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Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations

... second day of the workshop (5 March) focused more closely on health research in the context of the EU-MPC partnership. Michel Pletschette, representing the Research Directorate-General, which helped support the event, gave an overview of the EU-MPC programme: its past, present and future. Round table discus...

Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication

...her sequenced Vibrio species, but it is still more closely related to them than other organisms. (Among the f...t begin to use comparative genomic approaches with closely related pathogenic and beneficial microbial species." Marie Faini O'Brien of Frederick, Maryland, e...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...ty Eye Center and Harvard have been monitoring her closely following the implantation of an artificial cornea, or keratoprosthesis, into one of her eyes -- restoring her sight in that eye and ultimately helping her regain much of her independence. Phifer is one of several hundred patients nationwide who have...

How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health

..., said: "The sources of contamination for POPs are closely related to human activities such as domestic and i...uania in the last 20 years. "We need to look more closely at the role of environmental factors, including those that can disrupt the hormone system, and the r...

Cricket's finicky mating behavior boosts biodiversity

...ets, and they live in similar habitats. Members of closely related species possess no physiological differenc...s that would prevent them from interbreeding. But closely related species are distinguished by subtle differences in the pulse rates of male crickets' simple ...

Hirsute Or Hairless? Two Proteins May Spell The Difference

... of TGF-β2 activity seen here in the hair bud more closely resemble certain types of skin cancer progression than skin development, a mechanistic understanding of hair follicle development promises to shed light on how skin cancer develops as well. ...

NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications

...ts exercise this right. We urge publishers to work closely with authors in implementing this policy." "In developing this policy, we made a concerted effort to balance the importance of this archive to NIH's public health mission, with the need to provide flexibility for authors, their institutions, and pub...

Low level of extinction during ice age linked to adaptability

...ion rates were so low during that great ice age by closely examining geographic patterns of evolution and extinction in brachiopods, simple shelled sea creatures that were abundant and well-fossilized during the Paleozoic. He constructed a database that charted latitudinal patterns of evolution and extinctio...

Researchers discover chemical compounds that affect plant growth

... affect gravity's effect on plant growth, which is closely linked to the movement of proteins through plant cell membranes, a process known as endomembrane trafficking. "Well-characterized bioactive chemicals and their targets identified in the model plant, Arabidopsis, can be used in non-model species to i...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

... higher than 90%. For comparison, outbreaks of the closely related Ebola haemorrhagic fever have shown mortality rates ranging, according to the virus strain involved, from 53% to 88%. The only other large outbreak of Marburg, in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1998 through 2000, had a case fatality of...

Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

...the scientific and investigative processes must be closely coupled and mutually supportive," Murch said. There have been numerous national responses to bioterrorism, depending upon the mission of an agency. For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others have identified and cate...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

... and CEO of Pall Corporation. "We are working very closely with health authorities, starting with the nations hardest hit by vCJD, to help protect the safety of the blood supply and prevent the spread of this insidious disease." The new prion reduction filter will be evaluated by the United Kingdom (UK) Nat...

Anammox bacteria produce nitrogen gas in oceans' snackbar

...mmox bacteria discovered in the Atlantic Ocean are closely related to the bacterial species Scalindua sorokinii, which was recently discovered in the Black Sea (Kuypers et al., 2003 Nature 8 April). Like their relatives in the Black Sea, the Namibian anammox bacteria contain unique ladder molecules (Damsté e...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

... and voluntary processes and will continue to work closely with industry and the healthcare community on this exciting emerging technology. In addition to announcing the availability of its final guidance and the new pharmacogenomic Web page, the agency also reminded the public of the April 11 to 13 meeting...

NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine

...mbine genes of the West Nile virus with genes of a closely related virus--yellow fever virus in the case of a vaccine developed by Acambis, Cambridge, MA, and dengue virus in the case of a vaccine developed by NIAID intramural researchers. ...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

...ted on mice and other animal models, using viruses closely related to smallpox that are lethal to those animals. "We're testing with vaccinia and mousepox in lab mice, and in dormice with monkeypox. These are good model systems ?if we can protect against mousepox in mice, then we have a high level of certai...

Cellular Defects in Premature Aging Disease are Reversible

...issues." Misteli and his group will also look more closely at healthy cells to determine how similar progeria is to the normal aging process. For more information about progeria, please visit the NHGRI Web site at http://www.genome.gov/11007255. ...

Disease progression model of pancreatic cancer developed by Penn researchers

...eveloped an animal model of pancreatic cancer that closely mimics disease progression in humans. From this, t...tological changes in tissue, this model appears to closely mimic the human disease," says Hingorani. Clinical symptoms in the mutant mice mirrored those displ...

Science study holds implications for gene therapy and stem cell biology

...r achievements in gene therapy. The team interacts closely with colleagues from the Laboratory for Experimental Cell Therapy, which Dr. Baum founded in 2001 at Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany, and still operates. ...

Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom

...2 teachers participate in Arctic research and work closely with scientists as a pathway to improving science education through teachers' experiences in scientific inquiry, builds on the outstanding scientific and cultural opportunities of the Arctic to link research and education through intriguing topics th...

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