Gene sequencing explains bioremediation 'bug'
A team led by Johns Hopkins scientists hasfound the first clear evidence that the process behind the human immunesystem's remarkable ability to recognize and respond to a milliondifferent proteins might have originated from a family of genes whoseonly apparent function is to jump around i...Zebrafish may hold key to understanding human nerve cell development
...nuary 6,2005 issue of Neuron and is co-authored by scientists at the Universityof Washington."Using zebrafish as...healthy nerve cells. However, in the last 10 years scientists havelearned that glia aren't just "glue" holding nerve cells together. Gliacommunicate with each oth...Harmful Bacterium Commonly Found in Poultry May Survive Refrigeration and Frozen Storage Combined
...nuary 6,2005 issue of Neuron and is co-authored by scientists at the Universityof Washington."Using zebrafish as...healthy nerve cells. However, in the last 10 years scientists havelearned that glia aren't just "glue" holding nerve cells together. Gliacommunicate with each oth...Ice core 'dipstick' indicates West Antarctic ice has thinned less than believed
... Ice Sheet probably never contained as much ice as scientists originally thought it did. That means it couldn't ...d eventually turned to glacial ice, the work gives scientists new information for interpreting climate in the last ice age and since, which is key to understandin......nuary 6,2005 issue of Neuron and is co-authored by scientists at the Universityof Washington."Using zebrafish as...healthy nerve cells. However, in the last 10 years scientists havelearned that glia aren't just "glue" holding nerve cells together. Gliacommunicate with each oth...UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile
...the Feb. 13 online edition of Nature Medicine. The scientists added the protein that makes fireflies glow to the...form HIV into a cancer-seeking machine. First, the scientists used a version of HIV from which the viral pieces that cause AIDS had been removed. This allowed the...Gene vaccine for Alzheimer's disease shows promising results
...re characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.For years scientists have examined the possibility of using aprotein-based vaccine to slow the progression of the disease in itsearly stages. UT Southwestern researchers have created a gene-basedvaccine aimed at stimulating the immune systems of mice to potentiallyfight ...New Breast Cancer Test Could Save Lives
...s at the University of Bristol and one of the lead scientists on this project, said: “Breast cancer is one of the biggest killers that women currently face. Each year, there are over 41,000 new cases in the UK alone. We are very excited about this new technology and the benefits that might come from its use.?/p...Scientists identify molecular events that drive cell senescence
...re characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.For years scientists have examined the possibility of using aprotein-based vaccine to slow the progression of the disease in itsearly stages. UT Southwestern researchers have created a gene-basedvaccine aimed at stimulating the immune systems of mice to potentiallyfight ...The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born
...en source software, BioForge makes it possible for scientists to work together to craft new, deliverable technologies within a "protected commons". "BioForge is a hands-on, evolving tool kit to make things happen. BioForge is about sharing capabilities and building communities of innovation to tackle the chall...PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0
...equence-basedsearches.“The PANTHER system provides scientists with a unique resource for genefunction prediction...n coding genes. The Web-basedinterface allows life scientists to browse or analyze large sets ofgenes by their known or inferred biological functions and explore ...International trial of two microbicides begins
...icrobicides are available to the public currently, scientists hope these agents--designed to be applied to the surface of the vagina to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs)--will one day be a key tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Women make up nearly half of all people living with HIV worldwide. "T...Duke Chemists Isolating Individual Molecules Of Toxic Protein In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease
...ated monomers. By pulling on such bonds, the Duke scientists can deduce how much energy was required to bring t... better understanding of amyloid aggregation. The scientists are also seeking the precise point during fibril formation when interactions between monomers become...MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs
...icrobicides are available to the public currently, scientists hope these agents--designed to be applied to the surface of the vagina to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs)--will one day be a key tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Women make up nearly half of all people living with HIV worldwide. "T...Newly Discovered Compound Blocks Known Cancer-Causing Protein
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have discovered a potential new drug that inhibits... drive the growth of one-third of all cancers. The scientists showed they could block the growth of cultured colon cancer cells using this new compound, called cy...Devising Nano Vision for an Optical Microscope
... preliminary test of the embryonic technique, NIST scientists used violet light with a wavelength of 436 nanometers to image features as small as 40 nanometers, about five times smaller than possible with a conventional optical microscope. Roughly speaking, such a feat is akin to picking up a solitary dime wit...Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes
...ipping of generations by an inherited trait." The scientists kept the plants in isolation so they couldn't acci...ve hothead genes, either normal or mutated, so the scientists must investigate which genes might affect this novel inheritance in both plants and animals. "There...Scientists identify new model Of NK cell development
..., remain and mature in the bone marrow. Until now, scientists thought NK cells did the same. But Caligiuri, wor...on, in earlier research in Caligiuri's laboratory, scientists had identified two distinct subsets of human NK cells (referred to as CD56 bright and CD56 dim cells...The very unexpected life and death of a leukemic cell
...ime-course of their death. For years, doctors and scientists believed that CLL was a static disease of long-lived lymphocytes -- that the leukemia cells were both immortal and born at a slow rate, causing the slow rise in cell count over time. But researchers had been unable to find any problems with the progr...Bird Brains Show How Trial and Error May Contribute to Learning
...that participate in song production. Without LMAN, scientists have long known, a young bird cannot learn its song, but an adult bird can sing its song without that region of the brain. A postdoctoral fellow on another project had noticed greater and more variable brain activity when the finches were singing to ...