A powerful new tool for decoding gene functions in mammals and Man
... application in mouse genetics was limited as they travel at low frequencies to limited locations, and had little capacity to carry DNA fragments.It tookXu's team six years to develop an efficient tool for genetic manipulations in vertebrates and mammals. Xu and his colleagues at Fudan University in Shangh...Scientists find cell surface enzyme matriptase causes cancer
... a strong and versatile pro-growth signal that can travel along more than one route to the cell nucleus," said Dr. Karin List, the other lead author and an NIDCR scientist. "But the key point is, like a classic oncogene, matriptase initiates the erroneous growth signal. As further confirmation of this, w...Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores
... 3,000 species of marine organisms are believed to travel the world in ships' ballast water each day. Ships take in water for stability before a voyage and despite preventative measures such as mid-ocean exchange/flushing this 'foreign' water and its contents can find their way into bays and harbours at the...Long sought-after flowering signal found
...oncluded that a signal that induces flowering must travel from the leaves to the site where flowers are initiated. Despite these early findings, little progress has been made in pinpointing the hypothetical flower-inducing substance, dubbed florigen. These difficulties have led many scientists to believe th...New imaging technology shown to detect pancreatic inflammation in type 1 diabetes
...se MNPs, which are minute particles of iron oxide, travel through the blood vessels of the body including the pancreas. If pancreatic vessels have become leaky from inflammation, the magnetic particles spill into nearby tissues, where they are "eaten" by scavenger cells called macrophages. Thus, the MNPs be...Institute of Medicine news: Quarantine stations at ports of entry
...by the rapidly increasing pace of global trade and travel and the emergence of new microbial threats. Conse... abroad." Every year, roughly 120 million people travel into or out of the country through the nation's 474 airports, seaports, and land-border crossings. ...CryoSat arrives safely at launch site in Russia
...hangel in Russia. The spacecraft, however, did not travel alone it was accompanied by a whole host of vital...o wasn't at risk of being damaged the train had to travel extremely slowly. It therefore took most of the night to cover the 200 km journey southward to CryoS...Adult stem cells from adipose tissue could save lives
... attending and covering the conference can receive travel and lodging information by calling the Public Relations office at the University of Virginia Health System at 434-924-5679. Interviews with scientists also can be arranged....Researchers discover why melanoma is so malignant
...reawaken a dormant cellular process that lets them travel swiftly throughout the body. Central to this re... demonstrates the latent ability of melanocytes to travel Finally, the research team found that when Slug was knocked out in melanoma cells, the cancer was un...UQ researcher awarded top international honour
...ume positions of influence. Professor Little will travel to Philadelphia in March next year to participate in the Fellowship Program....Markers of brain cell development may help success of stem cell transplants
...ction to meet the immediate biological needs. They travel a sort of neuron interstate laid out by the first ...a, spinal cord injury and stroke can destroy these travel networks as well as brain cells. Labs such as Dr. Yu's are doing stem cell transplants to re-establi...When cave crickets go out for dinner, they really go, researchers say
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Cave crickets travel farther from their homes to forage -- by about double -- than their previously reported range, researchers have discovered. In Texas, that means protective buffer areas around caves may need to be extended to protect endangered invertebrate species t...Scavenger cells could be key to treating HIV-related dementia
...HIV-infected macrophages in the brain continuously travel to the temporal lobe, a part of the brain Alzheimer's disease often damages. Because the virus mutates nearly 100 times faster in the temporal lobe than other parts of the brain, attacking macrophages migrate there in a constant stream, causing harmf...Researchers: Deep sleep short-circuits brain's grid of connectivity
...same response was quickly extinguished and did not travel beyond the stimulated cells. When consciousness fa... and doesn't propagate at all. Somehow, it doesn't travel anywhere." The experiments conducted by the Wisconsin team are the first of their kind. The results ...$16 million grant advances nanomedicine at Washington University
...ries with a simple injection. The tiny spheres can travel through the bloodstream deep into the body to locate and highlight tumors undetectable by typical methods. While at the tumor site, the nanoparticles can deliver therapeutic agents to destroy the tumor. To advance this promising technology, the Natio...North Shore-LIJ receives FDA approval for new drug application to manufacture PET scan drug
...maging studies and the farther the distance it can travel and still be active. North Shore-LIJ currently sells and distributes Fludeoxyglucose F 18 to numerous hospitals and PET facilities in the New York metropolitan area at about 40 percent of its capacity. The high strength permits distribution as far aw...Society of Nuclear Medicine/GE Healthcare offer new visiting physician/scientist program grant
...ntist Program Grant for China and India will cover travel and per diem costs. During a one- or two-week period, a visiting physician/scientist will spend time lecturing, training and consulting on nuclear medicine/molecular imaging. "With this grant program, SNM continues its strong commitment in the intern...UCSB researchers discover that the cell's endosomes use a surprising transportation system
...rkar and Anh Tuan Dinh learned that the endosomes travel to the cell's nucleus using back-and-forth symmetr...bules. While it has long been known that endosomes travel in a bidirectional way, it has not previously been established that the transport system is symmetri...Satellite technology allows scientists to track warm sharks in cold polar seas
...n in the North Pacific for the entire year, others travel thousands of miles south to the subtropical waters of the Hawaiian Islands. During these long migrations, they encounter water temperatures ranging from 36 to 75 F (2 to 24 C). While in the cold subarctic, the sharks ranged between near-surface water...Research advances understanding of how hydrogen fuel is made
...at lets them see how and where hydrogen and oxygen travel to reach and exit an enzyme's catalyst site -- the...hen to visualize and track how oxygen and hydrogen travel to the hydrogenase's catalytic site, where the gases bind, and what routes the molecules take as the...