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New Study from Affymetrix Laboratories Points to Changing View of How Genome Works

... of what parts of the genome might or might not be important to human biology. They used new Affymetrix tiling microarrays and unique biochemical tests to scan the sequence of 10 human chromosomes -- one third of the human genome sequence -- and found that roughly 15 percent of the DNA sequence analyzed was tr...

First-ever Compounds To Target Only Metastatic Cells Are Highly Effective Against Breast, Prostate, And Colon Cancers

...must be working on something upstream of those two important steps," Dr. Huang said. Dr. HuangÕs next important step is moving these analogues into clinical trials. "We're trying right now to get a company inter...

Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine

...t.“The fact that we now know the structure of this important proteinmeans we can begin to develop a vaccine that is more effective inchildren than those that are currently available,?Kriwacki said.Elaine Tuomanen, M.D., chair of Infectious Diseases and director of theChildren’s Infection Defense Center at St. ...

Critical role in programmed cell death identified

...kes cell death. "This programmed cell death is so important and the more players we know that are involved, the more potential targets we have for therapeutics," Conradt said. During development, for example, many neurons are built, but after birth, more than half are eliminated in the central nervous system ...

Study: Soap And Water Work Best In Ridding Hands Of Disease Viruses

...ian, helped analyze the data. "These findings are important because health-care associated infections rank in ...e of alcohol-based handrubs will continue to be an important infection control measure, it is important to recommend or require traditional hand washing with soa...

New comparative toxicogenomics database

...t.“The fact that we now know the structure of this important proteinmeans we can begin to develop a vaccine that is more effective inchildren than those that are currently available,?Kriwacki said.Elaine Tuomanen, M.D., chair of Infectious Diseases and director of theChildren’s Infection Defense Center at St. ...

ASU researchers finds novel chemistry at work to provide parrot's vibrant red colors

...spread among parrots, suggests that it is a pretty important evolutionary novelty, and one we should carefully consider when we think about why parrots are so strikingly colorful," McGraw said. McGraw has been studying the colors of birds for seven years. He first became interested in the behavioral significa...

Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals

..., further supports the idea that vocal learning is important for maintaining individual social relationships am... elephants use vocal learning." Vocal learning is important because it enables an open communication system in which animals and humans develop new signals with...

Transport System Smuggles Medicines Into Brain

...spread among parrots, suggests that it is a pretty important evolutionary novelty, and one we should carefully consider when we think about why parrots are so strikingly colorful," McGraw said. McGraw has been studying the colors of birds for seven years. He first became interested in the behavioral significa...

Probing The Promise And Perils Of Nanoparticles

...ce and engineering. "We're trying to do both: make important new materials and be excited about what can be don...t that nanoscale hole formation may be at least as important in allowing materials to travel through membranes. The work that Banaszak Holl, Hong and Leroueil w...

Open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems

... corners. For microfluidics applications, the most important morphology regime is (F) which corresponds to stable filaments. Since this regime covers a relatively small region of the morphology diagram, it can only be obtained if one carefully matches the channel geometry with the substrate wettability. Thus, ...

Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication

..., further supports the idea that vocal learning is important for maintaining individual social relationships am... elephants use vocal learning." Vocal learning is important because it enables an open communication system in which animals and humans develop new signals with...

Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health

...l organ" may be deleterious to human health, it is important to understand how gut microbes adapt to the dynami...obial communities among different people may be an important factor that influences predisposition to obesity and obesity-related disorders such as diabetes and ...

Papers of DNA Pioneer and Nobel Laureate Francis Crick Added to National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science Web Site

...fundamental contributions to structural studies of important biological molecules through X-ray analysis; to our understanding of protein synthesis; to the deciphering of the genetic code by which hereditary information is stored and transcribed in the cell; and to our conception of the human brain. Francis H...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

... Institute and a professor of neuroscience. “It is important to appropriately introduce the GDNF into the Parkinson's disease setting, where that introduction can provide insight into how to protect neural cells. This is showing us a new way to approach the problem.?/p> Parkinson's disease is caused by the...

Researchers trace evolution to relatively simple genetic changes

...rder associated with the ectodysplasin pathway, an important part of the embryonic development process. The human disorder, one of the earliest ones studied, is called ectodermal dysplasia. "It's a famous old syndrome," Kingsley said. "Charles Darwin talked about it. It's a simple Mendelian trait that control...

Scientists reveal molecular secrets of the malaria parasite

...n malarial parasite.Hall says the Science paper is important because: * The study takes an"evolutionary approac...osquitobites).Another TIGR scientist who played an important role in the project isAssociate Investigator Jane Carlton, who had led the sequencing of P.yoelii. A...

Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report

...rder associated with the ectodysplasin pathway, an important part of the embryonic development process. The human disorder, one of the earliest ones studied, is called ectodermal dysplasia. "It's a famous old syndrome," Kingsley said. "Charles Darwin talked about it. It's a simple Mendelian trait that control...

Why do insects stop 'breathing'? To avoid damage from too much oxygen, say researchers

...val of carbon dioxide from their bodies is equally important to prevent its toxic buildup in tissues. "Even in our own case, our bodies have to supply oxygen to our tissues, but they must also keep out excess oxygen to prevent oxidative damage to the tissues. This damage is closely related to aging. Hence, per...

Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake

...n evolvingphotosynthetic organisms. It may have an important place in theevolution of photosynthesis," says Blankenship, professor and chair ofthe ASU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.Miller says another surprising discovery occurred when the scientistsstudied the DNA of the new organism. By analyzing ...

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