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

...Ten years ago, say the authors, TDI would not have been feasible. "Thedifference today is the vastly greater size and variety of chemical,biological, and medical databases; new software; and more powerfulcomputers. Researchers can now identify promising protein targets andsmall sets of chemicals using com...

Breakthrough Microarray-based Technology for the Study of Cancer

A new development in the analysis of cancerhas been announced by Agilent Technologies. The company has... the single copy deletions inchromosomes that have been the most difficult to detect.Additionally, the technology allows for the use of total genomic DNA to...

Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down

...tance in hospitals and the environment. "What has been found is that there are more antibiotic resistance genes around than we ever realized," says Dr. Davies. "There are more than 300 genes now known that confer resistance to one or more antimicrobials. And they keep coming." However, the mapping of ba...

Scientists find missing enzyme for tuberculosis iron scavenging pathway

...al spans of DNA in the M. tuberculosis genome have been annotated as antibiotic resistance genes due to their sequence similarity to existing antibiotic resistance genes. Dr. Edward N. Baker of the University of Auckland in New Zealand explains, "Generally the sequence of the open reading frame is compare...

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

...roarray analysis is becoming moremature so we have been concentrating more on proteomics data recently.For... includes Support VectorMachines (SVMs). SVMs have been available in GeneLinker Platinum formore than a year and a half. GeneLinker's committee of learnersa...

Scientists seek answers on what activates deadly anthrax spores

..., known scientifically as Bacillus anthracis, have been determined. The group also will be exploring the three-dimensional structures and the functions of the proteins involved. State-of-the-art facilities at the Center for Structural Biology will be used to determine how genetic information in the anthr...

Found: Missing sequence of the human Y chromosome

...ors associated with theundifferentiated gonad, has been genetically mapped to the region.Because the "missing" sequence described in this study contained eightputatively active genes, further functional testing of these genes mayreveal insights into the genetic basis for stature and gonadoblastoma....

U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease

...e to hypertension and shock. Purpura fulminans has been identified in five cases in the Minneapolis-St. Pa...cal Infectious Diseases. This new disease has also been determined in seven additional cases nationwide. Of the 12 known cases, only two patients have survi...

NYU Study Reveals How Brain's Immune System Fights Viral Encephalitis

...ern California. Recently, the West Nile virus has been responsible for a viral encephalitis outbreak in the northeast. The NYU researchers set out to determine how the body can fight viral encephalitis. Specifically, they examined how type I interferons--proteins made by the body that are released in res...

Live Recombinant Adenovirus Vaccine Technique Explored

...ory infections. Oral adenovirus vaccines have long been proven to be safe and effective. The researchers believe their process for constructing a replicating live recombinant adenovirus could lead to more economical vaccines that provide longer-lasting disease protection, which would be particularly benef...

Marburg virus disease in Angola - update

...iginated in Uige Province. Ten of these cases have been laboratory confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA. The team from WHO, including experts from the Inter-country programme for southern Africa, the Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) and from Headquarters, and p...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

...sion loss. Three centers in the United States have been chosen to conduct the expanded trial. Other than Emory and the VA Rehabilitation R&D Center they include Rush University Medical Center's Department of Ophthalmology and the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Retinitis pigment...

The secret lives of whales

... food source along the way. “Whale bone worms have been around for 30 to 40 million years. It’s conceivabl...Clark concludes that he and other researchers have been thinking about whale herds at the wrong scales, which has been constrained by the limitations of the...

Dinosaur DNA? New Patent Covers Degraded DNA recovery

...DNA from the extinct mammoth and steppe bison have been recovered from Siberian sediments. In 1997, Patent...By reconstituting nucleic acid molecules that have been degraded but still contain useful information scientists at MatrixDesign are able to create a templa...

Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue

...ars. The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation has been trying for two decades to conquer the issues compl...rz's work on bone revitalization and LAGT has just been recognized as one of the most important discoveries of the year by the Orthopedic Research Society (...

Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon

...entious debate about sea lice is that there hasn't been this level of precision in the sampling and modeli...of these fish are so young their egg sacks haven't been fully absorbed ?even fish this small are infected." The anchored farms, open cages of closely packe...

Molecular machine may lead to new drugs to combat human diseases

...e capability of cutting and pasting apparently has been conserved since life evolved. "It's thought that ...n structures in different stages of the cycle have been crystallized previously, and the targeted trans-splicing technique has been used to repair hemoglobi...

Jefferson Virologists Coax HIV Out of Hiding

...took blood cells from HIV-infectedpatients who had been taking HAART and who had undetectable levels ofvir...new population, anew reservoir of HIV that has not been seen before. It’s probably asub-population of blood cells, lymphocytes not stimulated by IL-2 orOKT3...

Color-blind method opens new doors in DNA sequencing

...echnology filed a patent on PME in 2001, which has been exclusively licensed to LaserGen for commercial development. Others who participated in the research include Carter Kittrell, Bruce R. Johnson, Freddy Nguyen, Daniel A. Heller, Matthew J. Allen, Robert R. MacGregor, C. Scott Berger, Lori A. Burns, a...

Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development

...her thinking. "Myhypothesis was this: While it had been proven that individually thechemicals don't impact nerve cell development, the combination of allthree might pose increased risks," she says.So Reinisch decided to test the chemical cocktail, in similarproportions to those found in Brick, on a specie...

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