- Sweet as can be: how E. coli gets ahead
Scientists at the University of York have discovered how certain bacteria such as Escherichia coli have evolved to capture rare sugars from their environment giving them an evolutionary advantage in naturally competitive...
(Issue date: 16 November 2009)
- Nanoparticles may cause DNA damage across a cellular barrier
Scientists have shown in the laboratory that metal nanoparticles damaged the DNA in cells on the other side of a cellular barrier. The nanoparticles did not cause the damage by passing through the barrier, but generated...
(Issue date: 08 November 2009)
- CU-Boulder Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences
A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the body and which aid us in...
(Issue date: 08 November 2009)
- Trinity Researchers Discover New Way to Kill Leukaemia Cells
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have identified a new way of killing leukaemia cells, including those resistant to current therapies. The researchers describe how a new drug, pyrrolo-1,5-benzoxazepine-15 (PBOX-15), is...
(Issue date: 08 November 2009)
- DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology. Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have now demonstrated that plasmid-based methods,...
(Issue date: 08 November 2009)
- Genome Sequence for the Domestic Horse to Be Unveiled
The whole genome sequence of the domestic horse has been completed by the genome-sequencing centre of The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with an international team of researchers that includes scientists at...
(Issue date: 08 November 2009)
- New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response to HIV and Prostate Cancer
Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body’s immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their findings could lead to novel therapeutic...
(Issue date: 08 November 2009)
- Roche adopts Fluofarma’s high-content screening platform
Fluofarma, a leading company in High Content Screening (HCS) technologies, which offers services and counselling to the Pharmaceutical industry, announced that it entered into a multi-year agreement with Roche.
The...
(Issue date: 08 November 2009)
- Caltech Researchers Show Efficacy of Gene Therapy in Mouse Models of Huntington's Disease
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington's...
(Issue date: 03 November 2009)
- Researchers identify promising therapeutic target for central nervous system injuries
Scars can serve as double-edged swords in spinal cord injuries--saving a victim's life, but sealing his or her fate as a paraplegic or quadriplegic. The scar forms a wall around the wound, preventing the injury from spreading,...
(Issue date: 03 November 2009)
- USU Scientists Report Major Advance in Human Antibody Therapy Against Deadly Nipah Virus
A collaborative research team from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Australian Animal Health Laboratory and National Cancer Institute, a component of the National Institutes of Health, reports a...
(Issue date: 03 November 2009)
- Bacteria "launch a shield" to resist attack
Bacteria that cause chronic lung infections can communicate with each other to form a deadly shield against the body’s natural defences. Studying these interactions could lead to new ways of treating bacteria that are resistant...
(Issue date: 03 November 2009)
- Study uncovers key to how ‘triggering event’ in cancer occurs
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop. The study found that pieces of...
(Issue date: 03 November 2009)
- Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time
A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in colour, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows researchers to identify previously...
(Issue date: 25 October 2009)
- Study paves way for liver cell library
The University research could revolutionise the development of drugs to treat diseases and pave the way for the creation of a library of liver cells. These cells could be used to assess the reaction of drugs for different...
(Issue date: 25 October 2009)
- Messenger RNA with FLASH
A study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a key player in a molecular process essential for DNA replication within cells. The new findings highlight a protein called FLASH, already shown to play...
(Issue date: 25 October 2009)
- UNMC research team makes major breakthrough in stem cell research
A University of Nebraska Medical Center research team led by Iqbal Ahmad, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has reprogrammed regular body cells to resemble embryonic stem cells without the use of potentially...
(Issue date: 25 October 2009)
- Immune System Quirk Could Lead to Effective Tularemia Vaccine
Immunologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have found a unique quirk in the way the immune system fends off bacteria called Francisella tularensis, which could...
(Issue date: 25 October 2009)
- Fish Vision Discovery Makes Waves in Natural Selection
Emory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an animal deleting a...
(Issue date: 19 October 2009)
- Cell death occurs in the same way in plants, animals and humans
Research has previously assumed that animals and plants developed different genetic programs for cell death. Now an international constellation of researchers, including research teams from the Swedish University of Agricultural...
(Issue date: 19 October 2009)
