Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?
... with currentsoftware collaborations, we propose a website where volunteers couldsearch and annotate shared databases. Individual pages would host taskssuch as searching for new targets, finding chemicals to attack knowntargets, and posting data from related chemistry and biologyexperiments. Volunteers could...Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases
...dies were posted online on the Journal of Virology website this week and will be published in the Journal in the March issue. ...Nanogen Issued Patent for Electronic Microarray With Memory
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...eiving early online release on the Science Express website at http://www.sciencexpress.org. "The gene activation produced by RNAi is exquisitely specific, which gives it enormous potential for therapeutic application," says Gary Ruvkun, PhD, of the MGH Department of Molecular Biology, the study's senior aut...New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem
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...eiving early online release on the Science Express website at http://www.sciencexpress.org. "The gene activation produced by RNAi is exquisitely specific, which gives it enormous potential for therapeutic application," says Gary Ruvkun, PhD, of the MGH Department of Molecular Biology, the study's senior aut...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
... (To hear actual elephant vocalizations, visit the website http://www.elephantvoices.org/index.php?topic=resources.) Mushara 2004 The 2004 Mushara experiment was designed to solve that problem by using three different recordings--the '94 warning call from Mushara; an anti-predator call recorded by scientis...A New Species of Monkey is Discovered in Tanzania: The First in Africa for More Than 20 Years
...s rare monkey are available on the Saving Wildlife website . Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, working in conjunction with other partners, have discovered Africa’s first new species of monkey in over 20 years, marking the third monkey WCS scientists have found in the last six months. Th...Scientists generate patient-specific stem cells, Science study says
...non-profit science society, on the Science Express website on 19 May, 2005. These cell lines will enable the study of human disease in cells in the laboratory. The work also moves scientists one step closer to the goal of transplanting healthy cells into humans to replace cells damaged by diseases such as P...SuperLigands - a database of ligand structures derived from the Protein Data Bank
...non-profit science society, on the Science Express website on 19 May, 2005. These cell lines will enable the study of human disease in cells in the laboratory. The work also moves scientists one step closer to the goal of transplanting healthy cells into humans to replace cells damaged by diseases such as P...Mouse with designer liver has enhanced glucose tolerance, insulin response
...mmunity by advance posting online at the journal's website on April 10th. The liver plays a major role in the uptake of glucose from the bloodstream, its storage, and regulation. Insulin resistance in the liver is a crucial factor in the development of hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia in individuals w...Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships
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...ell Biology, published in advance at the journal's website on April 10th. While the study's results are not immediately applicable to treating disease, they pave the way for future experiments on the roles played by ephrins in memory, learning, and other nerve cell functions, and potentially even in certain...Lipids get new comprehensive classification system
...ctive access to it can be viewed on the LIPID MAPS website at http://www.lipidmaps.org. ......ers.ucsd.edu/?/p> The Grey Matters educational website for students, teachers and the public can be accessed at: http:/?www.ucsd.tv/greymatters/?/p> In addition to the scheduled UCSD-TV broadcasts of Grey Matters lectures on local cable channels, (schedule at: http:/?www.ucsd.tv/greymatters/tvsc...Anthrax inhibitors identified by Burnham team
...demy of Sciences by Early Edition at the journal's website the week of June 20th. Bacillus anthracis ("anthrax") is a proven agent of biological terrorism. Pulmonary anthrax, in which spores of the anthrax bacteria are inhaled, is typically fatal unless diagnosis is made at an early stage of infection, when...New Discovery May Help Doctors Treat Infertility
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...school students and retirees. Working through the website science-projects.com, 10 students from New York, T...l Vermeulen, a retired microbiologist who runs the website and is coordinator of the project. In order to find additives that could create the most effective ...