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NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

...lth and disease. The genomic data provided by this effort will allow researchers to develop basic tools to better understand human variation, such as distinguishing functional from non-functional variations within genes. A final set of sequencing targets was chosen to address the question: Wh...

Breast stem cells have features similar to 'basal' tumors

...basal tumours arise. Dr Visvader, who led the team effort with Dr Lindeman at WEHI, said, "This finding made by Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat in our lab reinforces the need to understand the normal biology of the breast stem cell. Our hope is that this kind of research could in the long-term lead to the identi...

Septum keeps neurons in synch, can reduce epileptic seizures by 90 percent

...pproach of making the neurons less excitable (this effort is led by Emilio Garrido-Sanabria and Masoud Zarei). Colom's group is looking for a new treatment that will focus on inducing theta. "The understanding of the theta rhythm's anti-epileptic effect at the cellular and molecular levels may result in no...

New tiger report release: Tiger habitat down from just a decade ago

...support the 13 countries with tigers in a regional effort to save the species. The report's authors suggest that the heads of state of those countries convene a "tiger summit" to elevate tiger conservation on their countries' agendas. "Saving wild tigers requires tiger range countries to work together," sa...

Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety

... The ASU group's work is part of the international effort by the Interdisciplinary Network of Emerging Science and Technology (INEST), directed by Manuel Marquez, an adjunct professor of bioengineering at ASU. He and Lindsay are affiliated with the INEST group research center in Richmond, Va., supported by ...

Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast

...n and possible oil spills that helped motivate the effort by IBAMA to get the buffer zone declared. Under the government declaration, oil and gas activities are prohibited in 75 percent of the buffer zone, and approval for such development in the other 25 percent would require detailed studies showing no a...

UC Davis researchers move biotechnology closer to replacing electronic pacemakers

...e also includes a similar but independent research effort by scientists from Columbia University and State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Our study offers positive and direct evidence in living models that bioengineered cells can replace the electronic pacemaker," said Ronald Li, who leads the re...

How satellite tracking revealed the migratory mysteries of endangered Atlantic loggerhead turtles

...t are vulnerable to the intensive longline fishing effort that occurs in that region." Dr Michael Coyne, of...se reptiles can cover an international cooperative effort in seven African states is needed to create a strategy that would protect them." Research* shows th...

Many cleaners, air fresheners may pose health risks when used indoors

...signed for household use. "We've focused a lot of effort in the last decades on controlling the big sources of air pollution and on the chemicals in consumer products that contribute to outdoor ozone formation. However, now we've learned that we need to pay attention to other aspects of pollution sources t...

A more powerful and efficient engine for rice: the C3-C4 challenge

A major international scientific effort was launched last week to develop and use a radical new approach to boost rice production and avoid potential rice shortages, or even future famine. Scientists have been working on different aspects of the approach since the early 1990s. But new kn...

Parasitic worms used to fight bowel disease

...ell as other researchers, also wants to apply this effort to a variety of autoimmune conditions, such as asthma, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. Some researchers suggest that all of these conditions can be explained as combinations of the hygiene hypothesis and genetics. ...

In a technical tour de force, Salk scientists take a global view of the epigenome

...switch genes off and on. Once that's achieved, the effort will be scaled up to learn more about the dynamics of the whole human genome. The approach developed by Ecker and collaborators may allow researchers to do just that. "We fit the whole Arabidopsis genome - about 120 million bases - on a single high...

Afghanistan to protect wildlife and wild lands

...known more for conflict than conservation, a joint effort by the government of Afghanistan and the Wildlife ...an, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and China together in an effort to develop a four-country transboundary park in the Pamirs to further help protect this unique mount...

UC San Diego biologists solve plant growth hormone enigma

...o points out that seeds significantly increase the effort and waste involved in producing tomato sauce. "This study is a real tour de force," commented Martin Yanofsky, a professor of biology at UCSD, who was not one of the authors of the study. "People have been trying to figure out auxin for decades. B...

Genomatix technology facilitates de novo identification of new renal disease associated genes

...lomerular diseases have been identified by a joint effort of the Medizinische Poliklinik, Munich, the University of Bristol´s Children´s Renal Unit, the German Cancer Research Center, sanofi-aventis, and Genomatix Software GmbH. In a joint publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Alaska seal pup diet may hold key to decline of population

...ife Center. The research is part of a much larger effort to find out why harbor seals and other marine mammals are disappearing from the chilly waters off the Alaskan coast. The population decline, which has become a focus of research in the past 10-15 years, is potentially due to a variety of factors, Pol...

UCR researchers design chip that can improve citrus varieties

...rieties more efficient. "This industry-supported effort both added to and made use of publicly available citrus sequences to develop an entirely new tool that will benefit all citrus researchers and help sustain the citrus industry locally and worldwide," said Timothy Close , a professor of genetics at U...

Wisconsin scientists grow two new stem cell lines in animal cell-free culture

...n research scientist working at WiCell who led the effort to develop the new culture media. "This work helps us clear some of the major hurdles for using these cells therapeutically." "We've been optimizing (culture) media on the existing stem cell lines since 1998, but it has only been recently that ther...

Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle

...strial long-line fishing, with 37% of this fishing effort in the Atlantic. A major hotspot is found off West Africa, the focus of this study. With fishing yields decreasing in European seas the EU has struck up a number of agreements with African nations to fish their waters. Amazingly, most EU fishing c...

Liquid crystals show promise in controlling embryonic stem cells

...ch is also significant as an example of our unique effort to integrate advanced materials engineering and embryonic stem cell research, an effort that will help accelerate the rate at which the benefits of stem-cell based therapies are brought to...

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