5 Sept 2012

CSIR UGC NET Result June | CSIR NET result | CSIR UGC NET APPLY ONLINE | JRF result



Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) & University (& Institution of higher education) Grants Commission (UGC) will declare NET Results June soon. This page will immediately inform your once your UGC NET Results 2012 - 2013 announced officially by CSIR. Examination was conducted on Mid June for more than lack candidates.

4 Sept 2012

Nanoparticles supplementary to platelets dual core injury existence rate


September 3, 2012 by Kevin Mayhood (Phys.org)—Nanoparticles tailored to interact with platelets rapidly create healthy clots and nearly double the survival rate in the vital first hour after injury, new research shows.

"We knew an injection of these nanoparticles stopped bleeding faster, but now we know the bleeding is stopped in time to increase survival following trauma," said Erin Lavik, a professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University and leader of the effort.

Anchoring Proteins Effect Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Proclamation



(Sep. 4, 2012) — Scientists from the United States and Sweden have discovered a new control point that could be important as a drug target for the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases. A-kinase anchoring proteins or AKAPs are known to influence the spatial distribution of kinases within the cell, crucial enzymes that control important molecular events related to the regulation of glucose levels in the blood.

In a new study published in The EMBO Journal, the team of researchers led by Simon Hinke and John Scott reveal for the first time that AKAPs influence the levels of glucose in the body by coordinating the spatial positioning of phosphatases, naturally occurring enzymes that counteract the effects of kinase enzymes.

New DNA-method


Tracks fish and whales in seawater

Sept. 4, 2012 — Danish researchers at the University of Copenhagen are using a new method for monitoring marine biodiversity and resources by using DNA traces in seawater to keep track of fish and whales. A half liter of seawater can contain evidence of local fish and whale faunas and eliminate the need for marine conservationists to employ traditional fishing methods in their work. The results of the new study have been published in PLOS ONE.

"The new DNA-method means that we can keep better track of life beneath the surface of the oceans around the world, and better monitor and protect ocean biodiversity and resources," says Ph.D. student Philip Francis Thomsen from the Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.

1 Sept 2012

Pluripotent Stem Cells

Moving toward regeneration

Sept. 1, 2012—the skin, the blood, and the lining of the gut—adult stem cells replenish them daily. But stem cells really show off their healing powers in planarians, humble flatworms fabled for their ability to rebuild any missing body part. Just how adult stem cells build the right tissues at the right times and places has remained largely unanswered.


Now, in a study published in an upcoming issue of Development, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research describe a novel system that allowed them to track stem cells in the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea. The team found that the worms' stem cells, known as neoblasts, march out, multiply, and start rebuilding tissues lost to amputation.

Definition of Human pluripotent stem cell

Human pluripotent stem cell: One of the "cells that are self-replicating, are derived from human embryos or human fetal tissue, and are known to develop into cells and tissues of the three primary germ layers. Although human pluripotent stem cells may be derived from embryos or fetal tissue, such stem cells are not themselves embryos." (From the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.)

Pluripotent Stem Cells



The concept of stem cells can seem a complicated one and you may have seen foreign words such as 'pluripotent' written in magazines or discussed on television. Stem cells describe all of the cells that can give rise to the different cells found in tissues. There are however, different types of stem cells. One such type is a pluripotent stem cell.



What Are Pluripotent Stem Cells?

Pluripotent stem cells are often termed 'true' stem cells because they have the potential to differentiate into almost any cell in the body. This means that under the right circumstances, a stem cell that is isolated from an embryo can produce almost all of the cells in the body. Yet after this embryonic development stage is over, the stem cells no longer have this unlimited potential to develop into all cell types. Their pluripotency is thus lost and they can only become certain types of cells.