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LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation

... key members of this consortium. Clostridia form a broad genus of bacteria known for their diverse metabolic pathways. Clostridia frequently thrive in anaerobic environments and many species are known for their heat tolerance. Thermatoga microorganisms are known to play a role in the anaerobic oxidation of...

Expression Project for Oncology (expO) completes first phase of standardized gene expression analyses

...tain 2,000 to 3,000 tumor specimens representing a broad spectrum of malignancies and 500-1,000 normal tissues. expO has exceeded its first-year milestone of collecting consented and clinically annotated tumor biospecimens in a highly standardized format by 65%. This accomplishment puts expO on a projecti...

New Insights Into HIV Immunity Suggest Alternative Approach to Vaccines

...rises fast-acting but weak antibodies that fight a broad range of pathogens. These antibodies can also attack the body itself, as in autoimmune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus. When viruses activate innate B cells, the body destroys the B cells to protect against autoantibodies that could ca...

Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves

...xidizing environment, making them of interest to a broad range of researchers. Blank is able to draw her hypothesis from family trees she is drawing of Cyanobacteria. Her observations are likely to incite debate among biologists and geologists studying one of Earth's most controversial eras ?approximately...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...et medical needs. "Today we have access to a very broad range of population-based clinical materials and data, that we want to study in order to understand the importance of genetic factors for emergence and treatment of various diseases. The agreement enables us to perform these studies at an acceptable ...

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

...es from normal and diseased tissues.?In general, a broad range of biomedical researchers will benefit from the PSI’s technical advances, experimental data, and availability of new materials, such as reagents. “There are a lot of proteins that are incredibly important to understanding human biology and med...

Scientists document complex genomic events leading to the birth of new genes

...lly searched the complete genomic sequences from a broad range of taxa (mouse, rat, roundworm, fruit fly, mosquito, and pufferfish) for single-copy genes that had evolved more than one copy in humans. "Gene duplication is known to play a leading role in evolution for the creation of new genes," explained F...

Studies reveal methods viruses use to sidestep immune system

...le, influenza and the common cold. "This work has broad implications that go beyond just the hepatitis C virus, and that's what we're most excited about," said Dr. Gale. "It's a battle between viruses and humans. Viruses have co-evolved with their hosts, so every time we have evolved a gene with a new fun...

Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds

... relatively uniform marine population into today's broad spectrum of shapes and sizes when the last Ice Age ended roughly 10,000 years ago. Because ocean fish quickly evolved into such distinct populations when they colonized new freshwater lakes and streams, they are an ideal model for understanding how a...

Nanogen Issued Patent for Electronic Microarray With Memory

...Workstation, NanoChip(R) Electronic Microarray and broad suite of analyte specific reagents to develop tests to detect infectious diseases, drug toxicity and mutations associated with cancer, cardiovascular and genetic diseases. The next generation instrument system, the NanoChip(R) 400, is expected to be ...

Weill Cornell Research Reveals Secrets Of Trafficking Within Cells

...e experiments. But Dr. Ryan said the findings have broad implications for cells throughout the body, including those closely tied to brain disorders, cardiac illness, and other major conditions. He pointed out that clathrin is also important to cellular mechanisms other than endocytosis, including those o...

Enzyme shown to help protect genomic stability

...nscription. Scientists believe one reason for this broad gene silencing is the vital need for genomic stability, for protection against unwanted recombinations of genetic material or other disruptions of the genome's integrity. Genomic instability, particularly in the regions at the ends of the chromosome...

Sea skate experiment sheds light on human cell transport

...icle insertion, coupled with phosphorylation, is a broad mechanism for getting substances in and out of cells," Goldstein said. "The idea that we can apply this knowledge to other cells and other animals ?including humans ?is what makes the findings exciting." In type 1 diabetes, cells lose their ability ...

Novel technology detects human DNA mutations

...sensitive detection of proteins -- demonstrate the broad applicability of nanotechnology and its potential to markedly advance the state-of-the-art in nucleic acid and proteomic research anddiagnostics."The analysis of whole human genomic DNA is extraordinarily complex asit requires sifting through the mor...

Source of molecular triggers in cutaneous T cell lymphoma identified

...L cells and LC. The research team considered three broad categories of antigen as the source of the signal:...malignant cells rapidly divide. "This finding has broad implications for the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of CTCL, as well as potentially contrib...

UCSB scientists probe sea floor venting to gain understanding of early life on Earth

...rstood through tightly integrated studies across a broad range of disciplines in geophysics, geology, chemistry, biology, and oceanography, according to the NSF. For this study, Haymon and her UCSB colleagues studied the "flanks" of the mid-ocean ridge, which –?at 40,000 miles long–?is the largest geologi...

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