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W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...ogies from a variety of disciplines so that we can analyze the massive amounts of information encoded in genomes and experimentally test predictions about gene functions that come from our computer-assisted analyses." Gordon views the human gut as "a bioreactor programmed with at least 800 different species...

Yellowstone microbes fueled by hydrogen, according to U. of Colorado study

...m used methodologydeveloped by Pace to genetically analyze the composition of themicrobial community as it ap...rous and delicate operation. In order toaccurately analyze a hot spring's entire microbial community, Spearneeded to collect only about as much material as a p...

Improved Outcomes Releases GeneLinker(TM) Gold and Platinum Version 4.6

...ho has data andneeds a powerful, intuitive tool to analyze it....

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

...lth. Numerouscollaborators helped to interpret and analyze the genome sequence data.C. neoformans, an oval-shaped yeast, is an opportunistic human pathogenof global importance that is used by researchers as a model for fungalpathogenesis. Since the 1980s, the number of Cryptococcus infectionshas increased sh...

Critical role in programmed cell death identified

...ferent hypothesis and makes worms a great model to analyze how cell death is induced, " Conradt said. Mitochondria are dynamic structures, constantly changing shape, budding and fusing. In cells instructed to die, the mitochondria tend to become smaller or fragment, but whether this fragmentation is a requi...

Study: Soap And Water Work Best In Ridding Hands Of Disease Viruses

.... Samsa, a Duke University biostatistician, helped analyze the data. "These findings are important because health-care associated infections rank in the top five causes of death, with an estimated 90,000 deaths each year in the United States," Rutala said. "Hand hygiene agents have been shown to reduce the ...

Alcohol's effects on gene expression in the central nervous system

...lcoholism. Several years ago, it was impossible to analyze more than a handful of these genes, however, microarray technology has changed that." Symposium speakers at the June 2004 Research Society on Alcoholism meeting in Vancouver, B.C. presented the following findings from recent studies that used geneti...

The Shapes Of Life: NIGMS Project Yields More Than 1,000 Protein Structures

...s rapidly clone, express, purify, crystallize, and analyze many proteins simultaneously, cutting the time it takes to determine a single protein structure from months to days. For example, a robotic arm drops protein solution into thousands of tiny wells for crystallization trials, and an imaging system quic...

PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0

...basedinterface allows life scientists to browse or analyze large sets ofgenes by their known or inferred biological functions and explore morethan 60 pathways associated with protein families, subfamilies, andtraining sequences using diagrams drawn by expert curators.The new PANTHER system Pathway Module is ...

Agilent Technologies releases automated literature search tool for biology researchers

...de this to researchers everywhere so that they can analyze their own data more effectively and put it into a biological context." With the Agilent Literature Search tool, researchers enter the names of all genes of interest, along with keywords that describe the types of relationships being looked for. The ...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...ling researchers to use a whole-genome approach to analyze the relationship between genetics and health. Affymetrix is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with manufacturing facilities in Sacramento, Calif., and Bedford, Mass. The company maintains important sales and marketing operations in Europe and Asi...

Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed

...werful computer cluster on campus, will be used to analyze everything from the behavior of protein molecules and subcellular structures such as nerve synapses and cardiac muscle cells, to multicellular tissue and the whole heart. Bioengineering professor David Gough (left), principal investigator of NBCR Pe...

Hirsute Or Hairless? Two Proteins May Spell The Difference

...ling required for bud formation. Here, the authors analyze the timing of external signals against the response of targeted cells to determine how targeted cells translate signals into changes in cell adhesion and remodeling, proliferation, and differentiation—the agents of most types of organogenesis. Since...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

...managers and scientific researchers to combine and analyze information in unprecedented ways, creating new insights into the Gulf of Maine's ecology. Launched today by the Gulf of Maine Area program of the Census of Marine Life, the Dynamic Atlas of the Gulf of Maine, online at http://gmbis.iris.usm.maine.e...

New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

...y recently collaborated, for example, with NASA to analyze blood and tissue concentrations of an antibiotic in people living for a few days in a simulated zero-gravity atmosphere. “This approach is not just limited to anti-infectives,?Derendorf added. “We can expand it to other classes of drugs. It may be u...

Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks

...e of research, Cahill and his team will be able to analyze more than 2,000 zebrafish per week. The per3-luc zebrafish is the first vertebrate system available for this level of high-throughput measurement. "Because we can test so many zebrafish at a time, the one in a thousand odds of finding a mutant are m...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

A multicenter comparison of equipment that can analyze the expression of thousands of genes at once to cr...ven identical samples of RNA -- DNA's cousin -- to analyze using a microarray platform of their choice. Five laboratories used commercially available Affymetri...

Study: 'homemade' gene expression technology unreliable

...cancer. In the past, researchers were only able to analyze a few genes at once, and they were often uncertain whether these were of greatest importance. Spencer's group is using the technology in two National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) centers led by CROET ?one with Oregon State Univ...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...006. Meanwhile, she and her colleagues continue to analyze the results of the 2004 experiment and plan to gather new data when they return to Mushara waterhole in May 2005. That experiment will include a new study on the impact of acoustic and seismic estrus calls on the dominance hierarchy among bulls. "Ou...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

...the right dose, doctors will eventually be able to analyze a patient's genetic profile and prescribe the best available drug therapy and dose from the start. Both the guidance and a new Web page are part of a broad effort underway at FDA to foster pharmacogenomics during drug development. FDA also recently ...

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