Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Feb 5, 2012, 3:39 pm
Recently, a study highlighting the role that an important molecular chaperone plays in the prevention of a trademark contributor to Alzheimer’s disease was published in the journal Biochemistry. Read more... Tau-graphic.jpg read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Feb 3, 2012, 2:11 pm
La Jolla, CA---- One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. Read more...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jan 29, 2012, 2:56 pm
Researchers from Columbia and Purdue universities have recently utilized an interesting method to infer the timeframe of the volcanic events which created Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley National Park. By examining rock samples which had been created in those events, these researchers are the first ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jan 21, 2012, 3:11 pm
Methods for a large-scale scientific mission to a subglacial lake in Antarctica were published earlier this month in the journal Reviews of Geophysics. Read more... Lake-Ellsworth.jpg read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jan 11, 2012, 4:40 pm
An international collaboration of European research teams has just published an important study which directly attributes changes in mountain vegetation to climate change across the European continent. Read more... global warming.jpg.jpg rea...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jan 10, 2012, 6:10 pm
Researchers at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) have created the world’s first chimeric monkeys, which may contain as many as six distinct genomes. Named Roku, Hex, and Chimero, these rhesus monkeys were produced by successfully aggregating multiple embryos and implanting the mixed embryo ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jan 6, 2012, 9:47 am
At what point does it become "easier" for us to run rather than to walk? Many of you reading this might be thinking; "right, umm never" ... but surprising research out of NC State’s Human PoWeR (Physiology of Wearable Robotics) Lab proves that the muscles of the body might be helping make that dec...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jan 5, 2012, 2:35 pm
University of Pittsburgh researchers have recently published a study suggesting that a certain type of stem cell transplantation may help rescue some of the cellular deficiencies which occur as part of the normal aging process. Read more... Mice.jpg ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Dec 30, 2011, 8:40 pm
A recent two-part study from Tel Aviv University on the music-listening habits of teenagers currently aged 13 to 17 predicts that one out of every four teens will suffer from early hearing loss in their adult lives. The increased prevalence is largely due to the misusage of portable listening device...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Dec 24, 2011, 2:52 pm
Fossil evidence of an ancient sauropod, the classification which contains some of the largest animals to ever walk the earth, has recently been uncovered on the Antarctic continent by an Argentinian research team. Read more... anarctica-titanosaur-final.jpg&#...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Dec 20, 2011, 2:27 am
A novel strategy has recently been developed which allows the visualization of DNA synthesis in intact cells or organisms. This strategy, developed by the University of Zurich’s Institute of Organic Chemistry, utilizes a tailor-made nucleic acid which can be incorporated into a normal DNA strand ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Dec 15, 2011, 7:18 pm
New insights into the evolution of quadrupedal movement in pre-tetrapodal species have been recently developed through behavioral and morphological analyses of a species of African lungfish. Read more... LungFish.jpg read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Dec 13, 2011, 7:06 pm
A Spanish research team has recently published evidence which may provide the first direct functional link between differential expression of mRNA-specific translational regulators and tumor development. Read more... CPEB4.jpg read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Dec 8, 2011, 2:55 pm
We know a lot of you don't seem to have enough hours in the day this time of year, but what does seem to keep getting longer are your holiday shopping lists. If that sounds familiar we're happy to tell you that this is it. This is going to be YOUR year. The year you get it all done well before the h...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Oct 25, 2011, 8:10 pm
Earlier this summer, a team of researchers led by Dennis J. Selkoe of Harvard Medical School published a potentially significant finding in Nature suggesting that alpha-synuclein, the protein that aggregates into insoluble fibrils within Lewy bodies in patients with Parkinson’s disease, has been m...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Oct 24, 2011, 3:20 pm
Scientists' discovery of new form of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome offers clues to treatments for infants who don't respond to steroid drugs Read more... 523_evans-cell-salk.jpg read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Oct 20, 2011, 6:30 pm
According to a group of researchers led by Dr. Kristina Aldridge, an assistant professor of anatomy at the University of Missouri School of Medicine and the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, certain facial features of children with autism are distinctly different compared ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Oct 18, 2011, 5:56 pm
Numerous studies are beginning to suggest that excessive exposure to white light emitting diodes (LEDs), especially at night, may have adverse effects on our brain’s circadian rhythms. Specifically, these perturbations to our biological clocks can disrupt sleep patterns and reduce the production o...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Oct 7, 2011, 6:26 pm
A new awareness campaign warns of the dangers of improper cooling and handling of laboratory samples. Mill Valley, California: Scientists working with laboratory samples are accustomed to having to control for many variables, but a new awareness campaign led by biotechnology firm BioCision ai...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 22, 2011, 4:35 pm
An international team of scientists from the CERN particle research center have recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than the speed of light. Since Albert Einstein first proposed the speed of light is a "cosmic constant", and that nothing in the universe can travel faster, in his theory of...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 20, 2011, 1:33 pm
For more than a decade, researchers have been unable to solve the structure of the retroviral protease of M-PMV, a simian AIDS-causing monkey virus. For each enzyme being studied, there are literally millions of possible combinations to how the bonds between atoms form. Once unlocked, the "correct" ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 18, 2011, 5:05 pm
The fight against glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers, may have received a big boost thanks to a team of researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. In a new study published September 15 in Cancer Discovery, senior author Dr. Paul Mischel, a Jonsson Cancer Center resear...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 16, 2011, 6:50 pm
Lab Combines Public-Private Expertise to Make Global Food Supplies Safer Read more... IFSTL-launch.jpg read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 13, 2011, 1:00 am
Our graphic designer was inspired by an M.D. Anderson press release that came out yesterday offering age specific tips for men to manage their cancer risk. The graphic highlights these recommendations and we have republished the press release including detailed links to studies and resources for th...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 12, 2011, 8:08 pm
In search of going greener with battery technology, collaborating principle investigators Igor Luzinov and Gleb Yushin, of their respective Schools of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University and Georgia Tech, have identified a new polymer known as alginate that is capable of boosting...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 9, 2011, 2:17 am
Watch the construction and growth of two petri dish billboards done by Warner Bros. Pictures Canada to promote a new film "Contagion". This "outdoor installation" delivers a creative blend of art and science. Read more... read mor...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 8, 2011, 11:45 am
Since it's discovery in the early 1990's, scientists have identified hundreds of mutations in the BRCA1 gene, many of which are associated with an increased risk of cancer. Women with an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene have up to a 60% risk of developing breast cancer by age 90. Read more... ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 31, 2011, 10:30 pm
Researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research organization, have developed a ground-breaking new aqueous reagent which literally turns biological tissue transparent. Experiments using fluorescence microscopy on samples treated with the reagent, published this week in Nature Neuroscience, have prod...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 31, 2011, 3:19 pm
Sunbathers may soon be closer to hitting the beach or pool without having to lather up with sunblock thanks to a team of researchers led by Dr. Paul Long at King’s College London who recently discovered how natural sunscreen compounds are made by coral. The goal of the research is to understand th...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 24, 2011, 1:38 am
Dentists may soon be armed with a new tool to fix your cavities but this time it’s not the latest model of dental drills or burs. Instead, researchers from the Leeds Dental Institute at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, have developed a peptide-based fluid that can be applied directly over ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 17, 2011, 7:48 pm
In a recent study that could radically change our understanding of the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease, principal investigator Dennis J. Selkoe at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School discovered that the overall three-dimensional structure of alpha-synuclein, a protein ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 17, 2011, 2:34 am
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) have taken a huge step towards the possibility of enhancing ethanol production following their discovery of a mutated gene that improves ethanol tolerance in microorganisms. This finding could have implications in our ability...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 15, 2011, 10:55 am
Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have concluded a study which demonstrates that regular exercise modifies the brain environment, and could help prevent damage associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's. Read more... e...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 11, 2011, 11:12 pm
The multi-component, bulky, and outdated device platforms used in clinical and research lab settings for monitoring human physiologic activity may soon be replaced with ultrathin electronic patches that adhere to skin and stretch like temporary tattoos. Headed by materials scientist John A. Rogers f...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 11, 2011, 9:07 am
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time linked the quantum properties of two separated ions (electrically charged atoms) by manipulating them with microwaves instead of the usual laser beams, suggesting it may be possible to replace an exotic r...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 11, 2011, 2:26 am
According to a recent study published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology, scientists from the University of New York at Albany have shown that paper currency worldwide contains traces of bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial and commercial toxin. The harmful effects of BPA are t...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 10, 2011, 3:42 pm
Mining processes, runoff from farms, and industrial wastes can all put heavy metals such as lead and copper into waterways. Heavy metals can have adverse health and environmental effects. Current methods of removing heavy metals from water are expensive and some substances used in the process are to...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 9, 2011, 5:08 pm
Dr. Pin Wang, a USC chemical engineering professor, has developed a virus designed to hunt down HIV-infected cells. In what may represent an important step toward curing HIV, Dr. Wang’s lentiviral vector latches onto HIV-infected cells, flagging them with what is called “suicide gene the...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 9, 2011, 3:21 pm
Coming to a grocery store near you: transgenic salmon? That’s been on AquaBounty Technologies' wishlist since the company genetically engineered a salmon for human consumption more than 15 year ago. A formal application for the so-called AquAdvantage (AA) salmon was first submitted in 1995 ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 2, 2011, 6:24 pm
Over the past few years there has been an explosion of graphene-related news being reported throughout all avenues of media yet many people are unaware of what graphene is and why there is so much fuss over this mystery material. So, what is graphene? Read more...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 2, 2011, 8:47 am
Imperial College London researchers have discovered a new benefit for a compound that has been prescribed by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine for more than 1000 years. Before modern production techniques from pharmaceutical companies allowed the compound to be produced and purified in t...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jul 28, 2011, 2:40 pm
I recently made a trip to Panama City, Panama in May for the annual 2011 Panama International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) conference to present some work I've done with a potential anti-cancer drug discovered from marine cyanobacteria in Panama. As detailed on their website, the Panama ICB...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jul 27, 2011, 5:55 pm
The next time you decide to take a plunge into a swimming pool you might want to think about whats in the water you're about to be bathed in. Aside from saliva, urine, and other bodily discharges, Maria Jose Cardador and Mercedes Gallego, researchers from Department of Analytical Chemistry at the Un...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jul 25, 2011, 6:15 pm
Here's another reason to hold your breath while driving through a tunnel: you could be saving yourself from inhaling erionite, a natural rock mineral fiber present in road gravel that, like asbestos, can accumulate in lung tissue over time and cause malignant mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a rare can...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jul 22, 2011, 6:17 am
Nathan Bergey and I sat down at a busy restaurant in downtown Portland, Oregon to meet, eat and discuss his unique invention - the International Space Station lamp, that notifies you when the ISS is passing overhead in the sky. Read more... iss-notify-lamp.jp...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jul 21, 2011, 6:24 pm
How are endurance athletes able to perform at such high-levels in sport? Most would attribute this athleticism to dedication and countless hours of training. However, a group of researchers headed by Dr. Tejvir Khurana at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that muscle endurance may be linked to ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jul 18, 2011, 9:54 am
Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers have developed the first fluorescent protein that enables scientists to clearly see the internal organs of living animals without the need for dissection, contrast agents or radiation exposure. Read more... iRFP...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jul 8, 2011, 5:01 pm
A picture of "calm", Buddhist monks - who've spent tens of thousands of hours of their lives meditating - have been shown to have different patterns of brain activity from non-meditators, and subsequent research has proven these types of brain activity patterns are associated with more positive mood...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jul 6, 2011, 1:48 am
Bacteria are common sources of infection, but these microorganisms can themselves be infected by even smaller agents: viruses. A new analysis of the interactions between bacteria and viruses has revealed patterns that could help scientists working to understand which viruses infect which bacteria in...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Jun 9, 2011, 10:22 am
Using mice as a model, UC Davis researchers have revealed that the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease have developed an unusual strategy for avoiding elimination by the immune system of their host - hiding out in the Lymph nodes. The study was published in PLos Pathogens. Read more.....
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