MarketWatch (press release)
"Theracrine is uniquely positioned to translate breakthrough discoveries in cancer spread to impact patient's lives," commented Joan Massague, Chairman of Cancer Biology and Genetics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Theracrine Founder. ...
See all stories on this topic »Discovery of insulin switches in pancreas could lead to new diabetes drugs
EurekAlert (press release)
The question is important, not only to understanding basic insulin biology, but also because it would help explain how a drug approved to treat diabetes in 2005 actually works. That drug, exenatide (Byetta), is a synthetic version of extendin-4, ...
See all stories on this topic »UC San Diego biologists discover genes that repair nerves after injury
EurekAlert (press release)
In the September 22 issue of the journal Neuron, the scientists detail their discoveries after an exhaustive two-year investigation of 654 genes suspected to be involved in regulating the growth of axons—the thread-like extensions of nerve cells that ...
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| New Computational Analysis Forecasts New Targets to Control HIV International Business Times These discoveries "constitute a powerful resource for experimentalists who desire todiscover new targets for human proteins that can control the spread of HIV," noted study authors TM Murali, a computer scientist, and Brett Tyler of the Virginia ... See all stories on this topic » |  International Business Times |
Ivanhoe
A new study, published in the September 20 issue of PLoS Biology, may shed light on how these deadly tumors develop and spread. Stanford researchers, including Patrick O. Brown, senior author of the study and Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...
See all stories on this topic »deCODE genetics, Together with Academic Collaborators and Illumina, Discovers ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"This mutation is one of a growing number of deCODE discoveries of relatively low frequency sequence variants with large effect," said Kari Stefansson, deCODE's CEO and senior author of the study. "The discovery of such variants is made possible ...
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| Sailing away with the Nobel Financial Times Their discoveries have made a significant contribution to the global knowledge that underpins engineering, physics, chemistry and even biology. This had led to many practical applications, from drug design to the first global numerical weather ... See all stories on this topic » |  Financial Times |
| The Open Science Movement QUEST (blog) It isn't perfect especially as results are based on more complex data but it is self correcting and important discoveries are made all the time. But would it be even better if we opened things up a bit? A recent story about how gamers solved a ... See all stories on this topic » |  QUEST (blog) |
Lab Manager Magazine
She has already made groundbreaking discoveries about the biology of dsRNA, and she has a remarkable history of following interesting science wherever it leads.” Throughout her career, Bass' intuition, creativity, and ability to connect disparate parts ...
See all stories on this topic »Genuflecting plant discovered in Brazil
Futurity: Research News
“It is very easy to think we have found and described most plant species of the world already, but thisdiscovery shows that there are so much left out there without name and recognition,” says Lena Struwe, professor of plant biology and pathology at ...
See all stories on this topic »Michelle Obama pushing STEM education for girls. Transcript
Chicago Sun-Times (blog)
It's about showing every child that a scientist isn't just something you hear about in biology class, that a doctor isn't someone you visit when you're sick. Instead, young people -- particularly our girls -- need to understand that doctors and ...
See all stories on this topic »Hope for people with Type 2 diabetes – insulin master switch uncovered
HealthCanal.com
This drug development work would very much shorten the path from discovery to prospective treatment in the case of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body becomes less able to produce and use insulin, a hormone essential for maintaining normal ...
See all stories on this topic »Researchers uncover gene associated with blood cancers
EurekAlert (press release)
"This discovery illustrates the promise of genome sequencing in cancer," says Dr Elli Papaemmanuil, lead author from the Sanger Institute. "We believe that by identifying SF3B1, and working to characterize the underlying biology of this disease, ...
See all stories on this topic »Dear Professor Dawkins: Science Is a Servant of Truth, Not Atheism
Algemeiner
The challenges scientists face in discovering some sort of undirected naturalistic explanation for the emergence of the first bacterium some 3.8 billion years ago, become even more vexing in light of startling new discoveries by chemists and ...
See all stories on this topic »Royal Society's top 6 books of 2010
New Scientist (blog)
A hundred anecdotes bring the towering figures of particle physics and their key discoveries to life, exploring the thoroughly human side of the endeavour to understand nature at its most fundamental level." The Wavewatcher's Companion is a "quietly ...
See all stories on this topic »Studying blood cancers has helped unlock mysteries of disease, paved the way ...
AnnArbor.com
Indeed, discoveries in blood cancers have helped to inform scientists about the genetic abnormalities of cancer and helped lead them to develop targeted therapies against them, but blood cancers didn't just usher in chemotherapy or lead the way in ...
See all stories on this topic »Aboriginal Australians: The first explorers
Media Newswire (press release)
Professor Douglas Kell, Chief Executive, BBSRC said "In a new era of rapid genome sequencing, one of the most powerful approaches to understanding human biology will be to make comparisons between the genomes of multiple individuals - so-called ...
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| Senate Supports NIH's Translational Research Center Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine (blog) The CAN will provide grants to speed the application of discoveries that have shown promise in the laboratory but are not advanced enough to have attracted private-sector funding. As a starter, the NIH announced a collaboration between FDA, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine (blog) |
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