New source for heart bypass replacement blood vessels: Fibrin-based TEVs
...tential use in heart bypass surgery, has reached a milestone at the State University of New York at Buffalo. A multi-disciplinary team at SUNY Buffalo designed tissue engineered blood vessels (TEVs) using a matrix of vascular smooth muscle embedded in fibrin gels. After only two weeks in culture, the TEVs show...IRCM scientist demonstrates basic active mechanism of immune-system cells
...oid arthritis. This publication is a major milestone for Dr. Veillette, an internationally recognized expert on the identification of molecular mechanisms that control the immune response. Initial findings were published in Nature Immunology in 2001, followed by an article in Nature Cell Biology in 200...Russia- wide tiger count begins
...the project, said, "This tiger survey represents a milestone in cooperative, international conservation efforts, with full political support from both regional and national governmental bodies of the Russian Federation, as well as financial and technical support from the international conservation community." ...Argo robotic instrument network now covers most of the globe
...array-- are now operating. This marks an important milestone in the program's mission to capture valuable data around the globe. The Argo floats, which are robotically programmed to record and transmit data, are uniquely positioned to provide important information about climate and weather phenomena. Other ...Idaho lab, Utah company achieve major milestone in hydrogen research
...EL team to move quickly and achieve this important milestone toward establishing hydrogen as a part of our national energy strategy." "This research is the INEEL's response to a national challenge to help the United States advance the President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative," said Michael Anderson, DOE-Idah...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Salty, acidic soup could have supported life on Mars
...o, when life on Earth was getting its start. This milestone plus nine other research advances make up Science 's list of the top ten scientific developments in 2004, chosen for their profound implications for society and the advancement of science. The Top Ten list appears in the 17 December 2004 issue of th...High-flying observatory reveals land changing to desert
... January 2005 issue of Global Change Biology, is a milestone both for the new methods employed and for understanding what is happening as agricultural and grazing lands change into desert--a top environmental worry of the United Nations. "Grazing is the major form of land use on the planet, with the dry, semi...ESA's Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
... Earth. "Today's release is another successful milestone in the Cassini/Huygens odyssey", said Dr David Southwood, ESA's Director of Science Programmes. "This was an amicable separation after seven years of living together. Our thanks to our partners at NASA for the lift. Each spacecraft will now continue ...JCI table of contents, 3 January 2005
...s Institute, California, describes this study as a milestone in the development of stem cell technology but cautions that while the observations are encouraging, the reported number of surviving DA neurons was very low, only 13% of the cells surviving, well below the estimated number of DA neurons that survive...Transplantation of monkey embryonic stem cells reverses Parkinson disease in primates
...s Institute, California, describes this study as a milestone in the development of stem cell technology but cautions that while the observations are encouraging, the reported number of surviving DA neurons was very low, only 13% of the cells surviving, well below the estimated number of DA neurons that survive...Desertification alters regional ecosystem climate interactions
... January 2005 issue of Global Change Biology, is a milestone both for the new methods employed and for understanding what is happening as agricultural and grazing lands change into desert--a top environmental worry of the United Nations. "Grazing is the major form of land use on the planet, with the dry, semi...... "One thousand protein structures is a significant milestone for the PSI, and it shows an impressive return on the investment in the technology and methods for rapid structure determination," said Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., director of NIGMS. "These structures are interesting in their own right and provide the bas...California researchers help map human genetic variation across populations
...ond differently to drugs. "This project sets a new milestone in the search for genetic elements linked to complex genetic diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and multiple sclerosis," said co-author David R. Cox, Chief Scientific Officer at Mountain View, CA-based Perlegen. "Genome-wide analysis may soon becom...Scientists discover that three overlapping signals in embryo help get the backbone right
...ght path. The formation of the back and belly is a milestone for frogs as well as for humans and other vertebrates, occurring as it does at the beginning of the process of gastrulation, which sees front and back, head and tail, left and right established and the first appearance of a recognizable body plan. If...Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon
...tive analysis of parasite transfer is a scientific milestone in a contentious debate. It is the first to isolate and measure the impact of a fish farm on sea lice outbreaks in wild salmon. The study combined new field techniques that allowed comprehensive, individual observations of over 5,500 young wild pink ...Researchers test new therapy for advanced melanoma
... in the fight against melanoma tumors. "This is a milestone clinical trial because it is the first time that electroporation is being used to deliver plasmid DNA in a gene therapy study in humans," said Richard Heller, PhD, USF professor of medical microbiology and immunology who helped develop the technology...Major advance made on DNA structure
...al function. This is a significant step forward, a milestone in DNA structural biology." In the early 1950s, two researchers at Cambridge University James Watson and Francis Crick made pioneering discoveries by proposing the double-helix structure of DNA, along with another research group in England about th...VaxGen and EndoBiologics form collaboration to pursue early stage research for meningitis B vaccine
...roof-of-concept studies, the company would provide milestone payments and additional research funding to EndoBi... provide EndoBiologics with royalty and additional milestone payments upon regulatory approval and commercial sale, if those events are forthcoming. "VaxGen's l...Phase III clinical program evaluates lubiprostone
...lopment for lubiprostone marks another significant milestone for Sucampo and Takeda because it follows so closely on the heels of our NDA submission for chronic constipation in March," said George Perentesis, M.D., vice president of Research and Development at Sucampo. "Results from this new phase of lubipros...NexMed announces positive Femprox study results at American Urological Association Annual Meeting
....E.O. commented, "NexMed has reached another major milestone in the Femprox development program. We have completed one of the first large scale take-home studies for a topical FSAD treatment." Dr. Mo further added, "We will complete the analysis of the data and submit the results to the regulatory authoritie...