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NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

...oposal for a set of genomes to sequence that would advance knowledge in one of two important scientific areas: understanding the human genome and understanding the evolutionary biology of genomes. A coordinating committee then reviews the working groups' proposals, helping to fine-tune the suggestions and in...

Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters

...Ocean." One of the ways these researchers hope to advance understanding of the dynamics of communication and knowledge networks among first responders is by "'learning' basic principles on how bees and ants are able to effectively self-organize based on local information," said Contractor, who directs the S...

Single-donor Islet Transplantation Procedure Shows Promise For Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

... longer than 1 year. "Our results mark a distinct advance in islet transplant efficacy. We not only achieved...re." "While these findings may suggest a distinct advance in islet transplantation, further study in a larger population with longer follow-up will be critica...

DOE JGI launches IMG public online microbial genome data clearinghouse

...ge, along with the Stanford Human Genome Center to advance the frontiers of genome sequencing and related biology. Additional information about DOE JGI can be found at: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/ ...

New vaccine means bye-bye to bacteria in the lung

...this pathogen. Appearing online on 1 April 2005 in advance of print publication of the May issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Ronald Crystal and colleagues from Cornell University use a novel strategy to create a genetic vaccine against P. aeruginosa. The researchers use a modified adenovirus v...

Scientists map the world for nature conservation

...ty. This work, says Kier, represents a significant advance because the results are needed both for nature conservation planners and those engaged in basic research. A central innovation here is the breakdown of data by vegetation zone. Tropical rainforests are, unsurprisingly, shown to be among the most spe...

Proteomics brings researchers closer to understanding microbes that produce acid mine drainage

...ppearing May 5 on the Science Express Web site, an advance online publication of the journal Science. For some nine years, Banfield has been studying the microbial biofilm community at the Richmond Mine in Iron Mountain, Calif., nine miles northwest of Redding and one of the largest Superfund sites in the c...

First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology

...d product. "This work represents a considerable advance over past efforts to develop avian transgenes, which were limited to the insertion of only small pieces of DNA," commented Dr. Etches. "The technology described here is a general method for inserting DNA encoding proteins of essentially any size and ...

Major breakthrough in the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases

...ishing Group, a discovery that could significantly advance the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases. Current treatments frequently achieve only limited results with these types of diseases, which affect hundreds of thousands of Canadians. Dr. Veillette's team identified one of the basic mechanisms...

New defibrillator signals doctor of patient's irregular heartbeat or device malfunction

....S. to implant new FDA-approved device In a major advance for heart patients, Loyola University Health System is the first hospital in the U.S. to implant into a patient a new FDA-approved defibrillator which automatically signals the doctor via wireless satellite transmission if the patient's heart beats a...

The genetic origins of corn on the cob

...the cob. The findings are described in the July 24 advance online edition of the journal Nature. "We've shown that corn and related grasses have either none, some, or a lot of ramosa1 gene activity, and that these different levels of activity have a big impact on the architecture of the plants," says Dr. Ro...

$6.5 Million Grant for Microarray Center at Yale School of Medicine

...the cob. The findings are described in the July 24 advance online edition of the journal Nature. "We've shown that corn and related grasses have either none, some, or a lot of ramosa1 gene activity, and that these different levels of activity have a big impact on the architecture of the plants," says Dr. Ro...

Fluorescing lab worms signal longer life spans

...c Research in Germany was published in the July 17 advance online issue of Nature Genetics. "We have engineered a single gene to monitor the health of an organism, which is a first," said Johnson. Funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, the effort began about eight years ago when Cypser, then a...

Anthrax inhibitors identified by Burnham team

...profloxacin alone. "This represents a significant advance in developing a possible emergency treatment for anthrax," said Dr. Pellecchia. "We are working on refining the chemical structure of the compound with the goal of achieving an even more potent and selective drug that should exhibit a higher degree o...

Wild grasses and man-made wheats advance research capabilities

...that within a few years, more than one-half of its advance lines of wheat will trace back to a synthetic wheat. And that's from a project started less than 20 years ago, in a world where breeders spend up to 15 years trying to get a desired trait in a line of wheat. ...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

...ays to Discovery" initiative, which has set out to advance the understanding of biological systems and build a better "toolbox" for medical researchers in the 21st century. The network is funded by all of the institutes of the NIH and co-administered by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the ...

Secrets to antibody's success against West Nile Virus surprise scientists

Insights may advance vaccines for related viruses including dengue fever. A monoclonal antibody that can effectively treat mice infected with West Nile virus has an intriguing secret: Contrary to scientists' expectations, it does not block the virus's ability to attach t...

Mass production of human papillomavirus could lead to gains against cervical cancer

...ntional methods. Researchers are hopeful that this advance could lead to new antiviral drugs and to vaccines that would trigger the immune system to attack at an earlier stage in the virus's life cycle to stop HPV before it can replicate. The researchers, led by Paul Ahlquist, a Howard Hughes Medical Instit...

Chemical 'band-aid' prevents heart failure in mice with muscular dystrophy

...-M study will be published July 17 in Nature as an advance online publication. The study is important because it is the first to show what happens to heart muscle cells called myocytes in the absence of dystrophin, and the first study to demonstrate a new, promising approach to repair the damage. The study'...

Physical and functional interaction of key cell growth molecules linked to cancer

...ed in the June issue of Cancer Cell, significantly advance knowledge about epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). EGFR is a well-studied cell surface receptor that stimulates cell growth by transmitting growth factor signals acting outside the cell. EGFR is often present at abnormally elevated levels in h...

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