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Volcanic eruptions, ancient global warming linked

A team of scientists announced today confirmation of a link between massive volcanic eruptions along the east coast of Greenland and in the western British Isles about 55 million years ago and a period of global warming that raised sea surface temperatures by five degrees (Celsius...

NIH neuroscience microarray consortium launches high-throughput genotyping services

The NIH Neuroscience Microarray Consortium today announced that it has added high-density genotyping on both the Affymetrix and Illumina platforms to its list of services. Stan Nelson, the principal investigator at UCLA, says that "adding ultra-high throughput genotyping for its user-base of ~10,000 investig...

Male contraception: One door opens, another closes

...aly and at the Population Council in New York have announced a breakthrough on a non-hormonal compound known as Adjudin (Nature Medicine, Oct. 29). By injecting the compound as an attachment to a modified hormone that seeks out the testes, researchers have found that a low dose is both safe and effective in ra...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

... of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced the latest round of grant awards totaling more than $13 million to speed the development of innovative sequencing technologies that reduce the cost of DNA sequencing and expand the use of genomics in medical research and health care. "There has bee...

Brown scientists map structure of DNA-doctoring protein complex

...e Harvard Medical School lab of Thomas Ellenberger announced they had solved the structure of "-integrase ("-Int), the protein "surgeon" that allows mobile DNA to cut into a chromosome, insert its own genes, and then sew the chromosome back up. That work was conducted using the lambda virus, which infects Esch...

RNA map provides first comprehensive understanding of alternative splicing

...ersity and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and announced in the journal Nature, shows for the first time how the specific location of short snippets of RNA affects the way that alternative splicing is controlled in the brain. Though scientists have begun to appreciate how alternative splicing adds a layer...

Computer scientists unravel 'language of surgery'

...ervention Conference in October 2005, Hager's team announced that it had developed a way to use data from the da Vinci to mathematically model surgical tasks such as suturing, a key first step in deciphering the language of surgery. The lead author, Johns Hopkins graduate student Henry C. Lin, received the con...

Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology

... slides. The latest genome-sequencing grant was announced simultaneously with the announcement of the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, a $10 million cash prize to go to the first team that creates the technology to successfully map 100 human genomes in 10 days. The X PRIZE Foundation is a non-profit institute d...

Knockout Mouse Project

...England. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced the selection of the hospital's research institute for the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP) on September 7, 2006. The $50 million initiative funded by the NIH is intended to help researchers explore the functions of 10,000 mouse genes. Humans and mic...

Artificial cornea offers better results for infants, some blind patients

...a colleague at Johns Hopkins University, are being announced at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Las Vegas. The results, though based on a small number of patients, point to a new option for dramatically improving the vision of a group of people for whom traditional cornea tran...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...oes extinct, its story will be the chronicle of an announced extinction. For decades scientists from Mexico and abroad, in various international and national fora, have warned the Mexican Government that the vaquita was at risk of being extirpated as a result of the bycatch. The Government has ignored such war...

Columbia University licenses next-generation DNA sequencing technology

...tion DNA sequencing systems. It was also recently announced that Columbia University in collaboration with the Waltham, Mass. based Intelligent Bio-Systems, is one of only two recipients of the Near-Term Technology Development for Genome Sequencing grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHG...

The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource

...nced Energy Initiative. In August, the department announced it would spend $250 million over five years to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers. The DOE-supported research into biofuels is focusing on both plants and microbes, in an effort to discover new biotechnology-based methods of pr...

Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) announced today the creation of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the first open access journal devoted to the world's most neglected diseases. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases ( www.plosntds.org ) will focus on the overlooked diseases that strike millions o...

Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection

... imaging devices through the support of a recently announced $4.25 million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). "This research is opening up a new front in the battle against cancer and other diseases," said Jamal Deen, the lead applicant, professor of electrical and computer engineering a...

New mechanism underlying pain found

...ical Research & Development (J&JPRD) today announced that they have discovered a new molecular mechanism that may underlie neuropathic pain. The clearer understanding of the root-cause of chronic neuropathic pain, and the preclinical validation of new targets for pharmaceutical therapies shown in this ...

Researchers barcode DNA of Venice museum's vast fungi collection

...the largest in Europe. The project was publicly announced in Italy today (Wednesday, Dec. 13) at the prestigious Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts. "We are building up a huge molecular database that will be available to the entire scientific community," said Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley ...

Advance helps explain stem cell behavior

...ouse embryonic spinal cord as a model, and will be announced this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a professional journal. The research is an important step towards understanding stem cell behavior, how cellular development is controlled, and how a single cell ?which has the genetic c...

Affymetrix 500K array used to identify memory gene

Affymetrix Inc. announced today that researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Arizona have used the Affymetrix 500K Array to discover a gene--called Kibra--associated with memory performance in humans. The team's findings may be used to ...

Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease

...ientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced today the development of a new kind of genetic "roadmap" that can connect human diseases with potential drugs to treat them, as well as predict how new drugs work in human cells. Called the "Connectivity Map," the new tool and its uses are described ...

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