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Einstein researchers identify new way that bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics

...t to fluoroquinolones. The international research effort was led by Dr. John S. Blanchard, the Dan Danciger Professor of Biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The findings are published in the June 3 issue of Science. Fluoroquinolones, an important class of antibiotics that includes cip...

WCS says avian flu prevention should focus on farms, markets

... the type of collaborative 'One World, One Health' effort that is vital in keeping potential epidemics contained." In light of the recent outbreaks of avian flu in other regions, WCS proposed and with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization funded an expedition to Mongolia to examine the role ...

‘Blue Brain?project explores thought at molecular level

...p of 6 fold genome coverage will be produced. This effort will be coordinated by the international Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium (SGSC) led by scientists from USA and UK. A simultaneous announcement will also be made by SGSC and the Alliance for Animal Genome Research (AAGR) in support of this public r...

Public release of pig genomic sequences

...p of 6 fold genome coverage will be produced. This effort will be coordinated by the international Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium (SGSC) led by scientists from USA and UK. A simultaneous announcement will also be made by SGSC and the Alliance for Animal Genome Research (AAGR) in support of this public r...

Possible treatment found for 'chemobrain'

...ll target 13 more organisms as part of its ongoing effort to produce genomic data that will expand biological knowledge and improve human health. The National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research (NACHGR), which is a federally chartered committee that advises NHGRI on program priorities and goals, re...

NHGRI Selects 13 More Organisms for Genome Sequencing

...ll target 13 more organisms as part of its ongoing effort to produce genomic data that will expand biological knowledge and improve human health. The National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research (NACHGR), which is a federally chartered committee that advises NHGRI on program priorities and goals, re...

Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals

...counted 87 as a result of a controversial breeding effort to improve the genetic health of the endangered and inbred animals, according to a new assessment. Hybrid kittens born to panthers brought into the area from Texas have "about a three times higher chance of becoming adults as do purebred ones," repo...

Researchers create infectious hepatitis C virus in a test tube

...Hepatitis C, a collaborative research and clinical effort of Rockefeller, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and New York- Presbyterian Hospital Like all viruses, HCV cannot replicate by itself; instead it takes over the machinery of a host cell to make copies of itself. Much about the life cycle...

Nose odors and mouth odors: The brain distinguishes

...he mouth or through the nose. In a joint research effort led by Dana M Small of The John B Pierce Laboratory and Yale University and Thomas Hummel of the University of Dresden Medical School, the researchers launched their exploration into the brain's possible dual response to odors because of the well-kno...

Energy management in cells may hold key to cancer defense

In an ongoing effort to fight disease by manipulating energy regulation of cells, a collaborative study led by Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) has demonstrated that cells lacking a tumor-suppressing kinase called LKB1 can still maintain healthy energy levels when they bec...

MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions

... human health and agriculture. In a collaborative effort spanning several departments, MSU scientists will ... The NSF's Arabidopsis 2010 project is a worldwide effort to catalogue the function of every gene in the plant - something never before accomplished with any ...

UNC computer, marine scientists collaborate to predict flow of toxic waters from Katrina

...ing Applications (NCSA), played a key role in that effort by providing rapid-response computing and modeling capability. Floodwaters containing organic and chemical pollutants such as sewage and oil still cover swaths of Mississippi and Louisiana. To aid cleanup, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atm...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

...ealth and disease. "This tremendous collaborative effort will accelerate our understanding of biology and d... disease." For example, the broad-based screening effort will eventually enable researchers to explore the hundreds of thousands of proteins believed to be e...

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

...century. So being part of this lagoon preservation effort is being part of history." "Scripps has a long history of collaboration with the scientists and citizens of Venice," said John Orcutt, deputy director of research at Scripps. "These projects extend from (Scripps Research Professor) Walter Munk's rec...

Can't serve an ace? Could be muscle fatigue

...port because the brain does not consider the extra effort required for movement, Monash University researche...the position of their limbs based on the amount of effort required to lift them against the force of gravity," Professor Proske said. "Take gravity away, as h...

Researchers track down cause of a disfiguring bone disorder

...xpression of the SOST gene in adult humans. In an effort to locate the specific enhancer sequence responsible for SOST regulation, the team compared human and mouse DNA and found seven common segments within the 140,000-base-pair SOST region. Scientists assume that DNA segments that have been "conserved" f...

Siberian tigers hang tough

...o be stable, say the coordinators of a 2005 winter effort to count the animals, led by the New York-based Wi...nge in numbers, but simply reflects the additional effort we made to survey the entirety of tiger range." Coordinators agree that this survey represents the m...

New protein vital for immune response is found in surprise location

...ntify and characterize the proteins involved in an effort to better understand the nature of viral infection and how to combat it. Dr. Chen said he and his group believe MAVS is among a group of molecules that play a role in activating other proteins - including IRF-3 and NF-kappaB - that prod the cell int...

Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health

... the skin during environmental heat stress. In the effort to understand why young women are more susceptible to fainting than men, he also studies how estrogen and progesterone influence blood pressure regulation. Minson is the winner of a 2005 American Physiology Society's Outstanding Young Investigator A...

Harmless virus may hold key to more effective HIV drug discovery

...r identify compounds that can outmaneuver a virus' effort to mutate and multiply, Gregory Weiss and Allison Olszewski employed this virus, called a bacteriophage, to learn how a HIV protein could respond to a new class of anti-viral molecules they have discovered. By constantly mutating into new variation...

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