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Large-scale Computer Simulations Reveal New Insights Into Antibiotic Resistance

...ncing techniques with helping them to identify the relationships between the outbreaks in four separate locations, and to define the scope of the outbreaks quickly. The sequencing allowed them to determine if cases reported in other states were related to the four original outbreaks and provided reassurance that a...

Use of Antibiotics for Acne May Increase Risk of Common Illness

...ncing techniques with helping them to identify the relationships between the outbreaks in four separate locations, and to define the scope of the outbreaks quickly. The sequencing allowed them to determine if cases reported in other states were related to the four original outbreaks and provided reassurance that a...

Virginia Tech, Nanjing Institute researchers discover half-billion year-old fossils

...organisms and have been debating for decades their relationships with animals and other macroscopic life forms. Traditionally, Ediacara organisms are thought to be related to such animals as jellyfishes and worms. Other scientists, however, believe that they may be plants or fungi. Twenty years ago, however, Adolf...

New tools used to control foodborne hepatitis A outbreaks related to green onions

...ncing techniques with helping them to identify the relationships between the outbreaks in four separate locations, and to define the scope of the outbreaks quickly. The sequencing allowed them to determine if cases reported in other states were related to the four original outbreaks and provided reassurance that a...

Analysis of flower genes reveals the fate of an ancient gene duplication

...es our ability to discern the ancient evolutionary relationships between different genes and their biological funct...he evidence required to establish the evolutionary relationships of genes from different species. ...

Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record

...sues. And given the parallels between species-area relationships in paleontology and ecology, collaborations across disciplines may offer valuable insights into ecological dynamics through time. Citation: Barnosky AD, Carrasco MA, Davis EB (2005) The impact of the species-area relationship on estimates of paleodi...

Biologists determine genetic blueprint of social amoeba

...yzed families of Dictyostelium genes and uncovered relationships with these genes in both animals and plants. Dictyostelium is used as a model organism for studying cell polarity, how cells move and the differentiation of tissues. It also exhibits many of the properties of white blood cells. Three years ago, ano...

Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines

...ill give researchers a better understanding of the relationships between specific genes and complex plant systems. The database will be invaluable to academic researchers interested in how specific genes are involved in basic developmental or physiological processes, as well as to biotechnology industry scientist...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...n their quest to understand the complex biological relationships and how these inner workings might apply on a grander scale. In a paper to appear today on Science Online, researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley describe a bacterial commu...

Improved statistical tools reveal many linked loci

...s approach also failed to reveal that hierarchical relationships between two genomic locations control about one in seven yeast expression traits¡Xwhich Storey et al. discovered using their method. Although the group studied yeast, their method can be applied to more complex organisms to search for even larger nu...

Map of life on Earth could be used on Mars

...ed upon genetic sequencing data, trace the genetic relationships between what we think of as primitive organisms through trait development. The relationships between early forms of life can illuminate the relationships between organisms present on Earth toda...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...properties augment this biological data, revealing relationships between the biological communities, water temperature, salinity and nutrient loads. The scientists operated around the clock to maximize expensive ship time, sampling at 14 locations in all; five involved depths 3,300 meters and more below ice. The ...

Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils

... But did cyanobacteria or other algae form similar relationships with fungi in the marine environment, perhaps long...ion of land plants?" Present-day examples of such relationships in the sea are abundant. Now, there is an example from ancient ocean life. At a site where abundant...

Making Sure Sacred Sheep Don't Become Extinct

...eral Navajo sheep producers. Until Purdy developed relationships with various breeders, there was hesitancy in collaborating with ARS on this effort. Before 1965, ARS scientists conducted research on the Navajo-Churro and found that the sheep did well in dry areas; they were able to produce more lambs than other ...

Ariadne Genomics Announces the Release of PathwayStudio?Central, Client-Server Software for Biological Pathway Analysis

... comes with ResNet?database of 500,000+ functional relationships and MedScan?tool for automatic extraction of infor...entific literature. ResNet?database of functional relationships for human, rat and mouse contains 52,000 annotated mammalian proteins, 40,000 chemicals, and over 50...

Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships

...r biological text analysis. It extracts functional relationships between proteins, cell processes, and small molecu...o customize dictionaries, and extract new types of relationships by adding or editing linguistic patterns. MedScan users can create information extraction pipelines ...

Stealth Worms May Improve Insect Pest Control

...been researching and interpreting the evolutionary relationships of nematodes for the past 15 years, has collected them in Arizona and from other locations worldwide. In Costa Rica, for example, she is working with a collaborative team from four universities: the University of Vermont, University of Florida, Univ...

The biggest family tree ever

...f his specialties is deciphering prehistoric human relationships using genetics. By comparing the genetic markers, the UA scientists' work will unveil new aspects of people's family trees, ones that are almost impossible to discover through traditional genealogical methods. In contrast to written historical recor...

Oldest fossil human protein ever sequenced

... way to DNA, to provide information on the genetic relationships between extinct and living species. As ancient DNA...thod opens up the possibility of determining these relationships in much older fossils which no longer contain DNA. The research presents the sequence for the bone ...

Navigating an integrated yeast network

...es and macromolecules, enmeshed in complex webs of relationships involving direct or indirect contact. At the simpl... al. integrated five different types of biological relationships found in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisae: protein-protein interactions, genetic interactions, tran...

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