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Bacterial battle for survival leads to new antibiotic
6.3.2008 | Press monitoring
MIT biologists have provoked soil-dwelling bacteria into producing a new type of antibiotic by pitting them against another strain of bacteria in a battle for survival.
Researchers collaborate to find new vaccine technology decreases E. coli in beef cattle
5.3.2008 | Press monitoring
K-State and West Texas A&M researchers collaborated on a study of the effects of a novel vaccine technology to make beef safer.
Yale scientists create artificial cells that boost the immune response to cancer
4.3.2008 | Press monitoring
Using artificial cell-like particles, Yale biomedical engineers have devised a rapid and efficient way to produce a 45-fold enhancement of T cell activation and expansion, an immune response important for a patient's ability to fight cancer and infectious diseases, according to an advance on line report in Molecular Therapy.
First System Of Human Nerve-cell Tissue Engineered
3.3.2008 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created the first three-dimensional neural network, a mini nervous system in culture, which can be transplanted en masse. The network of human nerve cells could be in future used for transplants to repair damaged nervous system.
Investigators Discover Gene Inversion Involved in Lymphoma
2.3.2008 | Press monitoring
Fox Chase Cancer Center investigators found that a gene crucial for embryonic development, Dxl5, can become a cancer promoter in adult mice. This occurs after a genetic misalignment which causes white blood cells to become cancerous spontaneously.
Arctic seed vault opens doors for 100 million seeds
1.3.2008 | Press monitoring
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries.
Scientists advance drought crop
29.2.2008 | Press monitoring
Scientists say they have made a key breakthrough in understanding the genes of plants that could lead to crops that can survive in a drought.
New Way To Store Information Via DNA Discovered
28.2.2008 | Press monitoring
Researchers at UC Riverside have found a way to get into your body and your bloodstream. No, they’re not spiritual gurus or B-movie mad scientists. Nathaniel G. Portney, Yonghui Wu, Stefano Lonardi, and Mihri Ozkan from UCR’s departments of Bioengineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Biochemistry, and Electrical Engineering, and the Center...
Compost can turn agricultural soils into a carbon sink, thus protecting against climate change
27.2.2008 | Press monitoring
Applying organic fertilizers, such as those resulting from composting, to agricultural land could increase the amount of carbon stored in these soils and contribute significantly to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research published in a special issue of Waste Management & Research (Special issue published today by...
A new theory of small intestinal bacteria overgrowth in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease?
26.2.2008 | Press monitoring
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth has been reported to play a role in the pathogenesis of NASH, endotoxin and TNF-alpha being the possible mediators. Contrary to this hypothesis, in another study, antibiotic treatment did not normalize aminotransferase levels in NASH patients. This article describes an animal experiment of NASH by Dr. Wan-Chun...
