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Natural chemical 'beats morphine'
24.11.2006 | Press monitoring
The human body produces a natural painkiller several times more potent than morphine, research suggests.
Novel Drug-antidote Combination Shown Safe In Humans
23.11.2006 | Press monitoring
A new combination of a potent anticoagulant and an antidote that stops its action, has proved to be safe in its first clinical trial in humans, according to the team conducting the trial.
Investors Back Experimental Ethanol Plant
23.11.2006 | Press monitoring
The Mascoma Corporation, which is trying to produce ethanol from nontraditional sources, plans to announce today that it has received $30 million in financing from a group of prominent venture capital investors.
UK Research Team Announces Bio-Nano Breakthrough
22.11.2006 | Press monitoring
Dr. Keith Firman of the University of Portsmouth, UK, tells NWN More About the Revolutionary Electronic DNA Switch.
Bird Flu Finding a way to Evolve?
21.11.2006 | Press monitoring
The H5N1 virus, better known as bird flu, may have a way of becoming more dangerous to people. Researchers have identified two mutations in a surface protein of the virus that enable it to bind more easily to human cells. Watching for these mutations in viruses isolated from people could provide early warning of the emergence of a virus with...
Researchers discover way to see how a drug attaches to a cell
20.11.2006 | Press monitoring
Sandia National Laboratories researchers John Shelnutt and Yujiang Song have discovered a better way to see where a drug attaches to a cell through a new process that produces novel hollow platinum nanostructures.
Medical Micropump: Device May Aid Development Of 'Lab On A Chip'
19.11.2006 | Press monitoring
Using material similar to bathtub caulk, University of Utah engineers invented a tiny, inexpensive "micropump" that could be used to move chemicals, blood or other samples through a card-sized medical laboratory known as a lab-on-a-chip.
What does the public really know about HPV?
18.11.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers gauge women's understanding of the link to cancer and response to the new vaccine
Scientists find new way to manipulate DNA
17.11.2006 | Press monitoring
Polymers, large molecules comprised of chains of repeating structures, are used in everything from the coatings on walls of ships and pipes to reduce flow drag to gene therapy.
Scientists Convert Modern Enzyme into its Hypothesized Ancestor
16.11.2006 | Press monitoring
Single amino acid substitution supports theory of common origin some 2.5 billion years ago.
