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Human genomics in China

... and the rice genome project was greatly promoted, which eventually facilitated the success of the rice genome project. The 9th National Five-Year ... upon tackling cancer and other complex human diseases. Meanwhile, facilitated by the strategic plan of big sciences, the innovation of science and ...

Stem cell 'daughters' lead to breast cancer

... generous donation of breast tissue by women undergoing breast surgery, together with the support of their surgeons and pathologists. The study was facilitated by the Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer. ...

Stress signals link pre-existing sickness with susceptibility to bacterial infection

... tract. A new study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), shows that infection with the pneumonia causing bacteria Legionella , is facilitated by an increased amount of a signaling protein that is associated with mitochondrial disease. Patients with mitochondrial disease exhibit a wide ...

Investing wisely to save the Great Barrier Reef

... practices on farmland to help reduce run-off of sediments, nutrients and pesticides on to the Great Barrier Reef. A decision support process facilitated and designed by CSIRO, Australian Government Reef Rescue team and the Bureau of Rural Sciences informed the Australian Government's decision about ...

University of Leicester geologists demonstrate extent of ancient ice age

... waters, allowing animals and algae to thrive and bloom in the plankton, but also altered ocean circulation, creating oxygen-poor deep waters which facilitated the preservation of fragile, carbonaceous planktonic fossils. The deglacial outwash formed a less dense, low salinity 'lid' on the oceans preventing ...

Next-generation software system for flood warning and risk analysis to be developed

... in China. These tests were supported by the Natural Environment Research Council and a Partnership Award from Innovation China-UK (ICUK), which was facilitated by King's College London Business. A recently granted Proof of Concept award from ICUK will take the development work to the next stage, supporting ...

Two new studies on circadian rhythms

... pinpointed a near record number of modifications on FRQ and described how each appears and disappears over the day. Moreover, their methods facilitated the identification of interacting proteins to track and correlate changes in the core circadian network. They determined the clusters and locations ...

$1.6 million grant to lead development of resistance-detecting field kit

... at a low level and thereby enable control programme staff to take action to reduce the build up of resistance." The rollout of FAST kits will be facilitated in collaboration with existing programmes run by IVCC, TDR (a World Health Organisation programme for research and training in tropical diseases) and ...

Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

... described in this paper we have used the program CellDesigner to map the metabolic network in multiple types of cells. The modeling effort was facilitated by the fact that CellDesigner stores the model using the Systems Biology Markup Language." SBML is a powerful, computer-readable format for ...

Locking parasites in host cell could be new way to fight malaria

... and Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar of Global Infectious Diseases. Collaborations between the Greenbaum and Roos laboratories have been facilitated by proximity, as these researchers are housed in adjacent space, under the auspices of the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute. Because Plasmodium ...

Phasic firing of dopamine neurons is key to brain's prediction of rewards

... with cues in our environment, which may predict similar rewards in the future. The burst of electrical spikes observed in dopamine neurons is facilitated by a protein called the NMDA receptor, which is expressed on the surface of the dopamine cells. In this study, researchers removed the NMDA receptor ...

BIO-key(R) Reports Profitability for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008

... units booked in the fourth quarter of 2008 $500,000 contract with the Hawaii County Police Department for MobileCop and PocketCop units facilitated by the Company's wireless carrier partnerships $400,000 contract with the City of Baltimore Police Department for additional MobileCop ...

Entrust Announces Financial Results for Fourth-Quarter and Fiscal 2008

... Societe Generale displaced high-priced, third-party hardware tokens in favor of Entrust IdentityGuard versatile authentication platform. facilitated by technology partner Digital People, Societe Generale, one of the largest banks in France, purchased 1,500 Entrust IdentityGuard grid cards with the ...

BIO-key(R) Fingerprint Biometrics Media Spotlights

... the country are able to query other local crime and criminal history databases and share highly confidential and sensitive information. Access is facilitated through an authorized user system that requires a finger swipe on a fingerprint reader attached to a Pegasus workstation. BIO-key's WEB-key software ...

Studies examine genetic determinants of ADHD

... Health and the private sector with the goal of promoting genome mapping for various complex diseases. Recent advances in these technologies have facilitated the cost-effective genotyping of hundreds of thousands of DNA markers. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) hold great promise for identifying ...

DOE Joint Genome Institute completes soybean genome

... Genomes, which oversees the National Plant Genome Initiative. "The close coordination between the DOE sequencing project and the NSF SoyMap project facilitated through the National Plant Genome Initiative has added value to the sequence and physical map resources for this important crop," Collins said. ...

Research consortium to sequence turkey genome

... strategies." Comparative genomics in avian species, especially as it relates to determining the function of the chicken genome sequence, will also be facilitated by the availability of the turkey genome. Kent Reed, Associate Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at The University of Minnesota, ...

Southern Sierra Science Symposium planned for Visalia

... Forest/Giant Sequoia National Monument and Craig Axtell, Superintendent, Sequoia Kings Canyon National Parks. The day full agenda will include facilitated science panel presentations based on resource areas or ecosystem topics. At days end there will be clarification on what are the research gaps and ...

Duke Medicine physician-scientist receives National Medal of Science

... the genes for these receptors in the 1970s and 1980s, thus revealing the structure of the receptors as well their functions and regulation. This work facilitated and fundamentally altered the way in which numerous therapeutic agents have been developed. "The National Medal of Science is a great personal and ...

Big-brained animals evolve faster

... itself in, but also on the features of the species itself? Now a study supports this possibility, suggesting that possessing a large brain might have facilitated the evolutionary diversification of some avian lineages. Over 20 years ago, Jeff Wyles, Allan Wilson, and Joseph Kunkel proposed that big brains ...

Strange molecule in the sky cleans acid rain, scientists discover

... that is essential to the atmosphere's ability to break down pollutants, especially the compounds that cause acid rain. It's the unusual chemistry facilitated by this molecule, however, that will attract the most attention from scientists. Marsha Lester, the University of Pennsylvania's Edmund J. Kahn ...

Microbe diet key to carbon dioxide release

... When plants drop their leaves, stems and twigs, this organic matter slowly becomes part of the soil as a result of decomposition, which is facilitated by bacteria and other microbes. This process adds plant nutrients to the soil and releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Duke University ...

Viral recombination another way HIV fools the immune system

... evades control by HLA-B27 had developed, possibly in response to a second recombination of viral sequences. "The first Gag recombination event facilitated escape from the primary immune response, shortly after which the immune response recovered to recognize this mutant strain," Streeck explains. ...

Leatherback turtles' newly discovered migration route may be roadmap to salvation

... Pacific Ocean to people's attention, Shillinger teamed up with Stanford MBA graduate Mark Breier to create and launch the Great Turtle Race, largely facilitated by TOPP and coordinated by the Leatherback Trust. In this educational project, a race among leatherback turtles across the Pacific Ocean is simulated ...

Great Ape Trust's Wich lead author of Oryx paper on continuing orangutan population declines

... largest remaining orangutan populations, Wich et al. wrote. A similar project in 1982 split the Gunung Leuser National Park, and the improved access facilitated uncontrolled illegal settlements inside the park, large-scale illegal encroachment and logging, and poaching of threatened species. Also cited as an ...

Mechanism explains link between apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's disease

... critical to its ability to stimulate A? degradation. Activation of liver X receptors (LXRs) to enhance expression of lipidated ApoE significantly facilitated A? degradation. Importantly, use of an LXR agonist to increase lipidated forms of ApoE in a mouse model of AD resulted in reduced A? plaque levels ...

2 University of Illinois researchers named HHMI investigators

... to regeneration and stem-cell biology. We are all excited as we anticipate his laboratorys future progress in these fields that will now be greatly facilitated by HHMI funding, Belmont said. Newmark was one of five recipients nationwide of the 2003 Damon Runyon Scholar Award and he received a 2003 CAREER ...

Rice and UT-Houston join DOD push for regenerative medicine

... room," said Rice Provost Eugene Levy. "This is an outstanding example of the kind of joint, tightly interwoven research that will be greatly facilitated and that Rice plans to conduct with UT-Houston and its other TMC partners in the new Collaborative Research Center slated to open in mid-2009." ...

AMNH scientists grace Science & Nature covers

... with input from the 20 additional authors, , who provided biodiversity information, analytical expertise, and technical assistance. The project was facilitated by Systme dAires Protges de Madagascar and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The phylogenomic sampling by Wheeler and colleagues was primarily ...

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

... yielded a few surprising discoveries, is reported in the March 3 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The work was facilitated by the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center established in ...

Learning how to say 'no' to alcohol advertising and peer pressure works for inner-city adolescents

... by the Surgeon General found that despite laws against it, underage drinking is deeply embedded in American culture, viewed as a rite of passage and facilitated by adults. "Our findings point to the need for prevention programs that teach adolescents media resistance skills and peer refusal skills to ...

Is hybridoma production about to take a quantum leap forward?

... water barrier", thanks to the nanoparticle restructuring capability of Neowater®. We can expect a new era in R&D as these concepts are facilitated by Neowater® technology and find realization in therapeutic applications. ...

Study confirms that low-calorie sweeteners are helpful in weight control

... found that participation in this multidisciplinary weight control program including the use of aspartame-sweetened foods and beverages not only facilitated weight loss, but long-term maintenance of a reduced body weight. A 2007 study published in Pediatrics found that using sucralose or sucralose ...

Media highlights in the January issues of Biophysical Journal

... to gene expression. Volume 94, Issue 2, January 15, 2008 Translocation of Aquaporin-Containing Vesicles to the Plasma Membrane is facilitated by Actomyosin Relaxation Christoph P Riethmuller, University of Munster Hans Oberleithner, University of Munster Marianne Wilhelmi, University of ...

Prison study to investigate link between diet and behavior

... but this study could lead to revisions taking into account our mental health, as well." The new three year study will start in May and has been facilitated by the Ministry of Justice, HM Prison Service and the Scottish Prison Service. It will be carried out at three HM Young Offenders Institutions ...

New genetic variants associated with lipid levels, risk for coronary artery disease

... data across different gene chips and thus examine much larger numbers of participants. With the statistical power gained by new programs that facilitated pooling of the large SardiNIA, FUSION and Diabetes Genetic Initiative (DGI) datasets, researchers were able to identify variations in 18 genes that ...

Oosight microscope enables embryonic stem cell breakthrough

... the Oosight worked for enucleating monkey eggs, says Keefe. We already had shown at the MBL, in 2000, that the technology developed by Dr. Oldenbourg facilitated noninvasive enucleation of mice eggs. At that time, Keefe operated a research lab at the MBL and directed the Division of Reproductive Medicine and ...

Are current projections of climate change-impacts on biodiversity misleading?

... of diversity gradients has turned to some degree into a discussion of semantics. Recent developments in general climate models have finally facilitated high resolution predictions of past climates. In collaboration with leading climatologists working on paleoclimate modeling in the United Kingdom, ...

Conservation International and Toyota partner to protect Philippines' rain forests

... biodiversity Through its Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor Program, CI has been working in PPLS with local stakeholders since 2002 and has facilitated the expansion of the park from more than 10,775 acres to 291,574 acres, encompassing the remaining old growth forest, freshwater and marine ....

Coral reef fish harbor an unexpectedly high biodiversity of parasites

... to the class of monogeneans (Monogenea). They live on gills of marine fish where they find both refuge and food. Identification of each taxon is facilitated by the morphology of the genital apparatus which is characteristic for each species. In 2006, researchers from the research unit Systmatique, ...