Sparking production of a hormone in the brain that people with epilepsy often lack could prevent debilitating seizures, University of Florida …Read the Rest
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Antibiotics get reinforcements in fight against superbugs
February 16, 2012
biotech
A compound that makes existing antibiotics 16 times more effective against recently discovered antibiotic-resistant “superbugs.” has been developed at North Carolina …Read the Rest
A frozen budget for the NIH will flat line medical breakthroughs
February 16, 2012
biotech
“The president’s recommendation for NIH fails to capitalize on the power of this funding to drive new businesses, new jobs …Read the Rest
Expanding trial subject pool via social media
February 15, 2012
biotech
As oncologists already know and newly diagnosed lung cancer patients learn, the type of treatment given to patients is increasingly becoming …Read the Rest
How chromosomes align in a dividing cell
February 12, 2012
biotech
What internal signals cause chromosomes to align on a center axis in a cell undergoing mitotic cell division? Tomomi Kiyomitsu, …Read the Rest
New method for creating tissue engineering scaffolds
February 11, 2012
biotech
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new method for creating scaffolds for tissue engineering applications, providing an alternative that is …Read the Rest
FDA-approved drug clears amyloid from the brain, reverses Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice
February 10, 2012
biotech
One of the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease has nothing to do with memory or cognition—it’s the loss of the …Read the Rest
Cerebral cortex cells created from skin cells
February 7, 2012
biotech
Cambridge scientists have, for the first time, created cerebral cortex cells – those that make up the brain’s grey matter …Read the Rest
Palm Beach State receives $375,000 grant to boost science instruction
February 6, 2012
biotech
Palm Beach State College has received a $375,000 Quantum Foundation grant to better align the Palm Beach County school district …Read the Rest
New procedure rapidly induces nerve regeneration in mammals
February 4, 2012
biotech
Texas scientists believe a new procedure to repair severed nerves could result in patients recovering in days or weeks, rather …Read the Rest