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Are microbes the answer to the energy crisis?
9.6.2008 | Press monitoring
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by thinking small, microscopic in fact.
A New Approach to Treating Autoimmune Disease
8.6.2008 | Press monitoring
In autoimmune diseases, the immune system turns against the body’s own tissues and organs, wreaking havoc and destruction for no apparent reason.
GM food have considerable impact on human diet amidst global crisis
7.6.2008 | Press monitoring
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Food scarcities, given the global crisis, are enabling Genetically Modified (GM) food to make a considerable impact on the human diet. Trade restrictions by major exporters, like imposing bans and taxes as prices continue to soar, are also worsening the food crisis.
Potential treatments from cryptic genes
6.6.2008 | Press monitoring
Big pharma gave up on soil bacteria as a source of antibiotics too soon, according to research published in the June issue of Microbiology.
The good news in our DNA: Defects you can fix with vitamins and minerals
5.6.2008 | Press monitoring
As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" will be fear of what bad news lies in your genes.
Printed biochips
4.6.2008 | Press monitoring
Peptide arrays are powerful tools for developing new medical substances as well as for diagnosis and therapy techniques.
Enzyme Helps Males Make Up For Their X Chromosome Shortage
3.6.2008 | Press monitoring
Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, UK, have revealed new insights into how sex chromosomes are regulated. A chromatin modifying enzyme helps compensate for the fact that males have only one copy of the sex chromosome X,...
Exocyst Complex Founded by Czech Researchers
2.6.2008 | Press monitoring
Researchers at Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic have demonstrated the predicted presence of the protein complex called exocyst in plant cells. Their findings bring new possibilities in research of plant cells growth and morphogenesis. The study was published in journal Plant Cell.
Abnormalities In Gene For Melanoma Found
1.6.2008 | Press monitoring
New research from the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute about mutations in melanoma may bring a wellspring of hope to many patients.
Chemists create cancer-detecting nanoparticles
31.5.2008 | Press monitoring
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be a doctor's best friend for detecting a tumor in the body without resorting to surgery. MRI scans use pulses of magnetic waves and gauge the return signals to identify different types of tissue in the body, distinguishing bone from muscle, fluids from solids, and so on.
