Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
...redibly successful microorganism. It's exciting to imagine the novelty in the oceans that still await our discovery." Other co-authors were Winnie Lau, Micaela Schnitzler Parker and Tatiana Rynearson, University of Washington; John Berges, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Chris Bowler, Anton Montsant and A...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...a pioneer is the highest accolade I could possibly imagine receiving. I'm on cloud nine to hear that I was selected to receive one of the inaugural Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health." One of the most significant turns Dr. McKnight took in his career was to move from his early work on ...US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
...ies change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living together in harmony. WCS is committed to this work because it believes it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth....Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
...oo soon; it is far more likely that we cannot even imagine the full ends of the discoveries we have started to make. WELCOME TO THE GENOME: A USER'S GUIDE TO THE GENETIC PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE is an essential guide for anyone interested in better understanding and participating in the incredible explorat...Proteins show promise for mosquito control
...n Lan joined the faculty of UW-Madison) I couldn't imagine having five viable compounds in hand," Lan says. "This is the first example of looking at target proteins for pest management. No one has done this with insects."...Maine-based biophysics institute gets funding for first US-based 4Pi nanoscale microscope
...and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. "Now, imagine being able to see the football itself, in 3D. The 4Pi represents a comparable increase in resolution, only on a nanoscale." "In addition to applications involving imaging of genes and nuclear structure," says Kenneth A. Ault, MD, director of MMCRI, ...ASU researchers demonstrate new technique that improves the power of atomic force micrscopy
...www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf "If you imagine that all proteins are shaped like Lego blocks, then conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM) is feeling the Lego blocks on the floor, but it can't tell the difference between one block and another," Lindsay explained. "What we have done, is allow t...Evolvability could be a driving force in drug resistance
...frequency and severity of environmental changes -- imagine rapid shifts between heat waves and cold snaps or heavy rains and droughts -- they saw an increased likelihood of survival among proteins that mutated more frequently. "Selection for evolvability would help explain a growing body of experimental resu...Why some animals have smaller eyes: Lifestyle matters
...a, has especially small eyes for its body size. "I imagine gorillas don't have to worry whether we think they're cute," Howland says. He hopes the eye-size research, which was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, will encourage other investigators to ask the questions: Is that a big eye or a small...Full promise of genomics in disease research yet to be realized
...and disease, to the extent that it is difficult to imagine what the science would be like today in the absence of genomics," says Richard J. Roberts, Chair of the Colloquium Steering Committee. "Today a genome sequence is the first priority when investigating an emerging infectious disease, and vaccines a...Gene defects found in age-related macular degeneration
...guish a particular group of AMD patients, we could imagine exploring whether they do better with a certain type of treatment than other AMD patients," he said. "Such distinctions are important, because pharmaceutical companies might already have a treatment that works for perhaps five percent of AMD patients...Researchers discover how worms' noses sense oxygen
... how organisms sense and use it, and little did we imagine that studying NO would lead us closer to understanding the fundamentals of oxygen utilization." The work was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and LBNL. Other coauthors of the paper are Andy J. Chang of UCSF, Jennifer S. Chang of the U......nternational affairs at Princeton University. "But imagine the difficulties faced by families in Bangladesh. An area where about 8 million people now live would be underwater if global sea level were to rise half a meter. Where are they going to go?" Science Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy agreed. "It shoul...New research at UNC shows ribosomes do not function as conventional enzymes
...owering the energy barrier, Sievers said. "One can imagine this as two paths over a mountain," she said. "The path without the enzyme is much higher, and so it takes more energy to cross the mountain. The path on the enzyme is lower, and so it is easier to follow it." Energy has two components, Sievers said....Analysis uncovers critical stretches of human genome
...ation, or "hyper-repair." But it is even harder to imagine a mechanism for that." Further studies, said Haussler, will involve not only more detailed comparisons of the conserved elements, but also laboratory studies exploring their functionality....Laser technique used to build micro-polymeric structure on a human hair, without harming it
...ection. "On the level of individual cells, one can imagine making devices that can tether cells to a surface ...e constructed from biocompatible materials one can imagine applications in drug delivery and medical monitoring, among other areas." Three-dimensional structur...UCLA chemists develop new coating for nanoscale probes
...ities are endless," Weiss said. "For example, just imagine the potential for this process in cancer treatment, if a hybrid nanoparticle could be created that was specifically targeted to identify and destroy cancer cells in the body." ...Spiders make best ever Post-it notes
...d of the research group in Bremen. "You could also imagine astronauts using spacesuits that help them stick to the walls of a spacecraft just like a spider on the ceiling." The total van der Waals force on the spider's feet is very strong, but it is the sum of many very small forces on each molecule. The re...Delirium high in ICU patients, leads to death, morbidity
...delirium daily in the United States alone, you can imagine the magnitude of this problem worldwide," he said. Delirium in ICU patients has many potental causes, Ely said, some of them overlapping and combining in some patients. They include: underlying dementia, sleep deprivation, the patient receiving psyc......nucleic acids in prions. Many scientists could not imagine any way for an infectious agent to affect host animals in different ways without using DNA to pass along different sets of instructions to living cells. Even after Prusiner won a Nobel Prize for Medicine for his ground-breaking prion work in 1997, m...