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Nobel Laureate finds 'elegant' explanation for DNA transcribing enzyme's high fidelity

...niversity won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his efforts to unravel the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, in which enzymes give “voice?to DNA by copying it into the RNA molecules that serve as templates for protein in organisms from yeast to humans. Now, Kornberg and his colleagues report in the...

Protein structure initiative launches new resources for the scientific community

...ector Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D. "The products of these efforts have been available to the scientific community, but the new resources should dramatically enhance accessibility." PSI-Materials Repository The Harvard Institute of Proteomics ( www.hip.harvard.edu ), part of the Harvard Medical School in Bo...

Ocean sampling yields environmental sources of coral symbionts

...ls. The findings, which potentially bolster future efforts to protect and rehabilitate coral reefs, are reported by a group including Mary Alice Coffroth of the University at Buffalo and appear in the December 5th issue of Current Biology. In response to environmental stresses, coral reefs around the wor...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...d, we are committed to supporting these innovative efforts to benefit scientific labs and medical clinics," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "These technologies will eventually revolutionize the way that biomedical research and the practice of medicine are done." Since 1990, NHGRI has inv...

Transplanted photoreceptor precursor cells restore visual function in mice with retinal degeneration

...-or any other specific neuron--our transplantation efforts would meet with greater success. This technique gives us new insights in repairing damage to the retina and possibly other parts of the central nervous system." Drs. Ali, Swaroop and their colleagues report that the transplanted cells in disease...

Diabetes slows nerve recovery after heart transplant

...damage may be of value to guide future therapeutic efforts aimed at reducing cardiac risk with diabetes mellitus patients," explained Bengel, who was an associate professor at the Technical University of Munich, where the study was performed, prior to his move to Johns Hopkins. "Even if a transplant recipien...

Researchers link ocean organisms with increased cloud cover and potential climate change

... link between clouds and the biosphere grew out of efforts to explain increased cloud cover observed over an ... said Meskhidze. "It will require the cooperative efforts of researchers from many different fields to identify the chemical components in these aerosols, to ...

How mammals fuel milk production may have implications for cancer

...the Warburg effect and reinforce the importance of efforts to design pharmacologic agents that will inhibit this pathway in tumors.? ...

Global malaria map key weapon in fight against malaria, scientists say

...s constructed, and that "there have been no recent efforts to construct a credible evidence-based global malaria map." To address this unmet need, researchers in Kenya and Oxford have launched the Malaria Atlas Project to develop the science of malaria cartography. In their PLoS Medicine paper, Hay and S...

Rearing an army to save wheat

...University of Arkansas. The late summer and autumn efforts are being completed by Frazier. It became her job to tend the cages of parasitic wasps every few days, after Palliparambil-Robert departed. Weaver said more research is needed to determine precisely how many sawflies and parasitic wasps need to be...

First Quantum Grant to fund stem cell repair of damage from stroke

..." said Jennifer West, who is leading the project's efforts at Rice. West is the Isabel C. Cameron Professor o...esearch and will now be able to devote substantial efforts to integrating their work and developing methods of using neuro-vascular regeneration to help stroke...

What does the public really know about HPV?

...ver the past year and direct-to-consumer marketing efforts by the makers of the HPV DNA test and the HPV vaccine will increase awareness, and NCI is conducting studies to monitor this possible increase. We plan to track the diffusion of knowledge to make sure that all women have accurate knowledge about HPV ...

Stroke symptoms common among general population

... warning signs of stroke and risk factor reduction efforts for individuals who report stroke symptoms may be helpful in improving early recognition and in the prevention of stroke," the authors conclude....

Computer scientists unravel 'language of surgery'

...rom the camera could contribute data to the team's efforts to identify effective surgical methods. Hager's Johns Hopkins collaborators include David D. Yuh, a cardiac surgeon from the School of Medicine. "It is fascinating to break down the surgical skills we take for granted into their fundamental compone...

Mapping the mouse genome

...our understanding of inheritance and inform future efforts to pinpoint the precise location of genes on individual chromosomes. ...

Knockout Mouse Project

... NIH-funded project will work closely with similar efforts in Canada and Europe to inactivate and study additional mouse genes. The projects provide new standards to ensure that scientists will be working from the same tested and proven methodology. Eventually, the project may expand to include large scale...

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

...cies. In China, reforestation and afforestation efforts have led to an increase in forest area from 96 million to 143 million hectares from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. Other Asian countries that have made the transition include South Korea and Viet Nam. Taken as a whole, the Asian continent re...

Artificial cornea offers better results for infants, some blind patients

... and creating new ways to treat them. Among the efforts has been a series of designs for artificial cornea...re is less invasive and cumbersome than some other efforts to implant artificial corneas. In the procedure carried out by Aquavella and other surgeons 30 years...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...g, vaquita bycatch has been painfully slow despite efforts to phase-out fishing with gillnets in the core are...present true conservation success stories. Similar efforts are needed urgently for the vaquita, a small animal living in a small area with a small, and ever-sm...

SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked

...searchers, writing in PLoS Medicine, call for more efforts to reduce the number of cases. Citation: von Seidlein L, Kim DR, Ali M, Lee H, Wang XY, et al. (2006) A multicentre study of Shigella diarrhoea in six Asian countries: Disease burden, clinical manifestations, and microbiology. PLoS Med 3(9): e353. ...

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