Mapping in Biological News

A Canada-wide technology platform for mapping the human interactome

Montral, June 23, 2009 On June 18, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced the award of $9.16 million for the creation of a national technology platform aimed at mapping the human interactome. This national platform, headed by Dr. Benoit Coulombe from the Institut de recherches clini...

Plant gene mapping may lead to better biofuel production

UPTON, NY -- By creating a "family tree" of genes expressed in one form of woody plant and a less woody, herbaceous species, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered clues that may help them engineer plants more amenable to biofuel production. The...

Neural mapping paints a haphazard picture of odor receptors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 3, 2009 -- Despite the striking aromatic differences between coffee, peppermint, and pine, a new mapping of the nose's neural circuitry suggests a haphazard patchwork where the receptors for such disparate scents are as likely as not to be neighbors. Inexplicably, this se...

Studies offer guide as protein interaction mapping comes of age

BOSTON--During the past 20 years, researchers have identified thousands of cell protein interactions, with the ultimate goal of inventorying all that occur within cells of various organisms a comprehensive catalogue known as the interactome. Such information will be critical to understanding the ...

New rainforest mapping technology gets huge support

Stanford, CAA lack of technology needed to explore and monitor vast regions of tropical rain forest has been a critical bottleneck for Earth scientists, conservationists, and forest managers. As a result, we have limited understanding of the composition and function of these forests and how they a...

New cheaper method for mapping disease genes

[PRESS RELEASE, 26 May 2008] Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have developed a new DNA-sequencing method that is much cheaper than those currently in use in laboratories. They hope that this new method will make it possible to map disease genes in large patient gr...

Prediction of RNA pseudoknots using heuristic modeling with mapping and sequential folding

An algorithm utilizing structure mapping and thermodynamics is introduced for RNA pseudoknot prediction. The method finds the minimum free energy in the context of the biological folding direction (5 to 3) of RNA sequences. It also identifies information about the flexibility of the RNA. Mappi...

'Chemical equator' discovery will aid pollution mapping

Scientists at the University of York have discovered a 'Chemical Equator' that divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the largely uncontaminated atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere. Researchers from the University's Department of Chemistry found evidence for an atmospheric c...

Whole genome promoter mapping - Human Genome Project v2.0?

Investigators from the University California, San Diego (UCSD) Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and NimbleGen Systems have developed an efficient method to identify thousands of regulatory sequences in the human genome, according to a study published today in Nature. Gene...

Computational Method Speeds Mapping of Cell Signaling Networks

For decades, scientists have been studying how external information gets transmitted from outside of cells to the control centers inside them that trigger particular responses. But cell signaling networks are so complex that mapping them has been a slow, arduous process. Now, a research team from...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

The International HapMap Consortium, boosted by an additional $3.3 million in public-private support, today announced plans to create an even more powerful map of human genetic variation than originally envisioned. The map will accelerate the discovery of genes related to common diseases, such as a...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...l P-T boundary; a major Silurian fish die-off; and mapping naturally occurring asbestos in the Sierra Nevada....or accurate prediction of their location. mapping potentially asbestos-bearing rocks using imaging s...ped. Practical applications of this technology for mapping areas that may contain NOA include locating roads ...

Freshwater fish at the top of the food chain evolve more slowly

... that moves our jaw fish actually have two dozen separately moving bones, and lots of muscles that move those bones in a coordinated fashion." By mapping these measurements onto the centrarchid family tree together with data on what each fish eats the researchers were able to reconstruct how diet and ...

Researchers develop 'brain-reading' methods

...The research also suggests that a more comprehensive approach is needed for mapping brain activity and that the widely held belief that localized areas of the ...e pattern of neural connections also provides a more accurate direction for mapping the effective connectivity of the brain. Known as the Connectome Project, t...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...irst commercially available technology for 3-D geophysical imaging of industrial-sized electromagnetic data. This technology offers oceanic subsurface mapping at a scale and resolution previously unavailable to find sources of alternative energy and in guiding environmental remediation. It will allow scienti...

New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments

...first in pristine switchgrass and then during treatment with the EmimAc ionic liquid. Their results demonstrate that this label-free visualization and mapping technique can provide a means of rapidly screening a wide range of ionic liquids for pre-treating switchgrass and other biomass material. "Our appr...

22nd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept. 12-16, 2009, Turkey

...ing of the brain has increased dramatically. Advances in brain imaging, the mapping of the brains biochemical circuitry and breakthroughs in molecular genetics...es of neurotransmission was first gained at the end of the 20th century. By mapping the networks of neurotransmission, scientists are looking for specially tai...

NYC science symposium marks Gruber Prize program 10th anniversary

...gler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, who has helped lead the revolution in modern genetics with his innovative methods for mapping the human genome and the genes that cause disease, will speak on "The Fruits of the Genome Sequences for Society." Dr. Linda Buck, associate dire...

Susan E. Gardiner receives ASHS Outstanding International Horticulturist Award

...is co-editor of the books Genetics and Genomics of Rosaceae and Association mapping in Plants, both published by Springer. She has also published articles in S... distinguishing varieties of pasture grasses and legumes and worked on gene mapping in apples. Susan's most recent work involves unraveling the genetic archite...

Climate change could drive vast human migrations

...ually categorize the poor as the ones who will suffer mostbut richer societies will potentially lose as well." The report, In Search of Shelter: mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement, is based on a first-time global survey of environmental change and migration. It is...

Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics

...ross (16 inches). That's approximately the size of home plate on a baseball diamond. These images are typically processed and sold to the military for mapping and to companies like Google, which makes them available to the public through its platform Google Earth. (Because of federal regulations, the publicl...

Hunt for 'climate-ready' crops accelerates as organizations search seed collections worldwide

...pporting work to probe crop collections for critical traits such as drought or heat tolerance. GCP is offering funding for scientists to use molecular mapping technology to identify the "DNA fingerprint" of the crop samples. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Global Partnership Initiative for Plant B...

Reducing the roadworks

...ee years the VISTA project has been working to transform the technology for mapping the underground network of drains, water and gas pipes, as well as power an...lion Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council-funded study called mapping the Underworld that was led by the universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Oxfor...

Study finds genetic links to age of first menstrual period and menopause

... of 17,438 women from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and the Women's Genome Health Study (WGHS) based at BWH. "At these newly identified loci, fine mapping or sequencing might lead to identification of the causal variants, and thus expand our knowledge of the underlying physiology and biological regulatio...

Supply-Chain Council Announces Winners of 2009 Supply Chain Excellence Awards

...nt Technology Excellence. "This project provides a great example of integrating shop floor execution between subcontractor and manufacturer with clear mapping to SCOR mega processes in order to gain process and data visibility of upstream and downstream supply chain," said Dr. Tom Janoshalmi, Chair of the SC...

Two new studies on circadian rhythms

...ian rhythm does not change with temperature when metabolism is so affected. A related study, in Molecular Cell , tracks a clock protein in action, mapping hundreds of highly choreographed modifications and interactions to provide the first complete view of regulation across a day. The new work adds c...

Stowers researchers develop whole genome sequencing approach for mutation discovery

... developed a "whole-genome sequencing approach" to mapping mutations in fruit flies. The novel methodology pr...ual senior author on the publication. "Traditional mapping approaches to identify mutations are inefficient p...ed by several genes at once." "The traditional mapping method could take months to years depending on the...

Genetic secrets of date palm unlocked by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

...sequencing approach, which Mr. Malek says offers data quality between that of the expressed sequence tag (EST) method and the traditional whole-genome mapping method. "We were able to develop a relatively unbiased view of the gene space of the entire date palm plant at a fraction of the cost and in a much sh...

Geoscientists meet to discuss Rocky Mountain geology

...ross the Rocky Mountain region. * Geologic Hazards in the Rocky Mountain Region and Their Impacts on Development * Topics include geologic hazards mapping to meet the needs of new and evolving geologic-hazard ordinances; seismic vulnerability of public schools along the Wasatch Front, and geological issu...

Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes

... Acoustic reflections from the pings they produce could also be monitored to gather information about underwater environments, from detecting mines to mapping the bottom of the ocean floor. The talk "Intense underwater laser acoustic source for Navy applications" (2aEA-7) by Ted Jones is at 10:30 a.m. on...

Bovine genome provides clues to possible new developments

...e DNA repository from cattle around the world. Gill is using the SNP resources generated in this study to tie information into the agency's own cattle mapping resource at the AgriLife Research Center in McGregor. Gill also led a team that annotated the genes detailed in " Science " and received contributio...

A glimpse of future GMES Sentinel-1 radar images

...European Radar Observatory will be used for applications such as land-cover mapping and crop management. Sentinel-1 is the first of the five missions that ESA ...sitions provided by Sentinel-1 will improve applications such as land-cover mapping and crop monitoring. To accomplish this ambitious task, ESA has asked MDA G...

New nucleotide could revolutionize epigenetics

...igenome Project, for example, is in the process of mapping all of the sites of methylation using bisulfite se...ings, which we believe very likely, then epigenome mapping experiments will have to be repeated with the help...ntral player in the field." Kriaucionis is now mapping the sites where 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is present...

The fragility of the world's coral is revealed through a study of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

...mportant part of protecting them." The authors note that this analysis can serve as a case study for other areas and managers who are interested in mapping region-specific cumulative human impacts and in making assessments. ...

University of Michigan installs second Genomatix Genome Analyzer

...ensive background annotation of our ElDorado genome database. The GGA extensively annotates genomic coordinates and surrounding areas derived from any mapping procedure. Clustering and peak finding, analysis for phylogenetic conservation, large scale correlation analysis with annotated genomic elements, meta...

University of Kansas graduate student researcher takes aim at deadly brain tumors

...eria grown in her lab at the Multidisciplinary Research Building on KU's west campus. But proteins are complex. The KU researcher is focused on better mapping a domain of the protein called bZIP that binds to DNA, in the hopes of preventing it from attaching to genes and advancing cancer. Ciaccio studies ...

Gene exchange common among sex-manipulating bacteria

...fascinating that bacteria, with only 1,000 genes, can control complicated developmental processes and behaviors in insects," says Siv Andersson. By mapping how the genes in these bacteria change over time and figuring out the mechanisms behind sex manipulation, scientists will be able to lay a foundation ...

200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation

...e diversity of the available plants suits many of the experimental objectives of researchers looking at rice and other commercially important grasses. mapping of the remaining genes from this population will be required to complete the resource. Many of them will be smaller genes less amenable to mutation th...

Science returns to the Capitol Hill spotlight at March 24 exhibition

...tion Centers, The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Study Overview and Research Topics, Narayan Sastry, University of Michigan Princeton University, mapping the Earth's Interior, Jeroen Tromp Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Applications of Dynamical Systems, Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutge...

Freezing prostate cancer does a man's body good

...eeting. Additionally, the use of 3-D transperineal mapping biopsy for determining the extent of prostate canc...ged 180 patients who had previously undergone TRUS mapping biopsies who were considering conservative managem...inally thought from their original biopsy. The 3-D mapping biopsy provided life-saving information," said Oni...