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Scientists find microRNAs regulate plant development

...es in Umeå, Sweden and colleagues at several other institutions noticed that the ago1 mutant failed to form adventitious roots - a type of root that develops from aerial parts of the plant and is important for propagation through cuttings. Auxin is known to be a major regulator of adventitious root formation and ...

Drug Offers Alternative to Surgical Treatment After Miscarriage

...current study, Dr. Zhang and colleagues at several institutions enrolled 652 women who experienced pregnancy failure. Of these, 491 were assigned at random to receive misoprostol. The rest of the women underwent vacuum aspiration. The women in the misoprostol group were treated with 4 vaginal doses of misoprostol...

Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Spreading in Uganda

...current study, Dr. Zhang and colleagues at several institutions enrolled 652 women who experienced pregnancy failure. Of these, 491 were assigned at random to receive misoprostol. The rest of the women underwent vacuum aspiration. The women in the misoprostol group were treated with 4 vaginal doses of misoprostol...

Gifts from the sea

...nd. Scientists from more than 133 universities and institutions in more than a dozen countries make the MBL their summer research headquarters each year. U.S. and foreign students seeking intense, specialized science courses taught by top researchers, flock here, too--to participate in advanced-level offerings i...

High rates of sexually transmitted infections found in young drug users

...opkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other institutions found high rates of herpes simplex virus 2 and syphilis among young drug users in Baltimore, Md. The study found that women had significantly higher rates compared to their male counterparts, but did not find significant differences between injection...

Bacteria are key to 'green' plastics, drugs

...fers to meet a market need for the benefit of both institutions and American agriculture itself. We also appreciate the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for this work to create another high-value product from agriculture." Many researchers are trying to create a succinate-producing bacterial mutant....

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

...ced it is awarding $88.9 million in grants to nine institutions over three years to establish a collaborative rese...Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. The nine institutions receiving grants as part of the Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network (MLSCN) are: * Co...

Gene Bridges And Covalys To Develop Restriction-Enzyme-Free SNAP-tag Gene Fusion Kits

...rovides products that help researchers in academic institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies to improve the efficiency of research into proteins and their function. Its SNAP-tag technology is the first commercially available protein tag which covalently links itself to any chemical probe provided as a...

Monkeypox mystery: New research may explain why 2003 outbreak in the US wasn't deadly

...versity Health Sciences Center and several partner institutions may provide an answer. In this month's issue of Virology, researcher and senior author Mark Buller, Ph.D., from Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center and colleagues conclude that some strains of monkeypox are more virulent than others, depen...

AACR Favors 'full spectrum of stem cell research biology'

...e AACR position statement encouraging grant-making institutions to "work toward stable and sufficient funding for meritorious stem cell projects, free of political uncertainty, so that young investigators are encouraged to devote their careers to this important field." Said Nelson, professor in the departments o...

Public release of pig genomic sequences

... standing collaboration of scientists and research institutions from China and Denmark. An open access research article from the Sino-Danish Pig Genome Project can be found at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/6/70 and the genome sequence data are immediately accessible from the NCBI Trace Repository (Cent...

‘Blue Brain?project explores thought at molecular level

... standing collaboration of scientists and research institutions from China and Denmark. An open access research article from the Sino-Danish Pig Genome Project can be found at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/6/70 and the genome sequence data are immediately accessible from the NCBI Trace Repository (Cent...

New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network

...sortium made up of universities and other research institutions within its geographic region. The network conducts research that will lead to next-generation treatments, vaccines and diagnostic tools for diseases such as anthrax, plague, smallpox, tularemia, botulism and West Nile fever. University of California...

Rutgers to lead $52.7 million protein research program

...positions us for broader collaborations with other institutions and industries in New Jersey and beyond. The NESG, and other major programs at Rutgers in structural and computational biology, including the Protein Data Bank and BioMaps, form the basis for plans to greatly expand our efforts in proteomics and rela...

US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome

...work. These skills will be crucial to help African institutions understand and exploit genomic data for product development. The T. parva project was funded by the TIGR Board of Trustees; ILRI; prize money donated by TIGR's chairman, J. Craig Venter; and the United Kingdom's Department for International Developm...

Research team receives $7.5 million to study cassava

... colleagues include 18 scientists from 10 research institutions including Ohio State: the U.S. Department of Agriculture in St. Louis; the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis; Washington University Medical School, St. Louis; the University of Bath, United Kingdom; the International Center for Tropical Agri...

Asian immigrants in NYC not receiving HIV education at religious institutions

Religious institutions serving New York City's Asian immigrants are not e...nders and HIV is being published this week. These institutions are missing a vital opportunity to reach masses of immigrants for whom a temple or mosque is the onl...

Software 'agents' could help unmask reality of disease clusters

...ecessary to achieve them. By constructing virtual institutions in which agents can act, collaborating organisatio...e mechanisms could include the creation of virtual institutions to insulate host organisations from agents and minimise leakage by limiting access to only the neces...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...in how it changes over time. The scientists, their institutions and government agencies are pooling their findings to create a comprehensive and authoritative portrait of life in the oceans today, yesterday and tomorrow. Support for the Census of Marine Life comes from government agencies concerned with science,...

HIV inserts into human genome using a DNA-associated protein

...integration takes place. Previous studies at other institutions showed that LEDGF binds tightly to HIV integrase, the enzyme that's important for the integration reaction. Now, Penn researchers showed in this study that the way LEDGF binds to HIV integrase and to specific sites on chromosomes suggests that HIV ta...

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