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Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed

...utational biology, but McCulloch said the drive to build ever faster and more specialized supercomputers has required computational biologists to continually reinvent their modeling software. "It's not new that science has been developing large computational challenges, but what is new is the commoditizati...

Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers

...ss living cells as workhorses that detect hazards, build structures or repair tissues and organs within the... which is to have the cells secrete materials that build physical devices such as antennas or transmitters in places that are hard for humans to reach. Progr...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

...ering such interdisciplinary collaborations and to build upon the existing body of knowledge for the benefit of people worldwide." UCLA will provide $20 million over five years to launch the campuswide institute, which will enable teams of researchers to compete for state grants created by the passage of ...

Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges

...t ironically, people who abuse methamphetamine may build up antibodies to the drug itself, so they require increasing amounts to get high, resulting in binging behavior, he says. "Without knowing it, they're essentially vaccinating themselves against the drug, and that's not a good thing as it requires mo...

HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research

... the scientific community a foundation on which to build future trials. The multi-centered trial, conducted in the United States and the Netherlands and completed in 2003, is described in two papers by the rgp120 HIV Vaccine Study Group, and Peter B. Gilbert and colleagues, which address the vaccine effic...

A frog's life is food for thought

...metimes for as little as a week - to find food and build up fat reserves. During the study Ms Cramp and her supervisor Professor Craig Franklin from the School of Integrative Biology collected frogs from areas west of the Great Dividing Range, including Dalby and Goondiwindi. They brought the frogs back ...

50-year-old Mystery Solved: Protein Tags Regulate Key Ion Channel

...tag is attached. When it is closed, potassium ions build up within the cell. When they reach a threshold level, the cell is primed for activity, such as transmitting a nerve impulse. Sumoylation has recently been recognized as an important mechanism of cellular activity but until now its 60-or-so known ta...

Products containing specific probes for detecting alternative splice forms protected

...native RNA splicing. "The granting of these claims build on the company's core assets further expanding our IP position in the field of gene expression and profiling," stated Bruno Tocque, President and CEO, ExonHit Therapeutics. "This is a significant event for ExonHit as we have been quite successful in ...

Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

... quality assurance guidelines should be adapted to build a base of acceptance, credibility. and reliability for addressing this next grand forensic challenge." Murch will present the paper, "Biothreat agent forensics: Seeking attribution using an adaptive, integrated approach (ComSci 6)," at 11:30 a.m. Mo...

Researchers make gains in understanding antibiotic resistance

...f amino acids called polypeptides that are used to build the cell's enzymatic machinery. "These antibiotics are clinically very important, and resistance to such antibiotics is a major health problem," said Steitz. "It is becoming critical to understand the precise structural basis of resistance and even ...

Potential Drug Target For Treating Cocaine Abuse Found

... mechanism that transports dopamine, causing it to build up and send an unceasing message of pleasure ?the cocaine high. Researchers have long searched for "a molecule that would block cocaine's effects on the transporter without inhibiting the transporter by itself," notes Eric Nestler, chair of psychiat...

Nano-bumps could help repair clogged blood vessels

...d prompting the creation of scar tissue, which can build up inside blood vessels and interfere with blood flow. "If a stent doesn't attach firmly it can become loose, and parts of it will actually break off and go down the bloodstream," Webster said. "Essentially, what we've been trying to do is find new ...

Study: 'homemade' gene expression technology unreliable

...e that on a glass slide repetitively until one can build up hundreds of thousands of different spots on this glass array," Spencer said. But as commercial platforms improved over time, many laboratory or "home-built" platforms have not, he said. "The fruits of the research done on some of the early homema...

Putting ecology back into river restoration

...ut as an adaptive process where small improvements build up and lessons are learned from any failures. The third criteria for successful river restoration is to create hydrological, geomorphological and ecological conditions that allow the river to be a resilient, self-sustaining system. The fourth criter...

AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV

...ding Alicia Keys. The initiatives announced today build on the public awareness efforts now underway in New York. The Department is currently running a prevention campaign called "HIV Stops with Me." This social marketing campaign uses community role models to promote the importance of people with HIV tak...

Ariadne Genomics Announces the Release of PathwayStudio?Central, Client-Server Software for Biological Pathway Analysis

...n relationships for a protein or a small molecule, build pathways from gene lists or results of PubMed searches, or predict networks from the gene expression data.?/p> PathwayStudio?Central is a scalable solution that can be easily deployed in a lab or throughout an entire organization, enabling pathwa...

A new way to share models of biological systems

... understand how these processes fit together is to build computer models of them. If a computer model behav... choice, and then to share them so that others can build on their work. Michael Hucka of the California Institute of Technology continues: "The next logical...

Bee mites suppress bee immunity, open door for viruses and bacteria

...tes, their production of GOX decreases. "As mites build up, we suspect that not as much GOX is found in the honey and the honey has more bacteria," says Cox-Foster. "It is likely that the combination of increased mite infestation, virus infection and bacteria is the cause of the two-week death collapse of...

Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists

...wards added: "For example, many developers like to build right on the coastline but they would be better advised to set back their developments a little to minimise the impact on sea life. Communities that are rebuilding hotels should take advantage of reconstruction funds to make sure there is effective s...

Computational Tool Predicts How Drugs Work In Cells, Advancing Efforts To Design Better Medicines

...ation of computational and experimental methods to build and verify their tool, first using a reverse-engineering approach to decipher the multitude of regulatory networks operating among genes in a simple organism, then testing the ability of the resulting network models to predict gene and pathway target...

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