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New research explains how DNA strands repair themselves

Researchers have discovered the details of how cells repair breaks in both strands of their DNA, a potentially devastating kind of DNA damage.

12 Sep 2013

Scientists discover that copper alloys shut down highly infectious norovirus

Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered that copper and copper alloys rapidly destroy norovirus - the highly-infectious sickness bug.

12 Sep 2013

Antioxidant substances in red wine, dark chocolate, olive oil linked with health benefits

The scientific spotlight focuses today on the healthful antioxidant substances in red wine, dark chocolate, olive oil, coffee, tea, and other foods and dietary supplements that are enticing millions of consumers with the promise of a healthier, longer life.

12 Sep 2013

Researchers develop innovative system to test how virus interacts with cells in body

Researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center have developed an innovative system to test how a virus interacts with cells in the body — to see, for example, what happens in lung cells when a deadly respiratory virus attacks them.

12 Sep 2013

Levels of certain fats in cerebral spinal fluid can predict patients with HIV, say scientists

Johns Hopkins scientists have found that levels of certain fats found in cerebral spinal fluid can predict which patients with HIV are more likely to become intellectually impaired.

12 Sep 2013

Psychiatrist documents how schizophrenia impacts brain tissue

It's hard to fully understand a mental disease like schizophrenia without peering into the human brain. Now, a study by University of Iowa psychiatry professor Nancy Andreasen uses brain scans to document how schizophrenia impacts brain tissue as well as the effects of anti-psychotic drugs on those who have relapses.

12 Sep 2013

Avon Foundation for Women supports innovative research on aggressive breast cancer

The Avon Foundation for Women has awarded a $300,000 grant to Dolores Di Vizio, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a member of the Cancer Biology and Urologic Oncology Research Programs at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute to advance scientific research in aggressive breast cancer.

12 Sep 2013

North Carolina professor receives 2013 New Scholar in Aging Award from Ellison Medical Foundation

Li Qian, PhD, an assistant professor in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, has received a 2013 New Scholar in Aging Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation.

12 Sep 2013

Study suggests new path to make protective malaria vaccine

This study suggests that genetically engineered malaria parasites that are stunted through precise gene deletions (genetically attenuated parasites, or "GAP") could be used as a vaccine that protects against malaria infection. This means that the harmless (attenuated) version of the parasite would interact with the body in the same way as the infective version, but without possibility of causing disease.

11 Sep 2013

Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells may have targeting capacity for glioma

Glioblastoma is the most common ma-lignant primary brain tumor in adults. The aggressive growth manner, characterized by marked angiogenesis and extensive tumor cell invasion into normal brain parenchyma with frequent formation of tumor microsatellites at distal sites, makes eradication impossible even after extensive microsurgical resection combined with current standard chemoradiation and adjuvant temozolomide.

11 Sep 2013

Better ways to combat mosquitoes

In an advance toward providing mosquito-plagued people, pets and livestock with an invisibility cloak against these blood-sucking insects, scientists today described discovery of substances that occur naturally on human skin and block mosquitoes’ ability to smell and target their victims.

11 Sep 2013

New advances toward making molecular prosthetics a reality

The vision for a new branch of medicine, inspired by the ancient field that began with peg legs and hand hooks, commanded the spotlight in a major address by its pioneer here today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.

11 Sep 2013

Tri-linear interpolation algorithm can achieve cerebral white matter fiber reliable tracking

At present, fiber tracking algorithms are divided into deterministic tractography and probabilistic tractography. In deterministic algorithms, scholars proposed the fiber assignment by continuous tracking algorithm, the tensor deflection algorithm, the tensorline algorithm.

11 Sep 2013

Scientists use nanodiamonds to boost delivery of drug to leukemic cells

By binding multiple molecules of a common leukemia drug with nanodiamonds, scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to boost the delivery of the drug to leukemic cells and retain the drug within the cells to combat the cancer.

11 Sep 2013

Race and ethnicity, education and economics are linked to how well American families fare

After a period of relative calm during the 1990s, rapid changes in American families began anew during the 2000s, a new analysis suggests.

11 Sep 2013

Neuroscientist explores latest research into night-time brain to understand real benefits of sleep

The role of sleep in processing our waking life and making sense of difficult emotions and experiences has been little understood and disputed amongst scientists for many years.

From The University of Manchester 11 Sep 2013

Expression of stress protein induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury, say researchers

Spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion injury is a stress injury to the spinal cord. Therefore, research on the expression of stress-related protein in neurons could be of great significance for the pathological mechanism and control measures for spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion injury.

11 Sep 2013

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New research explains how DNA strands repair themselves

Scientists discover that copper alloys shut down highly infectious norovirus

Antioxidant substances in red wine, dark chocolate, olive oil linked with health benefits

Researchers develop innovative system to test how virus interacts with cells in body

Levels of certain fats in cerebral spinal fluid can predict patients with HIV, say scientists

Psychiatrist documents how schizophrenia impacts brain tissue

Avon Foundation for Women supports innovative research on aggressive breast cancer

North Carolina professor receives 2013 New Scholar in Aging Award from Ellison Medical Foundation

Study suggests new path to make protective malaria vaccine

Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells may have targeting capacity for glioma

Better ways to combat mosquitoes

New advances toward making molecular prosthetics a reality

Tri-linear interpolation algorithm can achieve cerebral white matter fiber reliable tracking

Scientists use nanodiamonds to boost delivery of drug to leukemic cells

Race and ethnicity, education and economics are linked to how well American families fare

Neuroscientist explores latest research into night-time brain to understand real benefits of sleep

Expression of stress protein induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury, say researchers

Older people retain ability to judge others' emotions using acquired knowledge, but not sensory cues

Szechuan pepper found to mimic sense of touch in brain

Accuracy of diagnoses does not differ between simple and complex multitasking conditions

How does norepinephrine influence anxiety-related behaviours?

Transforming Lab Workflows with Cell Culture Automation

Building Bridges to Scalable Allogeneic Cell Therapy

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