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Image of Flea Showing Crown of Thorns on Exoskeleton Wins Worldwide Olympus BioScapes Photo Competition Thursday, November 19, 2009 An image of a water flea with its radiant green "crown of thorns" took top prize in the 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, a forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects.

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"Similar to a car, these cells have an engine, a clutch and wheels which provide the necessary friction," explains Michael Sixt, a research group leader at the MPI of Biochemistry.

Main Category: Diabetes Also Included In: Genetics ; Cholesterol Article Date: 16 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Columbia University Medical Center presentED the 2009 Naomi Berrie Awards to a nationally recognized diabetes researcher, and a promising young investigator, for their outstanding achievements in diabetes research.

Received 14 April 2009; Revised 3 September 2009; Accepted 8 September 2009; Published online 17 November 2009.

Fate Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has completed a $30 million Series B financing led by OVP Venture Partners.

Mammalian muscle repair occurs through the mobilization of muscle satellite cells, whereas the new muscle in amphibian appendage regeneration was believed to arise by dedifferentiation of myofibres to form myoblasts.

This simple model of a nucleus with only one pair of chromosomes illustrates the process of synapsis - the pairing of homologous chromosomes.

The lipid that accumulates in brain cells of individuals with an inherited enzyme disorder also drives the cell death that is a hallmark of the disease, according to new research led by St.

E-mail: fla@unife.it Received 27 July 2009; Revised 23 September 2009; Accepted 25 September 2009; Published online 12 November 2009.

Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be "undruggable," meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed.

" Rhode Island Hospital will receive $11 million over the next five years to create a major stem-cell research center that will focus on stem-cell biology and tissue-regeneration techniques that could be used to treat marrow and lung diseases.

Alan Fields is in the early stages of a trial to test the effects of an arthritis drug on lung cancer.

A year after the state adopted a proposal to expand embryonic stem cell research, state scientists say the voters' will is being defied by pro-life West Michigan lawmakers pushing for restrictions.

Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million grant to fund research that will lead to a general understanding of stem cell biology and identify unique approaches to tissue regeneration in lung and marrow diseases.

Stem cell researchers at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco and Stanford Medical School have joined a new national consortium linking teams of scientists who normally work independently with other groups that seek to discover new therapies for varied human disorders.

Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with trees One day, this could all be trees a a recent scientific paper claims that turning deserts into forests is the best way forward.

New research reveals how proteins that are critical for the transparency of the eye lens are properly sorted and localized in membrane bilayers.

While a stem cell can renew itself indefinitely or differentiate into an adult cell, a progenitor cell can only divide a limited number of times and is often more limited than a stem cell in the kinds of cells it can become.

E-mail: smai@cc.umanitoba.ca 5 Received 11 March 2009; Revised 16 September 2009; Accepted 23 September 2009; Published online 2 November 2009.