[NEWS] Contact: Jonathan Eisen jaeisen@ucdavis.edu 530-752-3498 University of California – Davis Genome scientists from the US and Germany have assembled the first pages of a comprehensive encyclopedia of genomes of all the microbes on Earth. The results, published Dec. 24 in the journal Nature, will help biologists find new genes and fill …

[NEWS] Contact: Suzanne Taylor Muzzin suzanne.taylormuzzin@yale.edu 203-403-8555 Yale University This release is available in Chinese. New Haven, Conn. – A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the firs…

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Contact: Deirdre Branley sciencenews@einstein.yu.edu 718-430-3101 Albert Einstein College of Medicine Topically applied therapy travels deep into the skin to combat MRSA infections December 22, 2009 – (BRONX, NY) – Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed…

[NEWS] Contact: Karen Honey press_releases@the-jci.org 215-573-1850 Journal of Clinical Investigation Antibodies directed against the protein CD20, which is expressed by immune cells known as B cells, are used to treat B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis. Despite this, the function of CD20 has not been determined. Now, a team of …

[NEWS] Contact: Jordan Reese jreese@upenn.edu 267-934-9573 University of Pennsylvania Collaboration by University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University PHILADELPHIA – - People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-…

[NEWS] Contact: Abby Vogel avogel@gatech.edu 404-385-3364 Georgia Institute of Technology Research News Regenerative medicine therapies often require the growth of functional, stable blood vessels at the site of an injury. Using synthetic polymers called hydrogels, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been able to induce s…

Controversial vending machine-like dispensers scan the irises or fingerprints of British cons, then dole out the right dose of methadone.