News tagged with interference
SETI@home completes a decade of ET search
The SETI@home project, which has involved the worldwide public in a search for radio-wave evidence of life outside Earth, marks its 10th anniversary on May 17, 2009.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 01, 2009 |
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Researchers report oral delivery system for RNAi therapeutics
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) report today on a novel approach to the delivery of small bits of genetic material in order to silence genes using "RNA interference"—and in the process, ...
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Scientists identify host factors critical to dengue virus infection
By painstakingly silencing genes one at a time, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified dozens of proteins the dengue fever virus depends upon to grow and spread among mosquitoes and humans.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 22, 2009 |
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New method could lead to narrower chip patterns
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...
Apr 10, 2009 |
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New therapeutic strategy could target toxic protein in most patients with Huntington's disease
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have designed tiny RNA molecules that shut off the gene that causes Huntington's disease without damaging that gene's healthy counterpart, which maintains the health and vitality ...
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Biomarker associated with poor outcome in aggressive childhood cancer
Results from a new study identify a biomarker that may be useful for predicting the outcome of treatment for neuroblastoma, the most common cancer in young children. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 7th ...
Apr 06, 2009 |
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The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (w/Video)
On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Gene therapy shows early promise for treating obesity
With obesity reaching epidemic levels, researchers at the Ohio State University Medical Center are studying a potentially long-term treatment that involves injecting a gene directly into one of the critical feeding and weight ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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RNA interference toward MMP-2 may be an effective therapeutic strategy for cancer
The invasion or metastasis of pancreatic cancer has been known to be a complex process involving many molecular mechanisms, of which proteolytic degradation of extracellular matrix (ECM) exerted by matrix metalloproteinases ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Researchers determine how mosquitoes survive dengue virus infection
Colorado State University researchers have discovered that mosquitoes that transmit deadly viruses such as dengue avoid becoming ill by mounting an immediate, potent immune response. Because their immune system does not eliminate ...
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Disruptions in daily routine can adversely affect a couple's conversation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Is the communication in your relationship a little frosty? It may be the little things you're not doing in daily routines are playing a part, says researcher Leanne Knobloch. Things like forgetting to walk ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Topical treatment wipes out herpes with RNAi
Whether condoms or abstinence, most efforts to prevent sexually transmitted diseases have a common logic: keep the pathogen out of your body altogether. While this approach is certainly reasonable enough, it doesn't help ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Plant gene replacement results in the world's only blue rose
Australian and Japanese researchers have demonstrated the application of RNAi technology for gene replacement in plants, developing the world's only blue rose.
Apr 04, 2005 |
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