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New species from old data

... and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works.?/p> The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute. ...

Cracking the olfactory code in bees

... and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works.?/p> The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute. ...

Signaling protein builds bigger, better bones in mice

... and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works.?/p> The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute. ...

Transplantation Of Monkey Embryonic Stem Cells Reverses Parkinson Disease In Primates

...n disease reached the stage of humantrials over 15 years ago, however the field is still in its infancy.Researchers from Kyoto University have now shown thatdopamine-producing neurons (DA neurons) generated from monkey embryonicstem cells and transplanted into areas of the brain where these neuronshave deg...

Ancient olfaction protein is shared by many bugs, offering new pest control target

...ene's sequence has been conserved over 250 million years of evolution but that the gene's function in olfac...an insect odorant receptor gene across 250 million years of evolution" ...

Inexpensive, mass-produced genes core of synthetic biology advances at UH

...ld be prohibitive, costing millions of dollars and years oftime. The system developed by Gao and her partners employs digitaltechnology similar to that used in making computer chips and therebyreduces cost and time factors drastically. Gao’s group estimates thatthe new technology will be about one hundred ...

Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections

...source. They used E.coli samples collected over 40 years from the center to match up the bacteria causing UTIs with bacteria found in animals. They tested E.coli samples from dogs, cows, sheep, water and turkeys. The researchers then compared the samples genetically to the UTI causing bacteria and found th...

Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

...ff, would contain the costs ofdrug development.Ten years ago, say the authors, TDI would not have been feasible. "Thedifference today is the vastly greater size and variety of chemical,biological, and medical databases; new software; and more powerfulcomputers. Researchers can now identify promising protei...

Breakthrough Microarray-based Technology for the Study of Cancer

...n, quantification and throughput. Efforts inrecent years to use microarrays to overcome these limitations have beenhampered by inadequate sensitivity, specificity and flexibility of themicroarray platforms. As detailed in the PNAS paper, Agilent'sbreakthrough is founded on the modification of its gene-expr...

Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down

...tinue to hold the upper hand ?and if three billion years of bacterial history is any kind of track record, ...to antibiotic discovery over the past six or seven years and this has failed miserably." The scientist, whose work is supported by Science and Engineering R...

Found: Missing sequence of the human Y chromosome

...ications, which emerged during the past 30 million years of primateevolution, are significantly enriched in subtelomeric andpericentromeric sequences, and now comprise approximately 5% of thehuman genome, were considered to be one of the biggest obstacles tofinishing the human genome sequence. "The identif...

Study finds more than one-third of human genome regulated by RNA

...tor of mammals and chicken,which lived 310 million years ago. "This study is an excellent exampleof the power of comparative genomics to illuminate how human genes areregulated," says Burge."As more genome data becomes available and the technology becomes moresophisticated, I think we'll find that even mor...

Live Recombinant Adenovirus Vaccine Technique Explored

...he military developed oral vaccines for adenovirus years ago that safely provide immunity in one dose. We wanted to see if we could combine the safe and easy-to-use qualities of live adenovirus vaccine with the versatility of recombinant adenovirus virus vaccines that are being developed.?/p> Specifica...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

... of peripheral visual field, progressing over many years to tunnel vision and finally blindness. At Emory Eye Center retina specialists Thomas M. Aaberg, Sr. and Jiong Yan performed the surgery recently on five patients. Another two patients are planned for mid-February. "This experimental device may mak...

The secret lives of whales

...new genetic techniques to penetrate over a million years of whale history dating back to the middle of the ...ow,?says Clark. “The Navy had heard the whales for years but hadn’t focused on the significance of their low voices. To me it was like —ohmygawd!?/p> Acc...

NYU researchers simulate molecular biological clock

...tor of mammals and chicken,which lived 310 million years ago. "This study is an excellent exampleof the power of comparative genomics to illuminate how human genes areregulated," says Burge."As more genome data becomes available and the technology becomes moresophisticated, I think we'll find that even mor...

Dinosaur DNA? New Patent Covers Degraded DNA recovery

...ial wolf and ground sloth. Plant DNA up to 400,000 years old, and DNA from the extinct mammoth and steppe bison have been recovered from Siberian sediments. In 1997, Patent #5,593,883 was granted to Ambergene Corporation for the recovery of live ancient bacteria and fungi fossilized in amber. By reconstit...

Antibiotic Resistant Bacterium Uses Sonar-like Strategy to “See?Enemies or Prey

...d Medical School. Gilmore and his team have spent years studying the bacterium known asEnterococcus faecalis, one of the leading causes of hospital-acquiredinfections, to find new ways to treat them. These infections arefrequently resistant to many, and sometimes all, antibiotics. Tens ofthousands of deat...

Novel Therapy Tested in Mice Could Chase Away Cat Allergies

...perts estimate that 14 percent of children 6 to 19 years old are allergic to cats. The treatment comprises a molecule that loosely tethers a feline and a human protein together. The feline end is the notorious protein (called Fel d1) found in cat dander and saliva that causes so much misery in allergy suf...

Mouse brain tumors mimic those in human genetic disorder

... generally start growing inchildren younger than 5 years old and usually do not progress after age10. A sim...ime-period, which is roughly equivalent to teenage years in humans,the cells slowed down to the same growth speed as astrocytes in controlmice."The fact that...

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