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Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models

...ategies for this species. Helping provide research tools that support conservation is one of the missions of the SERDP. The three-year SERDP project, which began in January, takes advantage of some of the Department of Energy laboratory's extensive capabilities. In addition to Bevelhimer's contributions i...

Neurotransmitters signal aggressive cancer, offer potential for early diagnosis

...ays. "Computational, experimental and instrumental tools are now available to tackle metabolomics and then translate lessons learned at the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside as called for by the University's BioMed 21 initiative." BioMed 21 is a strategic research initiative that aims to rapidly t...

North & South American researchers find architectural abnormalities in T. cruzi ribosome

... in their peripheral elements, such as specialized tools to send newly formed proteins into or through membranes. If anything, Frank expected the trypanosome's ribosome might be missing some elements, because of its sheltered life within host organisms. "In reconstructions of ribosomes from yeast to rabbi...

A New Era Of Hope For Neglected Diseases

...creased investment to encourage the development of tools for neglected-disease control. Citation: Moran M (2005) A breakthrough in R&D for neglected diseases: New ways to get the drugs we need. PLoS Med 2(9): e302. http:/?​dx.doi.org/?0.1371/​journal.pmed.0020302 ...

Discovery that bacterium is phosphate gourmet key clue to what makes it most social of bacteria

...te level detector - giving the bacterium even more tools to employ as a phosphate gourmet. Dr Whitworth also has evidence that the surprising extent of interaction between the three and a half phosphate signalling pathways is also found among the other 140 plus signalling pathways of the bacterium. If thr...

Study shows big game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths

...arrived in North America were making sophisticated tools out of stone, bone and ivory, Steadman said. These "big-game hunters" had a traumatic effect on the animals living there, he said. More than three-fourths of the large species of mammals that roamed the North American landscape became extinct within...

California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository

.... Researchers can use these reference data sets as tools to guide their own studies into the genetic basis of common diseases. To that end, the team's next collaboration with NCBI researchers will be to help design disease-association studies. "If a researcher is interested in a specific gene, we can us...

U-M scientists say fused genes trigger the development of prostate cancer

.... Researchers can use these reference data sets as tools to guide their own studies into the genetic basis of common diseases. To that end, the team's next collaboration with NCBI researchers will be to help design disease-association studies. "If a researcher is interested in a specific gene, we can us...

Genomatix Microarray Analysis Pipeline achieves Affymetrix GeneChip compatible?status

...iling and exon array technology, I expect that our tools will drive far greater understanding of genomic or...ith Genomatix in their efforts to develop advanced tools for analyzing GeneChip data," said Steve Lincoln, vice president of Informatics at Affymetrix. "We a...

Gene that helps mosquitoes fight off malaria parasite identified

...te lysis in mosquitoes. It may help provide better tools for controlling the disease in the future," said lead author Eappen G. Abraham, PhD, research associate in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and the Malaria Research Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. "These re...

Many smokers fail to quit after cancer diagnosis

...plex physical and emotional challenges to applying tools in the guidelines to cancer patients who smoke. For example, certain pharmacotherapies may be contraindicated or co-morbidities, such as depression and/or alcohol use, must be taken into account. Targeted interventions have been designed to combine e...

Biotechnology's newest chemical tool

...y, known as DNA methyltransferases, are one of the tools cells use to turn genes on and off. By adding a simple cluster of four atoms -- a carbon atom attached to three hydrogens, known to chemists as a methyl group -- to specific bases within a DNA sequence, methyltransferases can effectively shut a gene ...

Tropical dry forests receive international recognition

...Y's goal is to try to help translate research into tools countries can use as policies to save the dry forests. The solution lies in private conservation, says Sanchez-Azofeifa. This tactic means convincing governments to realize the value of conserving tropical dry forest land and in turn, paying the land...

New insights into the software of life

...quence, provided the scientific community with the tools to understand the control of protein production, truly the software of life. "Genes provide the code for making the building blocks of our bodies - the proteins ?and the consortium has a made a massive step towards identifying all of those building...

Researchers offer proof-of-concept for Altered Nuclear Transfer

...their therapeutic potential, we must use all known tools and techniques in order to explore the mechanisms that give these cells such startling characteristics." ANT, Jaenisch emphasizes, is a modification, but not an alternative, to nuclear transfer, since the approach requires additional manipulations ...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

...atment, he believes nanotechnology can provide new tools for cancer diagnosis through the use of tiny nanos... He also foresees nano-bio-robots or nano-surgical tools that can be placed inside the body to remove tumors in areas previously inaccessible using tradition...

New study shows patients more willing to consider self-injectable HIV therapy than many physicians anticipate

... from the OpenMind study will enable us to develop tools to facilitate more informed decisions by both patient and physician." The study also shows that physicians' own experiences and attitudes towards self-injection are a significant motivator for its use. Physicians with considerable FUZEON experience...

Scientists move forward understanding of schizophrenia

...sult of a long term research commitment to use the tools of genetics to better understand the root causes of mental disorder. "This has been a fantastic combined effort. The collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh and of Glasgow, jointly with our research colleagues at Merck Sharpe and Dohme h...

Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

...bility throughout" and to use fisheries management tools prevent over-fishing. "Given the likely depletion of fish stocks in the tsunami affected areas, what is certain is that these conditions cannot be met by simply returning fishing capacity to the pre-tsunami state, allowing stocks to continue on thei...

Breaking the mold: Research teams sequence three fungus genomes

...ome sequence is going to be central for developing tools for effectively managing A. fumigatus infections as they become more prevalent in the aging population," predicts first author William Nierman, a microbiologist at TIGR. Nierman co-authored two additional Aspergillus genome papers in the same iss...

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