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Whole genome fine map of rice completed

...sts led by the Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) reported a "much improved, near-complete genome analysis of...n with the genome sequence of the Japonica. It is reported that BGI will finish whole genome assembly and analysis for the maternal strain "PeiAi 64" (its main...

Research on Worms Yields Clues on Aging

...system influences aging processes. Thefindings are reported in the January 14 issue of the journal Science. Theanti-aging effect was revealed in a random screening of 19 drugsapproved for treating a variety of disorders in humans. "We didn'tstart with a hypothesis about what causes aging," says senior author...

Breakthrough Microarray-based Technology for the Study of Cancer

...announced by Agilent Technologies. The company has reported aninnovative method that enables the rapid advance of microarray-basedcomparative genomic studies in cancer. According to the reportpublished in the December 24, 2004 issue of the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Science (PNAS) in collaboration ...

Found: Missing sequence of the human Y chromosome

...ning in the"finished" sequence of the human genome reported last October by theInternational Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. This "finished"sequence was the culmination of a 13-year effort to elucidate the orderand orientation of 2.85 billion basepairs that comprise the humangenome. The high-quality seque...

Marburg virus disease in Angola - update

As of 29 March 2005, the Ministry of Health has reported a total of 124 cases and 117 deaths in Cabinda, Luanda and Uige. All these cases had originated in Uige Province. Ten of these cases have been laboratory confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA. The team from ...

Leukemia Drug Breakthrough Study In New England Journal Of Medicine

... immune system to fight cancer cells. The study is reported in the Feb.10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Nearly 90 percent of MDS patients are anemic and require regular transfusions of red cells. In this study, 91 percent of the MDS patients with a chromosome abnormality named 5q minus syndro...

Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development

...ron growth in a model organism.The study, which is reported in the January 2005 issue of EnvironmentalToxicology and Pharmacology, is the first step toward understanding howexposure to BCE might affect human nerve cell development--knowledgethat may one day provide clues about such neurological mysteries asau...

Yale Scientists Find MicroRNA Regulates Ras Cancer Gene

...ibilities for diagnosis and treatment. The work is reported in March issues of the journals Cell and Developmental Cell. The oncogene Ras is out of control in about 20 percent of cancers where it is over-expressed or activated by mutation. According to Slack, a member of the Yale Cancer Center, it is one of ...

Study identifies predictors of HIV drug resistance in patients beginning triple therapy

...ron growth in a model organism.The study, which is reported in the January 2005 issue of EnvironmentalToxicology and Pharmacology, is the first step toward understanding howexposure to BCE might affect human nerve cell development--knowledgethat may one day provide clues about such neurological mysteries asau...

Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice

...y 2005 issue of Molecular Therapy, the researchers reported that the liver-targeted method also corrected symptoms of Pompe disease in mice. "The muscle-targeted gene therapy method could circumvent the complications of neutralizing antibodies against introduced enzyme, which currently present obstacles to e...

Poplar trees redirect resources in response to simulated attack

...ersity and Stony Brook University, the research is reported in two articles, to be published in Plant, Cell &a...t of sugar synthesis in the leaves. That research, reported in Plant, Cell & Environment, shows that, in response to jasmonic acid "attack," the plants dive...

Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery

...d to run only about 10 reactions." Findings being reported in the paper detail how researchers created the device with the same "microfabrication" techniques used to make computer chips. The reactors range in diameter from about 400 to 60 microns, or millionths of a meter. Human hairs are about 100 microns w...

Plant hemoglobins: Oxygen handlers critical for nitrogen fixation

...uced nitrogen to crops and pastures each year. As reported this week, researchers led by Dr. Michael Udvardi at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology have succeeded in eliminating the production of symbiotic hemoglobins in nodules of the model legume Lotus japonicus, enabling researchers to ...

Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects

... University of Toronto at Mississauga. Their work, reported in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature, is unique since previously it has been too difficult to monitor what happened to specific insects among untold millions. "With these remarkable new light-weight transmitters, we could keep track of individual crickets...

Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects

... University of Toronto at Mississauga. Their work, reported in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature, is unique since previously it has been too difficult to monitor what happened to specific insects among untold millions. "With these remarkable new light-weight transmitters, we could keep track of individual crickets...

New Study from Affymetrix Laboratories Points to Changing View of How Genome Works

Scientists at Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFFX) reported today in Science magazine online that they have completed a high-resolution scan of structure and function for nearly 30 percent of the human genome sequence. In collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, the research team used high-density Ge...

Critical role in programmed cell death identified

...ated in cancer and autoimmune diseases. The work, reported in the February 17 issue of Nature, demonstrates the role of mitochondria, the cellular power plant, in prompting worm cells to self destruct. These results unify cell death models along the evolutionary spectrum, from simple animal systems to humans...

Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals

...n a non-primate terrestrial mammal. The discovery, reported in today's Nature, further supports the idea that vocal learning is important for maintaining individual social relationships among animals that separate and reunite over time, like dolphins and whales, some birds, and bats. Researchers from the Amb...

Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication

...n a non-primate terrestrial mammal. The discovery, reported in today's Nature, further supports the idea that vocal learning is important for maintaining individual social relationships among animals that separate and reunite over time, like dolphins and whales, some birds, and bats. Researchers from the Amb...

Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health

...hool of Medicine in St. Louis. Their findings are reported in the March 25, 2005 issue of the journal Science. "Bacterial cells in the human gut number close to 100 trillion," says Jeffrey Gordon, M.D., director of the Center for Genome Sciences at Washington University and professor of molecular biology an...

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