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• Video shows protein movement inside a brain cell

  Using bioluminescent proteins from a jellyfish, a team of scientists has lit up the inside of a neuron, capturing spectacular video footage that shows the movement of proteins throughout the cell. The video offers a rare peek at how proteins, the brain’s building blocks, are directed through neurons to renew its [...]

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• Possible marker for identifying precursors to insulin-producing cells

  For the millions of people worldwide with type 1 diabetes who cannot produce sufficient insulin, the potential to transplant insulin-producing cells could offer hope for a long-term cure. Pancreatic stem cells, the precursors of insulin-producing cells, have not yet been identified in humans or animals, and there is much debate [...]

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• Does Early Exposure to Antibiotics Impact Development, Obesity?

  Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have made a novel discovery that could have widespread clinical implications, potentially affecting everything from nutrient metabolism to obesity in children.

  Since the 1950’s, low dose antibiotics have been widely used as growth promoters in the agricultural industry. For decades, livestock growers have employed subtherapeutic [...]

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• Scripps Florida Appoints Two Noted Scientists to Metabolism and Aging Department

  The Scripps Research Institute has appointed Paul D. Robbins, PhD, as a professor and Laura J. Niedernhofer, MD, PhD, as an associate professor in the Metabolism and Aging Department on the institute’s Florida campus.

  “It is a distinct honor to welcome these two exceptional scientists to the faculty,” said Roy Smith, [...]

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• Univ of Miami Launches First-of-Its Kind Genomic Medicine Master’s Program

  First-year medical students at the Miller School now have the opportunity to earn a Master of Science in Genomic Medicine along with their medical degree, a program unique to the University of Miami.

  “This is the first program of its kind in the country,” said William K. Scott, Ph.D., vice [...]

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• Molecular code for destroying or correcting defective RNA is cracked

  Scientists have cracked a molecular code that may open the way to destroying or correcting defective gene products, such as those that cause genetic disorders in humans. A Combinatorial Amino Acid Code for RNA Recognition by Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins is published in PLOS Genetics.

  The code determines the recognition [...]

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• Thiabendazole slows tumor growth and shows promise as a chemotherapy for cancer

  An inexpensive antifungal drug, thiabendazole, slows tumor growth and shows promise as a chemotherapy for cancer. Scientists in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin made this discovery by exploiting the evolutionary relatedness of yeast, frogs, mice and humans.

  Thiabendazole is an FDA-approved, generic drug [...]

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• Artificial vocal cord material developed

  A new made-in-the-lab material designed to rejuvenate the human voice, restoring the flexibility that vocal cords lose with age and disease, is emerging from a collaboration between scientists and physicians, a scientist heading the development team said here today.

  That’s just one of several innovations that Robert Langer, Sc.D., discussed in [...]

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• Biodegradable polymer nanoparticles added to platelets double internal injury survival rate

  Nanoparticles tailored to latch onto blood platelets rapidly create healthy clots and nearly double the survival rate in the vital first hour after injury, new research shows.

  “We knew an injection of these nanoparticles stopped bleeding faster, but now we know the bleeding is stopped in time to increase survival following [...]

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• Information overload in the era of ‘big data’

  In this age of big data, scientists facing too much information rely on computers to search large data sets for patterns that are beyond the capability of humans to recognize—but computers can only interpret data based on the strict set of rules in their programming. Ontologies as integrative tools [...]

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