Jefferson scientists use gene repair technique to change albino mice hairs to black
...se skin. The skin is a good organ to do this. It's accessible and easy to monitor for changes." The researchers also hope to improve the delivery system because mouse and human skin differ. In the gene repair technique, the gene alteration, known as a "point mutation," was in the gene for a key enzyme, ...New technique shows scalability of DNA computing
...solid surface, making the technology simpler, more accessible and more amenable to the development of larger DNA computers capable of tackling the kinds of complex problems that conventional computers now handle routinely. "It demonstrates DNA computing on surfaces, which provides a relatively simple pathway t......his work, including in his study - and thus making accessible - material available in Syrian and Armenian. Biology and medicine Dr. Thomas Behr (33), University of Göttingen, Department of Nuclear Medicine Thomas Behr works in the field of radioimmunotherapy with a view to developing radiopharmaceuticals...The future of planet earth: scientific challenges in the coming century
...ow these data will be integrated, managed and made accessible to a multitude of users. As the nation's largest civilian mapping agency, the USGS will be a leader in developing ways to bring together multiple layers of geospatial data (such as elevation, hydrographic, transportation, etc.) from a variety of sou...BioOne appoints first board of directors
...hair. "BioOne answers the need for electronically accessible research from societies already known for delivering high-quality material. The BioOne aggregation offers the critical mass needed to transform societies into competitive players in the publishing marketplace while maintaining a focus on research and...... and containing new data from Mongolia that became accessible just last summer, Brace showed how the native inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere fit into several different groups based on craniofacial patterns. For the analysis, Brace and colleagues compared a battery of two dozen measurements made on each sku...Drosophila genome sequence completed
... estimated 13,600 genes. The sequence data will be accessible to scientists worldwide through Genbank, the National Institutes of Health genetic sequence database. In an accompanying editorial in Science , Thomas Kornberg at the University of California, San Francisco, and HHMI investigator Mark Krasnow a...First awards made in NIH effort to understand how genes affect people's responses to medicines
... store data in a shared information library freely accessible to the scientific community. To protect participants' privacy, names and other identifying information will not be stored in this library. In addition to NIGMS, the other NIH components funding the pharmacogenetics research network awards are the ...$11-million grant supports study of how genes affect cancer chemotherapy
...ho will store data in a shared information library accessible to the scientific community. "The outcome of pharmacogenetics research has the potential to improve the health of all Americans, by making the medicines of today and tomorrow safer and more effective for everyone," said Dr. Rochelle Long, a pharmaco...Adding acetone to compost remediates chunk TNT contaminated soil
...treat the chunks of TNT to make the explosive more accessible to the microbes. In their research, the microbiologists took advantage of earlier studies that showed acetone could be used as a solvent to extract the TNT from the dirt. Unfortunately -- or fortunately -- they couldn't find a way to safely recover t...Ultrasensitive method for the diagnosis of prion diseases (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and BSE)
...prions in the cerebrospinal fluid, which is easily accessible for diagnostic purposes. Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research, this method was developed in a cooperative effort by two research groups, that of the Nobel laureate, Manfred Eigen of the Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in...Top biomedical researchers form Editorial Directorate for open-access publishing venture
...portant fields of life sciences can be made freely accessible throughout the world solely through electronic journals," says Dr Harold Varmus. "If this works as hoped, we will move much closer to achieving the revolution in scientific publishing that the Internet promises." A few more researchers and clinicia...Battery-operated pen quickly disinfects drinking water
...situations where drinking water supplies and other accessible water sources are at risk of being contaminated. The laboratory work for this project was completed at the School of Public Health, Environmental Health Microbiology Laboratories at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the direction ...Virtual reality tool quantifies physics of a doctor's touch
...feel during an exam. That information then will be accessible to the examining physician at a later time or to consulting physicians at another location, allowing them to experience the exam as though they had performed it themselves. They will report on the progress of their work July 23-24 at the World Congr...Valuable Arabidopsis data released through unique public-private partership
...ganism has such a rich collection of polymorphisms accessible to the academic and nonprofit sector. These data will greatly facilitate the isolation of genes by map-based cloning, among other goals." "The true value lies in integration," said Bruno Sobral, vice-president of scientific programs at NCGR. "Whe...Nurses, alert janitors boost seniors' mental health
...ntly see elderly people and the skills of a highly accessible psychiatric nurse can significantly increase seniors' mental health and stability. The research, reported in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, highlights the first large-scale, low-cost, medically successful approach to the dilemm...Journalists will get latest information at Addiction Studies Institute
... and research terminology and to translate it into accessible and interesting material for their audiences. The inaugural workshop in September will be designed especially for medical and science writers. "We want to help reporters learn the scientific language to help them write award-winning - and scientifi...AAAS seeks entries for online category in Science Journalism Awards
... (available from AAAS ) If the page is intact and accessible through the judging period (August 1 through December 15), provide the URL. Provide nine printed copies of the online Web pages, which must include the URL to the site. Provide a floppy disk containing the HTML for the entry. The AAAS Science Jour...Obese do not process vitamin D from sunlight as well as lean individuals
...utaneously synthesized vitamin D3. Thus, the more accessible oral form should be relied upon to correct vitamin D deficiency associated with obesity.......es will be deposited immediately into the publicly accessible database. Why would any right-minded scientist agr...nce public database. This database will be freely accessible to any scientist with a computer and Internet access. Effectively, according to Gilman, thousands o...