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11/21/2008
When Good Maples Go Red (Newswise)
Two University of Vermont research groups are asking: why do leaves go red? The ecology and mechanisms are still unknown. The question has economic urgency since climate change may make New England's bright leaf season go dull, drying up the flow of tourists and their wallets.
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11/20/2008
Carbon Nanotubes Improve Protein Array Detection Limits (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- To detect cancer as early as possible, dozens of research groups are developing methods to detect trace levels of cancer-related proteins and genes in blood or other biological samples. Those efforts should get a boost thanks to new research results showing that carbon nanotubes can serve as incredibly sensitive optical labels for use in a wide variety of assay systems.
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11/21/2008
Carbon nanotubes improve protein array detection limits (News-Medical-Net)
To detect cancer as early as possible, dozens of research groups are developing methods to detect trace levels of cancer-related proteins and genes in blood or other biological samples.
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11/23/2008
The thought that might not count (Lancaster Online)
Gift cards are high on the holiday wish list this year, but fewer will be under the tree.More than half of all adults want a plastic shopping spree from Santa this year, according to a survey conducted this month by BIGresearch for the National Retail Federation.Yet holiday gift card sales are expec...
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11/23/2008
Golfer battled cancer thanks to funds from organization (Kingwood Observer)
Given only two to four months to live, Kingwood resident Gordon Findlay underwent radiation and chemotherapy to treat his pancreatic cancer.
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11/19/2008
13 New Tumor-Suppressor Genes In Liver Cancer Identified By Cold Spring Harbor Science Teams (Medical News Today)
Over the years, hunting for cancer-related genes and understanding how they work has been an important, although time-consuming, exercise. At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), five different research groups have now combined their expertise to speed up the rate of discovering cancer-related genes and validating their function in living animals.
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11/18/2008
Cold Spring Harbor science teams identify 13 new tumor-suppressor genes in liver cancer (EurekAlert!)
( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) Five research groups at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have developed a means of speeding up the discovery of cancer-related genes and validating their function in living animals. A collaborative effort yielded a large-scale, rapid, cost-effective genetic screen that in a preliminary test succeeded in uncovering 13 new tumor suppressors in human liver cancer, ...
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11/19/2008
Group proposes skills-based school accountability system (Valley Morning Star)
BROWNSVILLE - The standard for high school graduation should be readiness for skilled employment or college -without the need for remediation, a coalition of business and research groups says.
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11/22/2008
Patient, heal thyself: Grow your own new organ (Independent)
Surgeons crossed another medical frontier this week with the transplant of a windpipe grown from stem cells – the "mother" cells of the body capable of developing into specialised tissue. The success of the operation in Barcelona on Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother-of-two, proved what scientists have long promised – that stem cells can now be used to fashion replacement body parts.
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11/21/2008
LDL cholesterol inhibits the breakdown of peripheral fat (News-Medical-Net)
The so called bad cholesterol (LDL) inhibits the breakdown of fat in cells of peripheral deposits, according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet.
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  • Bruns Laboratory - Mycorrhizal and other fungi resarch. Contains personnel information, publications list, primer maps and sequence alignment files, and related links. University of California, Berkeley, U.S.
  • Center for Medical Mycology - Unique resource combining clinical and basic science research in fungal biology, dermatophytes, candida albicans, fungal biofilms, fungal virulence factors, susceptibility testing, and animal models. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, U.S.
  • The Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute - FABI is a group of post-graduate research teams working in the general field of forest and agricultural pathology and biotechnology with a strong focus on fungi. University of Pretoria, South Africa.
  • Fungal Cell Biology Group - Research on hyphal tip growth. Includes images and movies, publications list, preview of the Biology of Life CD-rom, and related links. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Mycology Lab, Venezuela - Research activities, staff, and publications list. Slide show of histories of medical mycology in Latin America and Venezuela. Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research.
  • Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory - Research into the systematics of fungi and vascular plants essential to solving problems in sustainable and conventional agriculture. Includes interactive keys for several genera. U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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