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Two studies on bee evolution reveal surprises

...iences, Danforth and several colleagues from other institutions examined early bees' structures in combination with bee DNA, producing the largest molecular and morphological study to date on bee family-level phylogeny -- the evolutionary development and diversification of a species. Their goal was to examine the...

Discovery of the first resistance gene to rice yellow mottle virus

...t, Senegal, Madagascar) and international research institutions such as the African Rice Centre (Warda, Benin) for them to use in variety selection programmes. ...

Scientists show drug can counteract muscular dystrophy in mice

...usculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and other institutions have demonstrated for the first time that a single drug can rebuild damaged muscle in two strains of mice that develop diseases comparable to two human forms of muscular dystrophy. This advance, which is reported online in Nature Medicine, is the lat...

Preliminary study finds holographic imaging system promising for cancer treatment planning

... field, Perspecta is offered to qualified research institutions only. ...

St. Jude announces breakthrough in eye cancer treatment

...vision," Wilson said. "Clinicians at major medical institutions generally save 70 percent of all eyes treated, even in the case of advanced disease." ...

Clues to gene expression in cystic fibrosis will guide research

...ker in Paris led collaborators from several French institutions studying how the antibiotic gentamicin affected CF patients with a stop mutation. The team used a dual reporter gene assay first in vitro and then in CF patients. The study found that a small subgroup of patients with the Y122X mutation, found mainly...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

...ting that even better results could be achieved in institutions where a greater reduction is desirable. Dr Stone and colleagues used an interrupted time series design, which includes a single group of study subjects assessed before an after an intervention (in this case a change to antibiotic prescribing poli...

Quitting smoking reduces risk of lung cancer mortality by 70 percent

...ian region. Project partners included many medical institutions across the Asia Pacific region. The Collaboration's primary goal is to provide direct, reliable evidence about the determinants of stroke, coronary heart disease, and other common causes of death in Asia-Pacific populations. It aims to produce re...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...astructure, as well as collaborative ties to Asian institutions to learn more about avian flu, in hopes of helping...s that have emerged out of PRAGMA." Pacific Rim institutions collaborate in PRAGMA to develop grid-enabled applications and coordinate deployment of the needed i...

Experimental vaccine given during pregnancy reduces stillbirths from common virus

...ne, led a team of researchers at his own and other institutions to conduct the study. Female guinea pigs given the CMV vaccine before becoming pregnant gave birth to fewer dead pups and were less likely to transmit the infection to their offspring than were female guinea pigs not receiving the vaccine. Th...

Living with water scarcity -- world must act now

... our policies and reform processes, crafting water institutions to meet local needs. And we need to place the mea...must lead the reform process, but ironically state institutions themselves are in greatest need of reform. While water scarcity is here to stay, many of the prob...

Largest genomic search finds genes that may contribute to autism

...e project was launched in 2002 by scientists at 50 institutions to share data, samples and expertise in an effort to speed up the process of identifying susceptibility genes, those that heighten a child's risk of having the developmental disorder. Seven University of Washington researchers are coauthors of the p...

Molecular signature may identify cisplatin-sensitive breast tumors

...illette Center for Breast Cancer and collaborating institutions later this spring. "This paper describes a specific molecular pathway that makes these tumors sensitive to a therapy infrequently used for breast cancer," says Leif Ellisen, MD, PhD, of the MGH Cancer Center, senior author of the study to appear in...

Scientists find new genetic clue to cause of Alzheimer's disease

...to, led the study, which involved 14 collaborating institutions in North America, Europe and Asia, and 6,000 individuals who donated blood for genetic typing. The work was funded by NIH's National Institute on Aging (NIA) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), as well as by 18 other international p...

Fighting to keep Darwin in the classroom

...nues unabated. And though a number of educational institutions and organizations have had notable success in combating intelligent design in the classroom, what is needed now is a fresh source of evolution materials and anti-creationism ammunition for our school teachers on the front lines of this ongoing battle...

Autism gene identified by researchers at Yale working with a global research consortium

...tism genome scan. Over 120 scientists from over 50 institutions who formed the Autism Genome Project (AGP) performed the research. The AGP began in 2002 when researchers from around the world decided to collaborate and share their samples, data and expertise to aid in identifying autism susceptibility genes. ...

Analysis of rhesus monkey genome uncovers genetic differences with humans, chimps

...d assembly." In their analysis, scientists from 35 institutions compared this melded assembly to the reference sequence of the human genome, a newer unpublished draft sequence of the chimp genome, the sequence of more than a dozen other more distant species already in the public databases, the human HapMap, and t...

ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5M biofuels research program at Iowa State

...ng long-term relationships with respected academic institutions such as Iowa State to research extensions of traditional energy sources that ultimately will benefit consumers." "We are excited to work with ConocoPhillips to develop a research program that applies Iowa State University's strengths in renewable ...

Genome of yellow fever/dengue fever mosquito sequenced

... Vector." Researchers at 24 universities and other institutions worldwide contributed to the effort. Among the co-authors are members of the Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Research Group at Virginia Tech ( www.vectorborne.ibphs.vt.edu ), Zhijian (Jake) Tu, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

Many of the world’s leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, stude...

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