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| GenWay Biotech extends the You Test You program overseas Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(GenWay Biotech) GenWay's You Test You Cancer Assessment program will soon be offered in numerous countries worldwide. The first agreement has been executed for Greece and other European agreements are underway. |
| Tryptophan-enriched diet reduces pig aggression Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(United States Department of Agriculture-Research, Education, and Economics) Feeding the amino acid tryptophan to young female pigs as part of their regular diet makes them less aggressive and easier to manage, according to a study by Agricultural Research Service scientists and cooperators. |
| Females shut down male-male sperm competition in leafcutter ants Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Danish researchers who have studied ants at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama since 1992 discovered that in both ant and bee species in which queens have multiple mates, a male's seminal fluid favors the survival of its own sperm over the other males' sperm. However, once sperm has been stored, leafcutter ant queens neutralize male-male sperm competition with glandular secretions in their sperm-storage organ. |
| Robertson Foundation donates $10.2 million for Duke Cell Therapy Center Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Duke University Medical Center) A $10.2 million commitment from the Robertson Foundation to create a state-of-the-art Translational Cell Therapy Center will advance Duke Medicine's pioneering cell therapy research and treatment programs for children and adults with cancer, cerebral palsy, stroke and brain injuries suffered at birth. |
| Study details machinery of immune protection against inflammatory diseases like colitis Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists report a protein made by a gene already associated with a handful of human inflammatory immune diseases plays a pivotal role in protecting the intestinal tract from colitis. |
| WPI receives $1.2 million NIST award for pioneering study of wireless body area networks Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) The Center for Wireless Information Network Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute has received a three-year, $1.2 million award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to conduct a groundbreaking study of the propagation of radio waves around and through the human body. Led by Professor Kaveh Pahlavan, the research will help speed the development of and create standards for body area networks, which are expected to have variety of medical applications. |
| Engineers: Weak laser can ignite nanoparticles, with exciting possibilities Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Florida) University of Florida engineering researchers have found they can ignite certain nanoparticles using a low-power laser, a development they say opens the door to a wave of new technologies in health care, computing and automotive design. |
| Manufacturing antibodies Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(EUREKA) New antibodies and recombinant proteins with a key signaling role in immune response to disease have been produced through collaboration between molecular immunology institutes in the Czech Republic and Germany and a private company. The proteins have their own direct uses in immunization and are also the starting point for production of novel, highly specific antibodies with a wide range of biomedical applications. All of the new products are already being marketed commercially. |
| HSBC Climate Partnership yields initial research findings Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Rapid increases in tree growth in the US, slower tree growth in the tropics, new ideas about biodiversity, new methods for monitoring forest carbon stocks: Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Earthwatch met in Panama from Mar. 1-5 to present mid-term research results from the HSBC Climate Partnership. |
| Multifunctional polymer neutralizes both biological and chemical weapons Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) In an effort to mirror the ability of biological tissues to respond rapidly and appropriately to changing environments, scientists from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a joint effort of the University of Pittsburgh and its clinical partner UPMC, have synthesized a single, multifunctional polymer material that can decontaminate both biological and chemical toxins. They described the findings recently in Biomaterials. |
| Stem cells used to model infant birth defect Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Children's Hospital Boston) Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston recently discovered that infantile hemangiomas originate from stem cells, and have used these stem cells to better understand this tumor in the laboratory. In the March 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, they show that steroids target hemangioma stem cells specifically, reveal their mechanism of their action and suggest other possible ways to halt and shrink hemangiomas. |
| ESHRE Annual Meeting, June 27-30 in Rome Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) ESHRE's Annual Meeting is the forum where more than 8,000 of the worlds leading experts in reproductive medicine gather to give the first public presentation of their latest research findings. Issues that present policy-makers and ethicists with some of the most challenging problems and difficult decisions currently facing society, will be discussed. |
| What makes us unique? Not only our genes Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg and Yale and Stanford Universities have found that we differ from each other mainly because of differences not in our genes, but in how they're regulated -- turned on or off, for instance. |
| Giant sequoias yield longest fire history from tree rings Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Arizona) A 3,000-year record from 52 of the world's oldest trees shows that California's western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to new research. Scientists reconstructed the region's history of fire by dating fire scars on ancient giant sequoia trees, Sequoiadendron giganteum, in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park. Individual giant sequoias can live more than 3,000 years and are considered the world's largest trees by volume. |
| The Institute for Ocean Conservation Science applauds IUCN's reclassifcation of beluga sturgeon Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Stony Brook University) The International Union for the Conservation of Nature today formally announced the reclassification of beluga sturgeon in the Caspian Sea as "critically endangered" on its Red List, providing strong evidence that fishing and international trade should be halted and a stock-rebuilding plan should be initiated immediately. Beluga sturgeon populations have been decimated in part due to unrelenting exploitation for black caviar -- the sturgeon's unfertilized eggs -- considered the finest in the world. |
| Moffitt Cancer Center signs licensing agreement with Proteacel, LLC Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt Cancer Center and Proteacel LLC announced today that they have entered a licensing agreement under which Proteacel has acquired the exclusive rights to the PORE technology for delivery of genes into cells. |
| SU biologists' work with 'glow-in-the-dark' sperm sheds light on sexual selection Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Syracuse University) By genetically altering fruit flies so that the heads of their sperm were fluorescent green or red, Belote and his colleagues were able to observe in striking detail what happens to live sperm inside the female. The findings may have huge implications for the fields of reproductive biology, sexual selection and speciation. |
| Bacteria divide like clockwork Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A team of researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego has shown how cell division in a type of bacteria known as cyanobacteria is controlled by the same kind of circadian rhythms that govern human sleep patterns. Previous studies have shown that even though cyanobacteria do not "sleep" in the same way that humans do, they cycle through active and resting periods on a 24-hour schedule. Cyanobacteria depend on sunlight for photosynthesis, so they are most active during the day. |
| Learning deficits in adolescence linked to novel brain receptor Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(SUNY Downstate Medical Center) Recent work published in the journal Science by Sheryl Smith, Ph.D., professor of physiology and pharmacology, and colleagues at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn shows that a novel brain receptor, alpha4-beta-delta, emerges at puberty in the hippocampus, part of the brain that controls learning and memory. |
| China and India: Neighbors need to collaborate for sake of global environment Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Michigan State University) With large and growing economies and populations, China and India will strongly influence the quality of the global environment for years to come. While their political relationship is strained, it's critical the two countries work together to slow global warming, deforestation, water shortages and other environmental issues, says a Michigan State University scientist and colleagues. |
| Stress during pregnancy may increase offspring's risk of asthma Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(American Thoracic Society) Stress during pregnancy may raise the risk of asthma in offspring, according to researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The researchers investigated differences in immune function markers in cord blood between infants born to mothers in high stress environments and those born to mothers with lower stress and found marked differences in patterns that may be associated with asthma risk later in life. |
| Physics press conferences at next week's American Physical Society March Meeting Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(American Institute of Physics) The following press conferences will take place during the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), to be held March 15-19, 2010 in the Portland Convention Center. |
| DOE Joint Genome Institute 5th Annual Meeting on March 24-26, 2010 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(DOE/Joint Genome Institute) Researchers from all over the world will be at the Marriott in Walnut Creek for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute 5th Annual Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting, which will feature genomics research in the fields of clean energy generation and the environment. |
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