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Fine Tuning Treatments for Depression

New research clarifies how neurotransmitters like norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine, are regulated – a finding that may help fine-tune therapies for depression.

A Flash of Inspiration

According to IBM, DNA origami causes single DNA molecules to self assemble in solution via a reaction between a long single strand of viral DNA and a mixture of different short synthetic oligonucleotide strands.

They Like Me, They Like Me Not

It should come as no surprise to you all that your profession—science—is highly respected by the general public. I’m sure many of you expected this, but now there is validation in the form of a survey conducted by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

Why We Do What We Do

Our industry is unique in that it is often only limited by the imagination of those working in it. If you can think of it and find funding (which often presents its own difficulties), then you can work on it.

Mass Spec-based Tool Provides Precise Data Collection for Drug Discovery Efforts

Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new mass spectrometry-based tool they say provides more precise, cost-effective data collection for drug discovery efforts.

Biochemists Prolong the Half-life of Pharmacological Substances

Many biopharmaceuticals comprise small proteins that are quickly eliminated from the body. Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) combine such small proteins with a kind of molecular balloon that swells and thus prolongs the half-life of the proteins in the body.

Nanoresearchers Challenge Dogma in Protein Transportation in Cells

New data on signalling proteins, called G proteins, may prove important in fighting diseases such as cardiovascular, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer.

RNAi Found in Budding Yeasts

RNAi, a key biochemical pathway in the genetic control networks of most organisms, has now been discovered in Saccharomyces castellii, a close relative of the prototypical budding yeast S. cerevisiae, and in Candida albicans, a common human pathogen.

Boron-based Compounds Trick a Biomedical Protein

Chemists and biologists have successfully demonstrated that specially synthesized boron compounds are readily accepted in biologically active enzymes, a move that, they say, is a proof of concept that could lead to new drug design strategies.

Marine Microbes Creating Green Waves in Industry

New technology designed to analyze large numbers of novel marine microbes could lead to more efficient and greener ways to manufacture new drugs for conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, flu, and other viruses, as well as improving the manufacture of other products such as agrochemicals.

Research Exchange

Meeting the Challenges of Long-term Time-lapse Imaging

Oct 26

Recent technological developments in the sequence capture of cellular events through a light microscope can be combined to image multiple independent experiments automatically, with many advantages.

Handle With Care

Aug 26

Researchers face the dual challenges of difficult to handle and hard to maintain stem cells.

Six Tips for More Successful Cell Cultures

Aug 18

For those who perform cell culture experiments, it pays to be meticulous. Even seemingly minor handling techniques and lab equipment features can make a difference in achieving success.

Rapid Generation of Assay-ready Serial Dilution Plates Using Two-stage Low Volume Pipetting

Jul 22

Researchers see the benefits of streamlining accurate serial dilution of stock solutions of compounds. By Joby Jenkins, TTP LabTech As the cost of drug development escalates there is a growing requirement to accelerate the R&D cycle and eliminate unwanted off-target drug effects earlier.

The Future of the FDA: Operating in an Electronic World

Oct 12

Acording to an Axendia reseach study, the FDA is currently shifting its organizational and technology infrastructures to facilitate electronic interactions with the companies it regulates.

Tissue Microarrays - Opening up new opportunities in the Therapeutics sector

Oct 12

Tissue Microarray has become a pivotal cog in the wheel for high throughput studies and is an integral part in the validation process for screening results from discovery platforms for expression studies using various approaches.

Translational Informatics for Systems Biology

Oct 12

A study in which IO Informatics' Sentient software has been applied to integrating and linking a customer's multiple data streams.

De Novo Formula Generation with Sub-ppm Confidence

Oct 12

Novel technology embodied in the micrOTOF allows precise measurement of both accurate mass and True Isotopic Pattern (TIP) over a wide dynamic range, allowing for the implementation of an open access system.

ADP-Glo™: An Ideal Approach to Monitor the Activity of Protein Kinases and Beyond

Oct 16

Because of its versatility (alltypesofsubstrates), robustness (Z’>0.8), rapidperformance, and its ease of use, the luminescence based Kinase Glo® assay platform has gained wide acceptance in many drug screening programs for protein kinase inhibitors.

A Cell-Based, Microplate Format, DELFIA Assay for Determination of the Activation of MAP KinaseSofia

Oct 16

Mitogen-activated protein kinases(MAPK) are activated in response to extracellularsignals or cellular stress. We have set up a cell-based DELFIA®Time-Resolved Fluorescence assay to test compounds or conditions for their ability to modulate cellular stress by the activation of MAPK.

Cell Based Assays for Studying the Effects of Cytotoxic Agents

Oct 16

Apoptosis, DNA fragmentation and cell proliferation are important parameters when studying live cell function, especially, when the effects of cytotoxic agents are under study.

A glimpse of canaan, 40 years on. The Johann jacob wepfer award 2009.

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During the last few decades an explosion in definitions has occurred covering brief to permanent focal syndromes, diagnostic categories for stroke and subtypes, scoring systems characterizing clinical syndromes as well as imaging, and fostered the ascendancy of biostatistics...

Cognitive decline and mortality in a community-based cohort: the Monongahela Valley Independent Elders Survey.

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OBJECTIVES: To compare, in a longitudinal cohort study, declines in specific cognitive domains on their ability to predict time to death, in the presence and absence of dementia, and to explore an explanatory role for vascular disease. DESIGN: Prospective population-based...

Ultrafine carbon particles down-regulate CYP1B1 expression in human monocytes.

3 hours ago

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Cytochrome P450 monoxygenases play an important role in the defence against inhaled toxic compounds and in metabolizing a wide range of xenobiotics and environmental contaminants. In ambient aerosol the ultrafine particle fraction which penetrates deeply...

The impact of habitat fragmentation on tsetse abundance on the plateau of eastern Zambia.

3 hours ago

Tsetse-transmitted human or livestock trypanosomiasis is one of the major constraints to rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. The epidemiology of the disease is determined largely by tsetse fly density. A major factor, contributing to tsetse population density is the...

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Oct 16

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Frontiers in Bioscience Learning and Memory Video

Oct 6

How does the brain learn and remember? An academic conference "Frontiers in Bioscience Learning and Memory" was held at City University of Hong Kong on June 16th.

Podcasts:

Allen Institute for Brain Research

Allen Institute for Brain Research

Oct 14

Discussed in this interview are both the mouse brain project and the human cortex project with an emphasis on the importance of these projects to neuroscience research.