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Mining biotech's data mother lode

... and computational Grid created through a suite of tools developed by the project. Here's how it works. O...relevant information. Linking all these software tools together is a rules-based Java scripting language called Prova, also developed by the BioGrid team. ...

A New Era of Hope for the World's Most Neglected Diseases

... Secondly, in addition to the expectation that new tools will be developed to control neglected diseases, t...creased investment to encourage the development of tools for neglected-disease control. Another sign that donors are taking notice is that the US Senate rece...

PET imaging reveals the immune system at work

...e become available. At present, there are very few tools available to follow the extent and duration of responses to such treatment. The new approaches devised by Witte and his colleagues, can now be applied to "visualize immune cell expansion and activation (and) can be used for the evaluation and develo...

Jefferson biologist coaxing human embryonic stem cells to make dopamine with simpler, faster method

...e become available. At present, there are very few tools available to follow the extent and duration of responses to such treatment. The new approaches devised by Witte and his colleagues, can now be applied to "visualize immune cell expansion and activation (and) can be used for the evaluation and develo...

Wild Gorillas Handy with a Stick

...pictures! When chimpanzees were first seen using tools in Liberia in 1951, little was known about great a... chimps, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas all use tools in captivity, often imitating behaviors of their keepers, tool use had not been observed for gorilla...

Researchers make long DNA 'wires' for future medical and electronic devices

...ee said. "And in our case, we want to try to build tools for gene delivery, DNA recombination, and maybe even gene repair, down the road." The longest strands are one millimeter (thousandths of a meter) long, and only one nanometer (billionths of a meter) thick. On a larger scale, positioning such a long,...

A resetting signal keeps circadian rhythm on track in Drosophila fruit flies

...natomy in mammals is much more complicated and the tools much too primitive to allow a similar network approach at this time. Flies are state-of-the art. Fortunately, their circadian clocks and even neural mechanisms are quite conserved with mammals." "We were curious about how these brain cells stay sy...

New methods offer insight into regulatory DNA

... genes they control also varies among genes. New tools are needed in the search of our genome for the sequences that contribute to disease, tools that will harness the massive amounts of DNA information and transform them into information of real...

How Rickettsial pathogens break into cells

...seases (NIAID) as agents with potential for use as tools for bioterrorism. Mediterranean spotted fever is transmitted by a dog tick. The symptoms are generally mild and respond to antibiotics that shorten the course of the disease. But serious complications occur as much as 10 percent of the time, usually...

NIH launches comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics

...ard with this pioneering initiative. Thanks to the tools and technologies developed by the Human Genome Pro... and, in doing so, will create new discoveries and tools that will provide the basis for a new generation of cancer therapies, diagnostics, and preventive st...

Ancient humans brought bottle gourds to the Americas from Asia

...nt and dogs with them. They arrived with important tools necessary to survive and thrive on a new continent, including some knowledge of and experience with plant domestication." Thought to have originated in Africa, bottle gourds (Lagenaria sicereria) have been grown worldwide for thousands of years. The...

Nano springs eternal; Protozoan 'engine' posts nano records

... France and colleagues used modern microscopes and tools to measure the force and speed of the spring. This is one powerful engine, France reports. The spasmoneme's contraction is measured in nano-newtons of force and centimeters/second of speed in a biological world where the ruler markings are usually in...

Are U.S. Flu Death Figures More PR Than Science?

... France and colleagues used modern microscopes and tools to measure the force and speed of the spring. This is one powerful engine, France reports. The spasmoneme's contraction is measured in nano-newtons of force and centimeters/second of speed in a biological world where the ruler markings are usually in...

Similar Stem Cells In Insect And Human Gut

... France and colleagues used modern microscopes and tools to measure the force and speed of the spring. This is one powerful engine, France reports. The spasmoneme's contraction is measured in nano-newtons of force and centimeters/second of speed in a biological world where the ruler markings are usually in...

GROWing the next generation of water recycling plants

...developments. We hope that GROW will be one of the tools that can help us achieve that goal," says Butler. ...

Making medicine 'smarter'

...tting her engineering knowledge to work to develop tools for more accurately diagnosing breast cancer. Anke Meyer-Baese is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering. Her work focuses on electrical and computer engineering, wi...

Carnegie Mellon U. transforms DNA microarrays with standard Internet communications tool

...ible. But Bar-Joseph has incorporated mathematical tools in his method that can detect genes affected by such asynchrony in a population of cells. ...

Open Source Biotechnology alliance for international agriculture

...ng collaborations to develop better, more powerful tools within a 'protected commons' to get different prob... solvers to the table." Thesecould for example be tools for precise, natural genetic enhancements, using non-GM approaches (for example, homologous recombin...

Picking particles faster than one at a time

...only the best choices, we will have a powerful new tools for biology." Adiga says, "Particle-picking algorithms are a small part of a larger goal of mapping the healthy constituents of cells against diseased cells, from cellular organelles right down to interactions among atoms in a protein." Together wi...

UCSD study finds anthrax toxins also harmful to fruit flies

...iseases or biological processes. Such experimental tools could accelerate progress in various areas of biomedical research. Guichard first conceived this study in 2002, to apply her experience in molecular genetic studies to research that had medical application. At that time, after the spate of anthrax-...

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