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Progress Toward Artificial Tissue
18.5.2009 | Press monitoring
For modern implants and the growth of artificial tissue and organs, it is important to generate materials with characteristics that closely emulate nature. However, the tissue in our bodies has a combination of traits that are very hard to recreate in synthetic materials: It is both soft and very tough.
Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria
17.5.2009 | Press monitoring
An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy. The team's results one day could be used to build artificial photosynthetic systems, such as those that convert solar energy to electrical energy. A research paper about the discovery...
Meet DNA's personal assistants
16.5.2009 | Press monitoring
Just as scientists finished sequencing the human genome, they got a new surprise. Inside the genetic pathway, where DNA produces proteins to sustain life, they found microRNA. These tiny ubiquitous molecules have opened a new research channel in biology, allowing scientists to more closely examine what causes genetic diseases, and what makes our...
Advance Toward Producing Biofuels Without Stressing Global Food Supply
15.5.2009 | Press monitoring
Scientists in California are reporting use of a first-of-its-kind approach to craft genetically engineered microbes with the much-sought ability to transform switchgrass, corn cobs, and other organic materials into methyl halides — the raw material for making gasoline and a host of other commercially important products. The new bioprocess could...
Random Picks Better Than Complicated Process In Gene Identification
13.5.2009 | Press monitoring
Researchers at Purdue University have found a way to save time, money and a little frustration in searches for specific genes that shed light on the biological processes associated with all forms of life.
New genes implicated in high blood pressure
12.5.2009 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, along with an international team of collaborators, have identified common genetic changes associated with blood pressure and hypertension. The study, reporting online next week in Nature Genetics, breaks new ground in understanding blood pressure regulation and may lead to advances in...
Way To Cut Cattle Methane, Threat To Environment, By 25 Percent
11.5.2009 | Press monitoring
Beef farmers can breathe easier thanks to University of Alberta researchers who have developed a formula to reduce methane gas in cattle.
New drug achieves pancreatic cancer tumor remission and prevents recurrence
10.5.2009 | Press monitoring
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers, but researchers may have found a combination therapy to reduce cancer stem cells and stop pancreatic cancer growth. Results will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting 2009.
Simulated Gene Therapy
9.5.2009 | Press monitoring
New study describes first large-scale computer simulation of gene therapy.
Moving gene therapy forward with mobile DNA
7.5.2009 | Press monitoring
VIB researchers connected to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in collaboration with colleagues at the Max Delbruck Center in Berlin have developed a new non-viral gene technology approach.
