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Scientists find brain cells linked to choice
5.5.2006 | Press monitoring
LONDON (Reuters) - If choosing the right outfit or whether to invest in stocks or bonds is difficult, it may not be just indecisiveness but how brain cells assign values to different items, scientists said on Sunday.
Cloned dog celebrates first birthday in S.Korea
5.5.2006 | Press monitoring
SEOUL (Reuters) - The world's first and only cloned dog celebrated its first birthday on Monday, as the leader of the South Korean team that produced the Afghan hound faced a criminal investigation for possible fraud and ethics violations.
In Chemical Genetics, A New Strategy Could Speed Drug Discovery
5.5.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have developed a new technique to speed discovery of drug targets in chemical genetics. As highlighted on the April cover of Chemistry & Biology, Fox Chase researcher Jeffrey R. Peterson, Ph.D., and his colleagues describe a new way to swiftly find the proteins targeted by small molecule inhibitors during...
Use of Silver Nanoparticles Rapidly Expanding in the Consumer and Medical Markets, According to Bourne Research
5.5.2006 | Press monitoring
Silver nanoparticles are emerging as one of the fastest growing product categories in the Nanotechnology industry, according to Bourne Research (http://www.bourneresearch.com). The market research firm reports that the ability to produce particles of silver at the nanoscale is allowing companies to leverage its known antimicrobial properties in...
Lack of a Key Enzyme Dramatically Increases Resistance to Sepsis
4.5.2006 | Press monitoring
According to the new study, the presence of caspase-12, which appears to modulate inflammation and innate immunity in humans, increases the body's "vulnerability to bacterial infection and septic shock" while a deficiency confers strong resistance to sepsis.
Hormone Therapy May Prevent Heart Attacks For Women In Their 50s
4.5.2006 | Press monitoring
For the last few years, women have heard conflicting reports about the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A new study that analyzes many trials together concludes that HRT can reduce heart attacks by about one-third in women under age 60 but has mixed results for older women.
New Genetic Cause Of Alzheimer's Disease Discovered
4.5.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) connected to the University of Antwerp are the first to show that the quantity of amyloid protein in brain cells is a major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Amyloid protein has already been known to be the primary component of the senile plaques in the brains of...
The Future of Food and Medicine
4.5.2006 | Press monitoring
As a mother and a consumer, I want to know that the food I eat and prepare for my family is safe and nutritious. I also want to know that technological advances are occurring to keep the food safe and that those same technological advances include research to protect my family against disease and find cures for existing diseases.
How Biotech Crops are Evaluated for Environmental Safety in the United States
4.5.2006 | Press monitoring
First generation biotech crops (herbicide and insect resistant plants) have been in commercial use since 1995 in the United States. Farmers are adopting this technology readily because of two primary reasons: (1) it simplifies weed or insect management in their agricultural production systems, and (2) the economic benefits outweigh the costs....
Scientists develop technique to target brain tumour growth
4.5.2006 | Press monitoring
A team of researchers have developed a strategy in which genes linked to cancer mutations could easily be identified aiding predictions as to which patient will respond favourably to novel drug treatments.
