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Illinois pig to make history as source of first complete swine genome

...sortium, will head the project that is expected to cost $20 million and involve researchers at seven other institutions. Sequencing of the some 2.5 billion chemical base pairs that spell out the pig's genetic code will be done at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom. The groundwork f...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...f the Center's datacenter while lowering its total cost of ownership. The speed and flexibility of the systems also reduce the time it takes to complete research projects, allowing the Center more time to explore new commercial opportunities in the fields of pharmaceutical science and healthcare. ...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...d with NIH support. These technologies reduced the cost of genotyping by more than 100-fold, making such a comprehensive effort affordable. Equally important, this effort will dramatically increase our understanding of the environmental factors of health and disease, and help us develop novel measures of ...

First demonstration of 'teaching' in non-human animals

... the presence of a naïve observer, at some initial cost to itself, in order to set an example so that the ...the path that it has taken. Tandem leaders pay a cost because they would normally have reached thefood around four times faster if not hampered by a follo...

Oops! Researchers publish new findings on the brain's response to costly mistakes

...ing. "In general, the response to a mistake that cost them money was greater than the response to other mistakes, and the involvement of the rACC suggests the importance of emotions in decision and performance-monitoring processes," says Stephan Taylor, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of ...

Plant-derived vaccines safeguard against deadly plague

...nts primarily revolved around issues of speed, low cost and high yield. "The major advantage of the vaccine is the rapidity of the system," said Santi. "In a matter of 10 days, we can go from infecting the plants to harvesting the plants. From there, we purify the antigens in an additional one to two we...

Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion

...uld help manage the spread at an early stage. Low cost options could include a public awareness campaign where anglers and other users of rivers and the coastline are encouraged to report sightings of crabs. Measures which are currently used to monitor fish in our rivers, such as the electrical fish cou...

Sex: It's costly but worth it. Just ask a microbe

The next time you mutter about the high cost of relationship maintenance, take comfort in knowi...hare your pain. In the first study to examine the cost of sexuality in microbes, Jianping Xu, associate professor of biology at McMaster University, found ...

Researchers discover way to transport environmental arsenic to plant leaves in new clean-up strategy

...risk of arsenic poisoning. Unfortunately, the high cost of using excavation and reburial at these sites makes these technologies unacceptable for cleaning up the vast areas of the planet that need arsenic remediation. As a result, the overwhelming majority of arsenic-contaminated sites are not being clean...

Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population

...rce use of efficient providers, patient care would cost less and patients would be less subject to interventions that could do more harm than good. The argument for expanding the physician workforce is based on a faulty assumption, according to the authors. Proponents reason that the practices of the ...

Radiotherapy advance points way to noninvasive brain cancer treatment

... light sources, which could be similar in size and cost to an MRI machine. De Stasio says the next steps will include animal and possibly human clinical trials. "If we do see that we can cure animals from their cancers, then it's worth investigating the molecular biology of this drug and seeing what the...

Nanopore method could revolutionize genome sequencing

...e near future. In addition to the speed and low cost of the nanopore method, the researchers calculate that it will ultimately be significantly less error-prone than current methods. "The DNA sequencing method we propose has the potential of having fewer errors than the present method, which is based ...

p53, tumor suppression and aging

...or not p53-mediated tumor suppression comes at the cost of accelerated aging. To analyze the effects of reduced Mdm2 levels on tumorigenesis ?as well as the potential for unwanted side effects ?Dr. Perry's team used mdm2-hypomorphic mice (that express less Mdm2 protein than normal mice) which have elevat...

Markers of gene, protein, or micro-RNA activity predict outcome in prostate and colorectal cancers

...rsal bead array" test, which is designed to be low cost and easy to administer, appears to be a better predictor of relapse and disease-free survival than the Gleason Score, according to lead author Jessica Wang-Rodriguez, M.D., associate clinical professor of Pathology at the University of California, Sa...

AIDS-related cognitive impairment exists in two separate forms

...rsal bead array" test, which is designed to be low cost and easy to administer, appears to be a better predictor of relapse and disease-free survival than the Gleason Score, according to lead author Jessica Wang-Rodriguez, M.D., associate clinical professor of Pathology at the University of California, Sa...

Salmon go veggie to save wild fish stocks

...a lipid source, but also will be consistently more cost effective too". Using canola oil instead of marine fish oil (e.g. anchovy oil) in fish feed will also reduce the accumulation of contaminants in salmon such as PCBs and dioxins that are present in wild marine fish. This new "vegetarian" dietary appr...

Tetracycline plus teeth equal gray smile

...eeth). To place veneers or crowns on all teeth can cost in range from $1,000 to $2,000 per tooth. "The cost deters many people from seeking treatment," says Dr. Capehart. However, Dr. Capehart developed a ...

In-home sensors spot dementia signs in elderly

...e approach may be essential to managing the rising cost of health care for aging baby boomers. And "being able to stay at home and maintain independence represents a significant improvement in quality of life of many elders who like to remain as long as possible in their familiar environments," Pavel note...

Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria

... processing and homeland security at one-tenth the cost of conventional technologies. The technique - Ba...e at consumer electronics stores, and likely would cost less than $1,000, Hirleman said. A critical part of the technique was made possible by adapting a ...

DNA: Bacteria's survival ration

...ations can result, "but there should be no genetic cost to eating [the DNA]." The study identified eight genes in E. coli that are necessary for nutritional competence. Without any one of these genes, the bacteria cannot consume DNA and lose their competitive advantage. "The gene family is found in many...

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