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DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome

...uencing provides us a welcome set of tools." "The power of DOE JGI sequencing microbes, and other organisms, is that it gives us the complete genomic 'parts list' of those organisms," said Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Director of the DOE Office of Science. "With this list in hand, we can explore how microbes us...

First 'encyclopedia' of nuclear receptors reveals organisms' focus on sex, food

...m. So it really is all about sex and food. "The power of this analysis is highlighting such receptor associations that may predict functions heretofore unknown. This really is pointing to new directions in biology." Much already is known about individual nuclear receptors, which are proteins found in c...

Parkinson's disease mechanism discovered

...d that the research team's findings illustrate the power of animal models in revealing insight into Parkinson's disease. "These results highlight the value and importance of very simple model organisms in studying these disorders," she said. "For example, yeast is only a single cell, not even a neuron, and...

Mitochondrial DNA sequencing tool updated

...Mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles that power our cells, are unique because they are equipped wi...lasm. Sometimes informally described as "cellular power plants," mitochondria convert organic materials into ATP, the cell's energy currency and without whi...

Study finds how organs monitor themselves during early development

...elp treat many kinds of disorders and show how the power of stem cells could be harnessed to help organs call different cell types into action and regenerate, the researchers said. Stem cells are cells that have not yet specialized and can develop into any number of different cell types. They also have the...

Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria

...pulating or killing the biological samples. "The power of this technology is that it does not require complicated lab equipment, and it could be designed so that it wouldn't require someone with a doctoral degree to operate. The whole beauty of the system is you don't invade the biological environment th...

Ultrasound may help regrow teeth

...signed an energy sensor that will ensure the LIPUS power is reaching the target area of the teeth roots within the bone. TEC Edmonton, the U of A's exclusive tech transfer service provider, filed the first patent recently in the U.S. Currently, the research team is finishing the system-on-a-chip and hopes ...

Scientists elucidate the kinome of key model organism

...d her colleagues at Boston Biomedical utilized the power of bioinformatics, a cutting edge scientific technique which employs databases and computer algorithms to allow researchers to gain information and compile data about genes and kinases in a fast and efficient way, which can be very useful for drug di...

Taking evolution's temperature: Researchers pinpoint the energy it takes to make a species

... put a number on it, it takes about 10 to the 23rd power - that is a 1 followed by 23 zeros - of energy units called joules to generate a new species of foraminifera plankton. "From a scientific perspective, we can now quantify biodiversity in terms of energy," Allen said. "This will help efforts to ident...

Even fish don't swim well when they're young!

... of swimming involves alternating stages: the fish power forward in a 'burst' and then hold their body straight to 'coast'. Dr Müller and her colleagues might have found what it is that prevents larvae of the zebrafish from reaching top speeds: the larvae cannot maintain their body in a horizontal position...

Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic

...l Medical Sciences. "This new work exemplifies the power of such models and could aid policymakers and health officials as they plan for a possible future pandemic." The pandemic simulation model has been implemented in the Laboratory's celebrated Scalable Parallel Short-range Molecular dynamics (SPaSM) l...

Weighting cancer drugs to make them hit tumors harder

...ight" that increases its concentration and staying power inside the tumor. The heavier molecules are more selectively absorbed by tumors because tumor blood vessels are more permeable or "leakier" than normal blood vessels. Thus, larger molecules can pass through the tumor vessels more easily. Drugs with ...

New crop of technology reveals plant health

...bility with embedded protocol software to minimise power consumption and maximise data throughput. What's more, these chips work wirelessly and contain their own batteries. They can communicate over large distances for their size, with a current range of about 10m, but again the Tyndall team hope to push t...

'Biobullets' fight harmful mussels

...er intake pipes at hydroelectric stations, nuclear power plants and industrial facilities. In addition, zebra mussels can anchor themselves to other mollusks, making it impossible for native species to thrive. In some case, as many as 10,000 zebra mussels have attached themselves to a single native mussel,...

Unraveling the viral mechanism

...ical viruses as soon as he can obtain the computer power to study larger structures. Soon, he said, he hopes to be able to study the interactions of virus and cell more closely. Others who participated in his study include Juan Chang (a current graduate student in the SCBMB Program) and Joanita Jakana of ...

Biofuels can replace about 30 percent of fuel needs with significant research and policy effort

...nversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power and chemicals from biomass. The biorefinery would work much like a petroleum refinery, which produces multiple fuels and products from petroleum. The group based its recommendations on research studies, including studies on the development of rapid...

Fruit fly reveals a potential connection between dementia and cancer

...f cell-division proteins to neurodegeneration. The power of this model, which recapitulates key features of the human disease, lies in the ability to use genetic tools to establish a causal connection between a molecular pathway and neuronal death. Khurana and colleagues found that, as in human disease, ab...

New test to detect rare proteins in blood

...early recurrence is important and Greene feels the power of this technology will facilitate recognizing early phases of tumor emergence. Rational targeted therapy has shown in animal models ?over 10 years ago ?and more recently in clinical trials that treatment of small or incipient tumors is a way to pre...

Removing DNA repair gene causes metabolic syndrome

...to be localized in both the cell's nucleus and its power plant, the mitochondria, pointing to its likely involvement in the overall maintenance of the genome's stability. Other investigators in the field have discovered that NEIL1 may be important in the repair of actively transcribed genes. This means mu...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...faculty of Georgia Tech are gaining the processing power and system resources they need to make more accura..., reliable hosting environment to support the high power density supercomputing cluster. "With our hosting background, we had the flexibility and experience...

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