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NIH launches comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics

... This atlas will enable researchers throughout the world to analyze and use the data in their own research to develop new diagnostics and therapies for different cancers. Recognizing that not all technologies needed for high-throughput, cost-effective analysis of the cancer genome are already in hand, TC...

Anyway you slice it, tomatoes cut through drought with new gene

...paper notes that drought conditions throughout the world each year carve out a huge amount of food production. To overcome food shortages, the authors suggest, "it will be necessary to increase the productivity of land already under cultivation and to regain the use of arable land lost to scarce water...

New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinctions

Safeguarding 595 sites around the world would help stave off an imminent global extinction crisis, according to new research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( www.pnas.org ). Conducted by scientists working with the 52 member organizations of the All...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...strains from patient samples within hours may help world health officials combat coming epidemics and pande... not now spread effectively from person to person, world health officials are fearful the strain will mutate and become transmittable between humans, possibl...

Pretreating rogue cancer cells with aspirin cripples their resistance to targeted therapy

Safeguarding 595 sites around the world would help stave off an imminent global extinction crisis, according to new research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( www.pnas.org ). Conducted by scientists working with the 52 member organizations of the All...

Nano springs eternal; Protozoan 'engine' posts nano records

... would set records for speed and power in the nano world of cellular engines. It might also power future g...ce and centimeters/second of speed in a biological world where the ruler markings are usually in tiny pico-newtons and micrometers/second. Gram for gram, the...

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

... would set records for speed and power in the nano world of cellular engines. It might also power future g...ce and centimeters/second of speed in a biological world where the ruler markings are usually in tiny pico-newtons and micrometers/second. Gram for gram, the...

Similar Stem Cells In Insect And Human Gut

... would set records for speed and power in the nano world of cellular engines. It might also power future g...ce and centimeters/second of speed in a biological world where the ruler markings are usually in tiny pico-newtons and micrometers/second. Gram for gram, the...

Twin molecular scissors link creation of microRNAs with gene-silencing

...stitute has provided considerable insight into the world of miRNAs. In their first study, which appeared last year in Nature, they identified a two-protein complex, called the microprocessor, which controls the earliest steps in the creation of miRNAs in the cell nucleus. In their next study, published in ...

'Computer-chemistry' yields new insight into a puzzle of cell division

...oth molecules to move -- as they would in the real world -- the researchers could evaluate whether match-ups that looked right when motionless were actually off the mark. "Tiny little shifts can change these things," Rudolph said. The interdisciplinary group's Biochemistry paper, whose first author was R...

Open Source Biotechnology alliance for international agriculture

...IRRI's Director General, Robert Zeigler. "Half the world depends on rice as a staple food?but this also mea...analyses and foster the capacity in the developing world to create patent maps of the key emerging technologies that could be constrained by complex intellec...

New maps reveal true extent of human footprint on Earth

...demand for soy all the way at the other end of the world - in China. Meanwhile, Monfreda notes, long-time soybean farmers in the U.S. - the world's top soybean producer - are growing increasingly insecure about their place in the global market. But scientists risk missing important regional and local tre...

Scientist measures role of science's coolest player: The snow

...ow, in other words, soils in colder regions of the world are in fact likely to get much colder. The surprising result has implications for the health of permafrost-associated ecosystems, and may influence decisions in the field of construction. Already, permafrost changes have triggered structural problem...

Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency

...specially important for rice-eating regions of the world where more than 3 billion of the world's poor and undernourished live." The iron-dense variety of rice used in the research (known technically as IR68144-3B-2-2-3) was developed and grown at IRRI and then tested by an international team of researc...

Poison + water = hydrogen. New microbial genome shows how

...h water, producing hydrogen gas as waste. As the world increasingly considers hydrogen as a potential bio...answer simple questions. Do similar hot springs, a world apart, share similar microbes? How do microbes move between hot springs? Our new work will help us f...

'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes

...Yuille. "The UK DNA Banking Network is leading the world in providing a sample and data infrastructure to tackle the challenge of uncovering the genetic pathways of complex disease." Dr Kate Dixon, who manages the archive at the Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research (CIGMR) at The University of ...

Needle-free immunizations

...e avoid a disagreeable prick of a needle. In third world countries, improper and unsafe use of the needles used in injections causes millions of cases of hepatitis B and hepatitis C, and thousands of HIV infections. The World Health Organization has estimated that as many as one-third of immunization inje...

Interactive 3-D atlas of mouse brain now available on web

...nl.gov/CTN/mouse/ ). "Neuroscientists around the world can now download these extremely accurate anatomical templates and use them to map other data -- such as which parts of the brain are metabolically active and where particular genes are expressed -- and for making quantitative anatomical comparisons ...

Human trial proves ricin vaccine safe, induces neutralizing antibodies; further tests planned

...0,000 tons of castor bean extract exist around the world as a byproduct of castor oil production ?public health officials warn that ricin could be used for terrorism. Indeed, there have been several incidents in recent years involving the toxin in the United States and Europe. The CDC classifies ricin as a...

UCSD study finds anthrax toxins also harmful to fruit flies

... bioterrorism and remains a health threat in third world countries," Guichard said. "Anthrax infections can be cured by antibiotics when detected early. But after a certain point, the toxins released in the bloodstream can kill the patient even after antibiotic treatment. The more we understand about how t...

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