Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
... the course of the three years, the Institute will hold a series of large and small symposia and workshops to develop new hypotheses on the causes of blinding eye diseases, which will touch on such known processes as blood vessel growth, inflammation, poor wound healing, and infections. In the second year...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...it takes 430 MB (that's 430 million base pairs) to hold the genome sequence for rice so most of the time scientists examine them in chunks. Since the examination of genomes is a fairly new study (rice, for example, was sequenced in 2002) much attention is given to identifying different genes and their fu...Agronomy, crop, and soil science societies to meet Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 in Seattle
...A) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) will hold their Annual Meetings, Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA, under the theme, "Science to Secure Food and the Environment." Over 300 scientific sessions, 75 symposia, and 2,800+ research papers/posters w...ICTP celebrates 40th anniversary, 'Legacy for the Future'
...e for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, Italy, will hold a two-day anniversary conference. Four Nobel Laureates to attend. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) will celebrate its 40th anniversary on 4-5 October. The anniversary conference, 'Legacy for the Future,' will be h......ada). The find may also represent a new species or hold clues to migration patterns of these animals. Once airlifted and transported by truck to the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, museum paleontologists will work to unlock the evidence within the fossilized ...Flexible pain relief with morphine-free poppy
A handful of genes in a morphine free poppy could hold the key to producing improved pain management pharmaceuticals. Norman, the 'no-morphine' poppy, is superior to morphine producing poppies as it produces thebaine and oripavine compounds preferred by industry in the manufacture of alternative high va...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...or. About a mile and a half down, the basin could hold answers to questions about the origin of life on E...cover new species there--species that perhaps will hold new and unique secrets to share with us," Fisher said. "The microbes at sites like these--thriving ...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
...f nanomanufacturing. " While shrinking dimensions hold the promise of exponential increases in data storage densities and other electronic, medical and energy applications, realistic commercial products cannot be realized without first answering the question of how to mass produce the technology," Busnai...Sugar-coated sea urchin eggs could have sweet implications for human fertility
...on assumptions about sea urchin reproduction don't hold true for all species of the invertebrate creature. The work could lead to better understanding of fertilization among mammals, including the potential to solve some baffling human reproductive problems. "The importance for people is understanding th...The search for a kinder, gentler chemotherapy
...rticles can encapsulate them, how tightly they can hold onto them and how closely we can regulate the uptake and release," said Lyon.......itor of apoptosis proteins" (IAPs), which normally hold in check the cell's chief executioner enzymes. These enzymes, called caspases, wreak lethal havoc in cells targeted for apoptosis. Smac's action is why it was named the "second mitochondria-derived activator of caspases." Specifically, Wang and his ...Skin stem cells give hairless mice hair
...dings also emphasize the promise that such studies hold for the treatment of such skin disorders as ulcers or injury, as well as the generation of hair follicles from stem cells, she said....Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance
...t strongholds of African apes. Gabon and the Congo hold 80 percent of the world's gorillas and most of the Central African chimpanzees. The population of apes in the Congo declined by more than half between 1983 and 2000....Anticancer drug zebularine specifically targets tumor cells
...arine can be selective toward cancer cells and may hold clinical promise as an anticancer therapy," the researchers wrote. Zebularine's inhibition of DNA methylation was first discovered in experiments on a filamentous fungus by Eric Selker of the University of Oregon, said Jonathan Cheng, an M.D./Ph.D. s...... yield losses in agriculture. Some crops, however, hold a natural resistance against powdery mildew like cultivars of the European barley with a mutation in the Mlo gene. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIZ) in Cologne have collaborated with colleagues from Great Bri...UCR earns $1.5 million grant to examine how engineered crop genes stray
...no stake in the policy outcomes," Angle said. They hold no patents on genetically modified plants. The study will provide solid scientific input to inform the public and the policy makers at national and international levels." Joel Martin, the interim dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and the Socia......ng the human genome -- matching the DNA codes that hold the secret to human life to the genes, proteins, physiologies, and behaviors that define human life. Such work holds great promise for future medicine, and scientists have been investigating how the genes in the human genome actually contribute to th...Other highlights in the August 18 JNCI
...ome 17. In addition, four other regions that might hold susceptibility genes were identified among specific subsets of families. Further fine mapping studies will be needed to identify any prostate cancer susceptibility genes in these regions, the authors say. Contacts: Wake Forest University: Karen Ric...Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won't work, study shows
...ationale that we've been using for cycling doesn't hold true." The study is based on numerical models that examined the mechanics of how microbial infections spread in hospitals and how the microbes build resistance to antibiotics. Bergstrom is the lead author of a paper detailing the work, which is ...... Scientists can remove, or "knock out," genes that hold the recipe for connexins, then study the results i...hy. Connors and Cruikshank said their research may hold the answer: Connexin shut-down in the brain....