Native fruits bear sweet antioxidants
...a key market requirement these days, says research team leader, Food Science Australias Izabela Konczak. And, by encouraging growers to cultivate native fruits, we are also contributing to the growing need to ensure agriculture becomes more sustainable. Co-author Dr Michael Netzel a post-doctoral resea...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...irector for technology development. "Each research team brings a unique set of skills and expertise to sol...uencing of individual DNA molecules. This research team seeks to develop molecular wires that are sufficiently flexible and sensitive to enable this type of...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...on the switch that leads to prostate cancer. The team discovered that pieces of two chromosomes can trad... into clinical applications. Chinnaiyan and his team have received numerous awards and honors, including the American Association for Cancer Research Tea...Forsyth scientists gain new understanding of adult stem cell regulation
... them ideal for studying this process. The Forsyth team uses planarians and other animal models to study development and regeneration. The Forsyth team will publish this research in the August 16 issue of Development. According to the papers lead auth...Aggressive therapy best for certain AML patients
... damage that guide therapy. In 1994, however, a team of researchers that included Bloomfield discovered the MLL-PTD mutation in these patients. It was the first clinically useful marker to be identified in cases of AML with normal-looking chromosomes, and it was found to predict a short remission and p...First case of successful ovarian tissue transplantation between two, nonidentical sisters
...niversity of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, led the team that carried out the work [2]. In 1990, when she was 20, doctors treated Teresa Alvaro for beta-thalassemia an inherited blood disorder characterised by reduced or absent haemoglobin, which is the oxygen-carrying protein in red blood cells. She r...Testing the force of a shark's bite
... computer simulations. Last week Dr Wroe and his team dissected the five year old shark and measured the...biologist Dan Huber is working with the Australian team to learn whether sharks such as the Great White are responsible for damaging submarine cables and co...Gold nanoparticles may pan out as tool for cancer diagnosis
...onounced ee-roo-THY'-a-razh), leader of a research team that developed a new method for fabricating the na...ample sizes, Irudayaraj said. Irudayaraj and his team - postdoctoral researcher Chenxu Yu and Harikrishna Nakshatri, a researcher at the Indiana Universit...Under magnetic force, nanoparticles may deliver gene therapy
...iponectin. By applying a magnetic field, the study team steered the particles into arterial smooth muscle ... are used to deliver gene therapy. Levy said his team would pursue further studies into the feasibility of using the nanoparticles for gene therapy in blo...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
...ican Medical Association (JAMA). He led a research team in reviewing the medical documentation and case re...consequences of this crime. Silverman and his team suggest several likely explanations for the observed high risk for HIV infection among the youngest ...New UD tissue-engineering research focuses on vocal cords
...ect. He will assist the interdisciplinary research team in determining how vocal cord cells respond to mechanical forces, which is the first step in engineering functional vocal cord tissue. Duncan is actively involved in Jia's career development as her senior mentor at UD. Rodney Clifton, professor of ...Discovery in plant virus may help prevent HIV and similar viruses
...nvolved in the transcription process, his research team wants to learn more about genes' possible roles in plant growth and development and where those tasks are performed. "The two genes each may have specialized functions depending on where they are activated in the plant," he said. "In some tissues t...Fish eyes could hold clue to repairing damaged retinas in humans
...ring vision even after extensive damage. Now, a UK team of scientists believe they may be able to use thes...l Research Council and the Helen Hamlyn Trust, the team showed that a population of these cells have stem cell properties and are able to develop into a ran...MGH researchers confirm that bone marrow restores fertility in female mice
...ytes. To address that conjecture, the MGH-Vincent team isolated immune cells from normal mice, from the germline-only GFP strain used in their experiments, and from a strain of mice expressing GFP in all cells. Careful analysis confirmed that no immune cells from the germline-only GFP strain contained t...Huntington's disease study shows animal models on target
...ease is available in French . An international team of researchers has published a benchmark study showing that gene expression in several animal models of Huntingtons Disease (HD) closely resembles that of human HD patients. The results, published August 1, 2007, in the journal Human Molecular Gen...Chickens dieting to help Delaware waterways
...e of Agriculture and Natural Resources, have led a team of experts in analyzing the nutritional requiremen...ure Agriculture and Food Systems. The scientific team included poultry nutritionists Roselina Angel from the University of Maryland and Todd Applegate fro...Stem cell therapy rescues motor neurons in ALS model
...that have proved intractable to modern medicine, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Mad... they "just sit and release GDNF." The Wisconsin team transplanted the cells on one side of the spinal cord and used the untreated side to compare the aff...In the Aug. 1 issue of G&D, a team of Japanese scientists led by Dr. Shigeyuki Yokoyama (RIKEN and the University of Tokyo), presents heretofore the most relevant experimental system of microRNA-mediated translational repression. Our cell-free system provides breakthrough in elucida...New aerogels could clean contaminated water, purify hydrogen for fuel cells
...mmon catalyst poison, he explained. The research team had not intended to create the aerogels, but their discovery proved fortunate, said Kanatzidis. Originally, the researchers had used surfactants to produce porous semiconducting powders instead of gels. When one of the researchers ran the synthesis r......ical centers in the United States and England. The team analyzed genomic information from 12,360 people an...common genetic variations between individuals. The team looked for variations that were more commonly inherited by people with MS compared to samples from p...