Discovery

Recently, a team of UC San Diego scientists have isolated more than two dozen promising and novel compounds from which new “designer drugs” might be developed to combat this disease. In some cases, the compounds appeared to be equal or stronger inhibitors than currently available anti-flu remedies.

Rommie Amaro, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry […]

In modern life, drinking coffee has become a lifestyle. It is now playing an important role to our life.
Recently, a new study find that regular coffee drinking (up to 6 cups per day) is not associated with increased deaths in either men or women. In fact, both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption is associated with […]

It was revealed in ScientistAmerica that among synthetic food dyes’s effect, protecting people from cancer may one of the good side.
Gayle Orner, leader of the research at Oregon State University in Corvallis mentioned, “The public perception is that food dyes are bad, but some of them may have good points as well”.

In the […]

Lorenz Studer of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York, US, led the research of therapeutic cloning in mice, found that all six mice that had been given grafts of neurons derived from their own skin cells got significantly better, scoring well on tests of movement.
The mice used in the research were back to health after […]

In recent years, anthrax has become a top choice as a biological warfare agent, according to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), because its spores can easily become airborne.
Early studies show that a new mucosal vaccine against anthrax has the potential to provide military personnel with more effective and efficient protection against a “popular” bioweapon. […]

Two teams, Jeffrey Kordower of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.and Patrik Brundin of the Wallenberg Neuroscience Center in Lund, Sweden, develop advanced therapies based on neurons grown from stem cells.
The diseased cells in Parkinson contain structures called Lewy bodies, accumulations of a protein called ?-synuclein that are a hallmark of Parkinson’s. This is a […]

It was written in NewScientist that for decades, hundreds of labs throughout the world have sent flu samples to the World Health Organization’s Global Influenza Surveillance Network, using a venerable test for similarity called haemagglutinin inhibition.
The analysis was objected to chart immunological changes in the virus that might signal a severe flu season, and to […]

As a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and “heads-up” displays in car windshields, engineers have created the first “active matrix” display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits.
It was mentioned in ScienceDaily that, the transistors are made of “nanowires,” a tiny cylindrical structures as small as 20 nanometers, […]

Schizophrenia known as a mental disorder which have a strong genetic component. A Queen’s academic, part of an international team which has discovered a gene that increases the risk of developing schizophrenia found that the discovery of the gene, MEGF10, could be a step in the right direction towards helping those affected.
Dr O’Neill and his […]

Do you have a thought about a relation or link between canine and human cancers? Well, I dont. But researchers from University of Minnesota veterinarian Jaime Modiano do. They are studying the similarities and genetic links between canine and human cancers to help fight the disease.
It was revealed in ScienceDaily that beside having friendship […]