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Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem

...ages of exploring the intestinal ecosystem. Using molecular techniques that detect all known types of microbes and borrowing statistical techniques from field ecology and population genetics, Paul Eckburg, MD, a postdoctoral scholar in infectious diseases and geographic medicine, conducted the most extensive ...

wFleaBase: the Daphnia genome database

...frastructure to curate, archive and share genetic, molecular and functional genomic data and protocols for an emerging model organism, the microcrustacean Daphnia. Commonly known as the water-flea, Daphnia's ecological merit is unequaled among metazoans, largely because of its sentinel role within freshwater e...

Unchecked DNA replication drives earliest steps toward cancer

...os D. Halazonetis, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor in the molecular and cellular oncogenesis program at Wistar and sen...enhard Herlyn, D.V.M., professor and leader of the molecular and cellular oncogenesis program at Wistar. The remaining coauthors are Panagiotis Karakaidos, Panay...

Affymetrix Launches New Globin-Reduction Kits and Protocol Developed with PreAnalytiX

...nd purification of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) for molecular diagnostic testing. The first product from PreAnal...(R) technology has become the industry standard in molecular biology research. Affymetrix technology is used by the world's top pharmaceutical, diagnostic and bi...

Gene keeps neural cells on correct developmental path

...in the terminally differentiated neuron." But some molecular partners of REST remain, perhaps fine-tuning gene expression in mature neurons, she said. REST seems to work globally, binding to the starting points of as many as 1,000 genes at once. The gradual loss of REST in differentiating neurons probably orc...

Successful Test Of Single Molecule Switch Opens The Door To Biomolecular Electronics

...es that biochemists believe to be capable of being molecular switches but that have failed to exhibit those pro...uld make possible successful research in designing molecular devices. “We have a working rational roadmap now for how to do this, and we’re already hard at work...

Science study holds implications for gene therapy and stem cell biology

... 2003, Dr. Baum established a research team in the molecular and gene therapy program in the Division of Experimental Hematology at Cincinnati Children's under the direction of David Williams, MD, and in collaboration with Christof von Kalle, MD, PhD, a physician/researcher also noted for achievements in gene ...

Stealth Worms May Improve Insect Pest Control

...gy (structure and function) techniques and through molecular screening, including PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and DNA sequence analysis. The researchers determine the nematode's temperature and moisture requirements, the insect hosts it colonizes and other characteristics. Lists of EPN evolutionary associ...

Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships

... automated scientific text processing tool; ResNet molecular networks database, created by automated extraction of biological facts from the entire PubMed, and Seqware?personal sequence data management platform. More on Ariadne Genomics please find at www.ariadnegenomics.com ...

Important discovery about second most fatal cancer

...cterized by distinctive clinical, pathological and molecular features: # Early age at onset # More common in females # More common in right side of colon # Little evidence of tumour immunity # Frequent mutation of an oncogene called BRAF (also mutated in cancer of thyroid, ovary, and melanoma) # Frequent DNA ...

Molecular thermometers on skin cells detect heat and camphor

...led them to identify and clone TRPV3 as a possible molecular thermometer--perhaps the first one that makes skin cells able to sense warm temperatures. Now they have demonstrated that the receptor does indeed detect heat by examining the physiological and behavioral characteristics of a knockout mouse with no ...

Structure-building cell signals also may influence learning and memory

...nd memory. These findings, the first to link these molecular semaphores to this important nerve cell function, ...janin-1 enables endocytosis when it disassembles a molecular coating on storage vesicles, which allows the cell to continue making new vesicles as needed. "This ...

Molecular messengers perform a crucial role in the ability of injured nerve cells to heal themselves

...izmann Institute of Science has now discovered how molecular messengers perform a crucial role in the ability o...oteins for the healing? That's precisely where the molecular messengers, proteins called Erk-1 and Erk-2, enter the picture. When the axon is injured, these prot...

Mother birds increase progesterone to hatch females

...his area is just beginning, they note, because the molecular methods used to determine the sex of the eggs has only recently been made available. ...

15-year hunt finds cause of pseudothalidomide syndrome

...e center of the dividing cell. Once lined up, tiny molecular "motors" attach to the centromere of each copy and pull the original and the new copy away from each another as division proceeds. However, in cells from people with Roberts syndrome, the chromosome copies are frequently not attached to each other a...

Future diabetes drugs may target new protein interaction

... its sirtuin relatives, is best known for removing molecular "decorations" on proteins that help organize DNA and restrict access to genes. It turns out that sirtuin1 also removes these decorations from PGC1, and then remains bound to PGC1 as it starts up the sugar-making process, the researchers found. "Beca...

PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic information

... its sirtuin relatives, is best known for removing molecular "decorations" on proteins that help organize DNA and restrict access to genes. It turns out that sirtuin1 also removes these decorations from PGC1, and then remains bound to PGC1 as it starts up the sugar-making process, the researchers found. "Beca...

Characterizing Skin Cancer by Microarrays

...ir results will provide a basis for developing new molecular diagnostic techniques and, eventually, targeted therapies for patients with skin cancer. PNAS is the multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1914, PNAS publishes daily online and weekly in print. The...

Sugar beet virus mutation requires Texas touch

...rything, from the crop growing in the field to the molecular aspects of the pathogen. That makes our program to...tant gene. "We're going in now and looking at the molecular makeup of the plant virus," he said. Making trips to the Imperial Valley in California and the Red ...

Computational verification of protein-protein interactions by orthologous co-expression

... its sirtuin relatives, is best known for removing molecular "decorations" on proteins that help organize DNA and restrict access to genes. It turns out that sirtuin1 also removes these decorations from PGC1, and then remains bound to PGC1 as it starts up the sugar-making process, the researchers found. "Beca...

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