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Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor

...rphological (form and structure) evidence strongly supports the theory that the Great White is descended from the prehistoric mako group." Ciampaglio said the Great White sharks, which can reach a size of nearly 25 feet and possess two-inch teeth, have been a major research subject of his for the past four y...

Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed

...ore than 500 supercomputing clusters worldwide and supports the 64-bit processors in the new cluster. In addition to its many other features, Rocks simplifies many administration requirements. Within a few days of unpacking more than 400 boxes containing the Dell nodes, bioengineering researchers this week h...

Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

...stics and performance when compared to other solid supports currently on the market. NittoPhase?has great potential to decrease manufacturing costs due to it’s significantly lower unit cost, as well as potentially higher yield and full length purity, reducing cost-of-goods. NittoPhase?will be commercially ava...

Examination of internal 'wiring' of yeast, worm, and fly reveals conserved circuits

...-of-its-kind analysis published in the Feb. 8 PNAS supports the concept of a basic wiring diagram for all euka...of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences supports both the concept of a basic wiring diagram for all eukaryotic cells, and the idea that more selectiv...

Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective

...Toronto, led another study in NEJM, which strongly supports Paltiel's findings. They developed a computer model to estimate the health benefits and expenditures of performing voluntary HIV screening programs in health care settings. They also found that screening for HIV infection is cost-effective relative t...

Agilent Technologies releases automated literature search tool for biology researchers

...e expression profiles and other data. The platform supports gene functional annotations from Gene Ontology (GO) and KEGG databases, biological models from Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML), protein-protein interactions from BIND and TRANSFAC databases. Additional features are available as plug-ins for ne...

Bird Brains Show How Trial and Error May Contribute to Learning

...at this circuit is important in learning. Our data supports the hypothesis that one of the things it could be doing is introducing variability." Other researchers in the Brainard and Doupe labs are following up to see if the male mating song can be permanently altered by LMAN stimulation and whether females ...

PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0

...n to the scientific community.?“The PANTHER system supports an integrated approach to protein and mRNAexpression analysis with links to biological content, informaticstools, and lab instrumentation to support systems biology research,?said Dennis A. Gilbert, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer for AppliedBiosyste...

Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication

...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 Amboseli Trust for Elephants in Kenya, ...

Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals

...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 Amboseli Trust for Elephants in Kenya, ...

Researchers identify target for cancer drugs

...onserved in species as diverse as flies and humans supports the claim that the mTOR/rictor complex is indeed a missing piece of the puzzle. According to Sarbassov, "If we find a molecule that can block the mTOR/rictor complex, then we may be able to prevent Akt from becoming active and contributing to tumor ...

BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route

...to human cancer," Dubeau notes, "But also strongly supports a theory we have formulated about the site of origin of ovarian cancers." ...

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

...the results of an EPA-funded clam embryostudy that supports her hypothesis that, when combined, the pollutantsbromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene--a chemical cocktailknown as BCE--can act synergistically to alter a key regulator in nervecell development. While scientists have previously studied the...

Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development

...the results of an EPA-funded clam embryostudy that supports her hypothesis that, when combined, the pollutantsbromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene--a chemical cocktailknown as BCE--can act synergistically to alter a key regulator in nervecell development. While scientists have previously studied the...

Scientists Replicate Hepatitis C Virus in Laboratory

...ether with an analysis of the replicated viral RNA supports a conclusion of viral replication and production.?/p> The NIDDK group used a strain of HCV that would have applications to the greatest number of people ?genotype 1, the major type of HCV of human infections worldwide and the type most resistant ...

W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...ical research, science and engineering. The grant supports a project led by Jeffrey Gordon, M.D., director of the Center for Genome Sciences (CGS) at Washington University in St. Louis, and reflects a partnership between his lab, the lab of Sean Eddy, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics, and members of th...

Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells

...e embryonicdevelopment of mammals.The finding both supports the existence of these splenic stem cells andalso suggests they may be able to produce an even greater variety oftissues. The report appears in the January 19 issue of SAGE KE , an online resource on the science of aging from the publishers of the j...

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