Map of genes in plant root yields new tool for exploring tissue development
...e Arabidopsis root offers an easily observable and accessible model of the development of complex tissue from a single cell. Unlike the impossibly intricate convolutions and migrations of developing animal tissues, each new cell in the Arabidopsis root arises conveniently from its neighbor. Also, said Benfey, t...Call for Entries: The 2004 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award
...elligent, perceptive journalism written in broadly accessible language plays a primary role in communicating progress in biomedicine to the public, which both supports and is the beneficiary of basic biomedical research. For these reasons, journalistic excellence in this area is of the highest importance and de...Regenerative chemical turns muscle cells into stem cells
...on processes whereby healthy, abundant, and easily accessible adult cells could be used to generate stem-like precursor cells, from which they could make different types of functional cells for repair of damaged tissues. Reversine is one of the first steps in this process. However, tissue regeneration is ye...The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa's Notorious Man-eaters
...lines that comprise natural history and make them accessible and intelligible to the public," Dr. Patterson said. "And that's what The Field Museum is all about." ...Rice and M. D. Anderson establish Center for Computational Cancer Research
...implify the applications to make them more broadly accessible to cancer researchers. "Our goal, of course, is to effectively treat and even prevent cancer, and with this center, we will be developing more efficient strategies for deciding how to do that," said the other co-director of the center, Donald Berry, ...Protein data bank opens new era with broader support
... other macromolecules in its growing -and publicly accessible - collection. Its holdings profile DNAs,RNAs, viruses, and various proteins, such as enzymes central tophotosynthesis, growth, development and brain function. This month, with a doubling in the number of the federal agenciessupporting it, the PDB be...European Virtual Institute for Genome Annotation receives 12 million Euro
...tions generated will be integrated and made freely accessible to all through a single portal on the web, and will be used as a means of guiding future experimental work. "Experimental validation of a statistically significant subset of computational predictions will be an integral part of the process, leading ...Microbial biofilm yields community genomes, metabolic clues
... float at the airwater interface; and make readily accessible the oxygen,carbon dioxide, nitrogen and iron necessary for respirationand metabolism. While researchers are unsure which organisms are responsiblefor creating some key polymers, they found within theLeptospirillum strain-but not in the Ferroplasma s...Skin regeneration not isolated to epidermal stem cells
...t proliferative potential of readily available and accessible keratinocyte progenitors of the skin for cellular therapies, thereby removing the need for difficult and limited stem cell selection....JCI table of contents, February 2, 2004
...t proliferative potential of readily available and accessible keratinocyte progenitors of the skin for cellular therapies, thereby removing the need for difficult and limited stem cell selection. TITLE: Extensive tissue-regenerative capacity of neonatal human keratinocyte stem cells and their progeny AUTHOR CON...A joint effort against the Oriental boil
...ear East: It offers the sole possibility of freely accessible financing for the Palestinians. Although the Israeli universities are financed by the state, they rely on third party funds to a significant degree. Since the programme's inception, 25 projects have been funded. Of these, 17 have been completed and a...Major boost for European zebrafish research
...he relevant gene activities. This database will be accessible through the project web site ( www.zf-models.org ) and will be open to scientists and the interested public world-wide....New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna
...earchers and educators worldwide. A new, publicly accessible database developed under the Sloan Foundation's Census of Marine Life program will allow these stakeholders to see the distribution and movements of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals in open ocean environments (see www.obis.env.duke.edu ). R...HUPO scientists tackle human blood plasma proteome
...e as a major initiative, because blood is the most accessible human tissue, making it feasible to obtain samples...cimens will be stored in a master database, freely accessible to all, at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge, England. EBI maintains and anno......89, this is the first time it has been made easily accessible for the general public, the researchers say. Resolution on the satellite images is one square kilometer, enough to show vegetation color without violating people's privacy. Hutchinson says the capability of the site is somewhere between weather info...Insights gained from molecular modeling may lead to better insecticides
...e aromatic rings are missing, creating a much more accessible and flexible catalytic site. As a result, toxins of many different shapes and sizes can enter and be detoxified. Since the toxins are not as rigidly restricted, they are not detoxified quite as efficiently as some of the toxins encountered...World's first databank for all living systems
...data." Making the Library of Life's huge data set accessible over the Web also will require a number of technical breakthroughs. A new language will be created integrating classification schemes of different life science disciplines, making it easy to navigate between the biology of the small and of the large....Drugs limit deadly side effects of graft-versus-host disease
...etylation relax and unwind chomatin making the DNA accessible for transcription. Enzymes that promote deacetylation, on the other hand, make chromatin wind tighter around histones. This makes the DNA unavailable for transcription. "HDAC inhibitors prevent deacetylation by blocking a binding site the deacetyla......orking group for MIPAS level 2 data, but it is now accessible to everyone." Another near real website service called Belgian Assimilation System of Chemical Observations from Envisat (BASCOE) assimilates MIPAS data as well, forecasting the chemical concentration of ozone as well as 56 other chemical species. ......d into GenBank, from which the data will be freely accessible to researchers worldwide. Recent outbreaks of avian flu have accelerated scientists' interest in learning more about the chicken genome and how genetic variation may play a role in the susceptibility of different strains to the disease. In addition t...