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PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0

...s provided uswith enormous feedback to improve the process notation and CellDesignersoftware. This is the fir...lecular information. Weare pleased to see that the process notation in CellDesigner has provedto be scalable and practical,?said Dr. Kitano. “We congratulate t...

Duke Chemists Isolating Individual Molecules Of Toxic Protein In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease

... Their aim is to understand the detailed assembly process for the toxic protein called amyloid plaque. Such basic understanding, they said, could lead to approaches to preventing plaque formation. The researchers led by Boris Akhremitchev are using the infinitesimal tip of a customized atomic force microsc...

Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes

...and more about the molecular mechanics of how this process works," Pruitt said. "Then we will know exactly what role this gene plays." Pruitt's team already knows that animals don't have hothead genes, either normal or mutated, so the scientists must investigate which genes might affect this novel inheritan...

White blood cell waste disposal system plays critical regulatory role

... in the March issue of Immunity, suggests that the process for disposal of dying neutrophils is actively linked to neutrophil production. A clear understanding of the processes that control neutrophil turnover may contribute to the development of future therapeutics for conditions characterized by abnormal n...

New RNA polymerase discovered in plants

...lant flowering and DNA methylation, a key chemical process essential for an organism's development. A team h... retrotransposons is lost. Methylation is a vital process involving a chemical modification in cytosine, one of the four chemical subunits of DNA. Without pro...

Bird Brains Show How Trial and Error May Contribute to Learning

...arn and hone new motor skills, such as tennis. The process relies on feedback about what works and what doesn't, also called experience-dependent or performance-based learning. "That all requires paying attention to how we're doing, experimenting with different things, and gradually getting better," said se...

Breakthrough method in nanoparticle synthesis paves the way for new pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

...icals. This improvement in the drug manufacturing process can potentially lead to greater cost savings, as the production of the chiral ingredient currently accounts for 10-40% of the total cost. IBN’s invention could potentially have a significant impact on the chiral pharmaceuticals industry, a fast-growi...

Influenza vaccine uses insect cells to speed development

... chemically stable and commercially available, the process can be easily scaled up for commercial manufacture," says Wang. "New FluBlok vaccines can be developed quickly and safely to address late appearing influenza viruses and to reduce the impact of a potential flu pandemic." ...

RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide

... able to store and transmit information as well as process that information. The continuous discovery of new RNA molecules with novel biological functions is beginning to show that RNA plays far more roles than originally believed. For instance, while genomicists had previously determined that humans and ch...

TEL2 gene cooperates with MYC gene to provoke B-cell lymphomas

...ntless prodding by MYC to keep multiplying. As the process of apoptosis becomes sluggish, the population of B lymphocytes increases. The greater the number of these cells, the more likely some of them will eliminate their p53 function. Without the ability to commit suicide, these cells will start multiplying...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...fymetrix' patented photolithographic manufacturing process provides the most information capacity available today on an array, enabling researchers to use a whole-genome approach to analyze the relationship between genetics and health. Affymetrix is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with manufacturing fa...

World's largest rainforest drying experiment completes first phase

...e released to the atmosphere by this savannization process is significant --equivalent to several years of worldwide carbon emissions -- and could accelerate climate change processes already in place. But beyond these global effects, drought and fire, which is a tool of choice among the Amazon's farmers and ...

Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

...low relieves the painful symptoms of angina. "The process of growing new blood vessels, or angiogenesis, should occur over the course of four to eight weeks following the procedure which is done in the cardiac catheterization lab at Rush," said Dr. Gary L. Schaer, the principal investigator of the trial at ...

Applied Biosystems Introduces Advanced Gene Expression Service Provider Program

...at are highly sensitive and reproducible. The PCR process and the 5' nuclease detection process are covered by patents owned by Roche Molecular System, Inc. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd ("Roche")....

Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication

... annotated the sequence." Annotation is a complex process that assigns functions to genes. Having access to the genetic sequence in order to perform this chore gave Stevens and Faini early access to specific information about the genes of the bacterium she has been studying for several years. Many differen...

Harnessing microbes, one by one, to build a better nanoworld

...at are highly sensitive and reproducible. The PCR process and the 5' nuclease detection process are covered by patents owned by Roche Molecular System, Inc. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd ("Roche")....

LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation

...he methane formation is the result of a biological process occurring today. Luca is actively working to characterize Geobioreactors and the microbial consortia that populate them, as well as to understand the metabolic processes by which those consortia generate methane. The company expects to evaluate spec...

Variation in women's X chromosomes may explain differences among individuals, between sexes

...ally, scientists had assumed that the inactivation process resulted in complete silencing of the genes on the second X chromosome, Willard said, in order to leave both sexes with the same activity level, or dosage, of the genes encoded by the X chromosome. Scientists had also implicitly assumed that the X ch...

Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers

...ded for the growth of new nerve or bone cells in a process Weiss called "programmed tissue engineering." Even the early step of creating patterns in a Petri dish, however, may be useful as a tool for other scientists, particularly developmental biologists who are trying to understand how the cells of an emb...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

... that controls the flow of potassium into cells, a process that critically affects, among other things, electrical activity in neurons. A handful of recent studies suggest that potassium channels are also involved in the generation of sleep in humans. Reported in the April 28 issue of Nature, the finding po...

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