New UGA research on gene sheds light on T-cell production

Athens, Ga. New research, just published by researchers from the University of Georgia, provides the first evidence that a key gene may be crucial to maintaining the production of the thymus and its disease-fighting T-cells after an animal's birth. The discovery could help scientists find out...

UGA researchers achieve breakthrough in effort to develop tiny biological fuel cells

...makers, cochlear implants and prosthetic limbs. The journal Chemical Science calls the technique "a significant breakthrough for nanotechnology." uga chemist Jason Locklin and graduate students Nicholas Marshall and Kyle Sontag grew polymer brushes, made up of chains of thiophene and benzene, aromat...

Researchers work to boost effectiveness of the flu vaccine

...viral infections are seasonal and show up looking a little different each year, which is why vaccines vary yearly, notes Dr. Tripp, a professor in the uga College of Veterinary Medicine. Most influenza infections are mild, accompanied by classic symptoms such as fever and malaise. In fact the general mis...

UGA grad program expands to prepare teachers to work with secondary students with autism

...ounded the Collaborative Personnel Preparation in Autism (COPPA) program at uga in 2003. Gast will co-direct the new program called the Collaborative Ad... grant of $793,000 in 2007 for four more years. The second grant allowed uga to offer additional training in ASD to interested teachers in Clarke, Cobb ...

Study: Lower Legal Drinking Age Increases Poor Birth Outcomes

... weight," said study author Angela Fertig, assistant professor in the uga College of Public Health. "The take-home message is that when it's ea...ould leave the minimum drinking age where it is." Note to editors: uga President Michael F. Adams was not among the signers of the Amethyst Initia...

Study: Lower legal drinking age increases poor birth outcomes

... leads to more unplanned pregnancies that result in premature birth and low birth weight," said study author Angela Fertig, assistant professor in the uga College of Public Health. "The take-home message is that when it's easier for young people to get alcohol, birth outcomes are worse." Fertig, who i...

Study Suggests Blood Test for Alzheimer's Possible

...phen Miller , professor and director of clinical psychology training in the uga Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. "The finding brings us closer t...o-authors include Jennifer S. Wilson, a former undergraduate student in the uga Honors program who is now pursing graduate studies at Emory University; Shy...

Study suggests blood test for Alzheimer's possible

...ephen Miller, professor and director of clinical psychology training in the uga Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. "The finding brings us closer to our...o-authors include Jennifer S. Wilson, a former undergraduate student in the uga Honors program who is now pursing graduate studies at Emory University; Shy...

Study suggests surface water contaminated with salmonella more common than thought

...ntaminated than people realize," said Erin Lipp, associate professor in the uga College of Public Health. "We found our highest numbers in the summer month... when most people get sick." Lipp, who co-authored the study with former uga graduate student Bradd Haley and Dana Cole in the Georgia Division of Publi...

Study: Genetic Risk for Substance Use Can be Neutralized by Good Parenting

...dy co-author Gene Brody, Regents Professor in the uga College of Family and Consumer Sciences . "It...." Brody and his colleagues, who include uga Institute for Behavioral Research director Steven...rch Professor in the psychology department of the uga Franklin College of Arts and Sciences . "With...

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UGA in Biological News

DOE awards UGA $3.1 million to support complex carbohydrate study nationwide

Athens, Ga. The Department of Energy has awarded the University of Georgia Complex Carbohydrate Research Center a four-year, $3.1 million grant to continue as a national resource for researchers who study the complex carbohydrates of plants and of microbes that interact with plants. The grant for...

New UGA biomass technology dramatically increases ethanol yield from grasses and yard waste

University of Georgia researchers have developed a new technology that promises to dramatically increase the yield of ethanol from readily available non-food crops, such as Bermudagrass, switchgrass, Napiergrassand even yard waste. "Producing ethanol from renewable biomass sources such as gra...

New UGA invention effectively kills foodborne pathogens in minutes

University of Georgia researchers have developed an effective technology for reducing contamination of dangerous bacteria on food. The new antimicrobial wash rapidly kills Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 on foods ranging from fragile lettuce to tomatoes, fruits, poultry products and meats. It is ma...

Silver bullet: UGA researchers use laser, nanotechnology to rapidly detect viruses

Waiting a day or more to get lab results back from the doctor's office soon could become a thing of a past. Using nanotechnology, a team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a diagnostic test that can detect viruses as diverse as influenza, HIV and RSV in 60 seconds or less. In addi...

Researcher at UGA College of Veterinary Medicine identifies new way of combating viral diseases

Four seemingly unrelated viral diseases may some day be defeated by a single treatment, according to a recent collaborative study involving researchers at the University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine. Their study focuses on viruses responsible for HIV, measles, Ebola and Marburg and...

Researchers at UGA provide first look at protein expression in Chagas disease-causing parasites

Covering ship hulls with artificial shark skin could help ships sailing smoothly. The growth of marine organisms such as barnacles on ship hulls is a major cause of increased energy costs in the naval industry. Shark skin offers a structural design that prevents this so called 'bio-fouling'. Ralp...

New computer simulation helps explain folding in important cellular protein

...hysics . Authors of the paper are Clare Gervais and Thomas Wst, formerly of uga and now employed in Switzerland; Landau, and Ying Xu, Regents-Georgia Resea...l in studying a variety of physical systems. Wang was a doctoral student at uga and now works for the Intel Corp.) GpA is a 131-amino acid protein that ...

Study finds homicidal poisoning rising, more likely in infants and elderly

...ording to a new University of Georgia study that aims to raise awareness of this often overlooked crime. Greene Shepherd, clinical professor in the uga College of Pharmacy, and recent graduate Brian Ferslew examined seven years of recent federal mortality data and identified 523 deaths due to homicida...

Link between unexploded munitions in oceans and cancer-causing toxins determined

...underwater hydraulic system designed James Barton, president of Underwater Ordinance Recovery, Inc., with the technical expertise of machinists at the uga instrument shop. "When you remove the bomb, you remove the problem but you've got to pick it up," said Porter. ...

Georgia Stem Cell Initiative meets on MCG campus Feb. 10

...ions. MCG researchers also will be working with uga scientists and others to develop lines of induced ...ate professor, biochemistry and molecular biology, uga Center for Drug Discovery, "Multipotent Cardiovasc...on." 2:45 p.m. - Dr. Dave Machacek, researcher, uga College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences,...

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UGA in Biological Technology

New use for stem cells found in war on terrorism

...ke a canary-in-a-coal-mine scenario, said Stice, a University of Georgia animal science professor and Georgia Research Alliance eminent scholar in the uga College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. In collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stice hopes to use his recently devel...

UGA in Biological Definition

Amino acid

... other than the standard 20 are sometimes incorporated into proteins during translation: Selenocysteine is incorporated into some proteins at a uga codon , which is normally a stop codon. Pyrrolysine is used by some methanogens in enzymes that they use to produce methane . It is coded ...

Genetic code

...the stop codons were given names: UAG was amber , uga was opal , and UAA was ochre . These names were...e (a variant also found in some green algae ), or uga codes for Cysteine. Another variant is found in s...no acids are substituted for standard stop codons; uga can code for selenocysteine and UAG can code for...

Genetic code

...the stop codons were given names: UAG was amber , uga was opal , and UAA was ochre . These names were...e (a variant also found in some green algae ), or uga codes for Cysteine. Another variant is found in s...no acids are substituted for standard stop codons; uga can code for selenocysteine and UAG can code for...

Har Gobind Khorana

...f amino acids. RNAs with four repeating units including UAG, UAA, or UGA, produced only dipiptides and tripeptides thus revealing that UAG, UAA and uga are stop codons. With this Dr.khorana and his team had established that the mother of all codes , the biological language common to all living orga...

UGA in Biological Dictionary

Termination codon

... codon which either favour, or compromise, termination efficiency. ... Translation termination is determined by the three stop codons (UAA, uga and UAG) ... of an amino acid due to the decoding of the termination codon by a natural tRNA. ... ... eukaryotic translation termination ,...

Stop codon

...e three STOP codons to an amino acid instead. ... discriminate when a uga codon should be used for selenocysteine rather than STOP . ... Stop ... Translation termination is determined by the three stop codons (UAA, uga and UAG) ... The key determinant for readthrough is located at the 3' side ...

Insertion sequences

...e elements and only code for proteins implicated in the transposition activity .... Article on the sequence that directs translation of uga as selenocysteine instead of using it as a ... A survey of metazoan selenocysteine insertion sequences " ... Gene Insertion | World o...

Insertion Sequence

... elements and only code for proteins implicated in the transposition activity .... Article on the sequence that directs translation of uga as selenocysteine ... SECIS element (SECIS: selenocysteine insertion sequence ) is an RNA element ... The IS1167 insertion sequence is a...

Apicomplexa

...ary with 5 pages of encyclopedia entries, essays, summaries, research information, and more. ... Coccidian ( Apicomplexa ) parasite infecting ... uga researchers have genetically dissected the way Apicomplexa divides and multiplies within its host cell. This approach should be broadly applicable...