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From Stem Cells To New Organs: Scientists Cross Threshold In Regenerative Medicine
4.3.2009 | Press monitoring
By now, most people have read stories about how to "grow your own organs" using stem cells is just a breakthrough away. Despite the hype, this breakthrough has been elusive.
Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production
3.3.2009 | Press monitoring
Waste sugar xylose fermented to ethanol through introduction of a single step.
Scientists Identify Human Monoclonal Antibodies Effective Against Bird and Seasonal Flu Viruses
2.3.2009 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Dana-Farber), Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported the identification of human monoclonal antibodies (mAb) that neutralize an unprecedented range of influenza A viruses, including avian influenza A (H5N1) virus,...
Tiny tool to control growing blood vessels opens new potential in tumor research
1.3.2009 | Press monitoring
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new tool that makes it possible to study the signals in the body that control the generation of blood vessels. The researchers' findings, published in the new issue of Lab on a Chip, enable scientists to determine what signals in the body attract or repel blood vessels, knowledge that is extremely...
Will large amounts of soil carbon be released to the atmosphere if grasslands are converted to energy crops?
28.2.2009 | Press monitoring
Grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the United States may be increasingly converted to growing bioenergy grain crops. Questions abound regarding the fate of carbon sequestered in the soil during the CRP program by perennial grasses if the land is converted to grain crop production and the potential effectiveness of no-till...
Gene to reduce wheat yield losses
27.2.2009 | Press monitoring
A new gene that provides resistance to a fungal disease responsible for millions of hectares of lost wheat yield has been discovered by scientists from the US and Israel.
An inexhaustible Source of neural Cells
26.2.2009 | Press monitoring
Researchers in Bonn demonstrate that embryonic stem cells may be derived from brain stem cells.Research scientists in Bonn have succeeded in deriving so-called brain stem cells from human embryonic stem cells.
Innovative Method To Starve Tumors
25.2.2009 | Press monitoring
The development of cancerous tumours is highly dependent on the nutrients the tumours receive through the blood. The team of Dr. Janusz Rak, of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) at the Montreal Children's Hospital, including Dr. Khalid Al-Nedawi and Brian Meehan, has just discovered a new mechanism that tumours...
Roles of DNA Packaging Protein Revealed By Einstein Scientists
24.2.2009 | Press monitoring
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that a class of chromatin proteins is crucial for maintaining the structure and function of chromosomes and the normal development of eukaryotic organisms. The research, reported in today's print issue of Genes and Development, also found that this protein class,...
Researchers Isolate Protein Domain Linked to Tumor Progression
23.2.2009 | Press monitoring
When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the trials. The drug inhibited a family of enzymes known as matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Now, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have shown that creating drugs that inactivate a different...
