Gene-expression atlas will provide new direction for brain and spinal-cord studies
...chinery that coordinates neural development and to chart the functional circuitry of the brain and spinal cord. All data from the Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas (GENSAT) BAC Transgenic Project, will be available online to researchers worldwide at http://www.gensat.org . Data derived from the project...Over land, sea and air, users give MERIS high marks
...hic company Mariscope Chilena has been using it to chart one very specific phenomenon: fish-killing algae blooms that threaten Chile's successful aquaculture industry. "My interest is not only scientific research but also to focus this work on a direct application," said Rodrguez-Benito. "MERIS works bett...Proteins may help identify patients who will respond better to treatments in certain cancers
...n independent prognostic factor for outcome in the chart head and neck cancer randomized trial: Abstract 733 A clinical study of head and neck cancer patients found that molecular markers -- the proteins that distinguish specific tumors -- allowed doctors to identify patients who would respond better to ra...Parasite's enzyme structure helps address a public health issue
...We can place every atom in the protein, and we can chart their interactions," says Anderson. "We learn how the protein is put together and which atoms bond to one another. It's important to learn the structure of a protein to figure out how it works." Researchers in Anderson's lab also work on the same e...New device can help defend against novel biological agents
...nal sensors so that the machine can simultaneously chart minute-by-minute variations in the concentrations of oxygen, glucose, and lactic acid, in addition to pH. The added capability reported in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Analytical Chemistry and now available online is important because the basic ...Genomic changes reveal evolution of SARS virus
...the evidence for the animal origins of SARS and to chart three phases of the virus's molecular evolution as it gradually adapted to human hosts, becoming more infectious over time. The earliest phase involved cases that appeared to be independent and featured viral genomes identical to those found in ani...Microbe's trick provides a template for willowy crystals
...otron Radiation Center, and a novel microscope, to chart the chemical processes that govern the formation of the crystals, revealing a production template that could be at the heart of the biomineralization process. "The key is finding a template," says Gelsomina De Stasio, a UW-Madison professor of physic...Mathematical rule said to be widely and wrongly used to forecast future beach erosion
...hematical equation that requires only a navigation chart and actually predict what sea level rise will do. The answer is because everybody thinks that if it's done mathematically it's sophisticated and state-of-the-art. "One of the big lessons here is that sometimes intuition based on experience on a given...Satellites map volcanic home of Africas endangered gorillas
...eGO) has been using Earth Observation resources to chart the region in order to help conservation bodies working in and around the parks. On 10 and 11 June representatives from BEGo partners including UNESCO, IGCP, the Wildlife Fund Eastern Africa Programme Office (WWF-EAPO) and Uganda's Institute of Trop...Satellites are tracing Europe's forest fire scars
... prioritised. And overlaying burn scar maps with a chart of forest biomass has the potential to highlight zones where new blazes would burn the fiercest. Once such relatively fixed environmental elements, known as static risks, are factored in, other aspects that change across time including temperature, ...T. rex owes its giant size to the ultimate teenage growth spurt
Field Museum scientist and colleagues chart first T. rex life history Press conference Aug. 11 at noon to announce findings CHICAGO--For the first time, scientists have determined the lifelong growth pattern for the Tyrannosaurus rex. T. rex reached its massive adult size due to an extraordi...Managing occupational exposures to potential bioterrorist agents
...of this practice, the Rusnak team developed a flow chart for evaluation of potential exposures and determination of the need for antibiotic prophylaxis. The group emphasized, however, that these are guidelines only, and that each case must be evaluated individually. The USAMRIID team also compared their re...Essential smell gene may provide key to new insect repellents
...gistered on the electroantennogram (similar to the chart that records heartbeats on an electrocardiogram), indicating that nerve cells had sent signals. The mutant flies, however, showed no response. All these results show that Or83b is essential for fruit flies to smell. "Not every gene that is broadly ex......extremely successful in helping doctors detect and chart the condition. We're now at the stage of trialling this much more rigorously in a clinical setting but are very hopeful that this will be a promising new tool that will help doctors screen and monitor the major diseases of the eye." "Some of the exis...