News tagged with model animals
Nanomedicine: Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates
A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 20, 2012 |
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A heart of gold: Better tissue repair after heart attack (Update)
A team of researchers at MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston has built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue whose cells all beat in time, mimicking ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 25, 2011 |
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Why the sandfish lizard wriggles as it does (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The sandfish lizard (Scincus scincus) lives in the desert sands of North Africa and burrows through the sand by wriggling. Now scientists in the US have created a computer model that emulat ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Forget your previous conceptions about memory
Memory difficulties such as those seen in dementia may arise because the brain forms incomplete memories that are more easily confused, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. The findings are published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Stanford researchers first to turn normal cells into 3-D cancers in tissue culture dishes
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have successfully transformed normal human tissue into three-dimensional cancers in a tissue culture dish for the first time. Watching how the cells behave as they ...
Nov 21, 2010 |
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Scientists use plasmonic nanobubbles in living organisms to detect, eliminate prostate cancer cells (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University physicist Dmitri Lapotko has demonstrated that plasmonic nanobubbles, generated around gold nanoparticles with a laser pulse, can detect and destroy cancer cells in vivo by cre ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Simple fungus gives researchers new insight on key DNA process
(Phys.org) -- In the University of Oregon lab of Eric U. Selker, a simple fungus continues to provide big clues about a fundamental biological process that is essential for normal growth and development in ...
Apr 23, 2012 |
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New mathematical model explains how hosts survive parasite attacks
In nature, how do host species survive parasite attacks? This has not been well understood, until now. A new mathematical model shows that when a host and its parasite each have multiple traits governing their ...
Mar 04, 2012 |
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Scientists create potent molecules aimed at treating muscular dystrophy
While RNA is an appealing drug target, small molecules that can actually affect its function have rarely been found. But now scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time designed ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Study of wolves will help scientists predict climate effects on endangered animals
Scientists studying populations of gray wolves in the USA's Yellowstone National Park have developed a way to predict how changes in the environment will impact on the animals' number, body size and genetics, amongst other ...
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Scientists uncover new role for gene in maintaining steady weight
Against the backdrop of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have made an important new discovery regarding a specific gene that plays ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Nanoparticle-based combination therapy shows promise in colon cancer prevention
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using nanoparticles to deliver a cocktail of aspirin and folic acid, researchers at the Western University of Health Sciences (WUHS) have created what could be an effective agent to prevent colon cancer. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Bacteria responsible for common infections may protect themselves by stealing immune molecules
Bacteria responsible for middle ear infections, pink eye and sinusitis protect themselves from further immune attack by transporting molecules meant to destroy them away from their inner membrane target, according to a study ...
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Early growth trajectories have long-term effects on fitness, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Food supply and environmental conditions affect the growth rates of organisms, which in turn influence future survival and reproduction. A new study by researchers at the University of California, ...
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Biocomplexity researchers announce multi-scale model of early embryonic development in vertebrates
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Indiana University's Biocomplexity Institute have developed a computational model for the intricate cellular dance that occurs during the earliest stages of animal development ...
Oct 21, 2011 |
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