The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born
...sees the launch of BioForge (www.bioforge.net), an online collaborative research platform for biological inn...ded the INPADOC patent status database to its free online service, now allowing any searchers to know the dynamic status of patent applications and patents in...The very unexpected life and death of a leukemic cell
...olas Chiorazzi and colleagues in a paper appearing online on February 10 in advance of publication in the March 1 print edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. This new study shows that leukemia cells are born at a fast rate and do indeed die. The slow rise in the cell count over time can be attri...Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals
...rm of Parkinson's disease. The research, detailed online in the scientific publications Brain and The Journal of Neuroscience, essentially describes one strategy to halt Parkinson's disease at its onset and another strategy to treat the devastating side effects that occur when treating the disease in its l...Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication
.... This sequence research is described in the PNAS online early edition the week of February 7, 2005, (www.pnas.org), in the article, "Complete genome sequence of Vibrio fischeri: A symbiotic bacterium with pathogenic congeners," by E. G. Ruby, professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the Univers...Self-assembled nano-sized probes allow Penn researchers to see tumors through flesh and skin
... target and visualize tumors, appear in the Feb. 7 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. "We have shown that the dispersion of thousands of brightly emissive multi-porphyrin fluorophores within the polymersome membrane can be used to optically image tissue structures d...New Insights Into HIV Immunity Suggest Alternative Approach to Vaccines
...oming issue of Science. The results were published online April 28, 2005, in Science Express. The antibody-producing portion of the human immune system is broadly divided into two categories. The first, innate B cell immunity, comprises fast-acting but weak antibodies that fight a broad range of pathogens....Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks
...ville, Md., posted the completed Toxoplasma genome online last year. Geneticists at Washington University's Genome Sequencing Center contributed to the effort. Brossier knew the protein that did the work had to be a protease, a protein that cuts or degrades other proteins. He also knew it was likely to bel...Effective Cancer Treatments Follow The Clock
...lished its findings February 1, 2005, in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In experiments, which were conducted in mice, the scientists found that the body's internal biological clock affects the survival of immune cells that are targets of the anti-cancer dru...Use of Insecticides Linked to Lasting Neurological Problems for Farmers
...d or restricted. These findings will be available online in April, and published in the June issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. The research is part of the ongoing Agricultural Health Study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute, two of ...How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health
...men's reproductive health. The studies, published online today (Thursday 28 April) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction, suggest that environmental pollutants could be changing the ratio of sperm carrying the X or Y (sex determining) chromosomes and that they could be contri...Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand
...ase Control and Prevention. The study is published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. "Our use of medically important classes of antibiotics in food-animal production creates a significant public health concern," said the study's lead author Lance Price, a doctoral candidate and fello...Researchers discover molecular mechanism that desensitizes us to cold
...cold. The study, published this week as an advance online publication by Nature Neuroscience, focused on a specific region of the cold receptor which is found in many other receptors, including ones involved in taste, vision and fertilization. Therefore, the findings may have important implications across a...New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem
A new online portal consolidates decades of rich marine data, m...rine Life, the Dynamic Atlas of the Gulf of Maine, online at http://gmbis.iris.usm.maine.edu, will enhance current understanding of the complex marine ecosyst......removed remains unclear. In their study appearing online on February 3 in advance of publication in the March 1 print edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation,.Michael Otto and colleagues from Rocky Mountain Laboratories demonstrate that S. epidermidis secretes an extracellular polymer called poly-...NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications
...Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of NIH. The online archive will increase the public's access to health-related publications at a time when demand for such information is on a steady rise. "With the rapid growth in the public's use of the Internet, NIH must take a leadership role in making available...Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer's
...announce their findings the week of Jan. 31 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Because of the extreme sensitivity of the BCA process that Mirkin's team developed, the researchers were able to detect within each fluid sample a miniscule amount of proteins called am...Researchers identify protein crucial for survival of Lyme-disease bacterium
...ase. Results of the multisite study are currently online and will appear in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The bacterium that causes Lyme disease lives in infected mammals and in the midgut of ticks. When an infected tick bites an animal or a human, the bacteria ...Light therapy may combat fungal infections, new evidence suggests
...ue of Public Library of Science Biology, published online March 15, 2005. The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund supported the research. The potentially life-threatening fungus C. neoformans invades the central nervous system to cause disease, most common......n a new study published in the premier open-access online journal PLoS Biology, Neal Epstein and colleagues report that a special group of cells (called skeletal precursors of cardiomyocytes, or Spoc cells) isolated from the skeletal muscle of adult mice can turn into beating cardiomyocytes in a test tube w......igration. But, in a new study from the open-access online journal PLoS Biology (www.plosbiology.org), Christopher Wilmers and Wayne Getz show that the impact of climate change on many different species in Yellowstone Park can be buffered by a top predator - the reintroduced gray wolf (Canis lupus). Gray wo...