Six years ago, Californians voted for a bond issue to advance stem cell research in the state. The California Institute …Click Here to Read More
Fitting a biological nanopore into a man-made one, new ways to analyze DNA
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Contact: Cees Dekker c.dekker@tudelft.nl Delft University of Technology Researchers at Delft University of Technology and Oxford University announce a new type of nanopore device that could help in developing fast and cheap genetic analysis. In the journal Nature Nanotechnology (November 28), they report on a novel method that combi…
Discovery Halts Breast Cancer Stem Cells
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Breast cancer stem cells (CSCs), the aggressive cells thought to be resistant to current anti-cancer therapies and which promote metastasis, are stimulated by estrogen via a pathway that mirrors normal stem cell development. Disrupting the pathway, researchers were able to halt the expansion of breast CSCs, a finding that suggests a new drug therapy target. The study, done in mice, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Early Edition this week. “A critical …
A high-yield biomass alternative to petroleum for industrial chemicals
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Contact: Janet Lathrop jlathrop@admin.umass.edu 413-545-0444 University of Massachusetts at Amherst UMass Amherst chemical engineering breakthrough AMHERST, Mass. – A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in today's issue of Science that they have developed a way to pr…
New imaging technique accurately finds cancer cells, fast
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Contact: Liz Ahlberg eahlberg@illinois.edu 217-244-1073 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be over, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois. The research team demonstrated the novel microscopy technique, called nonlinear…
Erythromycin A produced in E. coli for first time
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Contact: Kim Thurler kim.thurler@tufts.edu 617-627-3175 Tufts University Biosynthetic breakthrough paves way for other pharmaceuticals MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have reported the first successful production of the antibiotic erythromycin A, and two variations, u…