Life Sciences
Featured Topics in Life Sciences: Genetic Engineering | Biology | Vaccines | Chemistry | Nanomedicine | all topics
Filter by: News | Articles | New to Market | Tools & Technology | Videos | Podcasts | Journal Articles | White Papers
3/17/10
| News
Understanding the steps to the intricate dance inside a cell is essential to one day choreographing the show. By studying the molecules that give a cell its structure, Univ. of Illinois researchers are moving closer to understanding one of those steps: the conga line.
Mar 16 | News
Magic bullets, also called silver bullets, because of the folkloric belief that only silver bullets can kill supernatural creatures, remain the goal of drug development efforts today. A team of scientists at Washington Univ. in St. Louis is currently working on a magic bullet for cancer. But their bullets are gold rather than silver.
Mar 16 | News
In the effort to study the movements of bacteria, Texas A&M plant experts observed the cell wall crashing behavior of Xylella fastidiosa, which causes a deadly wine grape plant disease. Electron microscopy helped them see this movement for the first time.
10 hours ago | News
As one superbug seems to be fading as a threat in hospitals, another is on the rise, a new study suggests.A dangerous, drug-resistant staph infection called MRSA is often seen as the biggest germ threat to patients in hospitals and other health care facilities. But infections from Clostridium...
23 hours ago | News
An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before they leave their native countries, health officials say.The nation's TB rate dropped more than 11 percent last year, the largest single-year decrease in more than...
Mar 19 | News
A New Jersey man with multiple sclerosis was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for growing marijuana plants he said he needed to treat his condition.John Ray Wilson, 37, was convicted in December of second-degree manufacturing of marijuana and third-degree possession of psychedelic...
Mar 19 | News
Eighteen Rhode Island children poisoned by lead paint have settled lawsuits against their former landlords.Vincent Greene, a lawyer representing the children, announced the settlements Friday but said the terms were confidential.Greene says the children who sued were exposed to lead before they...
Mar 19 | News
The Food and Drug Administration says the highest available dose of the cholesterol drug Zocor can cause muscle damage as well as severe and potentially lethal kidney damage.The agency says statin drugs like Zocor are known to cause muscle damage in some patients, but the risk is more severe...
Mar 19 | News
The Food and Drug Administration says the highest available dose of the cholesterol drug Zocor can cause muscle damage as well as severe and potentially lethal kidney damage.The agency says statin drugs like Zocor are known to cause muscle damage in some patients, but the risk is more severe...
Mar 19 | New To Market
At the AudiologyNOW! 2010 show in San Diego next month, UK-based coatings company P2i will display their relatively new Aridion liquid-repellant nano-coating. Designed for exposure to humidity or sweat, the polymer layer is applied by a pulsed ion gas process that lower’s the hearing aid’s surface energy, coaxing water away from delicate components.
Mar 19 | News
Engineers in Florida have ignited certain small particles with low-power lasers, a finding that could have ramifications in medicine. With as little as 500 mW, researchers were able to release the energy stored in functionalized fullerenes, which are biologically safe molecules that can be directed to cancerous tumors.
Mar 19 | News
Researchers around the globe are working on turning microRNAs, over 5,000 of which already have been identified, into novel drugs for a wide range of applications, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. These noncoding single-stranded RNAs act through binding to complementary mRNA...
Mar 19 | News
The scramble to find sufficient land for biofuel production has experts eyeing marginal croplands that have been placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Now a study by Agricultural Research Service scientists indicates that plant species diversity and composition are key factors in...