Location: Marion Doucet or Nadine Peyrolo: @ pasteur.fr marion.doucet - 01 45 68 89 28, France
Through a study of human genetics in different populations around the world,
researchers at the Pasteur Institute and CNRS have discovered how pathogens may
vary over time the evolution of our immune system.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
A novel matrix of neural stem cells and a biodegradable polymer can quickly repair brain damage from stroke in rats. Within just seven days of injecting the concoction directly into the damaged part of the brain, new nerve tissue grew to fill...
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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: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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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: massachusetts, United States
Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, it has been created ultra thin films made of polymers that could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation....
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Location: Arizona State University, United States
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by
Arizona State
University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport
security checkpoints...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: University of California, Riverside, United States
A
University of California - Riverside -led study in the Mojave Desert,
Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
Researchers from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a key molecular mechanism
that may account for the development of cystic fibrosis, which about 1 in 3000...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
A study led by McGill
University researchers has demonstrated that small differences between
individuals at the
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the
University of Minnesota...
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Location: Children's Hospital Boston, United States
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new "nanobiotechnology" that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A group of Purdue University researchers
has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as
nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
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Location: Rice University, United States
What is the fundamental creative force behind life on Earth" It's a
question that has vexed mankind for millennia, and thanks to theory and almost a
year's worth of number-crunching on a supercomputer,
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Location: Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, United States
An immune
system messenger molecule that normally helps quiet inflammation
could be an effective tool...
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Location: Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Scientists at Newcastle University have
developed a cancer fighting technology which uses UV light to activate
antibodies which very...
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Location: Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, United States
It used to be dogma that the brain was shut away from the actions of the
immune system, shielded from the outside forces of nature. But that’s not how
it is at all. In fact, thanks to the scientific detective work of Kevin Tracey,
MD, it...
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Location: Duke University Medical Center, United States
A common human virus may prove useful in attacking the deadliest form of brain
tumors, according to study conducted by researchers at
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