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Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking

Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking

Chemistry / Polymers

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Theresa M. Reineke, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science, and colleagues in her lab at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel ...


Fluidigm Chip

Prostate Cancer Treated Using Microfluidics Technology

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing rare tumor cells in patient's blood, using a special microchip, doctors would be able to predict how a patient will respond to drug treatment. By using microfluidics technology ...


DNA test could be key to targeting treatments for head and neck cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It is estimated that more than 7,000 people are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year in the UK and approximately 3,500 cases result in death. These cancers include tumours of the mouth, lips, throat and voice-box, ...


Scientists Use Inkjet Printer to Manipulate Genes in New Ways

Scientists Use Inkjet Printer to Manipulate Genes in New Ways

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With recent advances in biochemistry, researchers can control the circuitry in a developing cell, thereby influencing cells to develop into specific phenotypes. Taking a step forward in this ...


Social isolation worsens cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using mice as a model to study human breast cancer, researchers have demonstrated that a negative social environment (in this case, isolation) causes increased tumor growth. The work shows -- for the first time -- that social ...


Telltale moss: Mother Nature gives clues for improving stem cell techniques

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hikers know that moss on a tree trunk always points north. According to new research by Israeli and German scientists, this ancient plant may also provide a new "compass" for stem cell research, telling scientists how better ...


Cells in developing tissue consider their history of signaling exposure to determine location

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have proposed a novel model that differs from a widely held hypothesis about the mechanisms by which developing animals pattern their tissues and structures.


Memories of the way they used to be

Memories of the way they used to be

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla have developed a safe strategy for reprogramming cells to a pluripotent ...


Figuring out the heads or tails decision in regeneration

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Amputations trigger a molecular response that determines if a head or tail will be regrown in planaria, a flatworm commonly studied for its regenerative capabilities. Until now, no molecular connection between wounding and ...


Lipid involved with gene regulation uncovered

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new role for the bioactive lipid messenger, sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P, that is abundant in our blood - a finding that ...


Plants on Steroids: Key Missing Link Discovered

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology have discovered a key missing link in the so-called signaling pathway for plant steroid hormones (brassinosteroids). Many important signaling ...


Lipid involved with gene regulation uncovered

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new role for the bioactive lipid messenger, sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P, that is abundant in our blood - a finding that could lead to a ...


Believing is seeing

Believing is seeing, when it comes to emotions

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Folk wisdom usually has it that "seeing is believing," but new research suggests that "believing is seeing," too - at least when it comes to perceiving other people's emotions.


The anti-diabetic effects of sodium tungstate revealed

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The molecular mechanisms of tungstate activity in diabetes have been uncovered. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have identified the pathways through which sodium tungstate improves pancreatic functi ...


Gene assay to help to predict lung cancer treatment resistance

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The genes that may contribute to drug resistance in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can be predicted. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer found good correlation between genes believed to be involv ...