UCI launches effort to develop patient-specific stem cell lines
...Orange County medical practice, Keirstead plans to obtain donated egg cells for his SCNT research. Stem cells are the master cells that give rise to each of the specialized cells within the human body. During organ and tissue development, these cells transform into a particular specialized cell, such as a...DNA-damage test could aid drug development
...cts toxicity in humans, not animals, and you could obtain human bone marrow that's left over from medical procedures." "If you could change the micronucleus assay to have a human cell readout, that would be pretty amazing," says Samson. Down the road, she suggests, such a test might offer a new way to exa...NASA mission explores world's deepest sinkhole
...meter-diameter submarine to map the cenotes shape, obtain water samples and return core samples from the cenote walls. In the process, DEPTHX will test technologies and methods that might be useful in other underwater missions, including the long-term possibility of exploring the oceans hidden under the icy...Study to probe how healthy younger adults make use of genetic tests
...n about the risks and benefits of testing and will obtain the patient's written consent. Blood samples from individuals in this group will be analyzed at the CIDR laboratory, which has Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification. Test results will be mailed to participants. Follow-up ...New Arizona alliance aims to boost technologies for medical diagnostics and human health
...an health and disease. Developing tests to rapidly obtain protein profiles as a predictive marker for disease or identifying therapeutic targets would provide broad benefits to health care and medicine. Leslie Tolbert, vice president for research, graduate studies, and economic development at the Univers...A cherry on top: Tart cherries may alter heart/diabetes factors
... that would be very difficult if not impossible to obtain in the diet." He continues, "We are interested in a whole-foods approach, using amounts of fruit that are relevant to human diets. We are enthusiastic about the findings that tart cherries conferred these beneficial effects at such a modest daily i...Terahertz imaging goes the distance
... in order to provide enough terahertz radiation to obtain a decent image. Increasing the power of the lasers and sensitivity of the detectors can potentially enable imaging of thicker objects or imaging of the reflected light, which would be more practical for security applications. In addition, the develop...Cheaper, better disease treatments expected from faster approach to developing antibodies
...o treat human diseases that may not be possible to obtain otherwise." The results were published online Sunday, April 15, in Nature Biotechnology. Bacteria are easy to grow in an inexpensive broth. As a result, harmless forms of the bacterium E. coli have already been used as factories to produce antib...2007 Communicator Award goes to glaciologists from Bremerhaven
...ational expeditions. From these ice cores they can obtain deep insights, enabling them to reconstruct the ea... trapped in these ice cores they have been able to obtain the most detailed data to date on the presence and changes in the two main greenhouse gases in the a...New way to catch cancer's spread, rapid 3-D retinal imaging, more at CLEO/QELS 2007
...al coherence tomography (OCT), which uses light to obtain high-resolution images of the eye, even for struct...en more helpful for diagnosing disease would be to obtain very-high-resolution three-dimensional views of the eye. Limited imaging speeds and involuntary eye ...Deflecting damage: Flexible electronics aid brain injury research
...t impossible to insert an electrode into a cell to obtain a recording, remove the probe, injure the cell, an...e to refine these measurements and also attempt to obtain readings from cells during the injury events themselves, Morrison said. The flexible electrodes also...U OF M awarded $22.5 million NIH contract to study avian influenza
...ostic Laboratory and Genomic Center. Faculty will obtain and characterize multiple types of influenza viruses, adding to the world database that supports research on how humans become infected with influenza, what factors influence the severity of illness, and the development of vaccines and antiviral medi...Are all male's liars and cheaters? Yes -- if they're crayfish!
...s signal their superior strength to competitors to obtain food, resolve territorial disputes and acquire mates. Current theory insists that signals of strength should be honest. Surprisingly researchers have found that dishonest signals are used routinely during dominance disputes by male Australian crayf...Scientists reveal structure of gateways to gene control
...but the underlying architecture is the same." To obtain their high-resolution map, the researchers first isolated 322,000 nucleosomes from the 6,000 regions that control gene transcription in the DNA of baker's yeast, S.cerevisiae, an organism widely studied as a model of how human cells work. These prom...Sequence variation in the alpha synuclein gene contributes to alcohol craving
...crave alcohol when they do not have the ability to obtain it." "The strongest evidence for association was observed in a region encompassing one particular end of the gene," said Alison Goate, professor of psychiatry, genetics and neurology, at Washington University. "This is interesting because it appe...Microfossils unravel climate history of tropical Africa
... The new proxy was used in this sediment core to obtain both a continental and a sea surface temperature record. A comparison of both records shows that ocean surface and land temperatures behaved differently during the past 25,000 years. During the last ice age, temperatures over tropical Africa were 21C...Genetic studies endow mice with new color vision
...ly one third of the time, the score that one would obtain by guessing randomly among the three panels. According to the scientists, their findings have implications not just for the evolution of color vision, but for the evolution of sensory systems in general. Previous experiments with the visual, olfacto...New species declared: Clouded leopard on Borneo and Sumatra
...dividuals. However, further studies are needed to obtain better population data. Habitat destruction is the cats main threat. The last great forest home of the Bornean Clouded Leopard is the Heart of Borneo, a wild, mountainous region of rainforest the size of Kansas. WWF recently released a report sh...These legs were made for fighting
...species, Carrier used the scientific literature to obtain typical hindlimb lengths and data on two physical features that previously have been shown to correlate with male-male competition and aggressiveness in primates: The weight difference between males and females in a species. Earlier studies fou...Smithsonian scientists discover new marine species in eastern Pacific
...astern Pacific date back 100 years, it is vital to obtain current data from the area....