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Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function

... by providing neurologists and neurosurgeons a new resource to detect, transmit and analyze neural activity. Cyberkinetics' BrainGate TM System is being designed to give severely paralyzed individuals, as well as individuals with motor impairment from a variety of causes, a long-term, direct brain-computer...

Seaweed yields new compounds with pharmaceutical potential

... genetic biodiversity is important to protect as a resource for the future." Researchers have been analyzing e... the permission of the Fijian government and local resource owners. "Marine organisms make molecules for their own purposes that we might co-opt for our own ...

Scientists pinpoint inflammation gene

...'s SBC Genomics Computing Center. An unparalleled resource for genetic analysis, the center enabled an otherwise too-time-consuming comprehensive analysis to eliminate scientific "guesswork" on which variants ought to be investigated in the laboratory. The statistical analysis identified one particular vari...

Novel protein complex enables survival in hostile environment

...process in nature that produces methane, an energy resource and a green house gas. Sulfate reduction is also a microbial process where organisms turn sulfate into sulfide, a corrosive compound or gas that smells like rotten eggs. Methanogenesis is a 2.7?.2-billion-year-old process and sulfate reduction origi...

Cells from amniotic fluid used to tissue-engineer a new trachea

...is collected anyway," says Fauza. "It's a precious resource that's thrown out now, but shouldn't be." Less than two tablespoons of amniotic fluid provide enough fetal cells to repair a malformation in utero or after birth potentially, even years later, Fauza says. He envisions a future in which amniotic fl...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

...and to support population growth. It is a valuable resource but also a non-renewable one - distributed across ...ted geo-information in support of integrated water resource management for sustainable development. Since its initiation two years ago more than 200 African org...

Scientists develop protein-sequence analysis tool

... databases, Shanklin said. "Yet this growing data resource contains a wealth of information for structure-function studies and for protein engineering," Shanklin said. "We developed CPDL as a general tool for extracting and displaying relevant functional information from such data sets." Also, since CPDL do...

Researchers map of genetic variations implicated in disease

...." The MHC Haplotype Project is creating a public resource to assist the discovery of genetic factors influencing these medical traits and to shed light on the evolution of the MHC. Access to complete sequences across several MHC haplotypes that exhibit differences in disease susceptibility will help researc...

Underdogs in the understory: Study suggests nature favors rarer trees

... common trees and because they don't have the same resource needs as common trees. Trees in "monoculture" forests, where all individuals are the same species, are very susceptible to predators and diseases, and also compete with each other for the same resources. The new study raises questions about whethe...

New RNAi tools enable systematic studies of gene function

...ne." "The RNAi library developed by TRC is a rich resource for biological discovery," said Nir Hacohen, assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, associate member of the Broad Institute and a senior author. "Ongoing studies in my own laboratory to understand how the im...

Diverse tropical forests defy metabolic ecology models

...bolic ecology model to include light as a limiting resource that varies with tree size, the predictions could be improved. The necessary light data were available from only one site, and, in that case, observed growth and mortality patterns were consistent with predictions. Similarly, tree size distributions ...

Mayo Clinic collaboration discovers protein amplifies DNA injury signals

...linic.com ( www.mayoclinic.com ) is available as a resource for your health stories. ...

Ticks, flukes, and genomics: Emerging pathogens revealed

...t time, our comparative genomics database offers a resource for tackling these questions." Recognized since at least the 1930s, ehrlichiosis sickens not only humans, but also dogs, cattle, sheep, and other animals. In Japan, human ehrlichiosis is commonly called sennetsu fever. In the U.S., most human cases ...

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

...(UCSD) will build a state-of-the-art computational resource and develop software tools to decipher the genetic...of microbial life in the world's oceans. The new resource will help scientists understand how microbes function in their natural ecosystems, enable studies on...

Study: Competition for sex is a 'jungle out there'

...tspots, such as tropical rainforests, are a global resource -- they are home to many of the known plants used for medicine and may be a source for future cures ,and they absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide and generate volumes of clean oxygen. Our research suggests that plants in these areas area also ver...

Oh, rats! Designer animals reveal possible heart disease genes

...ese designer rats--providing a valuable new online resource now available to researchers worldwide. Scientists have long used rat models to study heart disease in the lab. But those studies have yet to answer key questions: Which genes, on which chromosomes, combine to cause this complex condition? Why, and ...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

...ar disease UK Biobank will provide a uniquely rich resource that allows researchers to identify more reliably than ever before why some people develop a specific disease and others do not. "Nothing like this has been attempted before in such fine detail on such a vast scale," said Professor Rory Collins, UK...

The diversity of marine life in the Gulf of Maine region is much greater than previously thought

...minary form, the register is a tremendously useful resource to investigators of biodiversity in the Gulf of Maine. For example, it provides a baseline against which scientists can monitor future losses or introductions of species in the region as a result of climate change or other events, whether natural or...

Virginia Bioinformatics Institutes launches microbial database

...Bing Fang, and Fidel Salas. VMD is an integrated resource that includes community annotation features, toolkits, and resources to perform complex queries of biological information. The project's researchers created a browser, which makes it easy for users to view the genome sequence data and connect to deta...

Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population

...l medical practices adopted the practice style and resource use of efficient providers, patient care would cost less and patients would be less subject to interventions that could do more harm than good. The argument for expanding the physician workforce is based on a faulty assumption, according to the au...

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