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Advances in the characterisation of the oyster mushroom genes

...s activity ?the reason why the fungus is sometimes used as a decontaminating agent, was the aim of the PhD thesis by Arantza Eizmendi Goikoetxea, which she defended at the Public University of Navarre with the title, Molecular Characterisation of a family of genes of cellobiohydrolases in the "Pleurotus o...

Institute for Systems Biology Symposium Addresses Need for Better Computational Tools

...o provide a new proteomics tool that can be widely used by the academic community in an open source environment. Speakers at this year's symposium included Rich Bonneau, ISB senior scientist and Viktors Berstis, Senior Software Engineer at IBM Global Services, outlining current efforts to run Rosetta de ...

Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

...n in-depth reanalysis of global hotspots, a widely used prioritization strategy for allocating conservatio...und nowhere else) and degree of threat. Plants are used as a measure of endemism, and each of the hotspots holds at least half a percent of the total divers...

No relief for Pacific Northwest drought

...urately backwards in time to 1895, and can also be used to make both near-term and longer projections into the future. They are constantly updated, and now include the latest actual weather information through the end of last January. In terms of the current projections for a tier of states in the northw...

Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show

...bud, and that netting and buried chicken wire were used to keep wildlife away from the plants. "One of th...ested, dried and carefully added to animal feed or used as a soil amendment in areas where selenium is in short supply. "There are many areas where seleniu...

Researchers discover chemical compounds that affect plant growth

...s from the University of California, Riverside has used chemical genomics to identify novel compounds that...identified in the model plant, Arabidopsis, can be used in non-model species to improve agronomic traits and increase crop value," said research team leader...

Stem cells from brain transformed to produce insulin at Stanford

... this work has additional value because the method used to produce insulin from neural stem cells is compl...ells, the more likely it is that stem cells can be used for islet replacement," Kim said. Kim hopes this work, or related work with other sources of stem c...

Fibril Shape Is The Basis Of Prion Strains And Cross-species Prion Infection

... at much higher resolution. Their experiments also used a shortened version of the mammalian prion protein, so they hope to test the fibril factor in a full-length protein soon. Jones and Surewicz also note that the new findings offer "the unsettling possibility" that repeated cross-species transmission ...

New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

...olesterol or diabetes, not in drugs designed to be used for a week or two and then stopped once an infecti...ospitals resist at least one of the drugs commonly used to treat the infections they cause, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The agency warns ...

Scientists discover how plants disarm the toxic effects of excessive sunlight

...ic microbe and identified the cellular pathways it used to sense the presence of singlet oxygen and defend...uman, animal and plant health, because it is often used as a host defense to inhibit the growth of unwanted microbial pathogens. In fact, it appears that ev...

Key mechanism in genetic inheritance during cell division identified

...nknown. To find answers, the Berkeley researchers used a purified, reconstituted Dam1 complex, obtained from genetically engineered E. coli bacteria, and compared its effects on microtubules in vitro to the effects caused by certain Dam1 mutants. Their analysis shed new light on the structural nature of ...

Gene Therapy Cures Inherited Liver Disease In Rats

...ment could be repeated when needed. The treatment used a specially developed adenovirus to carry the gene into the animal's cells. This viral vector, as it is called, was manipulated so that it minimized toxic side effects. This disease involved a lack of a gene that is found in the part of the cell wher...

HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK

...-1 gene sequencing for drug resistance. Scientists used this data to follow the changing number of infecte... around the time that potent therapy became widely used if this was the case. Instead, we see little correlation between widespread availability of treatmen...

Light therapy may combat fungal infections, new evidence suggests

...iology and medicine at Duke. Light therapy is now used for medical conditions, such as seasonal affective...ctrum or white light bulbs. UV irradiation is also used to repigment skin affected by the autoimmune disorder vitiligo. The findings also have important im...

FDA Clears the Way for Generic Versions of Transdermal Patches to Treat Chronic Pain

...on's Duragesic Patch (Fentanyl Transdermal System) used to treat patients suffering from severe chronic pain that cannot be managed with alternative analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is slowly absorbed into the body through the sk...

Gray wolves maintain the food chain in winter

...ecuted predator into Yellowstone. Wilmers and Getz used data from the past 50 years to establish winter trends and model wolves' impact on the fate of resident scavengers faced with a changing climate. Their models show that wolf kills temper the potentially devastating effects of climate-related carrion ...

Scientists Propose Sweeping Changes to Naming of Bird Neurosystems to Acknowledge Their True Brainpower

...on's Duragesic Patch (Fentanyl Transdermal System) used to treat patients suffering from severe chronic pain that cannot be managed with alternative analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is slowly absorbed into the body through the sk...

Computational Method Speeds Mapping of Cell Signaling Networks

...T-cells--the system Nolan and Lauffenburger's team used to validate their technique--rely on a complex sig...ules. Pe'er suggests a similar technique could be used to study the differences between normal and abnormal cells. This application would be particularly u...

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

...the fish start to swim and feed." The researchers used zebrafish (danio rerio) because they yield such a high output of spawn, with hundreds of eggs being laid by each female per week. This gives the scientists a better chance of identifying mutant fish whose biological clocks run fast or slow, providing...

New lab technique identifies high levels of pathogens in therapy pool

...eguards who worked at the facility. The technique used in the study is 1,000 times more sensitive than standard microbe-culturing techniques used at most indoor pool facilities today, the researchers said. The two-year study involved a molecular ...

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