Search Results for 'Research'

Researchers Build Colony of Colon Cancer Stem Cells to Test ...

University of Pittsburgh researchers have devised a three-dimensional system in laboratory culture that mimics the growth patterns of colon cancer stem cells in patients. Their findings were presented at the American Association for Canc [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

UCSD awarded $15.4 million for systems biology research

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded $15.4 million to UCSD to establish a center for the study of systems biology, a relatively new branch of science that maps interactions between regulatory molecules in order [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Biology, Neuroscience Aid Weapon Development at Air Force Re...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — The tropical fish tank sitting in the center of the lab would not be so unusual if this were a biology classroom. But encountering one inside a facility housing the Air Force Research Laborat [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

New biology research to run on space station

The International Space Station is about to take one giant leap for biological science in orbit. Three new biomedical experiments funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health will take advantage of the space station's unique orbi [...]

Posted On : Sep, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Brain biology, not hormones, may be to blame for postpartum ...

Postpartum depression is often blamed on dramatic hormonal changes inside the bodies of new mothers. Estrogen, progesterone and cortisol all drop dramatically in the hours after childbirth, and some women are thought to be particul [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

National Survey On Synthetic Biology Finds Support For Resea...

Synthetic biology – defined as the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems or re-design of existing natural biological systems for useful purposes – holds enormous potential to improve everything [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

New Patent Propels UTSA Biology Researchers toward Developme...

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) South Texas Center Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID), and Bernard Arulanandam, associate dean of research for scientific innovation in. The UTSA College of Sciences, have been granted [...]

Posted On : Jul, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Researchers unravel missing height riddle

Tiny genetic changes are responsible for almost half of the variation in height between individuals, scientists have announced. Genetic inheritence accounts for about 80% of height variation in humans, while factors such as nutrition [...]

Posted On : Jun, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Researchers see leap forward with frog genome advance

Scientists announced Thursday they had cracked the genetic code of an African clawed frog, the latest project aimed at understanding how genes work for potential applications in human health. The genome -- or collection of genetic in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Viral Genetics gets $750,000 state research grant

Viral Genetics gets $750,000 state research grant The Texas Emerging Technology Fund awarded a $750,000 grant to Viral Genetics, which is moving its research facilities to Georgetown. The California-based company will use the state money [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Low Birth Weight and Adult Diabetes are Related, Research Sa...

An international study has found a relationship between low birth weight and adulthood diabetes. They have been declared to be genetically linked to each other. The discovery has been declared to be of much help to curb the disease. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

US Research Team creates Prostate Cancer in Lab

In its endeavors towards the end of comprehending the growth of cancers, thereby underlining the potential for new cancer treatments, a US research team, led by Dr Owen Witte, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Los Angeles [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Genetic breakthrough hails new cancer research era

All the mutations that turn healthy cells cancerous in both lung and skin tumours have been identified in what researchers described as a "transforming moment" in the search for preventions, treatments and cures for both terminal [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Genetic Research Spurs Fight Over Patents Tied to the Body

The mapping of the human genome has created enticing possibilities for the early detection of grave diseases. Genetic research, however, has run headlong into a tricky legal issue: Should human genes ever be the subject of patent protection [...]