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Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed

...tional Biomedical Computational Resource (NBCR), a program funded by the National Institutes of Health, and director of Life Sciences Initiatives at UCSD. Arzberger said the Department of Bioengineering and NBCR Dell Rocks Cluster will be quickly integrated into a computational grid to provide the resource ...

Effective Cancer Treatments Follow The Clock

...he moved to Cleveland and established her research program in the Department of Cancer Biology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. To examine the mechanism for this difference, Antoch and her colleagues used mice that genetically lack different components of the body's internal clock. “Knowing the molecular...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...tern European descent. In fact, a health-screening program conducted by Barton and Acton at an Alabama forest products mill detected the disorder in 0.39 percent of all white participants, and 0.53 percent of white men. Acton and Barton said they hope that results of the study will prompt more primary care ...

Scientists discuss improved biopesticides for locust control in West Africa

...me and food supply loss. Larry Vaughan, associate program director of the USAID-funded Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP) and research associate in the Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED), and Foster Agblevor, associate professor of ...

World-first Living Donor Islet Cell Transplant A Success; Procedure Offers Promise For Diabetics

...e idea of starting a living donor islet transplant program in Kyoto while lecturing there three years ago. Cadaveric organ donors are scarce in Japan, and living donation has very established roots in liver and kidney transplantation there. "Living donor islet transplants could allow many more desperate pat...

Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers

...body. "We are really moving beyond the ability to program individual cells to programming a large collection...se a behavior they want from cells, and a computer program will create a genetic circuit to accomplish the task. "Then we can do an experiment to see if the co...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

...ecology. Launched today by the Gulf of Maine Area program of the Census of Marine Life, the Dynamic Atlas of...ortant international resource," says Evan Richert, program director for the Gulf of Maine program. "The new portal is the door to a treasure of data, much of i...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

...an Society of Hematology. "The 'Free Back Issues' program at Stanford's HighWire Press already gives the pub...plicative because NIH will create a new government program to supplant existing and highly successful private efforts; # It will divert federal dollars away fr...

Researchers devise way to mass-produce embryonic stem cells

...flask. The researchers are now working on ways to program embryonic stem cells so that they differentiate into specific types of cells. In preliminary work, Ouyang has created a network of neurons from undifferentiated embryonic stem cells. The next step is to use human embryonic stem cells, and the resear...

Controlling protein diversity

...g out some of the code results in a very different program than what would have resulted if all the components had been included or different parts had been left out. In this instance, leaving out part of the gene changes the protein. "The question is, 'How is this controlled?'" said O'Malley. He and his c...

Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert

... mid-October ?was the second phase of a three-year program whose goal is to understand how life can be detected by a rover that is being controlled by a remote science team. The project is part of NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Program for Exploring Planets, or ASTEP, which concentrates on pushin...

Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs

...mpling scope and sophistication. The Alaska-based program has applications for Pacific salmon all along the ...nment understand the size of salmon runs, early UW program leaders also collected basic information about weather, lake levels, emerging insects, zooplankton l...

Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer's

...pported by both NSF's Engineering Research Centers program and the NSF Office on International Science and En...Sohi Rastegar, a bioengineering expert and the NSF program director who oversees the agency's support of the Northwestern NSEC and several other bioengineering...

Researchers discover chemical compounds that affect plant growth

...on's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in 2003 and has remained to contribute to research efforts while studying at UCR. The team's chemical genomics approach focuses on the use of small molecules to modify or disrupt the functions of specific genes or proteins. NASA supported the resear...

New winter hulless barley has high protein

...s barley cultivar, "Doyce," in 2003. The breeding program is developing both traditional soft red winter wheat cultivars and new cultivars with unique and high-value end-use characteristics such as higher protein content, quality, and white seed color. The Virginia Tech wheat cultivars "Tribute" and "Renwoo...

Gene therapy promising for growing tooth-supporting bone

...al Research. Giannobile is part of a cross-campus program called Tissue Engineering at Michigan, funded in part by the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research. TEAM aims to provide an interdisciplinary, research-intensive environment for those pursuing careers in the oral sciences, with a fo...

Affymetrix Licenses Microfluidics Technology From Caliper Life Sciences

...the second agreement since Caliper began an active program to out-license its intellectual property portfolio. The new "LabChip Driven" program was put in place to support the company's microfluidics adoption strategy and to broaden and acceler...

Computational Method Speeds Mapping of Cell Signaling Networks

...eir interactions, such as tissues and organs. NSF program manager Carter Kimsey thinks this study will open up a wide range of research opportunities. "There is no reason to think that this mathematical tool is for health-related fields only, there are many possible applications in biology," she says. Dana...

GeneNotes - A novel information management software for biologists

...f genes. GeneNotes is free for academic usage. The program and the tutorials are available at: http://bayes.fas.harvard.edu/genenotes/. GeneNotes provides a novel human-computer interface to assist researchers to collect and manage biological information. It also provides a platform for studying how users b...

Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

... process of developing a strong microbial forensic program to attribute and prosecute such attacks, and perha... Randall S. Murch, associate director for research program development at Virginia Tech, formerly deputy director of the FBI's Laboratory and Investigative Tec...

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