 New electrostatic-based DNA microarray technique could revolutionize medical diagnostics June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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The dream of personalized medicine — in which diagnostics, risk predictions and treatment decisions are based on a patient's genetic profile — may be on the verge of being expanded beyond the wealthiest of ... | |
 Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they ... | |
Bacterial resistance is futile against wound-cleaning laser July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A laser-activated antimicrobial offers hope for new treatments of bacterial infections, even those that are resistant to current drugs. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Microbiology describes ... | |
 'Mind's eye' influences visual perception July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts ... | |
New technique produces genetically identical stem cells July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Adult cells of mice created from genetically reprogrammed cells—so-called induced pluripotent stem (IPS) stem cells—can be triggered via drug to enter an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the need for further genetic ... | |
 Researchers coat titanium with polymer to improve integration of joint replacements July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology shows that coating a titanium implant with a new biologically inspired material enhances tissue healing, improves bone growth around the implant and strengthens ... | |
Life-extending protein can also have damaging effects on brain cells July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Proteins widely believed to protect against aging can actually cause oxidative damage in mammalian brain cells, according to a new report in the July Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. The findings suggest ... | |
Bee disease a mystery June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Scientists are one step closer to understanding the recent demise of billions of honey bees after making an important discovery about the transmission of a common bee virus. Deformed wing virus (DWV) is passed between adult ... | |
 Crossed (evolutionary) signals? July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells ... | |
Pregnant women get morning sickness to protect fetus July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Morning sickness. It's the bane of many of a pregnancy. And many a future mother wonders at the apparently unnecessary suffering. But, it turns out, there's meaning to the misery. Two evolutionary biologists report that morning ... | |
 Researchers are first to simulate the binding of molecules to a protein June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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You may not know what it is, but you burn more than your body weight of it every day. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a tiny molecule that packs a powerful punch, is the primary energy source for most of your ... | |
Fortified cassava could provide a day's nutrition in a single meal June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Scientists have determined how to fortify the cassava plant, a staple root crop in many developing countries, with enough vitamins, minerals and protein to provide the poor and malnourished with a day's worth of nutrition ... | |
Cellular self-eating promotes pancreatitis June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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To survive tough times, cells sometimes resort to a form of self-cannibalism called autophagy. But as Hashimoto et al. reveal, autophagy can have a down side, destroying the pancreas by prematurely activating a digestive ... | |
Species extinction threat underestimated due to math glitch, says study July 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Extinction risks for natural populations of endangered species are likely being underestimated by as much as 100-fold because of a mathematical "misdiagnosis," according to a new study led by a University of Colorado at Boulder ... | |
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