New technique finds a use for ozone-destroying chemical waste product

13-12-2012

A team of chemists at USC has developed a way to transform a hitherto useless ozone-destroying greenhouse gas that is the byproduct of Teflon manufacture and transform it into reagents for producing pharmaceuticals. The team will publish their discovery in Science. The method is also being ...

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12-12-2012

Despite treatment with imatinib, a drug that targets chronic myeloid leukemia (CML, some patients may continue to be at risk for relapse because a tiny pool of stem cells is resistant to treatment and may even accumulate additional genetic aberrations, eventually leading to disease ...

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12-12-2012

A multimedia feature in the New York Times outlines efforts in the United States and Europe to develop sign language versions of specialized terms used in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The article shares newly defined signs for terms like "light-year," "organism" and ...

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10-12-2012

Johns Hopkins researchers have used a small synthetic molecule to stimulate cells to move and change shape, bypassing the cells' usual way of sensing and responding to their environment. The experiment pioneers a new tool for studying cell movement, a phenomenon involved in everything from ...

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Researchers answer the difficult question of where new heart cells come from

10-12-2012

Recent research has shown that there are new cells that develop in the heart, but how these cardiac cells are born and how frequently they are generated remains unclear. In new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), researchers use a novel method to identify these new heart cells ...

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New method analyzes recent history of Ashkenazi and Masai populations, paving the way to personalized medicine

07-12-2012

Computer scientists at Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science have published a study in The American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG) that demonstrates a new approach used to analyze genetic data to learn more about the history of populations. The authors are the first to ...

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07-12-2012

Our bodies contain far more microbial genes than human genes. And a new study suggests that just as human DNA varies from person to person, so too does the massive collection of microbial DNA in the intestine.The research is the first to catalog the genetic variation of microbes that live in ...

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Remote sensing, microbiology used to trace foodborne pathogens

06-12-2012

In 2011, an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes in cantaloupe led to almost 150 illnesses and 30 deaths. With a spate of recent outbreaks of such foodborne pathogens as Salmonella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli and L. monocytogenes, the ability to predict where and how these deadly microbes ...

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Combines powerful new technology, citizen science

06-12-2012

The National Geographic Society announced the next phase of its Genographic Project — the multiyear global research initiative that uses DNA to map the history of human migration. Building on seven years of global data collection, Genographic shines new light on humanity's collective past, ...

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05-12-2012

Current hospital cleaning protocol may be inadequate to rid patient rooms of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and ...

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