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3/9/10
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A team of engineers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are working on tiny, low-power chips that could diagnose heart problems, monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease or predict seizures in epileptic patients.
Mar 8 | News
The notion that bacteria are bags full of enzymes is being overturned by revelations from laboratory experiments that bacteria fixes, or digests, carbon by building miniature factories inside themselves. Called carboxysomes, these structures are able to convert carbon dioxide into sugar, which represents energy for a living organism.
Mar 4 | News
Researchers from the Arizona State Univ. have helped advance understanding about the antibacterial activity of clay minerals and their ability to kill what the best antibiotics on the market can't touch.
Mar 3 | News
A new technique to study protein dynamics in living cells has been created by a team of Univ. of Illinois scientists, and evidence yielded from the new method indicates that an in vivo environment strongly modulates a protein’s stability and folding rate.
1 hour ago | News
GEN Y AT WORK: Millenials want more vacation and time for themselves away from the job than young people did 30 years ago, and they also value compensation more, according to a recent study.That may be setting them up for intense disappointments in today's labor market.Those born starting in the...
3 hours ago | News
Pronovost; "Medical Waste" Being Used to Save LivesBy Sanjay Guptaxfdhe SANJAY-GUPTA-MD-01
4 hours ago | News
A Tennessee woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking breast cancer in a scam that netted thousands of dollars worth of sick leave donated by her City Hall co-workers and money from a church and other charities.Keele (KEE'-lee) Maynor, 39, pleaded guilty to theft and forgery and a Chattanooga...
4 hours ago | News
Dolores Takemoto, a K-State professor of biochemistry who was researching protein kinase C gamma in the lens of the human eye, found her work taking a fascinating turn when she discovered a correlation between the protein Coonexin46 and hypoxia -- a deficiency of oxygen which kills normal tissue...
5 hours ago | News
A Princeton University-led research team has discovered that protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embryonic development. The work suggests that these signals are combined long before they interact with the organism's DNA,...
6 hours ago | News
Tiny marine isopods called gribbles were for centuries the bane of sailors, whose vessels were quickly devoured. Even today, piers and docks are rapidly gnawed away, and researchers have now been attracted to the enzymes in their gut, which can convert wood into sugars without the help of microbes.
14 hours ago | News
Two of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies said Tuesday they are uniting their animal health businesses in a deal to become the top dog in the veterinary industry.Merck & Co. and France's Sanofi-Aventis SA said they'll jointly own the combined business, which will have a share of about...
21 hours ago | News
ImmunoGen Inc. said Monday the Food and Drug Administration and European regulators gave the company's potential cancer drug IMGN901 "orphan drug" status.Orphan drug status is given to drugs aimed at rare conditions or conditions that have a lack of treatments on the market. Incentives in the...
23 hours ago | News
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA. The findings were reported in the March issue of Journal of the...