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 asthma, cancer, diabetes and heart disease. When the project was launched in October 2002, th...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 Stanford, MIT and Harvard has developed a new method for charting cellular signaling networks...Brain-mapping technique aids understanding of sleep, wakefulness
The power of a new technique to map connections among nerve cells in the brain has a UT Southwestern Medical Center scientist dreaming of solving the mysteries of sleep. By tracking which nerve cells in the mouse brain stimulate others, researchers in Japan and at UT Southwestern found that a type of neuron responsible for keeping animals awake receives inhibitory signals from neurons act...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. Genes are defined by their ability to generate a functional product. Thus the 'promoter' - a DNA se...Mapping neuron connections in the brain
The human brain contains from 10 to 100 billion neurons, and each has hundreds of connections with neighboring neurons. Making sense of these intricate connections is essential to understanding brain function, and the task is a monumental one. Thanks to a new theoretical approach to mapping neuron connectivity published in PLoS Computational Biology by Bagrat Amirikian, a researcher at the...Genetic Mapping of Disease Genes from Promega
Description:Edited by I.H. Pawlowitzki, J.H. Edwards and E.A. Thompson (1997) • This volume covers: Linkage in dominant recessive and oligogenic disease, Model free (non-parametric) methods, Tools for gene mapping and applications....National $100m pilot program to begin mapping cancer genome
The Cancer Genome Atlas is intented to be for cancers what the Human Genome Project was for people a map that will let scientists better distinguish different types of cancer. That means they could prescribe treatments that are more likely to work on patients with particular cancers, rather than more general treatment plans. National agencies are starting with a pilot project u...OpGen recruits CEO to further gene-mapping business
I think Joe Shaw comes to OpGen with a good history of raising serious funds, and we hope he continues to do the same here, said <a target="blank" href="htt...Dane County mapping software updated, available to public
The software is called GIS, or a geographic inf...MG&E Upgrades Mapping Application
Madison, Wis. -- a contract Tuesday to upgrade its existing FRAMME-based AM/FM/GIS application to G/Technology, Intergraphs geofacilities management solution. The initial deployment is scheduled for...Brain mapping technique to explain sleep
Researchers from US and Japan have been able to identify a type of neuron that is responsible for keeping the living //beings awake. By tracking the nerve cells in rats, the researchers had found that the identified type of neuron receives inhibitory signals during night that makes them inactive, and hence animals sleep. These neurons produce a chemical called orexin that keeps the ani...Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy aids in mapping protein structure
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has outlined the procedure// to gauge the strength of hydrogen bonds in proteins, the building blocks of life. The study was conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemists led by John Markley, Professor of biochemistry. The research focused on iron-sulfur proteins called rubredoxins. These prot...U.S. launching cancer gene-mapping pilot
If all the ways genes that go the wrong way to cause cancer were to form a a dictionary, scientists can decipher only part of the first page.// The U.S. government has set out to begin a $100 million US pilot project to unravel the genetic makeup of cancer, with the idea of speeding the discovery of gene culprits and treatments that are today more a matter of luck. Dr. Franci...Mapping Of Brain Highly Beneficial For Safer Brain Tumor Surgery
Mapping of brain during brain tumor surgery was found to be of much safer for patients by protecting them from the damage to speech and language centers, which happens// at times while performing such delicate surgeries. According to researchers, "intraoperative language mapping" involves operating on an awake patient and mapping the anatomy of the patient's language function during t...Researchers from Emory University Undertake A New Genetic Mapping
Researchers from Atlanta have announced that in a new project they've begun to draw out a new kind of genetic data that may help explain why some people// are susceptible or resistant to certain diseases. It has been reported that the synopsis of the project that is being undertaken by the researchers of the Emory University was released yesterday, the 10th August, and it is to be pub...Carto XP Electroanatomical Mapping System
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