Molecular genealogy in the Arctic sediment(20 Jan 2010) Heat-loving bacteria found in the Arctic seabed have their origins in oil springs and the depths of the Earth's crust. This is the finding of a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, which used molecular biology to study "misplaced" ...
Extreme competive sports: A fitness test for DNA(25 Aug 2008) Unusually high levels of physical exertion do cause oxidative stress, but this does not result in any long-term damage to DNA. This is just one of the many outcomes revealed by an extraordinary research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund ...
Bacteria use plant defense for genetic modification(23 Oct 2007) Bacteria that cause tumours in plants modify plant genomes by skilfully exploiting the plants' first line of defence. Utilising the plant's own proteins, bacterial genes infiltrate first the nucleus then the plant genome, where they reprogramme the ...
RNA Interference - Decision-Making Processes on a Molecular Level(17 Jul 2007) "How does RNAi work?" Researchers across the world have been trying to answer this question for a number of years. Science has now come closer to finding the answer thanks to a research group headed by Prof. Renée Schroeder (MFPL) and Dr. Javier ...
Fibrex Medical: Peptide for Myocardial Infarction Proves to be Safe(11 Apr 2006) Fibrex Medical has successfully completed a first dose in man study with its lead product, the anti-inflammatory peptide FX06. FX06 is developed to prevent reperfusion injury, an undesired inflammatory reaction after acute myocardial infarction. The ...
Austrianova discovers new therapeutic for cancer gene therapy(01 Mar 2006) Austrianova, together with its partner at the Research Institute for Virology and Biomedicine, University of Veterinary Medicine have shown that a gene from a bacteriophage can be used for the treatment of cancer. The Department of Therapeutic Genes ...
Campus Vienna Biocenter Thriving Plant Research(14 Feb 2006) At the Campus Vienna Biocenter research has begun into environmental stress-induced changes to the plant genome supported by the Austrian genome program (GEN-AU). A EUR 1.3 million budget has been allocated to the three-year project. Two task groups ...
Genetic Fingerprint unmasks Microbial Vandals(17 Jan 2006) For the first time DNA analysis can identify paper-degrading microorganisms. This is made possible by a molecular process developed for fungal infected documents at the University of Vienna with support from the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Fungal ...
Campus Vienna Biocenter: New role for a known signaling molecule(21 Dec 2005) The Raf-1 protein plays a key role in determining how liver cells react to signals for the activation of a self-destruction program. A group at the Campus Vienna Biocenter has discovered this hitherto unknown function of the long-known signal ...
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