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Researchers develop way to calculate speed of bacterial sex

... transfer, said Ginn. "The model gives us a new tool for designing new experiments that reflect gene transfer in the real world, including such things as transport of cells in porous media of soils and aquifers," explained Massoudieh. "It also can be used for ‘extrapolative?modeling to predict rates of...

Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

...rding to which drug was used, giving researchers a tool to explore the metabolic side effects of these and...ical outcomes of patients could yield an important tool for designing the best treatment for each patient, Kaddurah-Daouk said....

Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes

...consin-Madison have designed a powerful analytical tool capable of measuring molecular structures quickly and accurately enough to catch moving proteins in mid-fold and see the shapes of intermediate steps. As described in this week's online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, t...

Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells

...gricultural biotechnology, creating a powerful new tool for targeted delivery into plant cells. The research, "Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Deliver DNA and Chemicals into Plants," is a highlighted article in the May issue of Nature Nanotechnology. The scientists are Kan Wang, professor of agronomy an...

Genome of yellow fever/dengue fever mosquito sequenced

...ens to the laboratory mosquitoes, the TEs become a tool to study the genetic mechanism of mosquito-virus interaction, to help us understand mosquito biology and reveal new ways to interfere with disease transmission," Tu said. According to the article in Science Express, the general failure to date of ...

Uniform language for describing genes of pathogenic and beneficial microbes

...l significantly bolster what is already a powerful tool for scientists to compare the functions of genes and proteins in a wide range of disease-related organisms. The ongoing initiative is part of the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology (PAMGO) project, a recently-established interest group of the wor...

Deconstructing brain wiring, one neuron at a time

...odified the deadly rabies virus, turning it into a tool that can cross the synaptic space of a targeted nerve cell just once to identify all the neurons to which it is directly connected. "We've wanted to do this for a very long time and finally found a way to make it possible," says the study's seni...

Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system

...mages per second. The result will be a powerful tool with applications for basic and applied research: testing new theories of biomechanics, such as muscle-tendon interactions; studying the evolution of bodies and how they move, such as birds' multijointed wings; planning orthopedic su...

Natural antibiotics yield secrets to atom-level imaging technique

...tach." Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is an ideal tool for answering such questions because it provides atom-level details of the molecule's structure in the complex and challenging cell membrane environment, Ramamoorthy said. "Just as an MRI produces a detailed image of our internal organs, solid-state ...

2 brains -- 1 thought

...namics. With this, they provide researchers with a tool which can be used to investigate the correlation between structure and function of a neuronal network. A common approach in scientific research is to investigate the structure of a system in order to then draw conclusions about its function. Memme...

A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research

...he NIH award in 2005. "This research provides a tool that we didn't have before, which is precise on-or-off control over specific neural cells in living creatures and intact circuits," says Deisseroth, whose Stanford research group collaborated with researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics...

MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development

...Harvard Medical School researchers has developed a tool that could aid such studies by helping researchers... looking at folding differences,?said Fischl. This tool may also be used to shed light on other neurological diseases such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's ...

New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza

...tion against the other strain. Using a software tool they developed, the LIAI team found hundreds of conserved influenza virus epitopes in the database, including those between avian H5N1 and strains of human influenza viruses. But what is less clear from the analysis is how cross-reactive an immune re...

Horse genome assembled

...re about the human genome and will also serve as a tool for veterinary researchers to better understand the diseases that affect equines. A publication analyzing the horse genome sequence and its implications for horse population genetics is being planned for the future. ...

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

... Institutes of Health (NIH), provides an important tool for scientists seeking to develop vaccines and therapies against both seasonal and pandemic influenza strains, including the deadly H5N1 avian flu. "This study shows what is currently known about influenza A virus epitopes -- what are the areas th...

Columbia scientists determine 3-dimensional structure of cell's 'fuel gauge'

...of the protein provides researchers a powerful new tool for the design of useful therapeutics. ...

Anxiety disorders surprisingly common yet often untreated

...tudy outlines the effectiveness of a new screening tool which can alert busy primary care physicians to th...estion "ultra brief" version gives the physician a tool to quantify the patient’s symptoms ?sort of a lab test for anxiety," he said. Patients with anxie...

Analysis of rhesus monkey genome uncovers genetic differences with humans, chimps

...enomes, provides researchers with another powerful tool to advance our understanding of human biology in health and disease," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "As we build upon the foundation laid by the Human Genome Project, it has become clear that comparing our genome with the genome...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

...bled on a standard occupational therapy assessment tool called the Fugl-Meyer score. __IMAGE_3 "Assessing changes in before-and-after scores within each subject, these were highly significant gains after three weeks of therapy," Cramer said. The UCI team is now using what they learned from study p...

New protein inhibitor impedes growth of cancerous cells

...he companion paper, Lenart et al. use BI 2536 as a tool to probe the functions of Plk1 in normal cells. The availability of a specific Plk1 inhibitor is particularly useful in this regard because Plk1 is needed for a variety of different cellular processes required for cell division, and a chemical inhibi...

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