NANOTECHNOLOGY — an enabling science that has the potential for creating new knowledge and functional materials and systems — is set to shape and transform all areas of science in the future.
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New Epcot Center exhibition brings nano to the masses
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Researchers have found that one particularly aggressive type of blood cancer, mixed lineage leukemia (MLL), has an unusual way to keep the molecular motors running.
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NAPLES —Some of the most dangerous drugs aren’t illegal.That’s the message of Operation Medicine Cabinet, which on Saturday gave households a chance to rid their bathrooms of expired or unused medications before they become a health hazard.“Our medicine cabinets are the number one source for prescription drug abuse among our youth,” said Major Scott Salley, [...]
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HUNTINGTON — Huntington optometrist brothers Chris and William Ratcliff joined Dr. Brian J. Toy Saturday night in being inducted into the Marshall University Sports Medicine Hall of Fame.
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The most frequent error in medicine seems to occur nearly one out of three times a patient is referred to a specialist.
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RAWLINS — Jim Chiro’s idea for a Medicine Bow grocery store evolved from a whim to raise bison. “I was bored and watching a show on the Discovery Channel about bison,” said the 43-year-old Orlando, Fla., resident.
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Minnesota medical device manufacturer Guidant is facing criminal charges filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, and medical technology industry analyst Jan Wald told MPR’s Tom Crann the incident is another sign that the sector has seen better days.
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DECATUR – After the release of a national study in earlyFebruary ranking Macon County among the 20 unhealthiest counties inIllinois, area doctors and health care administrators weighed in onthe results.
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For the past 22 years, David L. Schell has seen senior care facilities go from being warehouses for the elderly to places designed to extend independent living as well as to stimulate both the mind and body.
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The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation : There has long been interest in understanding the genetic basis of human adaptation. To what extent are phenotypic differences among human populations driven by natural selection? With the recent arrival of large genome-wide data sets on human variation, there is now unprecedented [...]
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The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation : There has long been interest in understanding the genetic basis of human adaptation. To what extent are phenotypic differences among human populations driven by natural selection? With the recent arrival of large genome-wide data sets on human variation, there is now unprecedented [...]
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New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) Environment activists today dubbed as illegal the entire process of the clearance given for Bt brinjal by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) contending that it violated the Biological Diversity Act.
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Environment activists today dubbed as illegal the entire process of the clearance given for Bt brinjal by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) contending that it violated the Biological Diversity Act.
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The incidence of diabetes is rising worldwide. Using genetic engineering techniques in pigs, scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich have created a new model of this metabolic disorder, which recapitulates many features of the disease, and promises to contribute significantly to improvements in diagnosis and therapy. The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes places a [...]
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A gene signature, first identified in mouse colon cancer cells, may help identify patients at risk of colon cancer recurrence, according to a recent study by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers.The findings, published in the March issue of Gastroenterology, could help personalize treatments for colon cancer — the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the [...]
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Two women aged 58 are set to receive fertility treatment at a London clinic as record numbers attempt to become pregnant after the menopause. The two patients are thought to be the oldest so far to seek IVF treatment after the medical centre changed its policy on older mothers.
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Enzymes that travel along DNA to copy or transcribe it — the crucial processes underlying cell replication and protein production — aren’t coordinated by a central dispatcher. In fact, they often collide. Now, researchers have discovered that when DNA-copying machines run head-on into proteins performing less critical tasks, they kick the obstacles aside and continue [...]
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A Sauk Village man with a history of burglary and robbery arrests has been charged in a March 2009 burglary on the Southwest Side after blood from the scene of the crime matched his DNA, police said. Henry H. Johnson, 18, already was being held in Cook County Jail, in connection with a conviction in [...]
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Researchers, based in Ireland and Britain, have found the complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequence of ancient wild cattle using a sample from a 6,700 year-old bone.
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