Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy Offers Hope for Chronic Limb Pain Relief

In a Phase I clinical trial, almost half the patients receiving gene therapy reported complete resolution of chronic pain one year after treatment and more…

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Genes Linked to Intelligence: Key Findings from Researchers

A team of scientists, led by psychiatric geneticists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has gathered the most extensive evidence to date…

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New Insights on Blue Whales: Scripps Oceanography Research

Using a variety of new approaches, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are forging a new understanding of the largest mammals on…

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LLNL Researchers Review Latest Bio Detection Technologies

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory review several of the latest technologies in the most recent issue (Issue 3, 2007), of the British…

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New Procedure for Differentiating Human Embryonic Stem Cells

The process, created in the laboratory of Rick A. Wetsel, Ph.D., a professor of molecular medicine at the IMM, is described in this week’s edition of the…

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Common Cold Virus Shows Promise Against Breast Cancer Cells

“In theory, the virus is able to selectively target and destroy many different types of cancer cells, including breast cancers, whilst leaving normal cells…

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Nerve Regeneration: Evicting the Cleanup Crew for Progress

While researchers know a great deal about the molecular machinery that launches this cellular cleanup crew into action, little has been known about the…

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Fast and slow — How the spinal cord controls the speed of movement

Using a state-of-the-art technique to map neurons in the spinal cord of a larval zebrafish, Cornell University scientists have found a surprising pattern of…

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Biodegradable Microspheres: Innovative Time-Release Vaccines

“Current vaccines are good at producing antibodies that block entry into the cell. In the case of some diseases, such as malaria or tuberculosis, antibody…

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Biodegradable Microspheres: A New Approach to Vaccine Delivery

“The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was responsible for at least 40 million deaths worldwide. Recent experiments in mouse and nonhuman primates have suggested a…

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Memory Insights: Activity-Dependent Plasticity Explained

The study will be published in the Journal of Neuroscience (February 28, 2007 issue). They had opportunity to determine activity-dependent plasticity – a…

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New DNA Study Reveals Unique Diversity in Melanesians

Small populations of Melanesians — among the most genetically diverse people on the planet — have significant differences in their mitochondrial DNA that can…

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New research shows snails aren’t as slow as we think

The university’s Professor Mark Davies has been studying snails for the past ten years and his latest research has confirmed something he has believed for…

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Nectar: The Surprising Science Behind Nature’s Sweet Drink

Scientists Danny Kessler and Ian Baldwin from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, recently addressed the question, why would plants…

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New therapeutic target for Alzheimer's could lead to drugs without side effects

But new research from Rockefeller University, published in the Feb. 26 online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has identified a…

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Unveiling Misidentified Marlins: The True Story Behind Angler’s Catch

For years, anglers thinking they were catching the prized white marlin may have caught something quite different, raising concerns about the true remaining…

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