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Scientists Develop Artificial Blood
16.5.2007 | Press monitoring
Scientists from the University of Sheffield are developing an artificial 'plastic blood´, which could act as a substitute for real blood in emergency situations. The 'plastic blood´ could have a huge impact on military applications.
AIDS: 'Natural killer' clue to virus vulnerability
15.5.2007 | Press monitoring
Individuals with key variants in an important immune cell and a molecule that controls it show a slower progression to AIDS after they are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a study released on Sunday says.
New Petroleum-degrading Bacteria Found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
15.5.2007 | Press monitoring
Environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered that the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, Calif., house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing the bacteria to survive and grow in heavy oil and natural asphalt.
Cancer therapy cuts side effects
14.5.2007 | Press monitoring
Scientists say they have developed a way to deliver lethal drug doses to tumours without causing side-effects, such as nausea and hair loss.
How An Antibiotic Inhibits Bacterial Growth
14.5.2007 | Press monitoring
Scientists have known that the drug linezolid -- the first new antibiotic to enter the marketplace in 30 years -- works by binding to ribosomes, the protein production factory of the cell. But exactly where the binding occurred and how the drug worked was not known. Until now.
The awesome opossum gets sequenced
13.5.2007 | Press monitoring
Monodelphis domestica bags the first marsupial genome.
FDA approves new Parkinson's treatment
11.5.2007 | Press monitoring
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced approval of Neupro -- a skin patch designed to treat symptoms of early Parkinson's disease.
Breast cancer in a test tube
10.5.2007 | Press monitoring
UK researchers have developed a three-dimensional model of human breast cancer in the laboratory.
UN warns on impacts of biofuels
10.5.2007 | Press monitoring
A UN report warns that a hasty switch to biofuels could have major impacts on livelihoods and the environment.
Time for a snifter: Beer yeast has a nose for explosives
9.5.2007 | Press monitoring
Biotechnologists have engineered brewer's yeast so that it glows green in response to an ingredient found in land mines, according to a study published online on Monday.
