15 horses, at a luncheon meeting with other veterinarians and specialists at the annual American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum, June 2, in Baltimore. The luncheon will be paid for by Pfizer Inc., which provided Osterrieder wi...Super predators and mass extinctions; extreme NMR; and the world's smallest solenoids
... because they failed to account for the effects of limited living spaces shared by a large number of different species. High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance without a magnet S. Appelt et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 197602 (2005), 20 May 2005 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v94/e197602 A group of Germ...Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain
...dously and the treatments available to us now have limited effectiveness. Using our herpes vector to provide targeted gene delivery to the nervous system is a novel approach that shows tremendous promise for the treatment of neuropathic pain." In future research, the scientists plan to conduct the first phas...Water quality a major focus of $14 million grant to the University of Arizona
...tresses that solving these problems, which are not limited to Arizona, can benefit people throughout the world. The SBRP has an active outreach program to train Mexican scientists and practitioners in the detection and remediation methods UA scientists are developing. "We are sharing with our neighbor with w...ARVO presents Ocular Cell and Molecular Biology Conference
..., and poster session presentations. Attendance is limited to 150 scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and students.Keynote speakers will be David Beebe, PhD, Elizabeth Fini, PhD, William Hauswirth, PhD, Leonard A. Levin, MD, PhD, Kris Palczewski, PhD, and Mansoor Sarfarazi, PhD. Steven E. Wilson, MD, and Joe ...New law for resolution allows unprecedented sharpness in fluorescence microscopy
...w postulated by Ernst Abbe in 1873 for diffraction limited resolution in light microscopes. Stefan Hell and h...ly consistent concept for breaking the diffraction limited resolution limit in fluorescence microscopy, and then verified it in experiments. Unlike in the ligh...Scientists create digital bacteria to forge advances in biomedical research
...orism. Other simulations of biological systems are limited to the molecular level, the single-cell level or the level of bacterial populations. AgentCell can simultaneously simulate activity on all three scales, something its creators believe no other software can do. "With AgentCell we can simulate the be...Researchers develop gene therapy to reverse pulmonary arterial hypertension
... uncontrolled cell growth. Therapies are currently limited for a disease that can lead to heart failure and death within a few years. The researchers have shown that Survivin, a protein almost exclusively expressed in cancer, is also heavily expressed in both human and animal lung arteries with PAH. Survivin...New technique helps identify multiple DNA regulatory sites
...the location of binding site combinations based on limited binding site and gene expression data. "We found that the same transcription factors, in slightly different combinations, could be responsible for the regulation of different genes," said Torgeir R. Hvidsten of the LCB. "Thus we now know that bindin...Opiate cocktail may spare cells from morphine's dark side
...ective analgesic, its clinical utility is severely limited by the development of drug tolerance, the requirem... of the opioid methadone, which is tolerated, with limited side effects, at low doses. The authors indeed found that the combination of morphine with the metha......d Madagascar only once," Yoder said. "However, the limited taxonomic success of our study leaves open the possibility that data from additional taxa will overturn this increasingly robust hypothesis." Yoder said the researchers' results support the close relationship of sloth lemurs (Palaeopropithecus) to li...