fundamental 2 10

Tag: "fundamental" at biology news

Origen publishes in Nature a robust and versatile method for creating transgenic chickens

...ol for understanding some of the earliest and most fundamental events in developmental biology on a molecular level," said Robert J. Etches, Ph.D., D.Sc., vice president of research at Origen Therapeutics. "This work addresses a major biomedical issue -- how to produce antibody-based medicines in an easy, cost...

A rice future for Asia

...test young people. "Rice and agriculture are still fundamental to the economic development of most Asian nations, not to mention their cultural and social identities," he added. Working together with the TRF and PhilRice, IRRI is hosting a five-day rice camp (24-28 April 2006) at its headquarters in Los Baños ...

Eminent inventor of DNA fingerprinting gains new recognition

...ies provided with all the facilities necessary for fundamental research and training in genetics. It is one of the largest Departments of Genetics in the United Kingdom and was rated at a Grade 5* in the 2001 national research assessment exercise. It has a diversity of active research groups with a common approa...

Light-sensitive photoswitches could restore sight to those with macular degeneration

...alifornia Institute of Technology, to perfect this fundamental development and bring it closer to medical application. Their group, centered around the optical control of biological function, will develop viruses that can carry the photoswitches into the correct cells, new types of photoswitches based on other c...

New study finds similarities between monkey business and human business

...yanan, and Laurie R. Santos. "[But] if much of the fundamental structure of our preferences were so deep rooted as to extend to closely-related species, this would bolster the assumption of preference stability." As part of the study, the researchers presented capuchin monkeys with two payoff-identical gambles:...

Gut reaction: Researchers define the colon's genome

...t. Louis. Gordon envisions such a project pursuing fundamental questions. How different are our microbiomes? Should differences in our microbiomes be viewed, along with our immune and nervous systems, as features of our biology that are affected by our individual environmental exposures? How is the human microbi...

How nature tinkers with the cellular clock

...as evolved remarkably fast. The cell cycle is so fundamental for a cell that its machinery has been almost entirely conserved through evolution. Crucial components are made only at specific times to ensure that each machine is active only during the right phase of the cycle. Comparing cell cycle genes that ar...

UCSD study reveals how plants respond to elevated carbon dioxide

...mechanisms. "These molecular mechanisms are like fundamental parts of machinery," explained Young. "It's hard to predict what an instrument will do, if you don't even know anything about the parts that it is made from. Identify and characterize the parts, and you can figure out how they fit together to generat...

New genetic analysis forces re-draw of insect family tree

...understanding of the evolutionary relationships is fundamental to any interpretation of similarities or differences among species. "For example, social colonies are common among bees and wasps and their relatives, ants, as well as among more distantly related insects, such as termites and aphids. "That be...

Molecular anatomy of influenza virus detailed

... that no two virus particles are the same. In this fundamental respect, it differs from other viruses; poliovirus, for example, has a coat that is identical in each virus particle, allowing it to be studied by crystallography. The research team used electron tomography (ET) to make its discovery. ET is a nove...

International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region

...ne in the analysis of genetic variability for this fundamental immune region and lays the scientific foundation for future efforts aimed at uncovering the genetic roots of immune-related diseases. The findings of this international team, which includes scientists from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), the Univ...

Other patients bear the real cost of Herceptin

...s are obviously not definitive, but illustrate the fundamental challenge facing the NHS ?the tension between national priority setting and local implementation, they add. This situation highlights our central argument, that as NICE guidance provides no extra funding or any suggestion of which services to cut,...

Affymetrix 500K array used to identify memory gene

...t Affymetrix 500K Array, we have shed light on the fundamental biological process of human memory performance," s... of advanced technologies in human genetics yields fundamental discoveries," said Stephen P.A. Fodor, Ph.D., chairman and CEO at Affymetrix. To learn more about ...

Advance helps explain stem cell behavior

...ists say. In fact, the process is so important and fundamental to life that it has been conserved through millions of years of evolution, and is largely the same among vertebrate animal species, whether they are fish, horses, mice or humans. Once the process is more fully understood, it should be much more fea...

Effective HIV control may depend on viral protein targeted by immune cells

...on occurs. "The possibility that there may be fundamental differences between the impact of Gag and non-Gag CD8 responses on the ability to control HIV has clear relevance to vaccine development," says Goulder, who is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School....

Cellular traffic backups implicated in skeletal malformations

...membrane. "Protein transport and secretion is a fundamental function of every living cell, in every organism," said Knapik, associate professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology. Similar mutations in yeast and cultured cells were lethal from the start, suggesting that no multicellular animal wou...

Uniform tungsten trimers stand and deliver

...University, the discovery may offer a platform for fundamental reactivity studies of metal oxides used as catalysts in converting hydrocarbons into fuels and value-added chemicals. "There is a striking difference between commercial catalysts and the new model system," said Mike White, the UT professor leading t...

Scientists discover role for dueling RNAs

...e journal Cell. Central to this discovery is the fundamental process of gene expression. When a gene is ready to produce a protein, the two strands of DNA that comprise the gene unravel. The first strand produces a molecule called messenger RNA, which acts as the protein's template. Biologists call this first ...

Nanotech tools yield DNA transcription breakthrough

...esolved key questions regarding transcription, the fundamental life process that was the subject of the 2006 Nobe...te of Microbiology has two parts: One part seeks a fundamental understanding of the machine; the other uses that understanding to develop new classes of antibacter...

Particle size matters to bacteria ability to immobilize heavy metals

...us scientists led by a PNNL team in looking at the fundamental mechanisms of metal reduction by Shewanella and its application in environmental bioremediation of contaminated DOE sites. "It will help build a whole picture of Shewanella ?how it reacts with metal oxides and how the rate of this interaction is infl...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10