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Study Unlocks Insects?Secret for Love in the Dark

...earch. The study is the result of a collaborative effort funded by an NIGMS "glue grant." Glue grants bring together scientists from diverse fields--in this case surgery, critical care medicine, genomics, bioinformatics, immunology and computational biology--to solve major, complex problems in biomedical s...

Study reveals genomics of inflammation from severe injury

...earch. The study is the result of a collaborative effort funded by an NIGMS "glue grant." Glue grants bring together scientists from diverse fields--in this case surgery, critical care medicine, genomics, bioinformatics, immunology and computational biology--to solve major, complex problems in biomedical s...

Mammalian Transcriptome Mapped

...n the journal Science are part of an international effort that represents an enormous body of work--one that has been going on for about a decade, but really took off in the last four years following the completion of the Human Genome Project in early 2001. Like the genome project, the transcriptome projec...

Retinal scans eyed for New Mexico show cattle

... The NMSU evaluations are part of an accelerating effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to implement a National Animal Identification System. The goal is to track and identify all animals and premises that have had contact with an animal disease of concern within 48 hours of an initial diagnosis. I...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...v, the scientific secretary of the Chernobyl Forum effort who has been involved with Chernobyl recovery sinc...nmental effects, we should not waste resources and effort on low priority, low contamination areas," he explains. "We need to focus our efforts and resources ...

Scientists characterize proteome of human cornea

...mical composition of normal healthy corneas in the effort to understand the molecular mechanisms behind corn...normal human cornea may also be very useful in the effort toward generating artificial corneas for transplantation." To follow up on their initial research, ...

Biotechnology's newest chemical tool

...Lucia Beccai. Importantly, it also means less user effort is required to control the hand during daylong use. The CYBERHAND prototype integrates the two types of human senses. One senses where parts of the body are relative to other parts, whether our fingers are open or closed, for example. The other rel...

Gene that helps mosquitoes fight off malaria parasite identified

...h the SPRN6 gene is permanently switched on, in an effort to create a mosquito that would be immune to the Plasmodium parasite. They believe that such a mosquito could help disrupt the transmission of malaria to humans. "An immune-responsive serpin, SRPN6, mediates mosquito defense against malaria parasite...

Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now

...rs and these four researchers led the Science Plan effort and edited the draft report. Arthur Upton, M.D., a noted radiobiologist and former Director of the National Cancer Institute, now clinical professor at RWJMS-UMNDJ, led a subcommittee of the CRESP Peer Review Committee he chairs in issuing a review o...

Research casts doubt on circulating stem cells

...to remove this label by chemical means, too, in an effort to get the nuclei of the bone marrow-derived cells to start producing muscle proteins again," says Professor Wernig. "While we were able to activate dystrophin production in the muscle, the effect was nowhere near the level needed to combat the disea...

Preventing a pandemic: Study suggests strategies for containing a flu outbreak

...ic strategy, given their resources. This research effort is part of a network called MIDAS (Models for Infectious Disease Agents Study), supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. A related paper from another group of MIDAS researchers is being published simultaneously in the journal ...

DOE's Office of Science sets up program to aid scientists displaced by Hurricane Katrina

... "The Office of Science would like to help in the effort to ensure that faculty and students displaced by the disaster may continue their research and studies at other institutions," Orbach said. The Office of Science program will match interested students and faculty researchers with research programs th...

Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell

...ion grant to the FNIH and is a major international effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries. It is funded with a $450 million commitment from Gates Foundation, $27.1 from the Wellcome Trust, and $4.5 million from the ...

Techniques available to detect soil that inhibits destructive soybean pest

...Indiana to locate nematode-suppressive soils in an effort to make this tool more available and to further study the mechanisms that create its effectiveness against the pathogen. Soybean cyst nematodes, one of a large, diverse group of multicellular organisms, are the most destructive soybean pathogen in t...

NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies

...s improvements developed as part of the successful effort to sequence the human genome. However, it still co... and physics with engineering to enhance the whole effort to develop the next generation of DNA sequencing and analysis technologies. "It is very important t...

Rutgers to lead $52.7 million protein research program

...of the PSI. The PSI program is part of a national effort to find the three-dimensional structures of a wide range of protein molecules, building upon the momentum created by such groundbreaking programs as the Human Genome Project. However, the majority of the proteins coded by the genome have unknown func...

NASA satellite data provides rapid analysis of Amazon deforestation

...er in a matter of days, a substantial reduction in effort in comparison to the months now required with Landsat," said Douglas Morton, scientist at the University of Maryland-College Park and lead author of the new study. Deforestation rates in tropical Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America have remain...

Mosquitoes are more attracted to individuals infected with malaria

...ing its transmission remains a crucial part of the effort to combat the disease. A new study published in the premier open access journal PLoS Biology conducted in Western Kenya by Jacob Koella and colleagues now reveals that mosquitoes are more attracted to children with the infectious stages of malaria th...

miRNAs and musculature

In an effort to understand the biological function of the microRNA mir1, Drs. Nicholas Sokol and Victor Ambros (Darmouth Medical School) have studied the expression profile, transcriptional regulation and loss-of-function phenotype of Drosophila mir-1 (Dmir-1). M...

Exercise aside, genes may ultimately dictate seniors' mobility

...nefiting equally from exercise, no matter how much effort they expend, according to research findings publis... current study, researchers assessed seniors in an effort to better understand the relationship between genetic makeup, intensity of physical activity and fun...

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