Tag: "sharing" at biology news

Identified main genetic variants involved in response to HIV

...de or base of the genomic sequence. Despite humans sharing 99.9% of the genome sequence, there are still 3 million genetic variations –which make us different from one another– 90% of which are due to SNPs. Hence, a good knowledge of these variations is highly valuable for the determination of the progressio...

Plants recognize their siblings, biologists discover

...m. It appears, though, that they only do this when sharing a pot with unrelated plants; when they share a pot with family they don’t increase their root growth. Because differences between groups of strangers and groups of siblings only occurred when they shared a pot, the root interactions may provide a cue...

Machine preservation may promote more organ sharing

...l organ function, and promote greater use and more sharing of organs, according to new research by Wake Fores...mes can be safely extended to permit more time for sharing organs across the country," said Robert Stratta, M.D., lead researcher of the study, which is report...

LIAI completes world's most comprehensive analysis on influenza virus data

...s around the globe. "It gives researchers ways of sharing knowledge and information never available before. Previously, everyone did their own study, but would have no way of knowing if a particular epitope had been used one time, for example by a single individual responding to a single virus, or 100 diff...

A rarity among arachnids, whip spiders have a sociable family life

...scurry away and hide when faced with threat. While sharing prey is an advantage for other arachnids with soci...d she has yet to witness amblypygids intentionally sharing prey. More than 100 amblypygid species live in tropical areas worldwide. These arachnids, whose bo...

Biologists prove critical step in membrane fusion

... is set and ready for it to occur, to the point of sharing membranes," Wessel said. "So all that is needed is a puff of calcium from within the cell and fusion is complete. The process is quick because of hemifusion ?the vesicles are right there and ready to go." Wong and Wessel said that their findings m...

Living with water scarcity -- world must act now

...ny stakeholders involved in water with transparent sharing of information. "The hope is in realizing the unexplored potential that lies in better water management along with non-miraculous changes in policy and production techniques" says Margaret Catley Carleson, Chair of the Global Water Partnership, "b...

Experimental vaccine given during pregnancy reduces stillbirths from common virus

...through close personal contact, such as kissing or sharing eating utensils. For example, an infant in daycare could give the virus to her pregnant mother by kissing her on the lips, said Dr. Schleiss. The virus can enter through mucosal surfaces such as the mouth or breaks in the skin. It can also be tran...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...ssors J. Andrew McCammon and Art Olson of NBCR, by sharing expertise and resources." ...

Bird flu -- Call for antiviral drugs to be shared

...drugs only within their borders, limited worldwide sharing of antiviral drugs would slow down the spread of a flu virus by many months, to the benefit of both drug donors and recipients. ...

Research project tackles 'regeneration' gap

...F College of Medicine. "We will begin a process of sharing ideas and designing experiments to answer questions about growth in simple systems that can then be applied to more complex tissue reconstruction needed in human organisms." Although human organ systems such as the liver are quite capable of regen...

Protein structure initiative launches new resources for the scientific community

...pes of proteins, it is creating new mechanisms for sharing the resources it has developed with the scientific...omplex organisms. The majority of these are novel, sharing little structural resemblance to others in the PDB. Technology Development As the four large-s...

Common ancestry of bacterium and plants could be key to an effective new treatment for chlamydia

... Their experiments revealed that in addition to sharing genome sequences, Chlamydia and plants share similar functions as well. Furthermore, they found that the pathway used by plants to produce lysine is probably used by Chlamydia to synthesize a chemical found in bacterial cell walls. It is the synthes...

New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

...five (19%) new HIV infections is attributed to the sharing of contaminated needles through injection drug use...ge programs to minimize the risk of infection from sharing needles. Expand proven HIV prevention, diagnosis and care programs. ?Far too many African Ameri...

PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science

...able to all groups for storing, disseminating, and sharing literature and data. PLoS ONE will accelerate the pace of scientific research because publication is faster and more interactive than ever before. No longer need there be months of delay between submission and publication. Now there is a way to sha...

Americans support free access to research

...than ever. The public recognizes its stake in open sharing of research, and the Harris data gives voice to their stand." "The poll results show that research must be a collaborative, informed process between investigators and the public to be successful and increase trust," said Robert Reinhard, community a...

Scientists tie several cancers to common 'oncogene engine'

... that mainly affects children. Still other cancers sharing the same causative mechanism may yet be found, the scientists said. "One would have never thought of grouping these tumors together," said David E. Fisher, MD, PhD, a pediatric oncologist at Dana-Farber and Children's Hospital Boston, who is senior ...

Pollution threatens coral health by preventing lesions from healing, UCF study shows

...ilable to repair damaged tissue. Fauth's team is sharing data with Professor Michael Risk of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and marine ecologist Brian LaPointe of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Fort Pierce. Risk and LaPointe used ratios of stable isotopes of nitrogen as tracers of ...

UCR researchers design chip that can improve citrus varieties

..., and Avi Sadka at Volcani Institute in Israel for sharing the full content of their citrus sequence data. "Other colleagues in the United States, Japan and Spain who deposited sequences to the public repository maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information also made valuable contributions...

Lizard 'third eye' sheds light on evolution of color vision

...ve to delegate each person to do more things." By sharing features found in human photoreceptors as well as those found in simpler organisms like the scallop, the researchers propose that the lizard's parietal eye photoreceptor cells represent a "missing link" between the light-sensing apparatus in lower an...

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