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PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage

...vention strategies," said Benveniste. The imaging tools could also be used to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs, such as administering synthetic narcotics to pregnant women following surgical procedures performed on fetuses in utero. "Following such surgeries, which are becoming more common to corre...

Fleshing out the genome

...isms and their evolutionary relationship. The new tools and approaches offer the most-comprehensive-to-date "functional annotation," a way of assigning the mystery sequences biological function and ranking them based on their similarity to genes known to encode proteins. Proteins are the workhorses of the...

Computational Method Speeds Mapping of Cell Signaling Networks

...ers have lacked are the experimental and computing tools to model entire signaling networks at once. This new work should help bridge that gap. Human T-cells--the system Nolan and Lauffenburger's team used to validate their technique--rely on a complex signaling network to protect the body from pathogens ...

GeneNotes - A novel information management software for biologists

...h project. Most databases and online computational tools require a direct human involvement. Information and computational results are presented in various multimedia formats (e.g., text, image, PDF, word files, etc.), many of which cannot be automatically processed by computers in biologically meaningful ...

Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks

..., University of Houston researchers have found new tools that shed light upon biological clock cycles. Gregory M. Cahill, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at UH, and Maki Kaneko, a fellow UH researcher who is now at the University of California-San Diego, presented their findings in a paper...

Biomarkers isolated from saliva successfully predict oral and breast cancer

...oited for robust, high-throughput and reproducible tools for early disease detection," said David T. Wong, ...oal of scientists seeking quick and easy screening tools that could be done in a doctor's office. The search for such tests, however, has been stalled until ...

Plant Sacrifices Cells to Fight Invaders

...aid, "This is a great example of how NSF-supported tools are enabling important basic research in plants with a broader relevance to other organisms." ...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

...roject Bioshield, which gives federal agencies new tools to accelerate research on medical countermeasures to safeguard Americans against chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack. The idea for the vaccine comes from Jacobs and his team's discovery of a gene that gives pox viruses uncanny abili...

Agilent Technologies new genome analysis technology set to accelerate Australia fight against mesothelioma

... these costs, with the eventual hope of developing tools for earlier diagnosis and treatment." ...

wFleaBase: the Daphnia genome database

...success in natural environments. Description These tools include the genome database wFleaBase, which currently contains functions to search and extract information from expressed sequenced tags, genome survey sequences and full genome sequencing projects. This new database is built primarily from core c...

Stealth Worms May Improve Insect Pest Control

... project. The study will offer new information and tools for developing non-chemical and non-toxic pest control programs in desert and semi-desert areas. "These nematodes from Jordan have the potential to provide an environmentally safe alternative for controlling insect pests in agricultural and forestry...

Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships

...s, and integrate MedScan with other bioinformatics tools for further analysis of extracted information. Fo... Maryland-based company developing systems biology tools for life science research: PathwayStudio?Central client-server pathway analysis software, PathwayAss...

Ariadne Genomics Announces the Release of PathwayStudio?Central, Client-Server Software for Biological Pathway Analysis

...ysis algorithms and MedScan information extraction tools allow for computation intensive tasks and provide convenient interfaces for the integration with internal frameworks and third-party products. For more information, visit Ariadne Genomics website www.ariadnegenomics.com ...

Building a protein name dictionary from full text: a machine learning term extraction approach

...terature data mining tools. Most literature mining tools rely on pre-existing lexicons of biological names, often extracted from curated gene or protein databases. This is a limitation, because such databases have low coverage of the many name variants which are used to refer to biological entities in the ...

A probe, not an echo

...linical tool of great power: *Robust algorithmic tools enable HUTT to differentiate separate types of tissue based on their distinctive "frequency-dependent attenuation" profiles, that should allow clinicians to distinguish malignant lesions from benign growths in a non-invasive and highly reliable manne...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

... more below ice. The explorers employed a suite of tools to conduct "gentle sampling," including a remotely...w explorers in this area before us had no adequate tools to collect or see these creatures. "What continues to fascinate and motivate us all is the chance t...

Tamoxifen-like drug suggests new ways to selectively block estrogen

...at will yield maximal benefit in the clinic." New tools such as the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratories are making this sort of once-grandiose plan more realistic, Greene said. "We used to solve the structures of one or two molecules a year. Now we have 40 to 50 in progress." GW5638 w...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...rojects," he said. "Creating useful and accessible tools like this is critical to the field. Even if researchers have access to all the genomic data and all the methods necessary to analyze it, it takes a lot of human and computer effort to put those two things together in one user-friendly package like Ph...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...ound that by creating the technological and policy tools for transitioning to higher efficiency charcoal production technologies and sustainable harvesting, like those used today in countries such as Brazil and Thailand, greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by 45 percent in a gradual transition scenario...

Studies reveal how plague disables immune system, and how to exploit the process to make a vaccine

...is era of heightened awareness, "we can use modern tools to learn new things about an ancient scourge, and to prepare for the possible re-emergence of diseases we would like to forget, but better not." ...

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