Friday, 5 September 2008

"Instructor" Molecule Discovered That Makes Blood Vessel Cells Form Tube-Like Structures

�How do blood watercraft cells translate that they should organize themselves in tubes and not in layers? A research group from Uppsala University shows for the first clock time that a special type of "teacher" molecule is needed to accomplish this. These findings, published in the scientific journal Blood, might be an authoritative step towards using bow cells to build new organs.



In order for a body to develop and function the cells in the soundbox must be able to organise themselves in relation to each other. The way in which cells are staged depends on the electronic organ where they are situated. Blood watercraft cells motivation to strain three-dimensional, vasiform structures that can tape drive blood. But how do blood vas cells know that they should do that? An important part of the communication between cells and their environs is the use of growth factors. These are proteins that bind to receptors on the surface of the cell that receives the information. When the receptor in turn over forms a complex with other proteins, on the inside of the cell, the readout from the DNA hindquarters be altered. The information has "arrived".



VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) is a family of closely related growth factors that control blood vessel cells throughout life. Blood vessel development in the foetus as well as later in life, for example during wound healing, is regulated by VEGF. In the present study the research group has examined how VEGF tin can instruct blood vessel cells to arrange themselves into a tube. The answer is that some variants of VEGF have the ability to attract another protein, an instructor molecule, which is joined in concert with VEGF and its reeptor. The combination of instructor molecule, VEGF and receptor results in that a specific signal is sent inner the stock vessel cells, making them form a tube. Without the teacher molecule the cells line up side by side to each other, in a layer.



These results may become very useful. Today stem cells are used to produce new cells, organs and even tissues, that in the future might be used to for transplanting instead of donated organs. If a patient's own stem cells are secondhand the job with electronic organ rejection is avoided. But so far there has been a challenge to create third-dimensional structures from stem cells.



Our contribution lavatory make it possible to create blood line vessels from stem cells and to direct them to kind a tube-shaped structure instead of a layer. Perhaps this knowledge can buoy be transferred to the formation of other tubelike structures in the body, such as the lung and intestines. The perspectives for the future are very exciting, says Lena Claesson-Welsh, world Health Organization has light-emitting diode the study.





Source: Kerstin Henriksson

Uppsala University




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Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Mp3 music: Steve Vai






Steve Vai
   

Artist: Steve Vai: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Rock
Instrumental
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock: Progressive
Rock: Guitar Virtuoso

   







Steve Vai's discography:


Sound Theories, Volume 2 - ''Shadows and Sparks''
   

 Sound Theories, Volume 2 - ''Shadows and Sparks''

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 6
Sound Theories, Volume 1 - ''The Aching Hunger''
   

 Sound Theories, Volume 1 - ''The Aching Hunger''

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 11
Real Illusions: Reflections
   

 Real Illusions: Reflections

   Year: 2005   

Tracks: 11
The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology (CD 2)
   

 The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology (CD 2)

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 15
The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology (CD 1)
   

 The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology (CD 1)

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 17
The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 3)
   

 The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 3)

   Year: 2002   

Tracks: 13
The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 2)
   

 The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 2)

   Year: 2002   

Tracks: 13
The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 1)
   

 The Elusive Light and Sound Vol. 1 (Part 1)

   Year: 2002   

Tracks: 14
The 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies - Archive
   

 The 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies - Archive

   Year: 2000   

Tracks: 10
7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies Archives Vol. 1
   

 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies Archives Vol. 1

   Year: 2000   

Tracks: 11
The Ultra Zone
   

 The Ultra Zone

   Year: 1999   

Tracks: 13
Fire Garden
   

 Fire Garden

   Year: 1996   

Tracks: 18
Alien Love Secrets
   

 Alien Love Secrets

   Year: 1995   

Tracks: 7
Sex and Religion
   

 Sex and Religion

   Year: 1993   

Tracks: 13
Passion and Warfare
   

 Passion and Warfare

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 14
Flex-Able Leftovers
   

 Flex-Able Leftovers

   Year: 1984   

Tracks: 13






Along with his erstwhile teacher Joe Satriani, six-string virtuoso Steve Vai seat the banner for rock'n'roll music guitar virtuosity in the '80s. Born on June 6, 1960, and raised in Carle Place, NY, Vai became interested in the guitar via such fabled artists as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and Alice Cooper as a stripling and, upon starting high school school, took lessons with an elder histrion from his aged high school school, Joe Satriani. Playing in various local bands, Vai apace picked up on the cat's-paw, and by the eld of 18 was attending the famed Berklee School of Music in Boston. As a bookman there, Vai canned several of Frank Zappa's most technically demanding compositions for guitar, and regular sent a written matter of i such transcription, "Black Page," to Zappa himself. Zappa was so impressed with the young guitar histrion that upon group merging him, he invited Vai to link his stria.


Later on, Vai toured the populace with Zappa (giving Vai the nicknames "Stunt Guitarist" and "Little Italian Virtuoso") and played on such albums as 1981's Tinsel Town Rebellion and You Are What You Is, 1982's Ship Arriving Too Late, 1983's Man from Utopia, asset 1984's Them or Us and Thing Fish, earlier going away to set out on his own. First off was a partner off of self-financed, recorded, and released solo albums in 1984, Flex-Able and Flex-Able Leftovers, both of which showcased Vai's guitar playacting and songwriting talents, until now were motionless heavily influenced byZappa.


With Van Halen all the madness by the mid-'80s due to their massive toilsome rock/pop crossover success, Vai replaced Yngwie Malmsteen in a similarly styled kit called Alcatrazz (which featured previous Rainbow vocalizer Graham Bonnett), playing on their unnoted 1985 freeing Distressful the Peace. The same year, Vai made a cameo appearance in the motion picture Juncture (playing the devil's guitarist and shredding away in a guitar duel with Ralph Macchio) and got an invite from his friend/bass maestro Billy Sheehan to seek out for the guitar pip in singer David Lee Roth's solo band (Philip Milton Roth had merely rent from Van Halen), and finally landed the fishgig. 1986 adage the debut release from Roth and his astral solo band, Eat 'Em and Smile, which went on to suit one of the year's top difficult john Rock releases. Both Vai and Sheehan were catapulted to superstardom referable to their instrumental talents, as they took top honors in numerous guitar magazines for days afterwards.


Merely although the quartet showed smashing promise, Sheehan jumped ship exactly subsequently their sophomore record album, Skyscraper, was issued in 1988. Although the album was more pop-based than its predecessor, it became another ample hit -- with Vai earning a co-producing deferred payment on the album along with Roth. The same class, Vai issued his have railway line of snazzy guitars, the Jem 777 series, via the Ibanez company. After the ensuing go with Roth absorbed up in late 1988, it was Vai's turn to leap transport. In addition to running on another solo record album, he was invited to fall in up with chart-topping pop-metallists Whitesnake, an extend he recognized. His one and only if album with Whitesnake, Parapraxis of the Tongue, was issued in 1989, as was his third solo album overall, Passion and Warfare, a year by and by. The album was based on dreams that Vai experient as a adolescent, as the largely instrumental record album became a goodly attain, earning gold certificate and curing Vai's standing as one of the top guitarists of the day. It was besides around this time that Vai created a seven-string guitar through Ibanez. Although the tool didn't catch on initially, it would by the mid to recent '90s, when the guitarists in such alloy acts as Korn and Limp Bizkit would utilize the instrument to attain super-low tunings.


After an extended foramen, Vai formed his number one conventional rock band (called...VAI) along with newcomer Devin Townsend on vocals, T.M. Stevens on bass, and Terry Bozzio on drums -- offering their one and only album in 1993, Sex activity & Religion. When the album proved to be a disappointment both critically and commercially, Vai returned back to all-instrumental exploit with the 1995 EP Alien Love Secrets. For the oddment of the ten, Vai continued to egress solo releases, including 1996's Fire Garden, 1998's Flex-Able Leftovers (a re-release of his long out of print second solo album, with added tracks), and 1999's The Ultra Zone. It was besides during the late '90s that Vai and Satriani reunited for an yearly co-headlining go (with a different third creative person added each class), called G3, unleashing a live album, G3: Live in Concert, in 1997.


The early twenty-first century proverb a ado of releases from Vai, including a compiling of instrumentals, The seventh Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies Archive, in 2000, and his number one full-length live release, Alive in an Ultra World, in 2001, as well as his mammoth career-encompassing ten-disc box determine The Secret Jewel Box. In 2002, he equanimous several pieces that he had contributed to films through the years, including the guitar duel from Crossroads and the melodic theme to Federal Reserve note and Ted's Bogus Journey and place them together in a 40-track accumulation called The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1. A series of compilations came next and subsequently a five-year respite from the studio, Vai returned in 2005 with Real Illusions: Reflections. A turn with the Metropole Orchestra followed and he released a challenging double live determine documenting his performances, coroneted Sound Theories, Vols. twelve, in 2007.


Over the long time, Vai guested on unnumerable albums by other artists, including Gregg Bissonette's self-titled debut and Submarine, Alice Cooper's Hey Stoopid, Randy Coven's Casimir Funk Me Tender, Al di Meola's Countless Desire, Public Image Ltd.'s Album, Joe Jackson's Symphony 1, and Billy Sheehan's Compression. He can likewise be ground on such additional Zappa releases as Jazz from Hell, Exclude Up 'N Play Yer Guitar, Guitar, and on several volumes of the ongoing You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore series and the live protection phonograph record, Zappa's Universe. As if his busy schedule weren't full enough, Vai pursued a lifelong interest when he began harvest honey among five-spot bee colonies in the backyard of his rest home.






Saturday, 16 August 2008

Oasis star hits out at Winehouse

Noel Gallagher has slated his colleague artists on Chris Moyles' BBC Radio breakfast show, comparing troubled singer Amy Winehouse to a "poverty-stricken horse".

The Oasis star went on to criticise producer Mark Ronson, who remixed The Zutons track Valerie for Winehouse.

He said: "He wants to write his have tunes instead of laying waste everyone else's. Mark Ronson needs to learn three chords on the guitar and write a tune."

Of the Kaiser Chiefs, he said: "The Monkees haven't split up, they're just going under the name of the Kaiser Chiefs."



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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Sina Vodjani

Sina Vodjani   
Artist: Sina Vodjani

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Easy Listening
   



Discography:


Karma  Love and Compassion Cd2  Compassion   
 Karma Love and Compassion Cd2 Compassion

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


Karma  Love and Compassion Cd1  Love   
 Karma Love and Compassion Cd1 Love

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


Sacred Buddha   
 Sacred Buddha

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


Healing The Heart   
 Healing The Heart

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


El Vuelo Del Chaman   
 El Vuelo Del Chaman

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 18


Om-Shanti   
 Om-Shanti

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


Bird Of Hope   
 Bird Of Hope

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


Karmapa Secret of the crystal   
 Karmapa Secret of the crystal

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


No Buddha   
 No Buddha

   Year:    
Tracks: 11




 






Monday, 30 June 2008

Amelia Cuni and Werner Durand and Marika Falk

Amelia Cuni and Werner Durand and Marika Falk   
Artist: Amelia Cuni and Werner Durand and Marika Falk

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   



Discography:


Drumming Breath   
 Drumming Breath

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 6




 






Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Corinne returns to the spotlight

HEARTBROKEN singer CORINNE BAILEY RAE is returning to the spotlight for the
first time since the shock death of her husband JASON RAE.

The singer/songwriter was widowed when her saxophonist hubby was found dead in
a Leeds flat earlier this year, with preliminary pathologist reports
suggesting his tragic death could have been caused by an excess of drugs and
drink.

The young couple met at university, marrying when Corinne was 22.

Jason's band HAGGIS HORNS had played with AMY WINEHOUSE, LILY
ALLEN and MARK RONSON - who attended his funeral in April just as
Corinne fled the music scene in order to grieve.

But the Put Your Records On star is set to make her first live appearance to
play on Channel 4's Live From Abbey Road TV show, filmed at the London
recording studio made famous by the BEATLES.

She will join legendary jazz musician HERBIE HANCOCK to play the set on
Thursday.

Monday, 16 June 2008

Barbra Streisand - Streisand Wants To Help Obama


BARBRA STREISAND is in negotiations to offer aid and support to BARACK OBAMA as he campaigns to become America's next President.

The legendary diva's spokeswoman has confirmed that Streisand and Obama are talking about how she can best be used in the Senator's race for the White House.

The singer, a fervent Democrat and longtime friend of Obama's recent party rival Hillary Clinton, is expected to perform at one of the Senator's upcoming fundraisers.

Obama already has plenty of top-name celebrity supporters - Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Oprah Winfrey, Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson and Will Smith have all publicly voiced their support for the presidential wannabe.





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