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Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now

...lly honest and nimble people ?when they are really competent ?will find a way to find out the facts. This is a study of which we are all very proud," said Charles W. Powers, CRESP Principal Investigator and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-UMDNJ Project ...

Regenerating worms help elucidate stem cell biology

...ally involved in producing daughter cells that are competent to restore aged differentiated cells during homeostasis as well as missing tissues after amputation. Unlike what's been thought about piwi for some time, which is that it was required to maintain the stem cell, we think that's not happening here. ...

Protein translation in sperm

...ely known as "capacitation," that render the sperm competent to penetrate and fertilize the female oocyte. In their new report, Drs. Gur and Breitbart demonstrate that human, rat, bovine and mouse sperm all incorporate labeled amino acids into polypeptides during the capacitation phase. They identify that mi...

DNA: Bacteria's survival ration

... chronic infections, also may harbor nutritionally competent germs. If researchers succeeded in turning off nutritional competence in such pathogens, as Finkel did in E. coli, the advance might lay the groundwork for a new class of genetic antibiotics. The study did not prove that all DNA decay is microbial....

Genetic snooze button governs timing of spring flowers

...tiate into shoots, roots and flowers - is rendered competent to flower. In a series of studies of Arabidopsis, a small mustard plant commonly used to study plant genetics, Amasino and his colleagues have found there are certain critical genes that repress flowering. "The plants we've studied, primarily Ara...

New strategy developed to combat West Nile Virus

...eases to humans. The mosquito must be sufficiently competent to act as a carrier, thus some species can act as hosts for certain diseases, while others are more "refractive," ?not carrying enough of the disease to transmit it. West Nile Virus transmission requires mosquito species that prefer feeding on birds...

Newly identified mechanism for silencing genes points to possible anti-cancer strategies

.... "If so, the eIF6 would prevent the assembly of a competent ribosome, thus blocking messenger RNA translation at that gene. The result would be to silence that specific gene. We tested this idea in human cells and in worms and found it to be the case in both. Interestingly, this not only supported our hypothe...