13/10/2007

Nanoengineers mine tiny diamonds for drug delivery

Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds -- much like the carbon structure as that of a sparkling 14 karat diamond but on a much smaller scale -- are very effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs ...

Bio & Medicine

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First high-res 3D structures of mammalian HSP90 protein solved

Dr. Dan Gewirth, Hauptman-Woodward senior research scientist, has just solved the structure of the first mammalian GRP94 protein implicated in immune diseases such as sepsis, AIDS and certain cancers. His work is being published ...

Oct 13, 2007

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Inconsistencies with Neanderthal genomic DNA sequences

Two recent papers describing the sequencing of Neanderthal nuclear DNA from fossil bone held promise for finally answering this question. However, the two studies came to very different conclusions regarding the ancestral ...

Oct 13, 2007

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