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Ancient olfaction protein is shared by many bugs, offering new pest control target

...n, Or83b, is found in almost all olfactory neurons and serves a general function in detecting odors. When...s pest), the corn earworm moth (which damages corn and tobacco), and Anopheles gambiae, the malaria mosquito. When the medfly, moth, and mosquito versions ...

Inexpensive, mass-produced genes core of synthetic biology advances at UH

...lian Gao, a professor in the department of biology and biochemistryat UH, works at the leading edge of th...ature, the weeklyscientific journal for biological and physical sciences research. “Synthetic genes are like a box ofLego building blocks,?Gao said. “Thei...

Study Links Ebola Outbreaks To Animal Carcasses

...virus outbreaks in humans in forests between Gabon and the Republic of Congo were the result of handling ...a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and its regional partners. Appearing in the February edition of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...nding out where gene-regulator proteinsbind to DNA and identifying the genes they regulate just got a ste...raveling the role these proteinsplay in turning on and off the genes that establish the very identityof cells ?be they brain cells, liver, or blood ?as wel...

Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections

...strains at the Gastroenteric Disease Center. Riley and DebRoy reported their findings in a recent issue o...ested E.coli samples from dogs, cows, sheep, water and turkeys. The researchers then compared the samples genetically to the UTI causing bacteria and found...

Bound for destruction: Ubiquitination protects against improper Notch signaling

...hat extendsthrough both sides of the cell membrane and which is capable ofinteracting with a ligand partn...of the Notch protein,loosing it into the cytoplasm and triggering the activation oftranscription factors within the cell’s nucleus. In addition to itseffec...

HIV Patients May Be at Risk of Heart Problems When Taking Protease Inhibitor Drugs

...fection from progressing to AIDS may cause serious and potentially lethal heart rhythm disturbances in so...eapolis; the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Mayo Clinic researchers made the discovery about a class of pr...

Combination therapy boosts effectiveness of telomere-directed cancer cell death

...reatment duration that can lead to drug resistance and other problems.Dr. Hiroyuki Seimiya from the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Researchin Tokyo and colleagues examined what happens to cancer cells whentelomerase inhibition is combined with inhibiti...

Inflammatory molecules released by pollen trigger allergies

... from pollen. These molecules bind to immune cells and cause them to launch a typical allergy-promoting i... levels of car exhaust emissions. Traidl-Hoffmann and colleagues showed that extracts from birch pollen and other common allergens block the production of...

GATA: a graphic alignment tool for comparative sequence analysis

...reatment duration that can lead to drug resistance and other problems.Dr. Hiroyuki Seimiya from the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Researchin Tokyo and colleagues examined what happens to cancer cells whentelomerase inhibition is combined with inhibiti...

Whole genome fine map of rice completed

...roved, near-complete genome analysis of the indica and japonica subspecies of O. sativa." The fine maps ...for studying the differences among strains of rice and shed insight into mechanisms of hybrid advantages at a new level, according to BIG researchers. The...

Research on Worms Yields Clues on Aging

...sed to treat epilepsy inhumans, worms lived longer and retained youthful functions longer thannormal.Beca...oundworm C. elegans in the presence of the 19drugs and found that an anticonvulsant, ethosuximide, extended theworms' lives from an average of 17 days to a...

Imaging Lymph Nodes with Nanoparticles

...word "nano" - cancer detection using nanoparticles and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) : Accurate stagi...rk up of patients for both prediction of prognosis and determinationof the most appropriate treatment. And an essential part of this workup is assessing wh...

“Nano-scissors?laser shows precise surgical capability

...surrounding tissue.?Once cut, the axons vaporized, and no other tissue was harmed.To assure the axons were actually cut, and their disappearance wasn’tcaused by discoloration by the laser, the researchers cut axons theyknew w...

U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS

...e're mimicking what can really happen in a person, and we don't know if the rules of regeneration might b...in a panel titled "Tissue Engineering for the Head and Neck," at the AAAS annual meeting Feb. 17-21 in Washington, D.C. The tissue engineering panel is sla...

Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

There's aparadigm in life science and drug development : only "lucrative""markets" get e...ropical diseases, such asAfrican sleeping sickness and dengue fever. While patent incentiveshave driven commercial pharmaceutical companies to make Western...

Genome-wide mouse study yields link to human leukemia

...ntists have discovered a new tumor suppressor gene and a unique chemical signature implicated in the deve...dings that open up a "treasure box" of opportunity and possibility, study authors say. Researchers in The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Cente...

Cytoplasm affects the number of vertebrae in carp-goldfish clones

...seven offspring, cloned from nuclei of common carp and egg cytoplasm of goldfish, were virtually identica...lear donor species, Cyprinus carpio, in appearance and in most physical traits. The number of vertebrae in the clones, however, was in the range of the rec...

Breakthrough Microarray-based Technology for the Study of Cancer

...ic chromosomal changes, including loss,duplication and the translocation of DNA from one chromosome toano...rogression as well as developing possibletherapies and prognostic and diagnostic tools."Genomic alterations leading to changes in the number of gene copies...

The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life

...y." In a series of technical innovations, Stelzer and his colleagues (in particular Jim Swoger and Jan Huisken) have made it possible to make three-dimensional films of the inner workings of living o...

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