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Researchers crack the code of the common cold

... of Wisconsin-Madison have completed the genomic sequences of the viruses and assembled them into a "family ... "the data gathered from these full genome sequences gives us an opportunity to reconsider vaccines as ... The current study adds 80 new full genome sequences to the rhinovirus library and 10 more acquired ...

New genomic markers associated with risk of heart disease and early heart attack

... out to find "single letter" differences in gene sequences (known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) ... techniques for comparing an individual's gene sequences with reference sequences, the researchers found ... the added risk from any abnormality in these gene sequences seems small, but the genomic association seems ...

Evolution and epilepsy

... effective for seizure prevention? Anchoring sequences Sodium and potassium channels are proteins ... similar amino acid sequences. The shared sequences contained instructions specifying that the ... axon. They also found that these anchoring sequences were conserved in the potassium and sodium ...

Dartmouth research reveals passive learning imprints on the brain just like active learning

... when our research participants observed dance sequences that were actively or passively experienced," ... measured the skill level of participants for sequences that were actively rehearsed daily, and a different set of sequences that were passively observed for an equivalent ...

New HIV browser gives researchers access to valuable data from vaccine trials

... particular value to researchers are the genetic sequences of the viruses that infected participants during ... the only up-to-date broad survey of virus sequences from new infections that had ever been carried ... How to display the very large number of HIV sequences on the browser was another challenge. "Our ...

Huge virulence gene superfamily responsible for devastating plant diseases

... scientists probed the recently published genome sequences of both organisms using bioinformatic tools that can look for specific amino acid sequences or motifs. Advanced searches of the genome sequences (BLAST and Hidden Markov Model) revealed that the ...

New Genetic Technology IDs Virus That Killed Transplant Recipients

... from the three women. More than 103,000 RNA sequences were analyzed by the new technology. Fourteen of ... transplant infections, the technique compared the sequences of genetic material obtained from the infected women with a huge number of viral sequences until a match was found. "That use is not just ...

Scientists explore factors contributing to DNA mutations

... mutations of microsatellites -- variable-length sequences of recurring DNA subunits. Microsatellites are ... and location inside versus outside mobile DNA sequences (Alu sequences). "The analysis confirmed what ... For instance, mutability was higher for sequences with repeated A's than ...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- Jan. 23, 2008

... congregate together. The recognition of similar sequences in DNAs chemical subunits occurs in a way once ... colleagues say the homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without ... the experiment. Strands with identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as ...

Newly discovered virus linked to deadly skin cancer

... analyzed nearly 400,000 messenger RNA genetic sequences from four samples of MCC tumor tissue using a ... transcriptome subtraction (DTS). Comparing the sequences expressed by the tumor genome to gene sequences mapped by the Human Genome Project, the ...

Evolution of human genome's 'guardian' gives people unique protections from DNA damage

... genomics to look systematically at small DNA sequences associated with the promoters, or enhancers, of ... to guard our chromosome structures and DNA sequences against damage are subject to evolutionary ... the length and stability of repeating DNA sequences in the telomere region. Mouse models will ...

New genetic lineage of Ebola virus discovered in great apes

... by the scarcity of available data. Only 12 gene sequences coding for the glycoprotein (GP), a molecular ... of the carcasses meant that the search for RNA sequences coding for GP was conclusive for only 6 gorillas ... humans. For the purposes of this study, the GP sequences of the viral strains responsible for human ...

VIB and UZ-KU Leuven join forces and bring state-of-the-art technology to Flanders

... are generated. Seven hours later, the DNA sequences are produced by the computer, thereby rendering a ... has the advantage of producing large parts of sequences from the genomes that are to be recorded, which ... the image of the entire picture. Determining sequences can now be done 100 times faster than the ...

Study reveals how stem cells decide to become either skeletal or smooth muscle

... not how genes work, but how small regulatory DNA sequences tell genes where, when and to what degree to turn ... its signals. Growing knowledge of how regulatory sequences control gene behavior has the potential to create ... for nerve disorders and heart failure. Regulatory sequences are emerging as an important part of the non-gene ...

Research suggests new cellular targets for HIV drug development

... results and advanced computational techniques. They analyzed 780 HIV sequences from 53 normal and abnormal tissues from seven patients who had died ... is ripe for the emergence of hybrids. "Most people who look at viral sequences assume that evolution of the virus is linear. In the real world that ...

Intradigm Announces Issuance of RNA Interference (RNAi) Patent Covering Potent siRNA Sequence

... pending patent applications worldwide covering proprietary Intradigm siRNA sequences against more than 50 clinically relevant targets. As Intradigm's ... We have established an impressive proprietary portfolio of siRNA sequences against more than 50 highly valued oncology and other disease targets. In ...

NeuroFocus Launches NGame; New Suite of Neuromarketing Products and Services for the Videogame Industry Elite

... years and conducted extensive tests evaluating thousands of game play sequences in the process of creating the NGame suite. The company estimates that the ... weaponry/properties game scenarios/action sequences colors/schemas in-game advertising sound ...

Frost & Sullivan Lauds Pioneer Surgical Technology for Development of Tissue Scaffold E-Matrix

... bio-scaffold provides an open structure that makes these exposed molecular sequences normally obscured in the ECM available to host cells. The bio-scaffold is ... natural ECM with an open structure to provide newly exposed molecular sequences to cells, it could herald the use of a new approach for the development of ...

Researchers develop DNA 'patch' for canine form of muscular dystrophy

... molecules as molecular "patches." These patches cover up mutant DNA sequences that code for making an important muscle protein. The mutant sequences occur in portions of the gene known as exons, which contain the ...

MDS Analytical Technologies' Laser Capture Microdissection Helps Facilitate Discovery of Potential New Colon-Cancer Biomarker

... represented the entire colon cancer progression, comparing the genetic sequences of the laser capture microdissected colon carcinoma cells with sequences from a general population. Comparative sequencing of the two groups of ...

Why prostate cancer patients fail hormone deprivation therapy

... cells use to create androgen receptors, eventually identifying seven RNA sequences different from the "normal" androgen receptor already known to scientists. When they looked for these sequences in cells isolated from 124 prostate cancer patients, they found ...

GlaxoSmithKline and Dynavax Announce Worldwide Strategic Alliance : – Developing First-in-Class Endosomal TLR Inhibitors for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases –

... oligonucleotide-based endosomal TLR inhibitors, called immunoregulatory sequences (IRS). Dynavax's lead inhibitor drug candidate, DV1079, is a bifunctional ... inhibitors are a novel class of oligonucleotides, called immunoregulatory sequences (IRS), that specifically inhibit the TLR-induced inflammatory response ...

A New Way to Predict Outbreaks: Replikin Peptide Concentration in H5N1 Influenza Virus Genome as a Marker for Lethal Outbreaks

... called FluForecast®, which counts the number of replikins in the sequences of each strain of flu virus across the years - and thanks to the data in ... strains. By performing prompt replikin analysis of all human influenza sequences as they emerge, we can have advance warning of the intensity and location ...

Dynavax to Report Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results : -- To Present at Oppenheimer's Healthcare Conference --

... 9 (TLR9) agonist products are based on its proprietary immunostimulatory sequences (ISS), which are short DNA sequences that stimulate the innate immune response. Dynavax's clinical product ...

Elaborate Network Drives When and Where Proteins Are Made

... (RBPs). These are directed to their target RNAs by short, barcode-like sequences on those RNA molecules. The team has already found more than 500 ... recruited to a specific set of RNAs they regulate by recognizing specific sequences in those RNA molecules." He said no reason exists to think RBPs' ...

Penn researchers find key to Sonic hedgehog control of brain development

... bases, the basic building blocks of DNA, in transgenic mice for the sequences that turn on Shh during the development of the forebrain. They identified ... drives expression of Shh in the hypothalamus. Enhancers are regulatory sequences that drive a gene's transcription, ensuring that it is turned on and off ...

HIV Outbreak Began Decades Earlier Than Thought

... genetic sequence of HIV-1 group M. They used this and other HIV-1 genetic sequences to construct a family tree of the origin of the viral strain and to ... said in a university news release. "From that point on, the next oldest sequences that anyone has recovered are from the late 1970s and 1980s, the era when ...

Tufts researchers discover link between DNA palindromes and disease

... a team of biologists have found a relationship between peculiar DNA sequences named palindromes and replication delays. Sergei Mirkin, White Family ... are quite common, said Mirkin. They are words, phrases, numbers or other sequences of units that read the same way in either direction. "We all enjoy ...

Potential treatments from cryptic genes

... and stop looking for new molecules. Currently the complete genetic sequences of more than 580 microbes are known. It is possible to identify pathways that produce new compounds by looking at the DNA sequences and many gene clusters likely to encode natural products have been ...

Sullivan wins NSF Career Award for research on therapeutic drug carriers

... DNA is wrapped. They display a series of peptide "tails" with specific sequences that act like switches, and can activate or suppress the transcription ... Sullivan is creating gold nanoparticles functionalized with histone tail sequences strongly associated with transcriptional activity. When used for packaging ...

How embryonic stem cells develop into tissue-specific cells demonstrated

... non-coding regions of the genome that are normally silent, and repetitive sequences in the genome, which comprise the majority of the mammalian genome but are ... points during stem cell differentiation. It was by observation of these sequences that the researchers were able to establish exactly how and at what point ...

Study provides new understanding of forces behind seasonal flu virus evolution

... of print in the journal Nature. The researchers analyzed full gene sequences of seasonal influenza virus samples collected from the worlds temperate regions north and south of the equator. Their data comprised full genetic sequences of 1,302 isolates of influenza A virus collected over 12 years from New ...

Looping genes may hold a key to understanding breast cancer

... process. She said ongoing studies would identify the specific DNA sequences and DNA binding molecules involved in BRCA1 gene looping. The status of these sequences in a larger cohort of breast cancer patients will also be determined, she ...

A product for the detection and characterization of brucellosis launched at University of Navarra

... and differentiation of the microorganism via the amplification of sequences of specific genes using the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) technique. In ... these microbiologists of the School of Sciences analyzed the complete sequences of the genomes of various distinct species of Brucella, which permitted ...

NIH awards NYU College of Dentistry $1.8M to identify risk for severe early childhood caries

... in as little as one year. The earlier study identified S. mutans gene sequences common to a group of 50 medically-underserved New York City Hispanic ... With the help of the new grant, the team will assess whether those gene sequences can reliably predict the disease in a group of 300 children from diverse ...

A protein that triggers aggressive breast cancer

... works Kohwi-Shigematsu and Kohwi originally identified a class of DNA sequences they called base-unpairing regions (BURs), a finding that led ... in chromatin is wound like thread on a spool; histone status renders DNA sequences accessible or inaccessible for transcription. Early on, ...

What are simple ways to judge the efficacy of 5-fluorouracil in colonic neoplasm?

... 3R/3R (n = 40). Patients who were homozygous for triple-repeated (3R/3R) sequences showed significantly higher IRS of TS than patients who were homozygous for double-repeated (2R/2R) sequences or heterozygous patients (2R/3R), but no statistical significance of IRS ...

New study suggests why vaccines directed against cancer, HIV don't work

... and parasitic worms known as schistosomes carry the same carbohydrate sequences as many proteins produced in human sperm. Its our major Achilles heel, ... that vaccines are likely ineffective against these diseases because Lewis sequences shut down the specific immune response that enables vaccines to work. ...

More 'functional' DNA in genome than previously thought

... of these important DNA regions. The current methods find regulatory sequences by comparing DNA from distantly related species, under the theory that ... NIH encyclopedia of DNA elements project, which suggests that many DNA sequences that bind to regulatory proteins are in fact not conserved, says ....

Recently discovered virus associated with pediatric respiratory tract infection in Germany

... with PCR primersshort pieces of DNA that recognize specific nucleic acid sequences within the genomes of the target viruses or bacteria. If a throat swab contains pathogens with nucleic acid sequences that match those of the primers, then the primers will copy the target DNA ...
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