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Daniel Hoffman

The Koyal Group Info Mag: How A Failed Experiment On Rats Sparked A Billion-Dollar Infa... - 1 views

WASHINGTON -- At a research lab at Duke University Department of Pharmacology in 1979, a group of scientists sparked a major breakthrough in infant care from a failed experiment on rats. At the tim...

The Koyal Group Info Mag Failed Experiment Rats Sparked Billion-Dollar Infant-Care Breakthrough

started by Daniel Hoffman on 12 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group InfoMag News: SA contributes to science breakthrough - 1 views

South African scientists contributed significantly towards the knowledge base that helped an international experiment make a breakthrough in proving a particle discovered in July 2012 is a type of ...

The Koyal Group InfoMag News SA contributes to science breakthrough

started by Margaret Koyal on 25 Jun 14 no follow-up yet
Jason Zhen

Science Breakthroughs The Koyal Group InfoMag News: Discovery Science Powered, Increasi... - 1 views

As co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, David Scadden hopes to inspire his students to join the ranks of researchers who might one day cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's or diabetes. But al...

Breakthroughs The Koyal Group InfoMag News Discovery science powered increasingly by donors

started by Jason Zhen on 15 Jul 14 no follow-up yet
drietchesmith

The Koyal Group InfoMag: Fra Taiwan, kampen mod Alzheimers - 7 views

Fra Taiwan, en længe håbet For gennembruddet i kampen mod Alzheimers Oplysning: Jeg ejer lager i AstraZeneca, et af de selskaber, der nævnes i denne kommentar. Seks Taiwan-baserede forske...

The Koyal Group InfoMag Tokyo News From Taiwan A Long Hoped-For Breakthrough In Fight Against Alzheimer's

started by drietchesmith on 22 Apr 14 no follow-up yet
Margaret Koyal

Scientists add Letters to DNA's Alphabet by The Koyal Group InfoMag News - 1 views

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    Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life - creating an organism with an expanded artificial genetic code in its DNA. The accomplishment might eventually lead to organisms that can make medicines or industrial products that cells with only the natural genetic code cannot. The scientists behind the work at the Scripps Research Institute have already formed a company to try to use the technique to develop new antibiotics, vaccines and other products, though a lot more work needs to be done before this is practical. The work also gives some support to the concept that life can exist elsewhere in the universe using genetics different from those on Earth. "This is the first time that you have had a living cell manage an alien genetic alphabet," said Steven A. Benner, a researcher in the field at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., who was not involved in the new work. But the research, published online by the journal Nature, is bound to raise safety concerns and questions about whether humans are playing God. The new paper could intensify calls for greater regulation of the budding field known as synthetic biology, which involves the creation of biological systems intended for specific purposes.
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group Info Mag News│Breakthrough shows how DNA is 'edited' to corre... - 1 views

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    An international team of scientists has made a major step forward in our understanding of how enzymes 'edit' genes, paving the way for correcting genetic diseases in patients. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Münster and the Lithuanian Institute of Biotechnology have observed the process by which a class of enzymes called CRISPR - pronounced 'crisper' - bind and alter the structure of DNA. The results, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today, provide a vital piece of the puzzle if these genome editing tools are ultimately going to be used to correct genetic diseases in humans. CRISPR enzymes were first discovered in bacteria in the 1980s as an immune defence used by bacteria against invading viruses. Scientists have more recenty shown that one type of CRISPR enzyme - Cas9 - can be used to edit the human genome - the complete set of genetic information for humans. Did you know?? Blood Test Has Potential to Predict Alzheimer's
Lewis Sean

Science Breakthroughs The Koyal Group InfoMag News Starwatch: The European Extremely La... - 0 views

Our image shows an artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT, whose 39-metre aperture puts it in line to be the world's largest optical-infrared telescope. Being built...

Science Breakthroughs The Koyal Group InfoMag News Starwatch: European Extremely Large Telescope

started by Lewis Sean on 19 Jul 14 no follow-up yet
volkier luft

The Koyal Group Info Mag: How turning science into a game rouses more public interest - 0 views

Chris Lintott first met Kevin Schawinski in the summer of 2007 at the astrophysics department of the University of Oxford. Lintott had just finished a PhD at the University College of London on sta...

The Koyal Group Info Mag How turning science into a game rouses more public interest

started by volkier luft on 17 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Raoul Boisvert

Koyal Info Mag Research and Discoveries - 1 views

Medical Treatments Features up-to-date entries on breakthroughs and discoveries in the field of medical science; treating diseases that are impacting human health. Koyal InfoMag provides a venue f...

koyal info mag Research and Discoveries

started by Raoul Boisvert on 19 Nov 13 no follow-up yet
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group Info Mag News│Charged building material could make the renewa... - 1 views

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    What if your cell phone didn't come with a battery? Imagine, instead, if the material from which your phone was built was a battery. The promise of strong load-bearing materials that can also work as batteries represents something of a holy grail for engineers. And in a letter published online in Nano Letters last week, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University describes what it says is a breakthrough in turning that dream into an electrocharged reality. The researchers etched nanopores into silicon layers, which were infused with a polyethylene oxide-ionic liquid composite and coated with an atomically thin layer of carbon. In doing so, they created small but strong supercapacitor battery systems, which stored electricity in a solid electrolyte, instead of using corrosive chemical liquids found in traditional batteries.
Jhudeza Muhammad

The future is disappearing: How humanity is falling short of its grand technological pr... - 1 views

What I find most interesting about typical visions of the future isn't all the fanciful and borderline magical technology that hasn't been invented yet, but rather how much of it actually already e...

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started by Jhudeza Muhammad on 05 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group InfoMag News: Work Together to Complete a "Social Revolution" - 2 views

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    Molecular biologist Nancy Hopkins, the Amgen, Inc., Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recalled personal trials as a female scientist and challenged graduates to overcome invisible barriers in an inspiring Baccalaureate Address to the Class of 2014 at Marsh Chapel Sunday morning. She mentioned some of the great breakthroughs of the last 50 years: the internet, the Higgs particle, and notably, the "discovery of unconscious biases and the extent to which stereotypes about gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and age deprive people of equal opportunity in the workplace and equal justice in society." Hopkins was later awarded an honorary Doctor of Science at BU's 141st Commencement. She spoke before a packed audience at Marsh Chapel and was enthusiastically applauded for her remarks. President Robert A. Brown, University Provost Jean Morrison, Marsh Chapel Dean Robert Hill, and Emma Rehard (CAS'14) also addressed the graduates and their families. Scott Allen Jarrett (CFA'99,'08), director of music at Marsh Chapel, led the Marsh Chapel Choir in "Clarissima" and "For the Beauty of the Earth." Early in her career, Hopkins worked in the lab of James Watson, the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA. She earned a PhD at Harvard and became a faculty member at MIT, working at the Center for Cancer Research. There, she focused her research on RNA tumor viruses, then considered to be a likely cause for many cancers in humans. Hopkins also studied developmental genetics in zebra fish, and helped to design the first successful method for making insertional mutagenesis work in a vertebrate model.
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group Info Mag - Prototype Paper Test Can Detect Ebola Strains - 1 views

DNA-programmed blotting paper could soon be giving doctors a simple disease test that will reveal an infection in 30 minutes for just a few pence. Researchers have proved the technique ...

The Koyal Group Info Mag Prototype Paper Test Can Detect Ebola Strains

started by Margaret Koyal on 30 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
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