Using stem cells to help heart attack victims
New research at The University of Nottingham is paving the way for techniques that use stem cells to repair the damage caused by heart attacks. The research, funded with a grant of 95,000 the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), is looking at the process that turns a stem cel...System to analyze beating heart stem cells could lead to heart attack treatments
... Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), is paving the way for techniques that use stem cells to repair the damage caused by heart attacks. The research, highlighted in the new issue of BBSRC Business, is looking at the process that turns a stem cell into a cardiomyocyte the beating cell that mak......agement and proximity to calcium-rich building and paving materials. Contrary to their predictions, researchers discovered no relationships found between land use and heavy metal levels. Rather, researchers found trace metals to be correlated with surface rock types instead of urban factors, making these ......or these rapid discrimination processes, hopefully paving the way for therapies targeting learning and behavioural disorders." Professor Tonegawa, a frequent world traveler, describing his own occasional experience of finding the airport in a new city uncannily familiar, added: "This occurs because of th...March of Dimes awards $250K prize to stem cell research, reproductive biology pioneers
...t into a mouse uterus to be born naturally -- thus paving the way for human in vitro fertilization. "During a career spanning nearly 50 years, Prof. McLaren has repeatedly pushed forward the boundaries of our knowledge of developmental biology and reproduction," said Dr. Katz. Prof. McLaren and Prof. R...New University of Leicester study could help stroke victims
...oke and confirms its safety in this group, thereby paving the way for larger studies to discover if it may benefit patients."...Susceptibility to Crohn's disease -- an important new clue
...objectives of modern medical genetics, potentially paving the way towards personalized medicine and drug target identification....Atlas of Science Literacy completes mapping of science-learning pathways
...n their day-to-day classroom decisions, while also paving the way for long-term, serious research." Atlas 2 -- jointly released today by AAAS Project 2061 and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) at a national conference in St. Louis -- and its companion Atlas 1 now map concepts related to...Transport interrupted -- Texas A&M biologists trace cause of early blindness to tissue defect
...arly blindness, identifying the cells involved and paving the way for possible therapies to treat or even prevent what is currently an incurable disease. The findings, funded by Fight for Sight and the National Institutes of Health, are published in the March 5-9 online Early Edition (EE) of the Proceedin......dies of live tissue under physiological conditions paving the way for the use of modern cell biology in clinically relevant research....New nanotechnology able to examine single molecules, aiding in determining gene expression
...e molecules in order to determine gene expression, paving the way for scientists to more accurately examine single cancer cells, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at UCLA's California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences...Robots manipulating animal behaviour
... of leadership or collective behaviour in animals, paving the way for people to control animals and even colonies of robots." Asked why people would want to influence animal behaviour, Deneubourg offers several answers. Firstly, by changing the way animals behave or inducing collective behaviour, scientist...The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest
...n examine how individual policies ranging from the paving of highways to the requirement for forest reserves on private properties will influence the future of the world's largest tropical forest. Our model shows that several unique forest ecosystems and entire watersheds will be badly degraded over the ne...Successful cell engineering may lead to mad cow prevention, say researchers
...ease-causing genes in a cloned goat fetus, perhaps paving the way for breeding disease resistance in other animals, even those genes that might cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease. Researchers Mark Westhusin and Charles Long in Texas A&M's College of Veterinary Me...Study finds evolution doesn't always favor bigger animals
...en climatic change and the body size of organisms, paving the way for a better understanding of the evolution of body size in fossil organisms as well as in environments that are now being impacted by global warming. "There's still a huge debate over what drives Cope's Rule, but our study shows that climat...Children's Hospital Oakland scientist awarded seat on national scientific review board
...dial infections around the world. Her research is paving the way for development of the first vaccine for chlamydiae, the primary cause of preventable blindness and bacterial sexually transmitted diseases worldwide....U of MN researchers use human embryonic stem cells to kill cancer cells
... to create cancer-killing cells in the laboratory, paving the way for future treatments for various types of cancers (or tumors). The research will be published in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Immunology. Researchers generated "natural killer" cells from the human embryonic stem cells. As part of ...EBI and Ghent University launch PRIDE: An open source database of protein identifications
...ent of proteins is altered in many disease states, paving the way towards new predictive and diagnostic methods in medicine. Proteomics is the identification and characterization of all the proteins produced by a particular type of cell, tissue or organism under certain conditions. While an individual's gen...University of Nevada, Reno research team discovers hormone that causes malaria mosquito to urinate
...al stage, a path that has them instead potentially paving the way for better mosquito control. A potential solution to the problem of killing insects at any stage of development may be found in peptide hormones, small proteins in all animals that regulate most bodily functions. While researching the genome ...... world markets for open-range beef and grain. The paving of highways into the heart of the region will facilitate the export of Amazon products to world markets as it creates new corridors for explosive frontier expansion. These mounting threats to the Amazon require large-scale, integrated approaches to ...