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Gene find could lead to drug for chronic back painEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A gene responsible for chronic pain has been identified, with scientists saying this could lead to drugs for treating long-lasting back pain.Writing in the journal Science, University of Cambridge researchers removed the HCN2 gene from pain-sensitive nerves in mice.Deleting the gene stopped any chronic pain but did not affect acute pain. via BBC News – [...]
Source: Biosingularity - September 11, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

New Map Shows Where Tastes are Coded in the Brain: How Does the Brain Know What the Tongue Knows?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Each taste, from sweet to salty, is sensed by a unique set of neurons in the brains of mice, new research reveals. The findings demonstrate that neurons that respond to specific tastes are arranged discretely in what the scientists call a “gustotopic map.” This is the first map that shows how taste is represented in [...]
Source: Biosingularity - September 6, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Scientists have new help finding brain’s nooks and cranniesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Like explorers mapping a new planet, scientists probing the brain need every type of landmark they can get. Each mountain, river or forest helps scientists find their way through the intricacies of the human brain. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new technique that provides rapid access to [...]
Source: Biosingularity - September 6, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Optics used to track single cell’s growthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Engineers from the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences using small changes in the optical properties of  single living cells to measure their growth. “Determining the growth patterns of single cells,” the researchers write, “offers answers to some of the most elusive questions [...]
Source: Biosingularity - September 6, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Improving Lifestyle Reduces Diabetes RiskEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Multiple lifestyle factors such as obesity and alcohol consumption increase a person’s risk of diabetes. But new research suggests that a person’s odds of developing the disease may decrease for each positive lifestyle change they make. Lifestyle factors that can influence the risk of developing type 2 diabetes include diet, weight, physical activity, smoking, and [...]
Source: Biosingularity - September 5, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Filling without drillingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers at the University of Leeds have discovered a pain-free way of tackling dental decay that reverses the damage of acid attack and re-builds teeth as new. The pioneering treatment promises to transform the approach to filling teeth forever. Tooth decay begins when acid produced by bacteria in plaque dissolves the mineral in the teeth, [...]
Source: Biosingularity - September 5, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Decision making changes with age — and age helps!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We make decisions all our lives—so you’d think we’d get better and better at it. Yet research has shown that younger adults are better decision makers than older ones. Some Texas psychologists, puzzled by these findings, suspected the experiments were biased toward younger brains. So, rather than testing the ability to make decisions one at [...]
Source: Biosingularity - September 5, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Scientists Reengineer an Antibiotic to Overcome Dangerous Antibiotic-Resistant BacteriaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have successfully reengineered an important antibiotic to kill the deadliest antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The compound could one day be used clinically to treat patients with life-threatening and highly resistant bacterial infections. The results were published in an advanced online issue of the Journal of the American Chemical [...]
Source: Biosingularity - September 4, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Say It Ain't So - Howard Dean Runs Through Revolving Door to Become Biotechnology BoosterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The revolving door now accommodates the whole political spectrum.  A Salon article documented the transit of one Howard Dean, former darling of the left-wing of the Democratic party:Howard Dean has long cultivated an image as the plainspoken doctor who speaks for the left wing of the Democratic Party, a role he still plays as a pugnacious pundit on TV. But since his term as chairman of the Democratic National Committee ended in January 2009, Dr. Dean has taken on a less-noticed role: paid advocate for interest groups that would find few fans among the progressive voters once energized by Dean's 2004 presidential bid.D...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 1, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: biotechnology stealth health policy advocacy revolving doors corporatism public relations Source Type: blogs

An RNA Switch for Stem CellsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
RNA molecules have long been known for their role in translating genes to proteins inside a cell, but more recently, scientists have found large numbers of RNA molecules that don’t code for proteins but seem to have other cellular roles. Most research in mammals has focused on tiny RNA molecules called microRNAs, but a new [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 29, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Trial Shows Blockbuster Potential for Blood Clot Pill EliquisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An experimental pill to prevent blood clots exceeded already high expectations as a better therapy for millions of people with atrial fibrillation, according to final results of a worldwide study released Sunday. The study was featured at the European Society of Cardiology in Paris and simultaneously published on the Web site of The New England [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 28, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Portfolio Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet at Lowering CholesterolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A diet that incorporates cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, and plant sterols may work better at lowering cholesterol levels than a traditional low-fat diet. A new study shows that people with high cholesterol who followed the portfolio diet, which includes a combination of cholesterol-lowering foods, lowered their low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels by about 13% [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 28, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Bran, soy help cut cholesterolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers in Canada have shown that a special cholesterol-lowering diet works well – even with only two nutritional counseling sessions over six months. Making dietary changes like eating oat bran for breakfast, drinking soy milk instead of dairy, soy burgers in place of hamburgers, and fruit and nuts instead of a full lunch prompted a [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 25, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Gene Therapy Works for ‘Bubble Boy’ DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nine years after getting gene therapy for a rare, inherited immune system disorder often called “bubble boy disease,” 14 out of 16 children are doing well, researchers report. The children were born with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). They got an experimental gene therapy in the U.K. A new report shows that nine years later, [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 25, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Researchers produce detailed map of gene activity in mouse brainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain provides insight into how genes work in the outer part of the brain called the cerebral cortex. In humans, the cerebral cortex is the largest part of the brain, and the region responsible for memory, sensory perception and language. Mice and people share 90 percent [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 24, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Study Builds on Plausible Scenario for Origin of Life on EarthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a paper published in Nature Chemistry co-authored by a professor at the University of California, Merced. The study, “A Route to Enantiopure RNA Precursors from Nearly Racemic Starting Materials,” shows how the precursors [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 23, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Mimicking biological complexity, in a tiny particle – MIT News OfficeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tiny particles made of polymers hold great promise for targeted delivery of drugs and as structural scaffolds for building artificial tissues. However, current production methods for such microparticles yield a limited array of shapes and can only be made with certain materials, restricting their usefulness. In an advance that could broadly expand the possible applications [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 23, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Scientists Help Pinpoint Cause of Stress-Related DNA DamageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Working closely with a team of researchers from Duke University, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have helped identify a molecular pathway that plays a key role in stress-related damage to the genome, the entirety of an organism’s hereditary information. The new findings, published in the journal Nature on August 21, [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 23, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Chromosomes and CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Aneuploidy—when the cells of an organism contain more or fewer than the standard number of chromosomes for its species—is found in greater than 90 percent of all human cancers. But how exactly it relates to cancer, and whether it is a cause or merely a consequence of genomic instability, has long been a mystery. Two [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 20, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Watching the Protein TangoEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new microscope has allowed researchers to watch molecules move within a cell on a millisecond-by-millisecond time scale for the first time. The novel method, which combines two preëxisting microscopic techniques, opens a window onto cellular processes that had previously been undetectable, unveiling molecular activity within a cell at a much finer level than ever [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 20, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Study: Obese People Live as Long as Slimmer PeopleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Obese people who are otherwise healthy live as long as normal-weight people, new research from Canada suggests. Some obese but healthy people actually are less likely to die of heart problems than normal-weight people who have some medical conditions, the researchers found. “You shouldn’t just look at body weight alone,” says researcher Jennifer Kuk, PhD, [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 20, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Study identifies fish oil’s impact on cognition and brain structureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study was led by Lori Daiello, PharmD, a research scientist at the Rhode Island Hospital Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center. Data for the analyses was obtained from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a large multi-center, NIH-funded study that followed older adults with normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s Disease for over [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 18, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Can We Create Life?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Biosingularity - August 16, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Tossing, Turning, ForgettingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Continuity of sleep, not just the total hours of nightly slumber, is crucial to forming and retaining memories, a new study in mice suggests. Mice couldn’t remember objects they’d seen before after a night of interrupted sleep, Asya Rolls of Stanford and her colleagues report online July 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 15, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Beyond the Genome, Cancer’s Secrets Come Into Sharper FocusEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For the last decade cancer research has been guided by a common vision of how a single cell, outcompeting its neighbors, evolves into a malignant tumor. Through a series of random mutations, genes that encourage cellular division are pushed into overdrive, while genes that normally send growth-restraining signals are taken offline. With the accelerator floored [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 15, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Ovarian cancer risk gene pinpointedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Scientists have pinpointed a rare gene variant that increases a woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer six-fold. The discovery will lead to new diagnostic tests to identify the cancer earlier and provides better information to help doctors choose targeted anti-cancer drugs. Ovarian cancer can develop without many clear symptoms and is the fifth most common [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 15, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Sleep apnea may raise dementia risk, study findsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sleep apnea, a fairly common, treatable disorder that causes people to stop breathing momentarily while they sleep, may lead to cognitive impairment and even dementia, according to a new study of elderly women. Women in the study with sleep apnea or other sleep disorders that affected their breathing were much more likely than those with [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 15, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

‘Super’ mouse evolves resistance to most poisonsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
German and Spanish mice have rapidly evolved the trait by breeding with an Algerian species from which they have been separate for over a million years. The researchers say this type of gene transfer is highly unusual and normally found in plants and bacteria. The Current Biology report says this process could yield mice resistant [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 15, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

New Blood Thinner Prevents Strokes in Heart PatientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The newly approved drug Xarelto appears to prevent strokes at least as well as the standard treatment warfarin in people who have a heart condition that puts them at high risk for blood clots, a study shows. Xarelto was approved by the FDA in July to prevent dangerous blood clots in people having hip and [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 14, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Red Meat, Processed Meat Linked to Diabetes RiskEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Red meat, particularly processed red meats like bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, may increase a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The more processed or unprocessed red meat a person eats, the greater the risk, according to a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Type 2 diabetes is linked with obesity. [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 13, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Intestinal protein may have role in ADHD, other neurological disordersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A biochemical pathway long associated with diarrhea and intestinal function may provide a new therapeutic target for treating ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) other neuropsychiatric disorders, according to a team of scientists from China and the United States reporting Aug. 11 in Science. Scientists have for the last quarter century studied the intestinal membrane receptor [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 12, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Stanford engineers redefine how the brain plans movementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New measurement technologies and techniques provide researchers more complete look at neurological activity In 1991, Carl Lewis was both the fastest man on earth and a profound long jumper, perhaps the greatest track-and-field star of all time in the prime of his career. On June 14th of that year, however, Carl Lewis was human. Leroy [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 12, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Venture Investing In Biotech Continues To DropEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Venture capital investing in life sciences may be rising overall but, with one exception, the biotech sector is not receiving as much funding as it has for the past few years, according to new data released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. In this year’s second quarter, biotech investing fell by 9 percent in dollars and dropped 24 percent in deals, on a year-over-year basis, with $1.2 billion going into 116 deals. A year earlier, investing amounted to $1.37 billion in 156 deals. On the bright side, funding increased from $901 million invested in the second quarter in 2009, whic...
Source: Pharmalot - August 11, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized biotechnology National Venture Capital Association Source Type: blogs

Research Team Discovers New Conducting Properties of Bacteria-Produced NanowiresEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology and bioelectronics, says a team of physicists and microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Their findings reported in the Aug. 7 advance online issue of Nature Nanotechnology may [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 10, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

A novel mechanism that regulates pro-inflammatory cells is identifiedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discovery has implications for autoimmune diseases, HIV infection and possibly in cancer as a biomarker and in the development of new treatments New research led by Derya Unutmaz, MD associate professor, the Departments of Pathology, Medicine, and Microbiology at NYU School of Medicine and Mark Sundrud, PhD, of Tempero Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has identified a novel [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 10, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Lab-Grown Disks May Cure That Aching BackEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Squishy, doughnut-shaped disks can make the difference between a pain-free, active lifestyle or years of back discomfort. When the disks that normally cushion each vertebra in the spine start to degenerate, due to aging or injury, nerves can be pinched and movement impeded. But degenerating disks may soon be replaceable with bioengineered disk implants grown [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 8, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

New study calls into question reliance on animal models in cardiovascular researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Anyone who follows science has read enthusiastic stories about medical breakthroughs that include the standard disclaimer that the results were obtained in mice and might not carry over to humans. Much later, there might be reports that a drug has been abandoned because clinical trials turned up unforeseen side effects or responses in humans. Given [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 7, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Study shows man-made fat may limit damage to heart attack victimsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
FINDINGS: A man-made fat called Intralipid, which is currently used as a component of intravenous nutrition and to treat rare overdoses of local anesthetics, may also offer protection for patients suffering from heart attacks. Current treatment for a heart attack focuses on limiting the duration of the ischemic period, when blood flow to tissues is [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 7, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Human Skin Cells Converted Directly into Functional NeuronsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have for the first time directly converted human skin cells into functional forebrain neurons, without the need for stem cells of any kind. The findings offer a new and potentially more direct way to produce replacement cell therapies for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.  Such cells may prove especially useful [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 6, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

New approach a step forward for hepatitis C vaccineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
French scientists have developed a novel hepatitis C vaccine that may offer the first effective way to prevent an infection that can cause chronic liver disease and cancer. There is currently no available vaccine for hepatitis C, though some companies are developing so-called “therapeutic vaccines,” which are designed to help patients who are already infected. [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 5, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Gene Discovery Could Lead to New Stroke TreatmentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Plaque buildup in the arteries is a major risk factor for strokes and heart attack, but some plaques are far more dangerous than others. The problem is there is no good way to distinguish relatively benign plaque on artery walls from plaque that will break off and cause harm, but that may soon change. Researchers [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 5, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Elsevier introduces Genome ViewerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, introduces the Genome Viewer, a new interactive feature on SciVerse ScienceDirect for applicable life sciences journals. The Genome Viewer is a SciVerse application that displays detailed gene or genomic sequence information on the genes mentioned in an article. The Genome Viewer utilizes [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 4, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Females can place limits on evolution of attractive features in males, research showsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Female cognitive ability can limit how melodious or handsome males become over evolutionary time, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have observed. Males across the animal world have evolved elaborate traits to attract females, from huge peacock tails to complex bird [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 4, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

The Brain: A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big BrainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
n 1758 the Swedish taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus dubbed our species Homo sapiens, Latin for “wise man.” It’s a matter of open debate whether we actually live up to that moniker. If Linnaeus had wanted to stand on more solid ground, he could have instead called us Homo megalencephalus: “man with a giant brain. ”Regardless of [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 4, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Scientists Bag and Tag the Stem Cell That May Create An Endless Supply of BloodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Rejoice ye vampires, the pursuit of an endless supply of blood took a major leap forward this month. Researchers at the Ontario Cancer Institute, led by John Dick, have found a way to hunt down and isolate the stem cells from which your entire blood supply is derived. Until now, these hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 3, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

How the brain assigns objects to categoriesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The human brain is adept at recognizing similar items and placing them into categories — for example, dog versus cat, or chair versus table. In a new study, MIT neuroscientists have identified the brain activity that appears to control this skill. The findings, published in the July 27 issue of the journal Neuron, suggest a [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 2, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Researchers increase the potency of HIV-battling proteinsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If one is good, two can sometimes be better. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have certainly found this to be the case when it comes to a small HIV-fighting protein. The protein, called cyanovirin-N (CV-N), is produced by a type of blue-green algae and has gained attention for its ability to ward [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 2, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Nanofiber Regenerates Blood VesselsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Regenerating blood vessels is important for combating the aftereffects of a heart attack or peripheral arterial disease, and for ensuring that transplanted organs receive a sufficient supply of blood. Now researchers at Northwestern University have created a nanomaterial that could help the body to grow new blood vessels. Samuel Stupp and his colleagues developed a [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 1, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Brain Shrinkage Linked to Smoking, Obesity, DiabetesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
People who smoke, are overweight, and have other health problems in middle age may be at increased risk of developing signs of brain shrinkage and diminished planning and organization skills as they age, new research indicates. Other health problems linked to brain shrinkage and mental decline include high blood pressure and diabetes. “Our findings provide [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 1, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Colon Cleansing May Be Risky, Study FindsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Colon cleansing, promoted as a natural way to boost well-being, has no proven benefits and may be risky, according to a new report. Ranit Mishori, MD, a family medicine doctor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, looked at studies that evaluated colon hydrotherapy or irrigation. She also looked at studies of cleansing by the use [...]
Source: Biosingularity - August 1, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: biotechnology Source Type: blogs

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