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Posted in Tissue Engineering on Mar 31st, 2008
Now when it comes to weird technology you really will think this is weird, a new and amazing breakthrough in biotechnology allows body parts to re-grow that have been damaged or lost. You got to watch the video below to believe it. Source — Related Articles at Weird Things:Nadya will you marry me, [...]
Posted in Transcriptomics on Mar 31st, 2008
Of the almost 25,000 human genes science that have been identified, half are believed to be silent at any particular time and activated only when needed.
Perhaps not, says Andre Ptitsyn, of the Center for Bioinfomatics at Colorado State University. He says he has discovered that current tools cannot measure extraordinarily low levels of gene [...]
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Mar 31st, 2008
Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell’s core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function. The study is published in the March edition of the journal, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology.
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Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Mar 31st, 2008
One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.
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Posted in Medicinal Plants, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Mar 31st, 2008
Terra Sigillata : Can academic drug discovery programs improve on pharma’s relative stagnation?
A paper in last month’s issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery reported that US drug approvals during 2007 were the lowest number since 1983. (17 new molecular entities and 2 biologicals; see this figure for 1996-2007 data.) The review cites increased regulatory action [...]
Posted in Science & Fiction on Mar 31st, 2008
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BioShock was never meant to be a science lesson, but it contains a some jargon and ideas that would be familiar to any life science student. We got in touch with Ken Levine, the creative director at 2K games, to learn about the bits of science that he slipped into an amazing game. “Let’s be [...]
Posted in Medicinal Plants on Mar 19th, 2008
A compound found in soybeans almost completely prevented the spread of human prostate cancer in mice, according to a study published in the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Researchers say that the amount of the chemical, an antioxidant known as genistein, used in the experiments was [...]
Posted in Synthetic Biology on Mar 19th, 2008
Bio::Blogs is a monthly bioinformatic-related blog journal. This issue, number 19, is hosted here at O’Really? and focuses on the the fascinating relationship between Biology and Engineering. Below, for your reading pleasure, is a brief roundup of blog posts during February-ish 2008, and a few other related Bioengineering resources. How much is Biology [...]
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Mar 19th, 2008
Genetic modification holds the promise of bringing locally grown food crops to climates where farming has been traditionally difficult. Doing that means optimizing the genetics of crops in some ways without impacting them in others.
A new tool for rice genetics has made that a little bit easier. It allows rice breeders to surgically [...]
Posted in Genomics on Mar 19th, 2008
Achievements of the National Plant Genome Initiative and New Horizons in Plant Biology
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