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Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms

... Services. The technologies developed under this effort will be equally well suited to detecting algal toxins in freshwater sources and complements other ongoing research at Sandia. Sandia's Water Initiative ( www.sandia.gov/water ), for example, strives to increase the safety, security and sustainability...

Study shows interruption of antiretroviral therapy increases risk of disease and death

...these reasons, there has been a concerted research effort to test treatment interruption strategies that may enhance patients' quality of life and limit adverse drug effects. The strategies evaluated in the SMART Study compared the recommended continuous use of antiretroviral therapy (anti-HIV medicines) ...

Looking to a new era in bee research

...er solitary lifestyle insects. This large communal effort is presented in the special issue of Nature (Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium, 2006), published earlier this week, and in other companion papers. ...

Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease

...lic resource for the scientific community. Such an effort would parallel the sequencing of the human genome, both in its scope and in its potential to accelerate the pace of biomedical research." ...

Scientists use gene signatures to match cancer and other diseases with potentially effective drugs

...romising results, they are proposing a large-scale effort -- along the lines of the Human Genome Project -- to map connections among genes and diseases to accelerate the development of new and improved therapies for a wide range of disorders. Like the data in the current papers, the information garnered in ...

Researchers find protein that silences genes

...ikaard and his collaborators describe a systematic effort to examine the 16 predicted histone deacetylases in the genome to see if any play a role in nucleolar dominance. They made transgenic hybrids in which each of the deacetylases were knocked out one by one and then examined the plants to see if there ...

A rice future for Asia

...and the Philippines marks the start of a major new effort to encourage young Asians to consider a future in rice. "It's a sad fact of life in modern Asia that many young people in the region don't think of rice as offering an exciting or promising career, so they focus on other industries and other careers...

Vaccine shown effective against chancroid

...mission of HIV. "Diverting but a fraction of the effort on HIV potentially could rapidly lead to a chancroid vaccine. I believe it is imperative that international and U.S. agencies address this opportunity in a timely manner," Elkins said. In addition to Afonina and Elkins, other UNC authors are postdoc...

Large-scale genomics project will hunt genes behind common childhood diseases

... families from which to collect data. This focused effort in genomics reaffirms that we are absolutely committed to finding cures for childhood diseases." The Human Genome Project compiled the sequence of DNA bases in all 23 chromosomes in the human genome, while the HapMap Project listed haplotypes ?bloc...

Prion find points way to test for human 'mad cow' disease

...med a startup company, dubbed "Amprion." "All our effort so far has been to prove the scientific concepts, so we're building this company to go into issues of development, scalability and practicality," Soto said. "We are hopeful that development of this technology into a useful blood test will be a pretty...

How bad is malaria anemia? It may depend on your genes

...es. The researchers continue to collaborate in an effort to develop drugs that might block MIF and treat severe anemia in malaria patients. ...

Scientific issues associated with carbon-neutral energy sources such as cellulosic ethanol

... Advanced Energy Initiative is a landmark research effort designed to help break the nation's addiction to oil. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Somerville recently published the guest editorial in Science (June 2, 2006, Volume 312) concerning bioenergy research. He is a grantee of the DOE Of...

Gut microbes' partnership helps body extract energy from food, store it as fat

... of the normal human gut microbial community. This effort is part of a human gut "microbiome" project. "We believe that this project is a logical extension of the human genome project ?one designed to define the microbial side of ourselves," Gordon says. "This project should help answer a number of fundam...

Defense peptide found in primates may block some human HIV transmissions

... more into the mutations that HIV-1 can take in an effort to minimize them as much as possible. Many series of laboratory tests would need to be completed before clinical trials could begin no earlier than 2009. Cole's findings were published in the June 1 issue of The Journal of Immunology, a top journa...

First-ever genomic test predicts which lung cancer patients need chemotherapy to live

...apply to any cancer, but the Duke team focused its effort on lung cancer because the survival rate is just 15 percent. Lung cancer now kills more Americans each year than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined. But toxic chemotherapy drugs are prescribed only to patients with relatively large and ...

Computational analysis shows that plant hormones often go it alone

...y's team were collected as part of a multinational effort known as the AtGenExpress project cataloguing gene expression in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, which has become the lab mouse of the plant world. The laboratory of Detlef Weigel, Ph.D., an adjunct professor in the Laboratory for Plant Biology...

'Sticky' mice lead to discovery of new cause of neurodegenerative disease

...vidence that the cells were making an unsuccessful effort to tag and destroy the accumulating misfolded proteins. "Our finding that this mechanism underlies a neurodegenerative disease was highly unexpected," said Ackerman. "It was perfectly obvious that mischarged tRNAs, may generate misfolded proteins....

Completed genome set to transform the cow

...y. Contributors to the US$53 million international effort to sequence the genome of the cow (Bos taurus) include: the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and Cooperative...

Researchers seek to solve mystery of natural HIV control

...with this extraordinary outcome," she adds. "This effort will only be possible with the collaboration of HIV researchers, providers, advocacy groups and most important the HIV-infected individuals that fall in this category." Those eligible to participate in the Elite Controller Collaborative Study are H...

Over-use of antibiotics in fish-for-food industry encourages bacterial resistance and disease

...mals and humans alike" said Dr Cabello. A global effort to curb the over-use of antibiotics in the rearing of finfish is essential in preventing these detrimental effects to fish, animal and human health. ...

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