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

...al sciences research. “Synthetic genes are like a box ofLego building blocks,?Gao said. “Their organization is very complex,even in simple organisms. By making programmed synthesis of geneseconomical, we can provide more efficient tools to aid the efforts ofresearchers to understand the molecular mechan...

An HIV Protein Plays a Surprising Role in Gene Activation

...st transcription factor to associate with the TATA box is called TFIID, a large protein complex containing a protein that binds the TATA box (aptly named the TATA-box-binding protein, or TBP) and several cofactors called TBP-associated facto...

Bone Density Recovers After Teens Stop Injected Contraceptive

... U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a “black box warning?for DMPA, stating that prolonged use of th...er birth control methods are inadequate.?The black box warning is available at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/SAFETY/2004/DepoProvera_Label.pdf. Other author...

Light therapy may combat fungal infections, new evidence suggests

...y, requires that patients sit near a special light box fitted with high-intensity, full-spectrum or white light bulbs. UV irradiation is also used to repigment skin affected by the autoimmune disorder vitiligo. The findings also have important implications for understanding early fungal evolution, Heitm...

Penn Researchers Use Robotic Surgery

...able to manipulate different elements in the voice box with a high degree of dexterity that would be tremendously difficult using conventional instruments. They were also able to suture and tie knots deep in the mannequin's throat with relative ease ?a task exceptionally challenging without the aid of ro...

Two new retroviruses—transmitted from animals—identified

...able to manipulate different elements in the voice box with a high degree of dexterity that would be tremendously difficult using conventional instruments. They were also able to suture and tie knots deep in the mannequin's throat with relative ease ?a task exceptionally challenging without the aid of ro...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...CUBA divers, complemented by pelagic nets, benthic box cores and an ice corer. They also return with the most comprehensive and best-resolution imagery under the ice, in the water column and at the seafloor of the Canada Basin. "Modern technology has opened a window on this amazing world for the first ...

Aptamer-based Biosensor screens Air Force personnel and equipment

...nergy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The box uses an Air Force-developed biochemical assay based on aptamers, or single chain DNA fragments. "We've used our lab's expertise to develop an instrument that's complementary to the Air Force's technology and that simultaneously satis? es the speed, ...

'Shifty-eyed' Monkeys Offer Window Into Brain's Social Reflexes

...ion, then you should shift your gaze faster if the box appears in the direction in which that monkey face was looking and slower in the other direction. Which is exactly what we found with both humans and monkeys.' Thus, he said, the subjects were 'covertly' shifting their attention before obviously shif...

Bugs expose underground carbon traffic system 10 times more important than fossil fuel burning

...orly understood. Soil was almost literally a black box to scientists interested in carbon. Now researcher...Warwick have been able to shed light in that black box by getting a particular class of insects to expose the key underground carbon traffic system - by ea...

Travelers can avoid jet lag by resetting their body clocks

A simple, at-home treatment -- a single light box and the over-the-counter drug melatonin -- allows ...and wake up earlier each day while using the light box in the morning and taking melatonin in the evening. If they did this for the number of days equival...

Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health

...This infers that you could really open a Pandora's box in these animals, and possibly in humans. Manatees are the 2000 pound canary." Bossart is also concerned about new data indicating that fish and other food sources - once thought to die too quickly to pass on brevetoxins ?can concentrate and carry ...

First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest

... had previously been detected. The log-cabin-style box traps have been set since mid-January, and are checked every day. They are baited with carrion and provide captured animals with a secure and comfortable space until they are released. A key reason for conducting this research is the need to under...

Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections

... processing components, while a disposable coupler box holds a reflector and needle guide. The needle guide is positioned parallel to the sound beam being transmitted by a transducer in the device's reusable section. As medics move the device along a patient's arm or leg, the transducer emits a thin ...

Salk researchers make fast strides towards understanding how our body controls walking

...at happens. "It allowed us to peer into this black box that is the central pattern generator," explained Lanuza. V1 neurons are so-called interneurons that relay electrical signals between nerve cells in the spinal cord,and motor neurons, the nerve cells that cause muscles to contract. To explore whe...

Understanding the actions of others requires the frontal cortex

...ed the participants to determine the weight of the box by paying close attention to the actions of the actor. Normally, participants can succeed in this task without much trouble, but performance was significantly impaired if the left frontal cortex was stimulated while the videos were shown. This result...

Study finds 60 new genes controlled by DNA snippet

...rding to Miano, there are 1,216 variations of CArG box that together occur approximately three million ti...everal other labs, they knew going in all the CArG box variations and how close they typically lie to the genes they regulate (within 4,000 base pairs). T...

Genetically altered mice no longer like cocaine

...ual mice were placed in a 5-inch-by-7-inch acrylic box with three compartments ?a middle compartment and ...place, sniffing and checking everything out in the box over and over again, until we took them out of the box," Gu said. "But cocaine seemed to calm the mo...

Chimpanzees can transmit cultural behavior to multiple 'generations'

...al groups, to train them to open a special testing box one of two ways Ð either by sliding or lifting the...control group, were allowed to explore the testing box but were given no instruction or training to open the testing box. Once each individual animal from ...

Brain enzyme treatment relieves memory lapse in Alzheimer's mice

...y measuring "freezing" behavior in response to the box or the auditory cue. Contextual versus cued responses represent different forms of learning that depend on different parts of the brain. A day after their exposure to the shock, mice with reduced levels of Uch-L1 showed a decrease in freezing behav...

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