Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...lace that will broaden the scope of investigation, yield fresh and possibly unexpected insights, and create solutions to biomedical problems that have not been solved using traditional, disciplinary approaches," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "By providing this sustained and systematic support...... risks and benefits must be carefully addressed to yield useful and safe technologies, but it has been accomplished before, and will be again."...The book opens on the first tree genome
...ioneering discovery-class science that promises to yield important societal benefits," said Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. "The poplar genome sequence will provide researchers with a critical resource to develop faster growing trees, trees that produce more biomass that can be converted to fuels, an...Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
..." However, the different viewing conditions didn't yield many different results. "It turned out that that changes in viewing direction had remarkably little effect on the observers' perceptions," Todd said. The only difference they found is that, when viewed from an angle, the torso looked "squashed" in o...TANGO: towards faster prognosis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
...oteins for medical or industrial applications. The yield of these production processes is often low, because the proteins stick to each other and are therefore difficult to purify. With TANGO, one can determine under what conditions the solubility of the therapeutic proteins is large enough to purify them ...Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits
...nes covered will stimulate fruitful discussion and yield fresh new insights into the evolution of vertebrates, including ourselves. Attendance to the CDB Symposium will be limited to approximately 120 general attendees. All those interested in participating are asked to submit an application for review by ...Breaking new ground in germ cell guidance
...nged biologists for years, but is now beginning to yield to their painstaking efforts toward identifying the underlying mechanisms that guide these travelers on their way. Kazuko Hanyu-Nakamura and colleagues in the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology Laboratory for Germline Development (Akira Nakamura,...The birth of reproductive health: A difficult delivery
...s hardest", says Dr El Feki. Such obstacles yield sobering statistics: 60 million unwanted pregnancies, 19 million unsafe abortions, and over half a million women dying from complications of pregnancy and childbirth every year. "Getting it right on reproductive health cannot wait another de...Stuck on you: Scientists lay bare secrets of bacterial attachment proteins
...d nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to yield detailed insights into the structure of the two nanometre-wide Dr Adhesins. Their work helps to resolve a long-standing debate amongst microbiologists; it leads to the reclassifying of the Dr Adhesins into a group of bacterial protein appendages kno...NIGMS funds Center for Quantitative Biology
...boration and curriculum, this center will not only yield new insights about complex biological processes, it will also train the research leaders of tomorrow." Called the Center for Quantitative Biology, the effort will focus on three key biological questions: how body patterns are established during an o...Better living through urban ecology
...oration of the urban watershed. Both projects will yield results useful to managers and decision makers, as well as educators and community groups in the affected water- and sewer-sheds. Michael T. Rains, Director of the USDA Forest Service's Northeastern Research Station, comments, "As we look ahead to co...New tool predicts how long pollutants will stay in soil
...ind out if the medicinal chemists' technique would yield better results, the doctoral student gathered 359 data points from published experiments involving 75 chemical pollutants. She then borrowed a medicinal chemist's method of converting each of the 75 pollutants to a mathematical representation. "We wo...Highlights of American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26
...N.C. "We believe that the metabolomic approach may yield diagnostic markers for many disease states as well as provide targets for drug discovery," adds Beecher. ( ANYL 192 , Wednesday, Aug. 25, 3:50 p.m., Loews, Regency C1, during the symposium, "Analytical Chemistry in the Health Sciences: Metabonomics."...Improving crops without genetic modification natural variation holds the key
Traditional plant breeders improve the quality and yield of crops by crossing plants with desired traits to...--reshuffling the same genetic variation can boost yield only so much. With the advent of biotechnology, plant scientists were buoyed by the prospect of impr......the regular application of fungicides prevent huge 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...Using statistics to decipher secrets of natural mutation
...species across the mammalian evolutionary tree can yield insight into how mutational patterns have changed over evolutionary time. They focused their analysis on a 1.7 million base pair DNA segment known as the "greater cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator region," which was sequenced in th...Stanford researcher's findings may shed light on common, deadly birth defect
... of both, a close look at a child's face can often yield clues about less visible problems within the skull: a cleft lip or other abnormal facial features can read like a map of brain development gone awry. Now for the first time, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University...Climate change could doom Alaska's tundra
...g the predictions: Boreal mixed forests could yield to a maritime and temperate conifer forest much like those of southeast Alaska, and cover huge areas of Alaska. The only large area of remaining tundra in Alaska 100 years from now will be on its north coast. Because of increases in precipita...Growing new breed of vaccine-producing plants to fight human diseases worldwide
...ing technology, adopted from the food industry, to yield uniform doses of heat-stable vaccine for oral delivery, Arntzen said. He provided a summary on the strategies used to ensure that plants used in vaccine manufacture will not be mixed with those used in the food chain, and on the rationale for adopt...Experiment station researcher looking for missing links in corn
...ut together the protein quality with a competitive yield grain. We want it to be a value-added trait that perhaps has good appealing characteristics. Farmers are not ready at this time for something that has the protein quality but is not a high-yielding variety." The research includes another component -...