In Vitro

Upending textbook science on Alzheimer's disease.
NewsRx Health; 12/27/2009; 1443 words; ...drug therapies could be developed. By studying synapses in brain slices of healthy mice and in neuronal networks growing in vitro, Dr. Slutsky and her team determined that there is an optimal amount of amyloid-beta needed to keep the neurons working...

New life sciences findings from University of California published.
Heart Disease Weekly; 12/27/2009; 904 words; ...expression network with fibronectin binding in vitro and in an experimental infective endocarditis...isogenic saeRS mutants. In contrast to the in vitro data, there was no influence of saeRS...concluded: "Moreover, as opposed to the in vitro findings, sigB appeared to have a positive...

Data on pediatrics and pathology discussed by researchers at McGill University.
Pediatrics Week; 12/26/2009; 990 words; ...mouse kidney Modulation of endogenous PAX3 expression in human embryonic kidney (HEK293) cells influenced cell migration in in vitro assays Mutations of WT1 were consistently associated with PAX3 expression in WTs. and modulation of WT1 expression in HEK293...

Doctors and Scientists Create New Society to Promote Non-Animal Toxicology Testing Methods.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation Business; 12/26/2009; 954 words; ...testing strategy, the Institute for In Vitro Sciences, Inc. (IIVS) and the Physicians...organized forum for discussion of cellular (in vitro) and computational toxicology approaches...accelerate the development and use of in vitro and in silico methods, and help to make...

Research data from B.S. Kumar and colleagues update understanding of biophysics.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 12/25/2009; 698 words; ...comparative radioprotective effects using in vitro models. Effects of these compounds on...did not lead to any protection. The in vitro cytotoxicity studies in normal and tumor...Radiation and Environmental Biophysics (In vitro radioprotection studies of organoselenium...