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Scientists design potent anthrax toxin inhibitor

...n anthrax," notes Phillip J. Baker, Ph.D., anthrax program officer at NIAID. Anthrax toxin has three parts: protective antigen (PA), a protein that binds to a receptor on the target cell surface; and two enzymes that must be transported into the cell to cause damage. The enzymatic portions of the toxin ente...

Genome sequencing is for ecologists, too

...d Jeffrey Boore, head of the evolutionary genomics program at the Joint Genome Institute. "And the Daphnia genome sequence will illuminate all of this by allowing us to infer the ground state from which the insect genomes evolved." ...

Bringing the zoos to the zebras

...cators are also helping develop a teacher-training program to introduce ecological and conservation thinking into local schools. Finally, Saint Louis Zoo is recruiting a team of interested volunteers from the Saint Louis area to participate in Earthwatch's Grevy's Zebras project in September. Rubenstein's t...

New compound stops brain cell degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

...ion of young scientists trained in our educational program to instruct the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists," Watterson said. Northwestern University patented the compound designated 188WH and has exclusively licensed the patent rights to NeuroMedix, Inc., for clinical development. ...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

... physician and DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program manager, said: "Although our war fighters suffer fewer fatalities, they still suffer horrible injuries. And today one of the most devastating battlefield injuries is loss of a limb." The Pentagon announced the project in February when it said it was...

Researchers release new variety of asparagus

...mission who long supported the asparagus breeding program in the state, the superior hybrid marks the third time that UCR has released a new variety of the vegetable, the most recent being 1982. "Particularly now, the asparagus industry in this country needs new varieties of the vegetable ?varieties that ...

Protecting endangered species helps reduce poverty

... Indian village of Farida, a WWF awareness-raising program aimed at conserving the rare Ganges river dolphin helped the community to address critical basic needs such as clean water. After five years, the number of families below the poverty line significantly declined. The report further shows that more t...

Warbling whales speak a language all their own

..., worked with Buck and Tyack to develop a computer program to break down the elements of the whale's song and...Suzuki wanted to see if he could design a computer program that enabled scientists to classify the structure of the whales' songs. He used the program to an...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

... physician and DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program manager, said: "Although our war fighters suffer fewer fatalities, they still suffer horrible injuries. And today one of the most devastating battlefield injuries is loss of a limb." The Pentagon announced the project in February when it said it was...

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

...gies with growers and end-users and an educational program to attract new students to agriculture and train them in modern and traditional breeding techniques. ...

Novel molecular 'signature' marks DNA of embryonic stem cells

...l School, and a researcher in the Chemical Biology program at the Broad Institute. "It has allowed us to glim...e Cell paper, the director of the Chemical Biology program at the Broad Institute, and professor at Harvard University. "This approach could be a key strategy ...

Gene therapy 'turns off' mutation linked to Parkinson's disease

...Council Professor and director of the neurobiology program at Children's Memorial Research Center and professor of pediatrics and of molecular pharmacology and biological chemistry at the Feinberg School. The gene technique the Bohn lab developed removes a protein known as alpha-synuclein from the diseased d...

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

... environments," said David Kingsbury, Ph.D., chief program officer for science at the Moore Foundation. "The major factor limiting its further progress has been the management of the very large quantities of data. We are delighted to be able to support the development of this community resource at one of the...

Rutgers researchers find fat gene

...rned with the obesity epidemic," said Jean Chin, a program director at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences ( NIGMS ), the part of the National Institutes of Health that funded the research. Carman's research is also supported by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Obesity in the ...

Illinois pig to make history as source of first complete swine genome

... acknowledgement of the leadership of the genomics program at the University of Illinois." The female, reddish-brown Duroc pig involved in the project was used by Beever and Schook to study genes that control growth and contribute to meat quality. Its DNA also was extracted, donated and cloned to develop ge...

Findings advance use of adult stem cells for replacement bone

...lable through Rice's Century Scholars Program. The program included funding for tuition as well as a chance to begin research in Mikos's lab during her freshman year. "My research experience at Rice has been life-changing in ways I could never have imagined four years ago," Datta said. "I never anticipated ...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

...ederally chartered committee that advises NHGRI on program priorities and goals, recently approved three plan...ng Research Network "The goal of our sequencing program is to build the most powerful toolbox possible for advancing human health. By identifying and seekin...

USC, Rice to develop bacteria-powered fuel cells

... the whole system." Lüttge's participation in the program grew out of a decade-long collaboration with principal investigator Kenneth Nealson, USC's Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences and Biological Sciences. Nealson helped pioneer the field of modern geobiology and the i...

UF researchers develop ways to keep the bloom on the rose

... Food and Agricultural Sciences postharvest floral program for more than two decades. Growers and retailers also need to understand the importance of proper treatment and sanitary conditions. Consumers can extend vase life by two to three days by using properly mixed commercial flower foods. Using clean, s...

For some young fish, early gene expression is a clear harbinger of fated lifestyle

...ying different habitats--suggests that the genetic program of a given life history has been a highly selected attribute during the evolution of brown trout populations. The findings also indicate that such striking differences in gene expression profiles are probably controlled by only a few major genes. I...

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