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Research highlights how bacteria produce energy

...ra, a researcher in Lovley's lab will present data identifying for the first time how these bacteria are able to transfer electrons through the biofilms to the electrodes. "Cells at a distance from the anode remained viable with no decrease in the efficiency of current production as the thickness of the biofilm...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

...ganisms has been shown to be an effective tool for identifying the function and structure of genes. Most sections of the human genome originated long before humans themselves. Consequently, scientists can use genome sequences of strategically selected organisms to learn more about how, when and why the genomes o...

The molecular mechanism of a diabetes vaccine revealed

..."These findings are important, as it means that by identifying the molecular activity of p277 with such precision, we can copy nature's own system in regulating the immune system and therefore, help to boost the immune system in preventing the destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic cells," says Cohen. Post...

Researchers develop flood-tolerant California rice

...somes of rice ?has greatly accelerated progress in identifying specific genes that confer specific traits. "Currently, the International Rice Research Institute is actively crossing the submergence tolerant Indian rice with lines of rice that are widely grown in southeast Asia in order to produce new lines of ri...

Mechanism identified for promising neurological drug

...cline was." "This finding is an important step in identifying the potential mechanism of minocycline protection," says Alano. Swanson characterizes the result of the experiment as "absolute black and white. Minocycline, at extremely low concentrations, inhibits PARP-1 in cell culture," reducing cell death by m...

Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria

...ands of applications for this new technology, from identifying stem cells to drug-resistant staph infections to pathogens on the battlefield." said J. Paul Robinson, a researcher at the Bindley Center and a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Veterinary Medicine. The work...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

...l laboratories are not proficient in isolating and identifying anaerobes, which often predominate." Using DNA d...r so, whereas the current procedure--culturing and identifying organisms by biochemical activity, etc.--can take one to several days and sometimes weeks, depending...

A catalogue of proteins

...cientists led by Matthias Mann have specialised in identifying individual proteins in protein complexes. Proteins have various functions in a cell, from transport to mechanical support. As enzymes, they catalyse all kinds of metabolic processes. They are also important components of signal chains, like those whi...

Speeding discovery of the 'human cancer genome'

...cale structural changes to chromosomes as a way of identifying areas of the genome with potential importance for ...n made to express too much Nedd9, became invasive, identifying Nedd9 as a "bona fide melanoma metastasis gene." Nedd9's role appears to result from its interaction...

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

... what 30 million (1%) of those letters "spell" by identifying not only what genes they encode, but how epigenetic modifications 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 collaborat...

Mayo Clinic study finds two genes predict outcome for breast cancer patients

...new study shows that the marker is only useful for identifying women with a higher risk in the setting of lymph node-negative breast cancer." The study, which was conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School and Arcturus Bioscience, tested whether the expression levels of two genes within w...

Researchers identify genes in fruitflies that may shed light on human cancer spread

...ll as metastasis. Classical genetic approaches for identifying key genes ?mutational analysis, for example ?have been successful but generally yield information about genes with unique functions only, and only one gene at a time. Whole genome studies, like the microarray analysis used in this study, allow resear...

Predicting successful outcomes in living-donor liver transplants

A new study on identifying which patients were likely to have poor outcomes f...oring liver function following LDLT is crucial and identifying poor function as early as possible would be a step in the right direction toward achieving better ou...

Computer scientist sorts out confusable drug names

...y PhD research, I wrote a program called ALINE for identifying similar-sounding words in the world's languages. The program incorporates techniques developed in linguistics and bioinformatics," Kondrak said. "At the time some people criticized it because they felt it wouldn't ever have a practical application." ...

Mutation in blood stem cells provides clues to cancer development

...emia or other malignancies, while others don't, by identifying determinant cancer genes and the signaling pathways leading to the disease. "It will tell us more about cancer and how cancer progresses," Jamieson added. "Usually, cancer isn't just there all of a sudden overnight; it develops by a series of mutat...

New method for identifying microbes

...ave developed a new, high-throughput technique for identifying the many species of microorganisms living in an un... the microbes present in environmental samples and identifying species useful for cleaning up contamination to identifying pathogens and distinguishing harmless ba...

New method enables gene disruption in destructive fungal pathogen

...nosinusitis. Gene disruption methods could help in identifying molecules from the fungus that trigger inflammatory and other types of immune responses in humans. By understanding how fungi modulate immune responses in humans, new ways of developing therapeutics for these conditions could be identified. ...

More evidence mammals, fruit flies share make-up on function of biological clocks

... finding mutants with non-24-hour rhythms and then identifying the genes underlying the altered behavior. These studies in fruit flies have allowed the identification of similar "clock genes" in mammals, which function in a similar manner in mammals as they do in a fly's clock. However, prior to this study, biol...

Biofuels can replace about 30 percent of fuel needs with significant research and policy effort

...oubling the productivity of energy crops will mean identifying constraints and correcting them with genomic tools. To make biofuels a truly practical alternative to petroleum, the group says there will need to be significant improvements in how biofuel is processed. Their vision is for a fully integrated biore...

World Trade Center identifications pushed forensic DNA technology

...ly 2005, Shaler oversaw New York City's efforts in identifying victims through DNA analysis. In the process of id... laboratory not ready for the monumental effort of identifying the victims of this disaster were the problems inherent with the remains. While about 2,749 people ...

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