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Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are now species of slime-mold beetles -- but strictly in homage

... a condition marked by a loss in the body's sodium content that can result in physical symptoms such as lethargy, disorientation, seizures and even respiratory distress. In a perspectives article in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Benjamin Levine, professor of internal medicine...

New design : complete

... a condition marked by a loss in the body's sodium content that can result in physical symptoms such as lethargy, disorientation, seizures and even respiratory distress. In a perspectives article in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Benjamin Levine, professor of internal medicine...

Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships

...t, set up regular automatic processing of upcoming content for selected sources, and integrate MedScan with other bioinformatics tools for further analysis of extracted information. For more information about MedScan, or for a web-based trial, visit Ariadne Genomics website www.ariadnegenomics.com/products/...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...bundantly produced in the U.S. and has a very high content of protein," Li said. Soy protein is inexpensive and renewable, but it lacks the unique amino acid with phenolic hydroxyl groups that provide adhesive properties. Li's research group was able to add these amino acids to soy protein, and make it work ...

Scientists identify genes responsible for 'black rot' disease in vegetables

...om a cabbage-derived Xcc strain. Although the gene content of the two strains was very similar, the authors identified several genes located on strain-specific chromosomal elements that were unique to each strain. In addition, there were dramatic differences in the genomic arrangement of the two strains; the...

DOE JGI launches IMG public online microbial genome data clearinghouse

...n for the IMG project. MGAP manages the IMG's data content and curation and helped develop the system, with additional support provided by DOE JGI's Microbial Ecology and Genome Data System groups. "The IMG system champions the principle of integration in an evolutionary context" said Kyrpides. "This is crit...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...size of the human genome." Nevertheless, the gene content of lilies can be predicted reasonably well by look...ltiple species simultaneously and predict the gene content in regions of plant genomes that have not yet been deciphered." Besides Vision, others involved in ...

The first impact factor for PLoS Biology ?13.9

...this year by counting all the citations in 2004 to content that appeared in 2002 and 2003 and then dividing that number by the number of articles published in 2002 and 2003. For a long-standing journal, therefore, this number reflects the mean (average) number of citations over the course of a year to articl...

Immune system's distress signal tells bacteria when to strike back

...am invaders. "Most of the time these microbes are content to live and grow in our intestines," said John Alv...n alternative theory: that "bacteria are perfectly content in their niche until signals from the host ?usually during stress, such as after major surgery ?let ...

Novel live reporting system to track cells

...hin the tumor cells. The contrast between the iron content in these and in the normal surrounding cells showed up in the MRI (which is sensitive to magnetic particles such as iron), effectively identifying the genetically modified cells. This method grew out of a joint vision that originated 10 years ago in...

Deep thinking: Scientists sequence a cold-loving marine microbe

...enced the bacterium's genome and analyzed its gene content for telltale proteins that might be cold-adaptive. Next, they predicted C. psychrerythraea's proteome--or complete inventory of protein sequences--and then compared it to 21 predicted proteomes from known bacterial genomes. These included both mesoph...

Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines

...made properties, such as higher protein or vitamin content or easier-to-digest starch for ethanol production. Funded by a new five-year, $3.8 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, the project will generate some 10,000 lines in maize, each lacking a single gene and its function, says Thomas Brutne...

Doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics for the common cold, review advises

... about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Arroll reviewed 12 trials that included more than 1,900 patients with symptoms lasting for seven days or less or with colds that included runny noses with colored discharge for 10 days or less. The p...

Researchers track down cause of a disfiguring bone disorder

...ambiguous case in which altering noncoding genomic content has a deleterious impact on gene expression," the team reported, "demonstrating that mutations in distant regulatory elements are able to cause congenital abnormalities analogous to coding (gene) mutations." "Human genetic diseases of the skeleton s...

Hepatitis C responds best to combo of ribavirin and interferon, study concludes

... about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Hepatitis C is inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). It is transmitted primarily by blood-to-blood contact through a variety of means such as sexual contact, intravenous d...

Oxygen increase caused mammals to triumph, researchers say

...l record, we see that see that this rise in oxygen content corresponds exactly to a really rapid rise of larg...gger the mammals. We argue that the rise in oxygen content allowed mammals to become very, very large - mammals like 12-foot-tall sloths and huge saber-toothed...

New Scripps Oceanography project to study sediments and ecosystem restoration in Venice lagoon

...ill allow the researchers to test how the chemical content and biodiversity of the lagoon respond to such a local change. The researchers will conduct assessments by extracting short and long sediment cores, which will be analyzed for geochemical and biological parameters. Deheyn says that such an analysis i...

Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics

...s reduced in the alcoholic cases. In addition, the content of these proteins in the white matter was reduced. These changes likely alter the structure and function of the myelin sheath and ultimately the conduction of nerve impulses." - It is important for people who abuse alcohol to realize that some of th...

Lance Armstrong through a physiological lens: hard training boosts muscle power 8%

...ses in citrate synthase (CS) activity and glycogen content after several weeks of sprint interval training with equivocal data, "we show here that the total training volume necessary to stimulate these metabolic adaptations is substantially lower than previously suggested." Nevertheless, they note: "We can ...

A slight difference and significant similarities

...onventional varieties. The exception is the higher content of inulin polysaccharides. There was no evidence of any new, unexpected substances. Inulin is a polysaccharide that is formed as a storage molecule in many plants such as chicory, artichokes and dandelions. Two different genes for the formation of i...

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