Sukhishvili invited to serve on NIH's Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section
... to the national biomedical research effort. Study sections review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board and survey the status of research in their fields of science. These functions are of great value to m......cap itself is comprised of pure ice, but the lower sections are mixed with mud from the bottom, and it was this mud that Eske Willerslev wanted to research. He got base layer samples from three drillings; DYE-3 drilling in the southern part of Greenland, the GRIP drilling in the middle of the Greenlandic ice...Sequencing method yields fuller picture
...roteins which may regulate gene function, and that sections of junk DNA have been highly conserved during evol...The Genome Research study confirms that many short sections of junk DNA are highly conserved, Li and Kim said....First case of successful ovarian tissue transplantation between two, nonidentical sisters
...Sandra were anaesthetised together and three small sections of ovarian tissue were removed from Sandra via laparoscopy and within less than a minute were being sewn on to one of Teresas atrophied ovaries, also via laparoscopy. The sisters were discharged from hospital the day after surgery. After six months...How a pain in the neck could be bad for your blood pressure
...ive neck signals jumped out at us when we labelled sections with particular markers. We wanted to know how these cells were organised and the other brain regions to which they were connected. The team, which includes researchers from Japan and Hungary, found a link between these cells and the nucleus tractu...Handicapping tuberculosis may be the way to a better vaccine
... had TB at all. The pathologist we sent these lung sections to was amazed, said Jacobs. He said hed never seen anything like it. A year after infection with TB, less than 25 percent of the BCG-vaccinated mice had survived. In contrast, over 75 percent of the mice vaccinated with the mutant strain were still ...... is more likely, Costes believes, that the damaged sections actually migrate toward the less-dense chromatin and concentrate at the high-density/low-density interface. Researchers have previously proposed the existence of "repairosomes" in mammalian cells, similar to specific regions where DNA is repaired ...How cells change the pace of their steps
...shaped water balloon attached firmly on two sticky sections while periodically protruding in the forward direction and withdrawing from the trailing end. In humans and other mammals, cell motility is essential for many physiological processes such as tissue renewal and the function of the immune system. Cel...New textbook illuminates the close links between evolutionary and molecular biology
...ok is divided into four sections. The first three sections detail the history of evolutionary and molecular biology, describe the origin and diversification of life over the past 3.5 billion years, and explain the fundamental mechanisms underlying evolutionary change. The final section is devoted to human e...