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Bone Growth Accelerated With Nanotubes And Stem Cells
2.2.2009 | Press monitoring
Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have come up with a way to help accelerate bone growth through the use of nanotubes and stem cells. This new finding could lead to quicker and better recovery, for example, for patients who undergo orthopedic surgery.
Biomass could light up the future
1.2.2009 | Press monitoring
AllGreen Energy, a Bangalore-based renewable energy company, will launch 10 biomass-based energy projects in the next two to three years. The first three will be launched by March 2010 in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh. Each plant is expected to produce 6.5 MW, and the total output in two to three years will be 65 MW. Biomass...
Scientists identify key component in cell replication
31.1.2009 | Press monitoring
Last week, a presidential limousine shuttled Barack Obama to the most important job in his life. Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have now identified a protein that does much the same for the telomerase enzyme — ferrying the critically important clump of proteins around to repair the ends of chromosomes that are lost during...
New Method Prevents MicroRNAs From Escaping Cells
30.1.2009 | Press monitoring
MicroRNAs — one of the tiniest entities in the human genome — are great escape artists. Despite scientists’ best efforts to detect and capture them in different tissues, they often manage to make a getaway, sneaking through the tissues’ tiny holes before anyone can detect them. But now, by adapting a time-tested histological technique, Rockefeller...
Nicotine receptors found for the first time in the mouth raise new hopes for anti-smoking therapies
29.1.2009 | Press monitoring
A research team in Portugal and the US has found for the first time nicotine receptors in the taste buds. In fact, although most of the toxicity of smoking is linked to other components, it is nicotine that leads to smoking addiction and until now it was believed that this substance had to migrate into the brain to bind its specific receptors and...
Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth Identified
28.1.2009 | Press monitoring
Through work originally designed to remove contaminants from soil, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their Belgium colleagues at Hasselt University have identified plant-associated microbes that can improve plant growth on marginal land.
Rewrite the textbooks: Transcription is bidirectional
27.1.2009 | Press monitoring
A genome-wide study of transcription in yeast redefines the concept of promoters
Detecting cancer in living cells
26.1.2009 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have succeeded in constructing a new type of sensor that can placed in both healthy and malignant cells to detect a range of molecules known to cause damage to DNA. The sensors are constructed from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) wrapped in DNA and can detect chemotherapeutic drugs such as...
Microbot Motors Fit To Swim Human Arteries
25.1.2009 | Press monitoring
A range of complex surgical operations necessary to treat stroke victims, confront hardened arteries or address blockages in the bloodstream are about to be made safer as researchers from the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory at Australia’s Monash University put the final touches to the design of micro-motors small enough to be injected into...
Cancer-causing gene discovery suggests new therapies
24.1.2009 | Press monitoring
Scientists have discovered a novel way by which a much-studied cancer-promoting gene accelerates the disease. The finding suggests a new strategy to halt cancer's progress.
