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Nanodoodling shows pipette power
12.9.2006 | Press monitoring
It is highly accurate, but there is something unusual about this image of the Cambridge University crest.
Study Shows How Cancer Drug Aids Anti-cancer Virus
11.9.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers here have discovered how a specific chemotherapy drug helps a cancer-killing virus. The virus is being tested in animals for the treatment of incurable human brain tumors.
Gene therapy beats skin cancer in two men: study
10.9.2006 | Press monitoring
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Genetically altered immune cells wiped out tumors in two men with a deadly form of skin cancer and kept the patients disease-free for at least 18 months, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.
Sugar Metabolism Tracked In Living Plant Tissues, In Real Time
9.9.2006 | Press monitoring
Scientists at Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology have made the first real-time observations of sugars in the cells of intact and living plant tissues. With the help of groundbreaking imaging techniques, the group has determined that plants maintain extremely low levels of sugar in their roots—as much as 100,000 times lower than previous...
Ocean plankton absorb less CO2
9.9.2006 | Press monitoring
The amount of carbon absorbed by plant plankton in large segments of the Pacific Ocean is much less than previously estimated, researchers say.
Solution To Bacterial Mystery Promises New Drugs
8.9.2006 | Press monitoring
A 25-year quest to identify the first biochemical step that many disease-causing bacteria use to build their membranes has led to a discovery that holds promise for effective, new antibiotics against these bacteria, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The finding is significant because the biochemical step the...
Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human
8.9.2006 | Press monitoring
From mice to monkeys to chimps to people, a brain-protein gene pumps up.
Enzyme cuts out acrylamide
8.9.2006 | Press monitoring
Unapproved food additive could make baked goods safer.
Mass. governor says stem-cell research
7.9.2006 | Press monitoring
BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a 2008 Republican presidential hopeful, said on Thursday his administration's new restrictions on stem cell research are aimed at heading off an "Orwellian" future.
New Microchip Test Offers Quick Diagnosis Of Flu Strains
7.9.2006 | Press monitoring
Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a microchip-based test that may allow more labs to diagnose influenza infections and learn more about the viruses causing illness. The FluChip successfully distinguished among 72 influenza strains--including the H5N1 avian...
