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World Trade Center identifications pushed forensic DNA technology

...his colleagues pushed the edges of science and the technologies applicable to forensic investigations. "We lacked the tools needed to do the job properly or efficiently," Shaler said in his recent book, "Who They Were: Inside the World Trade Center DNA story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing," (...

Researchers discover way to transport environmental arsenic to plant leaves in new clean-up strategy

...excavation and reburial at these sites makes these technologies unacceptable for cleaning up the vast areas of the planet that need arsenic remediation. As a result, the overwhelming majority of arsenic-contaminated sites are not being cleaned up." The problem is vast. The World Health Organization (WHO) predict...

Bioactive cement scaffold may improve bone grafts

...le NIST specializes in the development of improved technologies and methods for measuring materials properties. ...

St. Jude projects 90 percent cure rate for ALL

...ugs and the incorporation of sophisticated genetic technologies to personalize treatments, the authors said. Research findings at St. Jude have enabled clinicians to identify patients for whom standard treatment is most likely to fail, and who should therefore be treated more aggressively; these findings have a...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...le technologies, developed with NIH support. These technologies reduced the cost of genotyping by more than 100-fo... Therefore, GEI will also invest in innovative new technologies to measure environmental toxins, dietary intake and physical activity, and to determine an individua...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

The Center will use IBM technologies to advance research into new drugs for the treatment of some of today's most life-threatening diseases, including cancer. The Center's research will be headed by one of the world's leading systems biologists, Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick, the Georgia Researc...

Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease

...It's one of the first to take advantage of genomic technologies and build a test vaccine using immune killer T cells as a screening reagent." In addition to TIGR and ILRI, the research team included scientists from: the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Brussels; the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics...

Wisconsin scientists find a way to make human collagen in the lab

...use in applications ranging from new wound-healing technologies to alleviating arthritis. The reason: Scientists were unable to synthesize the human protein because they had no way to link the easily made short snippets of collagen into the long, fibrous molecules necessary to mimic the real thing. But now a tea...

Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health

... of organisms based on their ribosomal RNA. These technologies have advanced into high-throughput genomic and pro...o pathogens. Rittmann's center puts some of these technologies into service, identifying microorganisms that help clean up pollutants such as trichloroethene (TCE)...

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

...A genomic data. The project brings together new technologies of high-throughput DNA sequencing and metagenomic analysis tools on the one hand, and cyberinfrastructure innovations on the other. Together, they will provide new tools to help marine microbial ecologists access and derive inferences from the massiv...

Virginia Tech helping to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties

... the USDA to enable routine use of modern breeding technologies to produce higher quality, disease-resistant wheat...t coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic region. "These technologies will accelerate development of U.S. varieties that are durable to plant diseases, more productive, a...

Study suggests that publicly available genome data may contain small but significant errors

...ition, it complements other mapping and sequencing technologies (e.g., Optical Mapping and Sequencing being developed by Mishra) and cancer array CGH studies (e.g., ROMA project of Wigler and a versatile cancer genome analysis project of Mishra). ...

Genome sequencing is for ecologists, too

...n ecology. Scientists are eager to exploit genomic technologies and genomic experimental approaches that have already revolutionized research in the human health sciences, with the goal of diagnosing the state of aquatic environments. Despite their common name, water fleas are not insects but crustaceans, like l...

Next good dinosaur news likely to come from small packages

...om." Ostrom said. "Our goal is to use a variety of technologies new to paleontology to develop a deeper understanding of prehistoric life -- and everyone dreams of embellishing our understanding of dinosaurs." ...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

In the 21st century, state-of-the-art anti-aging technologies may extend human lifespans at an unprecedented rat...espan significantly, because we've got most of the technologies we need to do it," Tuljapurkar said. There is hope in the scientific community that extending life ...

GPSDB, the free Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase

...th agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in world climate," said Johannes Lehmann, assistant professor of biogeochemistry in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Cornell University, speaking today (Feb. 18) at the 2006 meeting ...

Amazonian terra preta can transform poor soil into fertile

...th agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in world climate," said Johannes Lehmann, assistant professor of biogeochemistry in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Cornell University, speaking today (Feb. 18) at the 2006 meeting ...

Climate change: The rice genome to the rescue

...ition to new rice varieties, we must develop other technologies that will help poor rice farmers deal with climate... researchers need to acquire knowledge and develop technologies critical to ensuring that rice production systems are sustainable in the face of climate change and ...

Powerful new tool for studying brain development

...matics is the use of computers, software and other technologies to gather, organize, format and use large amounts of biological information. "Our ability to link images of gene expression patterns to information on those genes in other databases increases the value of each new gene discovery," Mehta said. This i...

Frog’s ear canal may provide insights for understanding human hearing loss

...day enable scientists to develop new strategies or technologies that help people to hear in environments where there is substantial background noise. The research was federally funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health, and th...

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