Home 
Search our Site
Search our Site
Causative gene of a rare disorder discovered by sequencing only protein-coding regions of genome
For the first time, scientists have successfully used a method called exome sequencing to quickly discover a previously unknown gene responsible for a mendelian disorder. Mendelian disorders, ...
Life Sciences |
Read moreThe use of stem cells in regenerative medicine may also be detrimental for health
Researchers aimed to investigate whether the mononuclear cell fraction of human cord blood (HUCBM cells), which contains stem cells, might be useful in hepatic regenerative medicine. Both histological...
Life Sciences | Read moreStudy Shows How Carbon Nanotubes Can Affect Lining of the Lungs
Now a collaborative study from North Carolina State University, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences shows that inhaling these nanotub...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreSuppressing a gene in mice prevents heart from aging, preserves its function
Scientists prevented age-related changes in the hearts of mice and preserved heart function by suppressing a form of the PI3K gene, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart As...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNortheastern Biologist Receives $5.5 Million NIH Grant to Study Tolerant Bacteria
The five-year project, part of the NIH Director’s Transformative Program (T-R01), will focus on three types of disease-producing bacteria to determine how dormant subpopulations of these microorganism...
Life Sciences | Read moreScientists identify gene for short-circuiting excess mucus in lung disease, common colds
The discovery was reported in a study posted online Sept. 14 by the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The new research sheds light on what has been a medical mystery - the precise biological reasons ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreGene variant heightens risk of severe liver disease in cystic fibrosis
Those who carry a particular variant of the SERPINA1 gene (also known as alpha-1-antitrypsin or alpha-1-antiprotease) are five times more likely to develop cirrhosis and other liver complications than...
Life Sciences | Read moreU-M researchers discover therapeutic target that could help patients with pulmonary fibrosis
A diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis is not much better than a death sentence: there is no treatment and the survival rate is less than three years.But researchers at the University o...
Health and Medicine | Read moreResearchers Find Target for Pulmonary Fibrosis
But researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered that targeting of a novel gene utilizing genetic and pharmacologic strategies was successful in treating pulmonary fibrosis in mice and wi...
Life Sciences | Read moreMutations in gene linked to ciliopathies
Ciliopathies are a newly emerging group of diseases caused by defects in the function or structure of cellular primary cilia, which are small, cellular appendages of previously unknown function. Examp...
Life Sciences | Read moreDuke scientists create airway spheres to study lung diseases
From this single "basal" cell, a small, squat stem cell that divides to replenish the lung lining layer, scientists created 3-D hollow spheres that were lined inside with both ciliary and se...
Health and Medicine | Read morePlacenta-derived stem cells may help sufferers of lung diseases
An Italian research team, publishing in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (18:4), which is now available on-line without charge at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct, has found that ...
Life Sciences | Read moreCommon cold virus efficiently delivers corrected gene to cystic fibrosis cells
Now University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine scientists have found what may be the most efficient way to deliver a corrected gene to lung cells collected from cystic fibrosis pat...
Life Sciences | Read morePitt team first to profile genes in acutely ill idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients
According to senior author Naftali Kaminski, M.D., associate professor of medicine, computational biology and pathology, and director of the Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial L...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew test can detect both genetic and chromosomal abnormalities in embryos
They told a news briefing at the 25th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam today (Tuesday) that, as a result, they would be able to offer clinical t...
Life Sciences | Read more
Topmore news & reports about:
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Architecture and Construction | Automotive Engineering | Business and Finance | Communications Media | Earth Sciences | Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Health and Medicine | Information Technology | Interdisciplinary Research | Life Sciences | Machine Engineering | Materials Sciences | Medical Engineering | Physics and Astronomy | Power and Electrical Engineering | Process Engineering | Social Sciences | Studies and Analyses | Transportation and Logisticsmore news & reports from the category "special topics":
Awards Funding | Event News | Innovative Products | Science Education | Seminars Workshops | Statistics | Technology Offerings | Trade Fair NewsAdditional Sponsors | |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 | |
|  |
|
 |
 | |
 |
 |
 | |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |  |
 |
|
 |
 |
 | |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 | |
 |
 |
 | |
  |
|
  | |
 |
 |
 | |
 |
 |
 | |
 |
 |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 |
|
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
B2B Search
Company / Organisation
Home 
About us 
Partner 
Contact 
Sitemap 
find and help 
Deutsch
Disclaimer
2000-2009 by innovations-report