Computational Tool Predicts How Drugs Work In Cells, Advancing Efforts To Design Better Medicines
The ability to select and develop compounds that act on specific cellular targets has just gained a computational ally ?a mathematical algorithm that predicts the precise effects a given compound will have on a cell’s molecular components or chemical processes. Using this tool, drug developers can design compounds that will act on only desired gene and protein targets, eliciting therapeutic respo...Aquatic plants may hold key to advancing plant disease management
The way aquatic plants respond to plant disease and climate change may have applications for managing land-based agriculture, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS). According to David Schmale III, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, many aquatic plants possess unique mechanisms of resistance to microbial attack. "Through further study, plant pathologists may...Advancing the quality control methodology to assess isolated total RNA and generated fragmented cRNA
This Application Note describes how Gene Logic, Inc., has improved itsability to analyze the quality of total RNA and fragmented cRNA by usingthe Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer. The Eukaryote Total RNA Nano and Picoassays are currently being utilized to examine the 28S/18S ratio...Fact Sheet: Advancing Stem Cell Research While Respecting Moral Boundaries
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 20, 2007 - Today, President BushSigned An Executive Order To Strengthen Our Nation's Commitment ToResearch On Pluripotent Stem Cells. Scientists have recently shownthey have the ingenuity and skill to pursue the potential benefitsof pluripotent stem cell research - research on cells that have thepotential to develop into nearly all the cell types and tissues...