#Researchers target cancer stem cells in malignant brain tumorsresearchers at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and Department of Neurosurgery identified immune system targets on cancer
stem cells--cells from which malignant brain tumors are believed to originate and regenerate--and created an experimental vaccine to attack them.
Results of laboratory and animal studies are published in the online edition of Stem Cells Translational Medicine
Like normal stem cells cancer stem cells have the ability to self-renew and generate new cells
if the cancer stem cells can be destroyed a tumor may not be able to sustain itself
The researchers identified certain fragments of a protein--CD133--that is found on cancer stem cells of some brain tumors and other cancers.
and shucked and eaten as quickly as possible off the stalk--is the sweetest that money can buy.
Within a foot of the bulb, the dizzy bugs drop, falling to their watery deaths inside a bucket.
At around $1, 000 for a two-bulb unit, the systems could add up. Compared to organic pesticides prices,
It decomposes like any old branch in the soil to recreate what happens in the forest,
spring for tulip bulbs and pink and white blossoming trees; summer for picnicking on Sheep Meadow and concerts on the Great Lawn. 2. Barcelona,
such as Brazil's sugar cane-based fuel, meant to spur domestic demand. A bipartisan group called to put the subsidies to rest in a letter,
the trunks and branches extending off the top of the structures. Residents see the wall trees as valuable both for their historical significance such stone walls were a distinctly British design
using sticks to break the kernels off the stems. They pounded off the hulls with an old mortar
The Spanish moss that sways gently from the branches of oak trees appeared in Chiang's dish as a backdrop to woodsy lichen flakes and a puree of wild plants.
Tim Edwards of the fuel branch of AFRL said in a release today. Virent has made fuels and chemicals from sugars in cellulosic biomass before.
a process the company says is more effective and cheaper than extracting sugar from corn or sugarcane.
and made available to the adjacent plants (large bamboo stalks, in the prototype). Sensors measure the amount of urine entering the urinal and monitor ammonia levels.
But at some point roughly 500 years ago, indigenous tribespeople discovered that they could guide the formation of this outgrowth using betel nut trunks as tools.
I think, stems from our simultaneous obsession with pork and animal-centric cooking in general. Ramen perfectly encapsulates our hedonistic pleasure in eating--it's comforting
In this video, you can see Treebot inch its way up thin stalks of bamboo as well as trees with much thicker diameters.
and you hold your breath as it makes 90-degree turns onto branches. While it would best most humans any day
although they also contain bamboo, sugarcane bagasse, and wheat or rice straw. The company makes a point of noting that these are plants that are used not typically in food production,
Placing microchips into 2, 500 tree trunks within 247 acres of forest, the organization is testing
it can actually be made from sugar cane. To me, the building block is not as important as
Maybe sugar cane makes sense in certain regions of the world, but were going to need a whole suite of solutions.
In some cases, it might make sense to use sugar cane; or to use petroleum-based plastic;
What works as a good solution where they have a lot of sugar cane in Brazil may not work in Sydney
Future plans also involve making paper with more raw materials like bamboo, sugarcane and vegetable waste.
such as pulp made from sugar cane and those based on some rice bioproducts. Overall, the company's goal is to reduce packaging volume by 10 percent by 2012.
Our initial efforts will focus on the sustainable sourcing of sugarcane, oranges and corn. More evidence that water conservation technology in the field is a smart corporate sustainability investment
by cantilevering each floor off of a main trunk, or core, that runs 42 stories up the center of the building.
which pioneered the tree-trunk construction, with steel at its core and reinforced concrete slabs for its floors.
The Timber Tower calls for cross-laminated timber slabs for the trunk, floors and walls,
They can come from smaller species, with smaller trunks, in agriculturally managed forests and even from the millions of fir trees killed by beetle infestation each year in North america.
They did it, in fact, with their landmark Chestnut building and its unique trunk-and-cantilever structural system.
a non-food feedstock consisting of corn stalks and leaves. Using corn stover instead of corn alleviates two problems:
cellulosic, sugarcane, grain (mostly corn from the U s.)600 more plants are needed in next decade.
They mix it with other materials, like leaves or twigs, and compost it over 90 to 120 days.
and fallen branches might also affect soil health, biodiversity and wildlife habitat. The study, conducted over four years, covers 80 forest types within 19 different eco-regions,
and grafts fruit branches onto non fruit-bearing public trees, hiding farm-fresh produce in an urban environment.
Flowering species (from more recent branches of plant evolution) appear not to have ACR3 at all.
In Moore County in North carolina, Cedar Grove maps show sewer lines that literally branch around some of the black neighborhoods without going through them.
which include papayas, corn, bananas, ginger, sugar cane, lettuce and tomatoes. The farm is edged almost entirely by a babbling brook,
grasses or non-edible plant parts including corn stalks and wheat straw. The remaining amount includes 1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel fuel
plants and bulbs sold in the United states are from foreign producers: especially Colombia and Equador, according to the Society of American Florists.
high-profile clematis supplier Raymond Evison and bulb dealer Jacques Amand International both made the trip here from their home bases in the United kingdom. The netherlands,
revealing which forests store the most carbonclick to enlarge Forest trees are renowned for their ability to store large amounts of carbon dioxide in their trunk and roots.
and dropping its leaves and eventually branches. With gentler noises, however, it moves to the sounds it hears.
and black sugarcane are just a few of the crops Keshav Tavre grows on his suburban plot on the outskirts of Mumbai--all of it from a supply of untreated sewage that snakes past his land.
IPS cells are similar to embryonic stem cells, and can grow in to any organ in an animal's body
They can be magnified down to the fur on the petiole, the stalk of the leaf that attaches the blade to the stem.
Currently, Leafsnap includes the 191 species of trees found in New york s Central park and Washington s Rock creek park.
Wheat (process fuel not specified) â oe 64g Wheat (as process fuel natural gas used in CHP) â oe 47g Corn (Maize) â oe 43g Sugar cane â oe
and a grasping big toe that was perfect for clambering branch to branch. She ate in the trees,
Stalks from Piergiorgio Rossi. House from Laurent Gilet de Bambou Habitat. Scaffolding from Chris 73.
And nearly all of it will come from corn-and sugarcane-based ethanol. Meanwhile,  less than one-tenth of 1 percent of renewable fuels produced next year will come  from cellulosic ethanol-- the transportation fuel panacea expected to wean the U s. off of foreign oil
The U s. will continue to rely on sugarcane -and corn-based ethanol to meet the national mandate for renewable fuels in 2012.
Lemnis light bulb shipper The incandescent bulb is on its way out in the European union and its future in the U s. is shaky Too bad the performance of energy-sipping LED bulbs has not been universally stellar,
as Mark Halper reported earlier this year. Nevertheless, the bulk packaging design that the marketing
and branding company Celery Design devised for shipping multiple Lemnis LED bulbs is definitely a bright idea.
and the space required to safely ship multiple bulbs, Celery dreamed up a modular system that can accommodate just one or up to six bulbs.
Each bulb is placed in a triangular package that fits snugly with others, forming a hexagon
when six are placed together. The material is recycled 100 percent card stock too. Brian Dougherty, Celery Design cofounder, says Lemnis ultimately opted to use an overseas packager that went with a different bulk shipping solution.
Celery also developed a super-smart primary packaging solution for the bulbs that could be converted into a light shade.
If successful, the smart irrigation system would give the tubers precisely the amount of water they require for optimal growth,
and measuring tree trunks He filled in gaps in his data (since lidar pulses are so tiny) with data from an instrument on Terra and Aqua called MODIS
figure out the canes'orientation and the location of buds all to decide which canes to cut down.
In Southern California, engineers with the Spanish company Agrobot are taking on the challenge by working with local growers to test a strawberry harvester.
and recent studies demonstrating stem cell activation and inhibition of mtor. The mtor inhibition has extended mouse mean lifespan by 33%.
Astragalus compounds have also been shown to stimulate stem cells, promote peripheral nerve regeneration in rats,
We named the final 4-herb mix Stemcell 100 because of its positive effects on adult stem cells
and sustainably using stem cells derived from trees, a study suggests. Researchers have isolated and grown stem cells from a yew tree
whose bark is a natural source of the anticancer compound paclitaxel. The development could enable the compound to be produced on a commercial scale at low cost, with no harmful by-products.
Researchers claim that using stem cells self-renewing tree cells which can be manipulated to produce large amounts of the active compound would effectively create an abundant supply of the drug.
or taking an elephant's trunk, hooking it up to a heart/lung machine and then hooking the other end to a machine that induced the trunk to grow by applying tension.
The growing trunk would then be wrapped automatically in pastry and passed through an oven to produce a continuous stream of fresh, delicious elephant trunk pie.
Meanwhile, on a more practical tack, food scientists in the wake of the food shortages after the Second world war often speculated on the possibility of manufacturing meat
and NASA showed periodic interest in the idea as a way of feeding astronauts on extremely long space missions.
and a milestone on the path to the world's first burger made from stem cells.
out of stem cells we can make a product that looks like and feels and hopefully tastes like meat".
"Post is focusing on making beef burgers from stem cells because cows are among the least efficient animals at converting the food they eat into food for humans."
Each piece of muscle is made by extracting stem cells from cow muscle tissue and growing them in containers in the laboratory.
Because the burgers are made from animal stem cells, researchers could make products from more exotic animals."
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