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Deficient DNA Repair Capacity Associated With Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer
...can be measured easily and quickly, the scientific community will be able to clearly understand the role of DNA repair capacity in the development of cancer and possibly to develop interventions to reduce cancer incidence and mortality," they write. ...Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells
...ing the two academicmedical centers, specialty and community hospitals, a network ofphysician groups, and nonacute and home health services....W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes
...mmon and uncommon diseases. "The CGS represents a community of faculty and students with expertise in the biol...oles in regulating the properties of the microbial community and human physiology. To do so, the researchers will use a new type of mass spectrometer with an unp...Yellowstone microbes fueled by hydrogen, according to U. of Colorado study
...enetically analyze the composition of themicrobial community as it appeared in the field. "We didn't look atwhat grows in a culture dish, we looked at the RNA of samples directlyfrom the field," Spear said."We've never before known what microbes were living in Yellowstone hotsprings, and now we do," Pace said....Affymetrix Unveils Plans to Double Plant and Animal Genome Microarray Offering
...rogram lastyear. By providing the plant and animal community groups with a single,standardized platform for gene expression research, they can easilycompare results, build reliable databases and move science forward morequickly."Affymetrix Consortia Program arrays are developed using the samereliable design an...Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible
...carefully followed". Good news for the scientific community (and the microarrays producing companies)! A study funded by the National Cancer Institute, part of the NationalInstitutes of Health, shows for the first time that microarray datagenerated in different laboratories can produce highly comparableresult...Marburg virus disease in Angola - update
...ctivities, raising awareness of the disease in the community and also providing additional logistic support and equipment. Two travelers returning to Portugal from Angola were investigated for possible Marburg virus infection and laboratory results were negative in tests performed by the Bernard-Nocht Institu...Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases
..."We have to increase awareness in both the medical community as well as the public regarding sexually transmitted diseases and women." Extending these findings into clinical studies is the next step. McMaster researchers are currently discussing the design of a study with infectious disease clinicians in Hami...Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment
... Mooney described as a consensus of the scientific community and a synthesis of all available information. Cause for concern "If you look at all the indicators of human well-being, globally averaged we're doing pretty well," Mooney said. "But in the last 50 years, we've changed the structure of the world's e...Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections
...iscovery."Scientists in the C. neoformans research community - including Heitmanat Duke and Jennifer Lodge at S...he genomic sequence data, the Cryptococcusresearch community already has designed a microarray and has formed aconsortium to further investigate the function of ...New Study from Affymetrix Laboratories Points to Changing View of How Genome Works
...mercialize tiling microarrays to give the research community the ability to perform these types of unbiased studies as well. By focusing research beyond the parts of the genome that have been traditionally studied, scientists hope to discover new drug targets, new biomarkers, and a better understanding of dise...Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health
... to develop ways to manipulate the gut's bacterial community to promote health or treat diseases. For example, the group is assessing how the bacterial capacity for processing dietary carbohydrates varies among individuals and what influence that may have on weight. ...Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra
...m offshore," Croll said. "It transformed the plant community from one that does well in nutrient-rich conditions to one that does well in nutrient-depleted conditions." Foxes were first introduced to some of the islands by Russian fur traders in the mid- to late-18th century as a way to supplement the declini...NIAID Initiates Trial of Experimental Avian Flu Vaccine
...n influenza infection in humans, the public health community is concerned that the virus will develop the capability of efficiently spreading from human to human and thus create a risk for a worldwide pandemic,?says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “NIAID has supported research on H5N1, the strain respon...The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born
... Social Entrepreneurship. Members of the BioForge community will be able to use certified BIOS licenses (www.bios.net) to distribute their work. The BIOS Initiative provides a new licensing mechanism that encourages sharing of the core tools of innovation with all, while still allowing patenting of products, ...PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0
...ements in the latest versionprovide the scientific community with a wealth of freely availableinformation and t...ember database andlook forward to working with the community to further advance thisresource.?The PANTHER system functional annotations of fruit fly genes have b...Simple drug has the potential to save many lives threatened by malaria
...rting treatment which is easy to administer in the community is crucial. Researchers in Uganda compared the effectiveness and safety of conventional treatment (intravenous quinine) with an alternative treatment (artemether, given as a suppository) in 103 children aged between 6 months and 5 years with severe ...Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells
... a year. "We know that the environment in which a community of cells finds itself has a great deal of influence on the biology underway within those cells," Kniss said. "And that biology is always translated into changes in gene expression and assemblies of proteins." That is why the three-dimensional scaffol...RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide
...ciety meetings and receive feedback from the wider community of researchers. The ontology team will identify all RNA motifs, or repeated patterns, mentioned in the literature or appearing in databases, to agree upon and write a definition for each motif. The consortium's work will be accessible on the Web to ...Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance
...on a genomic-scale available to an ever broadening community of life scientists." As part of the agreement, Stratagene has joined the community of Affymetrix partners developing methods for next-generation gene expression microarrays. "Affymetr...Nonlinear Dynamics announces more details of its global partnership with PerkinElmer
...lationship will continue to benefit the proteomics community for many years to come." ...LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation
...med the presence of a resident, methane-generating community of microorganisms ("microbial consortium") in substrate samples taken from the 110,000 acre Monument Butte oilfield located in North Eastern Utah. This site represents the latest in a series of active "GeobioreactorsTM" that Luca Technologies has ide...A new study examines how shared pathogens affect host populations
...ogens are able to infect multiple species within a community and are commonly transmitted across species. Cross-species transmission is often associated with pathogen emergence and therefore has been considered as a negative factor for humans, wildlife, and species of agricultural importance. Many pathogens li...Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers
... task. "Then we can do an experiment to see if the community of cells is behaving as we desire. That is going to have a tremendous number of applications." ...Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity
... already existing in the not-for-profit publishing community that offer more cost-effective public access to the science in their journals. NIH's new rule requests but does not require authors to deposit into PubMedCentral (PMC) manuscripts of articles reporting NIH-funded research that have been peer reviewe...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
...in the fight against HIV and offers the scientific community a foundation on which to build future trials. The multi-centered trial, conducted in the United States and the Netherlands and completed in 2003, is described in two papers by the rgp120 HIV Vaccine Study Group, and Peter B. Gilbert and colleagues, ...Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor
...ant debate is currently underway in the scientific community over the evolution of the Great White shark, and Chuck Ciampaglio, Ph.D., an assistant professor of geology at the Wright State University Lake Campus, is right in the middle of it. The issue is if the Great White, one of the most feared predators o...Reducing malarial transmission in Africa
...l transmission of Plasmodium falciparum within the community it might reduce selective transmission of resistant parasites in treated patients. Citation: Sutherland CJ, Ord R, Dunyo S, Jawara M, Drakeley CJ, et al. (2005) Reduction of malaria transmission to Anopheles mosquitoes with a six-dose regimen of coa...Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer's
...e assay has a chance to change the way the medical community thinks about molecular diagnostics and the markers they consider for many types of diseases." ?Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanotechnology "It's a good bet that the very earliest stage of AD memory l...Institute for Systems Biology Symposium Addresses Need for Better Computational Tools
...omics tool that can be widely used by the academic community in an open source environment. Speakers at this year's symposium included Rich Bonneau, ISB senior scientist and Viktors Berstis, Senior Software Engineer at IBM Global Services, outlining current efforts to run Rosetta de novo structure prediction ...WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas
...dition, health workers are starting to involve the community to clean up the Aedes mosquito breeding sites in the open water containers and debris around camps and homes", added Dr Samlee. Experts have been deployed and an Early Warning and surveillance systems has been established in affected regions. Public...Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update
...aff in Uige have today reported further signs that community attitudes are improving, though hostility towards the mobile teams remains of concern in one area known to have recent cases and deaths. Efforts to sensitize affected communities are continuing, with local volunteers supported by Portuguese-speaking ...Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge
...opment, and validation. Input from the scientific community should be avidly sought, said Murch. "Our traditio...ime, lessons learned from the traditional forensic community for comprehensive quality assurance guidelines should be adapted to build a base of acceptance, cred...Anti cancer virotherapy well tolerated in first human administration, research finds
...These viruses occur naturally and routinely in the community causing mild infections in adult humans. Previously the Shafren group has published research on CVA21 that showed success in specifically targeting and killing melanoma cells in mice . The virotherapy technique involves the specific targeting and k...Scientists identify genetic pathways essential to RNA interference
...ng the two academic medical centers, specialty and community hospitals, a network of physician groups, and nonacute and home health services. ...... 16-18, 2005. To inform the public and healthcare community of its decisions, FDA today issued a Public Health Advisory (PHA) and updated patient and healthcare practitioner fact sheets. Additional information about today's announcements is available on FDA's Web site at www.fda.gov/cder. Information can als...Super predators and mass extinctions
...pulation waxes and wanes. Inevitably, their stable community is disrupted when mutations lead to a super predator that quickly decimates the prey population, which in turn leads to its own demise. The few creatures that survive the predatory apocalypse gradually mutate to fill the existing ecological niches - ...FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines
...e to work closely with industry and the healthcare community on this exciting emerging technology. In addition to announcing the availability of its final guidance and the new pharmacogenomic Web page, the agency also reminded the public of the April 11 to 13 meeting being held at the Mariott Hotel in Bethesd...Researchers discover underwater volcano
...lulu'u. Researchers explored the unique biological community surrounding the eruption site, and were amazed to find an "Eel City," a community of hundreds of slithering eels. This new volcano, dubbed Nafanua after the ferocious Samoan goddess...The evolutionary triumph of flower power
...ered bouquets to 113 men and women in a retirement community ?an environment in which memory is often a personal concern. All 113 got flowers, some at the beginning of the study with a follow-up bouquet a few days later, some only on the second round and others after the study. Everyone also received a decorat......work. With this sequence information, the research community will be better equipped to interpret data generate... of great benefit to the microarray bioinformatics community and to databases such as the NCT's CEBS as we seek to make high-quality toxicogenomics data sets pub...Virus-host interactions at sea effect global photosynthesis
...work. With this sequence information, the research community will be better equipped to interpret data generate... of great benefit to the microarray bioinformatics community and to databases such as the NCT's CEBS as we seek to make high-quality toxicogenomics data sets pub...B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue
...work. With this sequence information, the research community will be better equipped to interpret data generate... of great benefit to the microarray bioinformatics community and to databases such as the NCT's CEBS as we seek to make high-quality toxicogenomics data sets pub...Building a human kinase gene repository
...ction will be a useful resource for the scientific community and will facilitate high-throughput cellular and biochemical assays and structural studies of this important gene family. ...Putting ecology back into river restoration
An ambitious plan is under way in the ecological community to agree a set of standards for ecologically successful river restoration. The plan is being led by the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, which this month is publishing a special profile on river restoration. Opening the debate...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...cosystem is to figure out who is there and how the community census varies in time and space," said Eckburg, th...g the point of complete coverage of the intestinal community in any one individual - much less the complete coverage of all human intestinal communities." In con...Mouse with designer liver has enhanced glucose tolerance, insulin response
...cine in May, were made available to the scientific community by advance posting online at the journal's website on April 10th. The liver plays a major role in the uptake of glucose from the bloodstream, its storage, and regulation. Insulin resistance in the liver is a crucial factor in the development of hype...AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV
...tops with Me." This social marketing campaign uses community role models to promote the importance of people with HIV taking precautions to prevent transmitting the virus to others. This prevention campaign includes the use of bus and subway advertisements in New York City and Buffalo. New York State has some...New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections
... biofilm." Biofilm is a Key Culprit Biofilm is a community of numerous types of microbes that attach to inter...to be done. He stated that the infectious disease community can take the lead in solving the problem and that they can also look to the experience and success i...Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)
... biofilm." Biofilm is a Key Culprit Biofilm is a community of numerous types of microbes that attach to inter...to be done. He stated that the infectious disease community can take the lead in solving the problem and that they can also look to the experience and success i...Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom
...society. The relationship we've developed with the community of Zhigansk is paying huge dividends scientifically, and it also helping us to get our science to the public." Holmes envisions a network of schools in the Russian, Canadian, and Alaskan Arctic, participating in an international research effort and a...A new way to share models of biological systems
...y continues: "The next logical step was to build a community resource that would allow anyone to submit, download and reuse the models. That's the purpose of the BioModels database. BioModels provides access to published, peer-reviewed, quantitative models of biochemical and cell-biological systems." Some of ...WHO suspends Marburg work, appeals for new funds
...ch bodies of the deceased ?transmission within the community can be stopped and the outbreak brought under control. International appeal Specialized international staff and equipment have been deployed rapidly and measures are beginning to have an impact. Control of the outbreak will require intensified and ...Scientists analyze chromosomes 2 and 4
...omosome 4 has long been of interest to the medical community because it holds the gene for Huntington's disease, polycystic kidney disease, a form of muscular dystrophy and a variety of other inherited disorders. Chromosome 2 is noteworthy for being the second largest human chromosome, trailing only chromosome...DOE JGI launches IMG public online microbial genome data clearinghouse
...ed genomes to our collaborators and the scientific community at large." According to Kyrpides, future releases ...ties and mechanisms that will allow the scientific community to participate in the annotation effort. "There are hundreds of bacterial genome sequences in multi...Scientists use manufacturing methods to reconstruct mastodon
...er (0.004 inch) thick. Crews of UROP students and community volunteers also made molds of the bones, which took about a week for the ribs and almost a year for the skull, said biology undergraduate student Kelly Iknayan, of Gaylord, Mich., who worked on the project last year. From the molds, students and volu...Aircraft Cabin Ventilation Influences The Transmission Of Diseases In-flight
... authors believe the aviation industry and medical community should educate the general public on health issues related to air travel and infection. They write that good hand hygiene has been proven to reduce the risk of disease transmission, and air travellers should make it part of their normal travel routin...Community MRSA is re-emergence of 1950s pandemic, study suggests
... caused a pandemic 40-50 years ago could mean that community acquired MRSA will spread faster and be more wides...ound the world. This pandemic of both hospital and community acquired infections waned throughout the 1960s as the antibiotic meticillin was used to treat these ...Understanding how bacteria communicate may help scientists prevent disease
...re only productive when carried out in unison by a community of bacteria. The example often given is bioluminescence. Scientists noticed that once a population or colony of particular bacteria reached a certain size, the colony began to emit light. "Now many people realize that other important activities also......rarians, open-access advocates, and the scientific community ?in particular, the editorial board members of PLoS Biology, the reviewers, and most of all the authors who have submitted excellent work to a fledgling journal ?a substantial step has been taken toward these goals. But there is still a long way to ...Other ContentspollinationpollinationselfselfselfselfselfselfselfselfselfconservativeconservativeconservativeconservativeconservativeconservativesemivalvesvalvesvalvesvalvesvalvesvalvesvesiclesvesiclesvesiclesvesiclesvesiclesOther Tags
(Date:7/24/2008)... infection due to a virus called cytomegalovirus (...romised immune systems, can also affect hospital i...roblems, University of Washington researchers have...er hospital and intensive-care unit (ICU) stays in... published July 23 in JAMA , the Journal of the ...
(Date:7/24/2008)... Irvine, Calif., July 24, 2008 Adult stem cells o...commonly believed, and with proper stimulation the...t to disease or injury, a study by UC Irvine scien...the true stem cells in the mammalian brain are the...rain and spinal cord, rather than cells in the sub...
(Date:7/24/2008)... NEW YORK, July 24, 2008 In the life of a cell, t...ell is fated to pause and repair itself, commit su...cancer. In a new study, published in the July 25th...l Center have identified a way that cells respond ...ins for disposal. The finding points to a new path...
(Date:7/24/2008)...Irvine, Calif. UC Irvine researchers have found a... body clock and metabolism. The discovery reveals...obesity and other related diseases. , Paolo Sass...armacology, and his colleagues have identified tha... the body,s circadian rhythms, works in balance wi...
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