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US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome

...collaboration between two leading U.S. and African laboratories ?The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) of Rockville, Maryland, and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) of Nairobi, Kenya. That innovative U.S./African partnership has enriched the quality of African scientific research while al...

Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now

...nization through which senior scientists and their laboratories have, for ten years, studied and reviewed risk issues associated with the cleanup and long-term stewardship of legacy wastes at sites involved in the nation's nuclear weapons production process that began in the 1950's. CRESP was specifically created...

Brazilians sequence genes of pig and poultry killers

...Grisard and 90 other researchers from 25 Brazilian laboratories published the sequencing results in the latest issue of Journal of Bacteriology. Brazil is the world's second biggest producer of chicken meat. According to the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), which participated in the sequenc...

Embryonic stem cells accrue genetic changes

...f scientists at four academic centers, two federal laboratories and three companies. Critical to the team's success was prescient support of cutting-edge technology development by the National Institutes of Health, support that enabled development of the technological infrastructure necessary for large-scale comp...

Delaware scientists make significant advance in study of small RNAs

...urse of the last year and a half by teams from the laboratories headed by Pamela J. Green, Crawford H. Greenewalt ... funding from the National Science Foundation, the laboratories of Green and Meyers, which are housed at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, overcame these obstac...

Stem cell microenvironment reverses malignant melanoma

...ch as melanoma," said Mary J. C. Hendrix, in whose laboratories at Children's Memorial Research Center the experiments were conducted. An article describing the findings by Hendrix and her laboratory group was published in the Nov. 17 online issue of the journal Stem Cells. Hendrix is president and scientific ...

Mining biotech's data mother lode

... vast output of literature both inside and outside laboratories ?to find out what is important," says Dr Michael Schroeder, Professor of the Bioinformatics group at Dresden Technical University and coordinator of this IST-funded project. "I attended a workshop recently, held by the W3 consortium, and many of the ...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

...thin these test areas, with samples taken to local laboratories for detailed analysis. And ESA's Envisat, ERS-2 an...for olive trees. Samples were analysed in Tunisian laboratories and weather conditions were also documented. "The conditions for the ground teams were a lot rough...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...ys. The Flu Chip is expected to be in wide use in laboratories within a year, said Rowlen, who has led the two-ye...nfluenza surveillance by making it easier for more laboratories to swiftly identify severe flu strains, which in turn may aid health officials to stem potential flu...

Serious adverse reactions to smallpox vaccine appear to be limited

...ld Health Organization−designated repository laboratories and may be used as a bioweapon. Detection of a smallpox case could represent an intentional bioterrorism event requiring an immediate, coordinated response by public health, medical, and law enforcement personnel to control the outbreak and protect ...

Common molecular 'signature' identified in solid tumors

... for normal development. Since then, scientists in laboratories around the world have identified hundreds of miRNAs and found that they are highly conserved over time ?meaning that they show up in generation after generation in everything from plants to mice to humans ?confirming their important roles in growth a...

Gene needed for butterfly transformation also key for insects like grasshoppers

...l Academy of Sciences. The work was done in the UW laboratories of biology professors James Truman and Lynn Riddiford, who are co-authors of the paper, and was underwritten by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Genes regulate how an organism grows and changes physi...

Mice studies illustrate potential of chimp/human antibodies to protect against smallpox

... Currently, the smallpox virus exists in only two laboratories found in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Russia. ...

Attention shoppers: Researchers find neurons that encode the value of different goods

...ral basis for comparison. Previous work in other laboratories showed that lesions to the OFC can result in choice deficits such as eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and abnormal social behavior. Moreover, the OFC is part of brain circuitry implicated in drug abuse, which can also be thought of as a choice ...

Virginia Tech helping to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties

...tions. Researchers will work with USDA genotyping laboratories to provide thousands of molecular analyses required to deploy the targeted genes into breeding lines. The genetic information will be stored in national databases and seed stocks deposited in USDA's Small Grain Collection, providing long-term public...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

...a-intensive science." Collaboratories are virtual laboratories where scientists can collaborate on research from dispersed locations--interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, and accessing information from remote digital libraries. Calit2 will also partne...

Molecule does more than slice and dice RNA

...ctive in cancer development. Lots of companies and laboratories have been betting on this." Dicer enzymes are found in all cells of higher animals, suggesting that it has an ancient evolutionary heritage. Because of its ability to recognize double-stranded RNA, scientists think Dicer's original function may have...

Scientists discover a genetic switch that links animal growth and cancer

... Fukuyama, a postdoctoral scientist working in the laboratories of Joel H. Rothman, a professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Ann Rougvie, a professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the Univer...

Advanced genomics and proteomics improve the diagnosis and treatment of a deadly lung disease

...ctive in cancer development. Lots of companies and laboratories have been betting on this." Dicer enzymes are found in all cells of higher animals, suggesting that it has an ancient evolutionary heritage. Because of its ability to recognize double-stranded RNA, scientists think Dicer's original function may have...

New insights into neural tube defects

...nny of Mount Sinai, Dr. Mlodzik's and Dr. Schier's laboratories have now found that a similar mechanism is at work in vertebrates. During cell division the polarity of a cell is lost. Therefore, the newly formed daughter cells initially lack the information to direct them to migrate to the midline where they...

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