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Genome of yellow fever/dengue fever mosquito sequenced

...article in Science Express, the general failure to date of conventional disease prevention strategies for most mosquito-borne pathogens provides a strong incentive to explore and develop novel control strategies that efficiently disrupt the transmission cycle or enhance existing strategies. The Ae. aegypt...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...he acoustic instrumentation that has been flown to date in space missions, particularly the Huygens probe that landed on Saturn's moon Titan (3aPAb1). John Zarnecki of The Open University ( j.c.zarnecki@open.ac.uk ) will explain how the Huygens probe deployed a simple sonar system and speed-of-sound sen...

DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis

...ities of multiple genomes. All the publications to date have made the assumption that these tools will work as efficiently for metagenomes, "but we really didn't know." Nikos Kyrpides, DOE JGI Genome Biology Program Head, said that, to evaluate the magnitude of this problem and identify the inherent pi...

Study shows continued success for new HPV vaccine against virus responsible for cervical cancer

...ancerous stages caused by some type of HPV." To date there is no vaccine specifically designed to treat disease that is already established. Dr. Ault explains the current HPV vaccine is meant to be a preventive or prophylactic vaccine Ð that's why it is given to adolescents. Gardasil was approved b...

Survival of the rarest: Fruit flies shed light on the evolution of behavior

...es them less conspicuous to predators. However, to date we haven't understood this type of survival advantage at the level of the gene." The findings involve a phenomenon known as "negative frequency-dependent selection." Essentially, it suggests that rare variants have a better chance of survival—jus...

CSIRO scientists join fight to save 'Tassie devil'

...in turn limiting the spread of the disease.” To date AAHL scientists have processed and examined 29 lesions from 12 affected animals and have also collected and processed a further 30 affected animals where both tumour tissue and tumours grown in the laboratory were examined. A recent Senior Scient...

Research identifies protein that signals flowering in squash plants

...search provides some of the most solid evidence to date that FT protein acts as a florigenic signal. ...

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