Location: Cambridge, United States
Source: "The rational design of nitric oxide selectivity in
single-walled carbon nanotube near infrared fluorescence sensors for biological
detection"
Jong-Ho Kim et al
Nature Chemistry
Results: A...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Living cells are bombarded with messages from the outside world -- hormones
and other chemicals tell them to grow, migrate, die or do nothing. Inside the
cell, complex signaling networks interpret these cues and make life-and-death...
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Location: California , United States
Roughly the size of a matchstick, a slender titanium tube could become a
pint-sized weapon against chronic hepatitis C and a host of other debilitating
diseases.
Three UCSF/UC Berkeley doctoral students are designing a tiny implantable...
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Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Researchers in Heidelberg discover new protein that is suppressed in
particularly aggressive cancer cell.
If cancer cells lack a certain protein, it could be much easier for them to
penetrate healthy body tissue, the first step...
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Location: Ohio, United States
Researchers have developed a new way to perform chemical reactions involving only about 1,000 molecules. The method could prove useful in the rapid screening of chemical reactions when searching for new drugs and industrial materials.
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
McGill researchers discover a mutation that promotes the metabolism of fat instead of storing
According to researchers at McGill University, the recent discovery of a
previously unknown mutation in a common nematode, or round...
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: Michigan, United States
Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects and a...
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Location: Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, ,Kyoto UniversityJapan Tel: +81-75-753-7531, Japan
Many types of catechin in green tea called polyphenols that one group is
included. These types of catechin in green tea is very astringent component of
the antioxidant action of a lot of attention is being used in health foods.
Also,...
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Location: 925 Chestnut Street, Suite 110,Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
A novel angled gantry approach to
coronary CT
angiography reduced radiation exposure to the breast by more than 50%,
according to Thomas Jefferson University...
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Location: Paris, France
One of the first steps of memory transmission from one cell to its descendants, or how a cell transmits its functions and characters when it divides, has been described by Dr. Christian Bronner, researcher in-Institut Gilbert Laustriat...
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
A team of Canadian researchers has just completed a major step forward in the field of virotherapy oncolytique, to transform certain viruses destructive weapons of tumor cells.
As explained by John Hiscott of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill...
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Location: Michigan, United States
A gene that is overexpressed in 20 percent of breast cancers
increases the number of cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a tumor’s growth
and spread, according to a new study from the University of Michigan...
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Location: California, United States
Researcher: Timothy Deming & Thomas G. Mason
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Location: 445 N. Fifth Street,Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States
Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today
announced a new approach to treating endometrial cancer patients that not only
stops the growth of tumors, but kills the cancer cells.
In a potentially major...
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Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States
A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and
experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might
be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide
captured...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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