20 June 2002
Comments to this news item have been kindly provided by Professor Jorge Moreno-Lopez of theDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
20 June 2002
The newly elected members and foreign associates of the NAS represent 64 scientific fields manifesting the ever-shifting boundaries
of science.
20 June 2002
The steady progress of science is founded on the tradition that individual scientists assemble knowledge 'brick-by-brick'.
20 June 2002
The lead proponent of a cloning ban said recently that he may seek to force the issue by trying to include the legislation
or parts of it in unrelated bills.
20 June 2002
New Max Planck head, Peter Gruss, plans to keep Germany in top ranks of global science.
20 June 2002
Using modified gelatin and polymers, a new bandage contains the moleculare structure needed to help cells heal an injury.
20 June 2002
Researchers are using dogs to clear up some of the mystery surrounding prostate cancer and how it spreads.
20 June 2002
When can invasive experiments on monkeys or apes be justified? And what would be the consequences for biomedical research
if they were to cease?
20 June 2002
Under close state and federal scrutiny, some salmon farmers in Maine have begun restocking their pens in an effort to recover
from an outbreak of infectious salmon anaemia that decimated the 2001 crop.
20 June 2002
Poultry farms in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley are in the grip of an avian influenza outbreak that has led to the culling of
more than four million turkeys and chickens.
20 June 2002
The West Nile viral encephalitis has spread to 27 states and the District of Columbia since it was first discovered in New
York City in 1999.
20 June 2002
A minor change in a cell protein impairs the ability of a key type of immune cell to marshal the body's defenses against disease.
20 June 2002
The main proponent of a ban on human cloning surprised the Senate by proposing to outlaw patents on human organisms.
20 June 2002
The University of California, Davis, has initiated construction of a new $77 million teaching and research laboratory for
the School of Veterinary Medicine.
20 June 2002
Iowa State University has received $1 million in federal funding to create the Centre for Food Security and Public Health
at the university.
20 June 2002
Boston-area scientists are working to streamline the technique of short tandem repeat (STR)
20 June 2002
Allergic diseases such as asthma are meditated by the immune system, but the signals that trigger the allergic immune cascade
are not clear.
20 June 2002
Some painkilling drugs may delay or even prevent the healing of fractures, researchers have warned.
20 June 2002
Fears are growing that ecotourism and ecological research could be harming wildlife by spreading human diseases to animals.
20 June 2002
Scanning veins in the eye to monitor the level of oxygen in the blood could give an early warning of internal bleeding.
19 June 2002
It has always been assumed that the function of semen is simply to get the sperm to the egg, but it has an extra role.
19 June 2002
Israel has become only the second non-European country to report a case of mad cow disease.
19 June 2002
A central player in the maintenance of immunological memory is the T lymphocyte, which originates in the thymus as a thymocyte.
19 June 2002
Many scientists who need to study developmental, adaptive or maladaptive responses in cells over time, could benefit from
using the system.
19 June 2002
The study presents the first definitive evidence that the piwi gene family has an essential function in the mammalian male
reproductive system.
19 June 2002
The ability to generate histocompatible cells using cloning techniques addresses one of the major challenges in transplantation
medicine.
19 June 2002
A safe version of a controversial HIV vaccine is worth pursuing in humans, researchers heard recently.
19 June 2002
The HIV virus may assist in its own downfall if two new gene therapy strategies succeed.
19 June 2002
Scientists need to make sure that the public have access to all the facts in this debate.
19 June 2002
There is reason to believe that cloning can assist in the preservation of genetic diversity in precariously small populations.
19 June 2002
It seems difficult to explain the sometimes explosive spread of flu epidemics without some role for airborne transmission.
10 June 2002
Fears that the infectious prion proteins that cause BSE could be present in chicken fillets have been raised after bovine
protein was found in breast fillets tested by the Irish Food Safety Authority (FSAI).
10 June 2002
Dr. Sandy Weinberg has been named to the Linnaeus Chair at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. The professorship is a gift
from Amersham Biosciences, a proven separations industry leader.
10 June 2002
Carlsbad, California-based Invitrogen has introduced a robot-compatible E-Gel 96 High-Throughput Agarose Electrophoresis System
which eliminates the need to pour gels, prepare buffers and stain and destain gels after running.
10 June 2002
A former research assistant at UC Davis is scheduled to appear in a Yolo County courtroom this week on charges that he stole
key ingredients in an experiment aimed at curing a rare form of blindness.
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10 June 2002
Scientists have determined that a cell-signalling molecule called Desert Hedgehog (DHH) is required for the differentiation
of male-specific Leydig cells in the developing embryo.
10 June 2002
About one out of every five couples worldwide experience fertility problems, and one third to one half of these cases result
from male infertility.
10 June 2002
Due to the nature of variola, the virus that causes smallpox, researchers cannot access the virus conventionally.
10 June 2002
Bio.com offers a useful article that describes how penicillin attacks bacteria using penicillin-binding proteins.
10 June 2002
Understanding the antibiotic ramoplanin may aid in developing new classes of antibiotics for treatment of antimicrobial resistance
10 June 2002
Researchers show that the immune system stops responding to an infection whether or not it has successfully controlled it.
10 June 2002
Antibodies have been isolated that are capable of neutralizing the toxin that makes the anthrax bacterium such a lethal pathogen.
10 June 2002
Scientists have shown that the timing of neuronal inhibition shapes the processing and representation of interaural time differences
in previously unsuspected ways.
10 June 2002
Female cloned cows that die just after birth have unusual patterns of DNA inactivation on the X-chromosome, whereas cloned
cows that live have normal patterns.
10 June 2002
The aims are to achieve greater focus on questions of European importance and better integration of research efforts
6 June 2002
Researchers have compared mutations in an HIV gene and the gene that encodes the HLA receptor on T cells. The range of HLA
types in the population could account for the different responses to the virus in infected individuals.
6 June 2002
Does the artificial laboratory environment induce abnormal behavioural responses in mice used for molecular investigations
of the mechanisms of brain function?
6 June 2002
Animal models are indispensable tools in the search to identify new antidepressant drugs and to provide insights into the
neuropathology that underlies the idiopathic disease state of depression.
6 June 2002
Earlier this year Elsevier Science replaced the online journal HMS Beagle with a new journal called BioMedNet Magazine.
6 June 2002
Sixteen years after the discovery of the 21st amino acid encoded by DNA, scientists have found another.
6 June 2002
Johns Hopkins researchers have reported that excessive amounts of the protein myostatin in mice cause rapid and dramatic loss
of both muscle and fat, without affecting appetite.
6 June 2002
Te recently described cytokine interleukin-21 (IL-21) might contribute to the transition between innate and adaptive immune
responses.
6 June 2002
A new method developed by University of Toronto researchers for growing specialised cells from embryonic stem cells could
provide large numbers of these valuable cells for research and clinical purposes.
6 June 2002
The International Equine Veterinarians Hall of Fame has inducted two veterinarians - James Rooney Queenstown, Md., and Richard
Mansmann, Apex, N.C.
6 June 2002
Mice and men share about 97.5 per cent of their working DNA, just one per cent less than chimps and humans.
6 June 2002
A suspected outbreak of foot and mouth disease in a national park in India is killing the endangered gaur, wildlife officials
say.
6 June 2002
A component of bodily secretions, including mucus and tears, stops bacteria forming potentially deadly biofilms.
6 June 2002
Imprisonment of leading scientists for doing research might be the effect of a sweeping new law in Mexico that could block
researchers from working with any transgenic organisms, even in the laboratory.
6 June 2002
Children's Hospital Boston and colleagues demonstrated that laboratory-engineered tissues cloned from cows, developed into
functional tissues and caused no signs of rejection.
6 June 2002
A previously undescribed pathway is responsible for the development of granule cells in the cerebellum, according to Rockefeller
University researchers.
6 June 2002
In somatic-cell cloning the cloned embryos receive one active (Xa) and one inactive (Xi) X chromosome from the donor cells.
6 June 2002
The mechanisms that are involved in the destruction of target cells are multifaceted - not just simple membrane damage.
6 June 2002
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources wants hunters to depopulate an estimated 15,000 white-tailed deer in a 287-square-mile
zone to halt the spread of chronic wasting disease.
6 June 2002
Bovine viral diarrhoea virus is still thriving despite 40 years of vaccinations and 160 currently licensed vaccines.
6 June 2002
Nucleic acid therapeutics are likely to become as large a factor in biotechnology in the next ten years as monoclonal antibodies
are today.
6 June 2002
Rsearchers have exploited a naturally occurring biological phenomenon to come up with a potentially novel way of treating
HIV.
6 June 2002
With the help of leading scientists, TheScientificWorldJOURNAL has developed an Inflammation Domain to present the scientific
findings of all aspects of inflammation in the body.
6 June 2002
Breaking the language barrier is a driving force behind one of Germany's newest science innovations – the International Graduate
Schools.
5 June 2002
Increasing evidence shows that the non-random association between alleles at different loci on a chromosome is influenced
by recombination ‘hotspots’ in sperm DNA, but, Paradoxically, they are not evolutionarily stable.
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