http://www.biosciencetechnology.comChemicals and Reagents RSS Feed on Bioscience Technology Onlinehttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-rocks-on-mars-may-provide-link-to-evidence-of-livi/(Elsevier) A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of clay-carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findings may provide a link to evidence of living organisms on Mars, roughly 4...Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 20:42:51 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-highlight-of-the-polarstern-expedition/(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association for the first time sent its autonomous underwater vehicle on an under-ice mission at about 79 degrees North.Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 17:44:33 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-next-generation-sequencing-establishes-genetic-lin/(Cell Press) Scientists have successfully used "next generation sequencing" to identify mutations that may cause a rare and mysterious genetic disorder. The research, published by Cell Press on July 29 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, demonstrates that sequencing an affected...Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 12:43:22 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-a-breakthrough-in-tuberculosis-research/(McGill University) The key to the fate of the macrophages is the balance between two kinds of eicosanoids. Eicosanoids are molecules that contribute to the control of our immune system. The genetic code of TB bacteria enables it to tip this balance in favor of necrosis, and human genetic...Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 11:46:18 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-good-and-bad-in-the-hands-of-politicians/(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) "In laboratory tests, right- and left-handers associate positive ideas like honesty and intelligence with their dominant side of space and negative ideas with their non-dominant side," says Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in...Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 11:46:13 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-new-study-reveals-decline-of-marine-phytoplankton-/(Dalhousie University) A new article published in the July 29 issue of the international journal Nature reveals for the first time that microscopic marine algae known as "phytoplankton" have been declining globally over the 20th century.Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 16:43:35 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-scientists-uncover-global-distribution-of-marine-b/(Dalhousie University) A team of scientists have mapped and analyzed global biodiversity patterns for over 11,000 marine species ranging from tiny zooplankton to sharks and whales.Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 16:43:29 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-sleep-disorder-may-signal-dementia-parkinsons-dis/(American Academy of Neurology) A new study shows that a sleep disorder may be a sign of dementia or Parkinson's disease up to 50 years before the disorders are diagnosed. The research is published in the July 28, 2010, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 16:43:24 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/PubGet/2010/07/Asymptomatic-deer-excrete-infectious-prions-in-faeces/Nature | Letter Subnanometre single-molecule localization, registration and distance measurements * Alexandros Pertsinidis1, 2 Search for this author in: * NPG journals * PubMed * Google Scholar * Yunxiang Zhang1, 2 Search for this author in: * NPG journals * PubMed *...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:42 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/PubGet/2010/07/Retraction-recommended-for-enzyme-chip-paper/Reactome array study should not have been published, says ethics committee. A chip that could provide a rapid snapshot of the total enzyme activity in a cell sounded like a dream come true for biologists. But the dream has faded fast. An investigating committee has recommended...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:38 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-implanted-glucose-sensor-works-for-more-than-1-yea/(University of California - San Diego) Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego and GlySens Incorporated have developed an implantable glucose sensor and wireless telemetry system that continuously monitors tissue glucose and transmits the information to an external...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 14:42:41 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-nrc-uottawa-scientists-first-to-watch-a-chemical-/(National Research Council of Canada) Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada and the University of Ottawa followed a bromine chemical bond as it broke apart using a technique developed earlier at NRC in which an image was obtained of single molecular orbital. The...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 14:09:36 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/PubGet/2010/07/Structural-and-Biochemical-Characterization-of-the-Human-Cyclophilin-Family-of-Peptidyl-Prolyl-Isomerases/Peptidyl-prolyl isomerases catalyze the conversion between cis and trans isomers of proline. The cyclophilin family of peptidyl-prolyl isomerases is well known for being the target of the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin, used to combat organ transplant rejection. There is...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 12:47:41 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/PubGet/2010/07/The-maltose-ABC-transporter-in-the-21(st)-century---towards-a-structural-dynamic-perspective-on-its-mode-of-action-/The maltose/maltodextrin transport system of Escherichia coli/Salmonella, composed of periplasmic maltose binding protein, MalE, the pore-forming subunits MalF and MalG, and a homodimer of the nucleotide-binding subunit, MalK, serves as a model for canonical...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 12:47:36 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-brilliant-star-in-a-colorful-neighborhood/(ESO) A spectacular new image from ESO's Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the brilliant and unusual star WR 22 and its colorful surroundings. WR 22 is a very hot and bright star that is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 11:41:30 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/PubGet/2010/07/In-vivo-angiogenesis-imaging-of-solid-tumors-by-{alpha}v{beta}3-targeted,-dual-modality-micellar-nanoprobes-/The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate an alpha(v)beta(3)-specific nanoprobe consisting of fluorescent superparamagnetic polymeric micelles (FSPPM) for in vivo imaging of tumor angiogenesis. Spherical micelles were produced using poly(ethylene...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 05:47:28 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/PubGet/2010/07/Reference-intervals-of-biochemical-bone-turnover-markers-for-Saudi-Arabian-women--A-cross-sectional-study-/Biochemical bone turnover markers (BTMs) provide important information on the diagnosis, therapy and monitoring of metabolic bone diseases including osteoporosis. One goal of anti-resorptive therapy in women is to decrease biochemical BTMs to the lower half of...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 05:47:24 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-morphine-blocks-tumor-growth/(American Journal of Pathology) Current research suggests that taking morphine can block new blood vessel and tumor growth. The related report by Koodie et al, "Morphine suppresses tumor angiogenesis through a HIF1α/p38MAPK pathway," appears in the August 2010 issue of the American...Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 00:41:54 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/PubGet/2010/07/Inferring-modules-from-human-protein-interactome-classes-/ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The integration of protein-protein interaction networks derived from high-throughput screening approaches and complementary sources is a key topic in systems biology. Although integration of protein interaction data is conventionally...Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 23:47:36 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-alcohol-reduces-the-severity-of-rheumatoid-arthrit/(Oxford University Press) Drinking alcohol may reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis according to new research published on Wednesday in the journal Rheumatology. It is the first time that this effect has been shown in humans. The study also finds that alcohol consumption reduces...Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 20:42:33 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-biomarkers-found-for-postmenopausal-cardiovascular/(BioMed Central) Analysis of blood protein data from the Women's Health Initiative cohorts has revealed new biomarkers for stroke and coronary heart disease. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Medicine found that beta-2 microglobulin levels were...Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 19:42:57 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-birds-may-increase-their-offsprings-survival-throu/(University of East Anglia) Why does female infidelity occur so frequently throughout the animal kingdom? A 10-year study from the University of East Anglia published today shows that female birds may increase their offspring's survival through their infidelity.Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 19:42:47 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-a-hop-from-south-america-tracking-australian-ma/(Public Library of Science) Debates have raged for decades about how to arrange the Australian and South American branches of the marsupial family tree.Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 18:41:51 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-ben-gurion-university-of-the-negev-researchers-ide/(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) According to the study published in Hypertension, the American Heart Association journal, the research team assessed how teenage boys and girls with normal blood pressure might progress into becoming young adults with hypertension....Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 10:41:58 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-more-accurate-than-heisenberg-allows-/(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Quantum cryptography is the safest way to encrypt data. It utilizes the fact that transmitted information can only be measured with a strictly limited degree of precision. Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and ETH Zürich have...Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 10:41:52 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-certain-epilepsy-drugs-may-increase-risk-of-suicid/(American Academy of Neurology) While the Food and Drug Administration requires a warning of an increased risk of suicide for all epilepsy drugs, a new study shows that only certain drugs may increase the risk. The study is published in the July 27, 2010, issue of Neurology, the medical...Monday, 26 Jul 2010 17:42:47 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-new-mathematical-model-could-aid-studies-of-cardia/(Rockefeller University Press) Researchers have developed a new mathematical model that may provide a simpler and better way of predicting ventricular function during the cardiac cycle. The new model could help researchers improve treatment options for patients with heart disease. The...Monday, 26 Jul 2010 13:42:05 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-ichep-2010-conference-highlights-first-results-fro/(CERN) First results from the LHC at CERN1 are being revealed at ICHEP, the world's largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris.Monday, 26 Jul 2010 10:42:38 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-scots-engineers-prove-space-pioneers-25-year-old-t/(University of Strathclyde) When American space pioneer, Dr. Robert L. Forward, proposed in 1984 a way of greatly improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits, some claimed it was impossible. But now engineers at the University of Strathclyde's Advanced Space...Monday, 26 Jul 2010 09:42:46 GMThttp://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/07/products-chemicals-and-reagents-nasa-satellite-improves-pollution-monitoring/(American Society of Agronomy) Nasa scientists use satellite precipitation data to improve water pollution monitoring models.Monday, 26 Jul 2010 00:42:58 GMT