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Stanford/Packard scientist's data-mining technique strikes genetic gold

...ribe the experiment. They then looked for findings shared by several experiments with similar concepts, such as tissue type, for example. Comparing results from many similar experiments allowed them to identify correlations that may not be statistically significant in just one experiment. Butte and Kohane ...

MIT: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton

...er, it is a collection of genes, some of which are shared by all microbes and contain the information that drives their core metabolism, and others that are more mobile, which can be found in unique combinations in different microbes. "So it is these unique combinations of genes that create the diversity w...

DNA conclusive yet still controversial, Carnegie Mellon professor says

...quintillion, a probability so slight it needn't be shared with juries, Roeder said. "The jury can't handle such small numbers. We would do them a service to simply tell them it matches or it doesn't match," Roeder said. Roeder began her career as a biologist, and much of her current research is focused on...

Scientists discover interplay between genes and viruses in tiny ocean plankton

...er, it is a collection of genes, some of which are shared by all microbes and contain the information that drives their core metabolism, and others that are more mobile, which can be found in unique combinations in different microbes." The distributors or carriers of new genes, the scientists suspect, are ...

UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton

...keletons, and by examining the lamprey, we found a shared recipe. Because of the lamprey, we know it is much...presence or absence of bone, but the presence of a shared gene system that produces cartilage. This conclusion is illuminating and extremely important." ...

Alcoholism, smoking and genetics among Plains American Indians

...lled Val158Met may have on these behaviors. "The shared heritability between smoking and alcoholism, particularly in heavy smokers and heavy drinkers, indicates that some genes predispose individuals to both smoking and drinking," said Mary-Anne Enoch, a staff scientist in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics ...

Taking a bite out of a fellow worker helps wasps recruit new foragers

...it is maintained since there are elements that are shared among all social animals. Social aggression is one such characteristic that is almost universal among animal groups ranging from insects to primates including humans. ...

Researchers map of genetic variations implicated in disease

...HLA type, suggesting these individuals most likely shared a common ancestor as recently as 50,000 years ago." Swapping of ancestral sequence blocks is a potential mechanism (identity-by-descent) whereby certain gene combinations, which presumably have favoured immunological advantage (e.g. resistance to i...

UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton

...keletons, and by examining the lamprey, we found a shared recipe. Because of the lamprey, we know it is much...presence or absence of bone, but the presence of a shared gene system that produces cartilage. This conclusion is illuminating and extremely important." ...

Common molecular 'signature' identified in solid tumors

...t in human cancer, had a hunch that there might be shared patterns of miRNA among certain cancers. Under his direction, researchers looked for miRNA activity, or expression, in 540 samples of lung, breast, stomach, prostate, colon and pancreatic tumors and in the normal tissue surrounding them. Using micr...

UCSD study finds anthrax toxins also harmful to fruit flies

...such as the LF or EF toxins, on signaling pathways shared by flies and humans. Guichard and her co-authors ...es of analyses might identify yet unknown proteins shared by flies and humans that can be acted on by anthrax toxins. More generally, this study suggests that...

Pregnancy drugs can affect grandkids

...known as the 'whee-ur-wheeee'. To be considered as shared songs in this study, two sequences had to match at least 75% of their component notes and the matching portions had to be similar in note shape, timing and frequency. ...

Bird song changes sound alarm over habitat fragmentation

...known as the 'whee-ur-wheeee'. To be considered as shared songs in this study, two sequences had to match at least 75% of their component notes and the matching portions had to be similar in note shape, timing and frequency. ...

Group proves it's possible to grow new lung alveoli by growing new blood vessels

...ondition that leaves them gasping--and one that is shared by people who have emphysema. "At this stage it's simply proof of principle," says Dr. Thébaud, also a pediatrician at the Stollery Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The next step is to prove it's possible to replicate safely in la...

Lateral thinking produces first map of gene transmission

...ies of bacteria, in an effort to map how genes are shared between bacteria. The study highlights lateral genetic transfer ?a process where genes are transferred between organisms that aren't directly related. The map has traced the paths of lateral gene transfer, from the bacteria that donated the genes...

ORNL leading effort to help harness power of Shewanella

...remediation will be more efficiently organized and shared through a new $3 million project headed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The award by the Department of Energy's Office of Science builds upon advances made through a three-year consortium whose members have already sequenced the genome ?the geneti...

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

...land use and land cover mapping. Data will also be shared with cooperating research partners including ITC. Dedicated CNT-based training sessions on the processing, value adding and use of the AquiferEx data are planned for 2006 in the Aquifer framework. As with similar campaigns, the results from Aquifer...

Recreating 'Flowers for Algernon' with a happy ending

...lower cholesterol. "Steve raced into my lab and shared what he'd learned: statins work on the Ras protein that is altered by NF1 and play a key role in learning and memory," recalled Silva. "It was the researcher's equivalent of finding a suitcase stuffed with a million dollars." Statin drugs lower ch...

Scientists narrow the time limits for the human and chimpanzee split

...conclude that humans and chimpanzees probably last shared a common ancestor between five and seven million years ago," says Blair Hedges, professor of biology at Penn State. "Although this conclusion does not exclude younger or older dates as being possible, it says they are less likely to be correct." He...

Marathon of nano-sprinters

...hey also show that an applied load force, which is shared by the pulling motors, strongly reduces the cargo ...move against an external load force, this force is shared among the pulling motors. One obvious consequence is that the movement of the cargo is slowed down. ...

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