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DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome

... the finished 100 and references the collaborating institutions and the roles of the organisms in their environment. Bioenergy Acidothermus cellulolyticus ATCC 43068. Alison Berry, University of California, Davis. Isolated from acid hot spring in Yellowstone; degrades cellulose, source of high-temperature enz...

Smooth sailing: 'cruise ship virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine

...sortium of universities and complementary research institutions serving a specific geographical region. UH and th...Medicine (BCM) are part of region VI, encompassing institutions in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. The centers, located throughout the Unit...

Heal thyself: Systems biology model reveals how cells avoid becoming cancerous

...niversity of California, San Diego and three other institutions have described for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed to a powerful chemical mutagen. The group led by UCSD bioengineering professor Trey Ideker describe in the ...

Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...ht after by many western butterfly farms and other institutions that exhibit collections of live butterflies. Each individual butterfly pupa that they can ship to one of these customers can be worth between 2 and 5 UK pounds. The creation of a sustainable butterfly farming business would help preserve the local ...

Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade

...rom local to international, is needed to establish institutions that are able to learn from experiences with rovin...ing bandits deplete coral reef stocks before local institutions have time to implement laws to regulate the poaching. The bandits take advantage of porous world tra...

How bad is malaria anemia? It may depend on your genes

...tly by scientists at Johns Hopkins, Yale and other institutions have uncovered at least one important contributor to the severe anemia that kills almost half of the 2 million people worldwide who die each year of malaria. The culprit is a protein cells make in response to inflammation called MIF, which appears to...

Scientists describe new African monkey genus ?first in 83 years

...xtbook example of how a variety of individuals and institutions spanning the globe can work together to significantly improve our understanding of the biodiversity of this planet," Stanley says. "Within hours of Sophy Machaga creeping through the rain-soaked forests of Rungwe documenting the behavior of a troop o...

MUHC announces a transplant first in Quebec

...ram, we are accustomed to collaborating with other institutions across Quebec and other provinces for this form of highly specialized patient care," says Dr. Renzo Cecere, Surgical Director of Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation at the MUHC. "We are particularly pleased to have specialists from every discipli...

Researchers to develop ultra-miniature implantable sensors to measure blood flow

...ch (NYSTAR). NYSTAR grants help academic research institutions and businesses move high-tech innovations from the laboratory to the marketplace. Transonic Systems ?itself a highly successful spin-off of the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine ?is contributing significant staff time and funds to this research ...

Combination therapy shows promising results in patients with advanced lung cancer

...d by the National Cancer Institute at top research institutions nationwide to find better and more effective ways to prevent, detect and treat lung cancer. "This trial is an important early step in utilizing combination targeted therapies in lung cancer," said Dr. Steven Dubinett, director of UCLA's lung cancer ...

Looking to a new era in bee research

...mmals and humans. A total of 112 individuals in 63 institutions around the world signed on to analyse the newly available honey bee genome sequence, generating exciting results in many areas of biology. Themes for analysis included Anti-Xenobiotic Defence Mechanisms, Bee Disease and Immunity, Brain and Behavi...

Obesity levels in US are grossly underestimated

..."Using this data, national and state public health institutions can better target resources and programs toward combating the growing epidemic." ...

Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms

...iency, and provide decision-informing tools to the institutions responsible for balancing supply and demand. ...

St. Jude finds clues to hearing loss from chemotherapy

... the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium, a group of institutions across Tennessee that includes universities, several medical research centers and a national laboratory. The consortium used ENU, a chemical that causes random mutations in sperm of mice that were subsequently mated with females. Offspring of this m...

Handling HPV vaccines and screening: The views of 100 authors

..., policy decision makers, industry and major donor institutions worldwide. With the arrival of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and the progressive introduction of HPV-based screening technology, the field of cervical cancer prevention is expanding into new areas of influence involving an ever-widening gr...

New data from NIH lab confirms protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice

...abetes in diabetic mice. Three studies from other institutions published in the March 24, 2006 issue of Science confirmed that the MGH-developed protocol can reverse the underlying disease but were inconclusive on the role of spleen cells in the recovery of insulin-producing pancreatic islets. The new data from...

Bacteria that use radiated water as food

...ana University Bloomington and eight collaborating institutions report in this week's Science a self-sustaining community of bacteria that live in rocks 2.8 kilometers below Earth's surface. Think that's weird? The bacteria rely on radioactive uranium to convert water molecules to useable energy. The discovery ...

World's smallest cancer detection device

...ombines the unique expertise and resources of both institutions to apply nanoscale principles to detect diseases and develop treatments for them," says Ira M. Millstein, chairman of the Einstein Board of Overseers. "We are committed to ensuring that the Einstein-Albany alliance will lead the nation in efforts to ...

The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource

...ional Laboratory (ORNL), uniting the efforts of 34 institutions from around the world, including the University of British Columbia, and Genome Canada; Umeå University, Sweden; and Ghent University, Belgium. "Biofuels could provide a major answer to our energy needs by giving the United States a homegrown, envir...

Faster, more accurate tuberculosis test developed

...Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Lima, Peru, and other institutions have developed a simple and rapid new tuberculosis (TB) test. The test, called microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility or MODS, is more sensitive, faster and cheaper to perform than current culture-based tests. The study is published in the Octob...

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