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Ancient olfaction protein is shared by many bugs, offering new pest control target

...attle against insect pests, new research indicates that it may all come down to the sense of smell. A grou...al for the sense of smell in fruit flies now shows that this gene's function appears to be evolutionarily conserved across very different insect species. R...

Inexpensive, mass-produced genes core of synthetic biology advances at UH

... pager now have greater capabilities thancomputers that once occupied an entire room. Similar advances are...researchers to understand the molecular mechanisms that regulatebiological systems. There are many potential biochemical and biomedicalapplications.?Most im...

Study Links Ebola Outbreaks To Animal Carcasses

...rnal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the study found that many animal carcasses tested for Ebola between 200...mal populations and humans. "This research proves that hunting and consumption of great apes represent a serious health risk for people in Central Africa, ...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...these proteinsplay in turning on and off the genes that establish the very identityof cells ?be they brain...here regulators act ?where the on/off switches are that determinewhich genes are at work in different types of cells under differentconditions,?he said.Prev...

Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections

...rding to a team of bacteriologists. “We found out that UTIs may be caused by ingesting food contaminated ...W. Riley, University of California-Berkeley, found that E.coli strains isolated from patients with UTIs were genetically related to E.coli strains from cows...

Bound for destruction: Ubiquitination protects against improper Notch signaling

...s Hunt Morgan’s lab in 1910. Later studiesrevealed that the Notch gene encodes a receptor protein that extendsthrough both sides of the cell membrane and which is capable ofinteracting with a ligand part...

HIV Patients May Be at Risk of Heart Problems When Taking Protease Inhibitor Drugs

A widely-used class of drugs that keep the HIV-virus infection from progressing to A..., Norvir and Fortovase. The researchers emphasize that the drugs' therapeutic benefits are still greater than the risk of heart problems linked to their us...

Combination therapy boosts effectiveness of telomere-directed cancer cell death

...t the effectivenessof a promising cancer treatment that targets telomeres in an attempt tointerfere with t...are DNA sequences found at the ends of chromosomes that play a key rolein controlling the life span of cells. With every cell division,telomeres get a bit s...

Inflammatory molecules released by pollen trigger allergies

...cine puts some of the blame on bioactive molecules that are released from pollen. These molecules bind to ... emissions. Traidl-Hoffmann and colleagues showed that extracts from birch pollen and other common allergens block the production of a soluble protein by i...

GATA: a graphic alignment tool for comparative sequence analysis

...t the effectivenessof a promising cancer treatment that targets telomeres in an attempt tointerfere with t...are DNA sequences found at the ends of chromosomes that play a key rolein controlling the life span of cells. With every cell division,telomeres get a bit s...

Whole genome fine map of rice completed

...e genome sequence of the Japonica. It is reported that BGI will finish whole genome assembly and analysis for the maternal strain "PeiAi 64" (its main genetic background being Japonica, as well as a mixture of Indica and Japonica genes ). This would further help discovering distribution of the hybrid gen...

Research on Worms Yields Clues on Aging

...we are makingprogress; in worms. Researchers found that an epilepsy drug used inhumans had the unexpected ...erve signals, the researchers' observationssuggest that the nervous system influences aging processes. Thefindings are reported in the January 14 issue of t...

Imaging Lymph Nodes with Nanoparticles

...fferent types of cancer,and producing an algorithm that allows semiautomation of the procedure.The authors developed the algorithm in a training group of 36 patientsand then validated it in a group of 34 patients. The results areencouraging: the analysis showed a sensitivity of 98% (95% confidenceinterval...

“Nano-scissors?laser shows precise surgical capability

... with great precision : Anultra-short pulse laser that can perform extremely precise surgery ontiny round...ed units like nerve axons, the parts of nervecells that carry nerve impulses away from the cells to muscles or toother cells.“This tool opens up a new front...

U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS

...tart," Krebsbach said. To heal a large wound, like that created when a cancerous tumor is removed from the jaw, that often means taking a bone graft from someplace like the hip. That approach has problems both for the...

Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

...tegy to avoid this fate is to finda drug candidate that affect a "profitable" disease in addition to the"n... leaders."The key to TDI's success, they argue, is that any discovery would beoff patent. An open-source license would keep all discoveries freelyavailable ...

Genome-wide mouse study yields link to human leukemia

...ted in the development of human leukemia, findings that open up a "treasure box" of opportunity and possib...y Comprehensive Cancer Center bred a type of mouse that develops acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The mouse first goes through a pre-leukemic stage marke...

Cytoplasm affects the number of vertebrae in carp-goldfish clones

...ese Academy of Sciences, in Wuhan, China, conclude that the egg cytoplasm, and not the genetic code of the...eton as the cloned fish developed. They speculate that a so-called "segmentation clock" early in embryonic development is controlled by the egg cytoplasm. ...

Breakthrough Microarray-based Technology for the Study of Cancer

...gies. The company has reported aninnovative method that enables the rapid advance of microarray-basedcompa...ent has developed a specialisedmicroarray platform that uses total genomic DNA to overcome severalscientific hurdles that previously impeded comparative gen...

The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life

...lecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), announced today that it has signed a licensing deal with technological ...s in whole, living organisms. SPIM allows us to do that with unprecedented quality." In a series of technical innovations, Stelzer and his colleagues (in p...

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