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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | yesterday
( University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences ) Using zebrafish, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified and described in Nature Chemical Biology an enzyme inhibitor that increases the number of cardiac progenitor cells and influences the size of the developing heart. The task was accomplished primarily because of the powerful advantages of studying embryonic development...
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( Mayo Clinic ) Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues at the University of California San Francisco have found a connection between DNA alterations on human chromosome 9 and aggressive brain cancer known as glioblastoma.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | yesterday
( Gladstone Institutes ) Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have discovered a key switch that makes stem cells turn into the type of muscle cells that reside in the wall of blood vessels. The same switch might be used in the future to limit growth of vascular muscle cells that cause narrowing of arteries leading to heart attacks and strokes, limit formation of blood vessels...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | yesterday
( Georgetown University Medical Center ) In a discovery that rebuffs conventional scientific thinking, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered a novel way to block the activity of the fusion protein responsible for Ewing's sarcoma, a rare cancer found in children and young adults.
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A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January. Today, I asked Eva Amsen , a participant at the 2007 and 2009 meetings, to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you,...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
( University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science ) As the nation celebrates its birth on the 4th of July, University of Miami Prof. Diego Lirman and fellow coral nursery scientists will be celebrating as well. NOAA announced that The Nature Conservancy and its partners' staghorn and elkhorn coral recovery projects, including Lirman's nursery in Biscayne National Park, will...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
( BioMed Central ) Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex was absent in people with high blood pressure.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
( Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore ) Singapore scientists have made a novel discovery about how gene, "Fas-apoptosis inhibitory molecule", protects both immune and liver cells from programmed cell death. Their research is published in Cell Death and Differentiation.
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Biocurious (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
I have long wondered who, exactly, still reads the dead tree copies of journals. I don’t know a soul who wanders over to a library to get the latest journal articles. The library is now where you go for only those journal articles that have (annoyingly) not yet found their way into a digital format that is Internet-accessible. I also don’t know many people who have subscriptions to dead...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The University of Manchester and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have launched a major new e-science resource for biologists - which could accelerate research into treatments for H1N1 flu and cancer.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Biology and a prestigious EMBO installation grant, of 50,000 euro per year, for a maximum of five years.Lars Jansen moved from California to the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), in Portugal,...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
( European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology ) For the first time, scientists have shown that chromosomal abnormalities are present in more than 90 percent of IVF embryos, even those produced by young, fertile couples
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
( Porter Novelli ) Johnson & Johnson announced that Axel Ullrich, Ph.D., director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, whose discoveries have led to novel cancer therapies including Herceptin (trastuzumab), is the winner of the 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research. An independent committee of world-renowned scientists selected...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
( University of North Carolina School of Medicine ) The finding suggests that schizophrenia is much more complex than previously thought, and can arise not only from both rare genetic variants but also from a significant number of common ones.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
( University of North Carolina School of Medicine ) A new UNC study appearing online July 1 in the journal Nature disputes current scientific belief by showing that X-inactivation can occur even in the absence of a gene previously thought to be the trigger of the process.
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annym38 | 02/11/2009
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abhishektiwari | 01/28/2009
Pharmaceutical companies are facing ultimate challenge to increase efficiency of drug discovery pipeline to keep up with market demands. Failure of clinical candidates as well as withdrawal of approved and marketed drugs due the undesired effects , or so-called adverse drug reactions (ADRs)- are forcing companies to look on where they can fill the gap. A recent paper in Journal of Chemical Information
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vrickad | 01/22/2009
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