U-M researcher calls for new approach to biological disarmament
...e looms over the 21st century. Where the threat is coming from, who actually has biological weapons and the role the U.S. is playing in the development and control of such weapons are addressed in a new book edited and co-authored by Susan Wright, a researcher at the University of Michigan's Institute for R...Bacteria can't do their thing if they don't have cling
... microbiology, biochemistry and structural biology coming together in a beautiful and complementary fashion," says Waksman. "As a result, we now have a much better idea of how bacteria produce pili, and that knowledge may lead to new and better treatments for UTIs and other bacterial diseases."...Funding for global protein database
...d not cope with the rising tide of new information coming out of high-throughput DNA sequencing, which has generated information about hundreds of thousands of new proteins from all species being studied, including human. Enter TrEMBL, a computer-annotated supplement to SWISS-PROT created and maintained by ...Sandia pursues biotechnology as new technology focus area
...on, Information & Math Center. Biotechnology - the coming together of traditional inorganic sciences of physics, engineering and chemistry with biology - is making new and complex types of research possible. Sensors, computing, nanoscience, robotics and materials science are all benefiting from the influx o...University of Pittsburgh focuses on building careers in womens health
...s throughout the University of Pittsburgh, who are coming together for this opportunity to train future researchers in women's health," said James M. Roberts, M.D., director of the Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) and professor and vice chair of research in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and...Hormones modify the type of proteins produced
... make a drug that could change the type of protein coming off a certain gene, he said. Although such discoveries are far in the future, he said drug companies are already considering the possibility in a variety of areas....DNA unzipping found to take at least two proteins, not one alone
...sassociate at the junction unless you have another coming in to bind to it." Ha and colleagues studied the helicases found in E-coli. They used the single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) technique that Ha and colleagues had created. Fluorescent dye molecules were applied as probes t...Science picks leads, feeds and story seeds (October 2002 edition)
... USGS National Wildlife Health Center said that in coming weeks, many birds will be moving to winter homes in the Caribbean and Central and South America and may take the disease with them, even if they are not sickened by it themselves. Some families of birds -- including migratory birds -- are not as susc...UCR scientists contribute to study that will help formulate new ways to combat malaria
...a can be used to improve control of malaria in the coming decades. "Malaria afflicts humans both in mortality and morbidity," said Dr. Peter Atkinson, associate professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, and a co-author of the paper. "The economic cost to affected nations is immens...Findings aid understanding of neurodegenerative diseases
...observed that the chaperone is binding to and then coming off the aggregate all the time. This dynamic relationship is unusual because the aggregate, the result of a genetic mutation, brings healthy and otherwise normal proteins to aggregate irreversibly with them. But this clearly is not the case with the ...Biodegradable plastics go to compost heaps, not landfills
...l University fiber scientist has a better idea. In coming years, he says, many of these discarded items will be composted. The key to this "green" solution, says researcher Anil Netravali, is fully biodegradable composites made from soybean protein and other biodegradable plastics and plant-based fibers, d...Collaboration to use proteomics to unravel mysteries of heart disease
...elationships that will benefit our patients in the coming decade". To assemble ideal comparison groups with and without coronary artery disease, the research team searched through the tens of thousands of patients entered in Duke's Databank for Cardiovascular Disease, -- the world's largest and longest-runn...Tagging the great white shark...and a few of his friends
...gic megafauna in the Pacific all be wearing in the coming seasons? How about the latest in microprocessor-based electronic tags, some no bigger than oversized cufflinks? It's all in a continuing effort to understand the habits of marine animals in that part of the world: what exactly lives where and wh...UCSD researchers fabricate tiny 'smart dust' particles
...ocery store scanner to tell us if the cloud that's coming toward us is filled with anthrax bacteria or if the tank of drinking water into which we've sprinkled the smart dust is toxic." The "bar code" on the silicon dust particles is basically a specific wavelength of light, or color, reflected from their s...Rare, smelly 'corpse plant' ready to bloom at Virginia Tech
...pse plant," is ready to bloom, probably during the coming week, and emit its intensely powerful stench. A blooming Amorphophallus titanum, or titan arum, is rare, according to Khidir Hilu of Virginia Tech's biology department, which operates the greenhouse hosting the plant. The plant's blooming drew more ...Climate and cholera: An increasingly important link
...hat ENSO will become stronger and more variable in coming years under a global warming scenario, so understanding how its connection to human disease changes will be increasingly important, says Pascual. Cholera, an intestinal infection with symptoms that may include diarrhea, vomiting and leg cramps, is ca...Nutritional supplements may combat muscle loss
...hat enter and exit the leg. "If 80 amino acids are coming into the artery and 60 are going out of the vein, we know that 20 were probably made into proteins in the muscle," said Dr. Douglas Paddon-Jones, also of UTMB and a co-investigator performing these studies. "We complete the muscle analysis by removi...Islet cell transplantation for diabetes turns corner
MIAMI, Aug. 27 More diabetic patients are coming off insulin following pancreatic islet cell transplantation than ever before, according to multiple studies presented today at the XIX International Congress of The Transplantation Society being held through Aug. 30 at the Westin Diplomat Resort and ...Shark fin soup: Scientists now can tell which kind of shark
...of determining which species the fins are actually coming from until now, that is. Researchers from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), working with partners from Nova Southeastern University, have developed a reliable genetic test that will identify shark species from their fins alone...$1.2 million grant backs study of environmental stress, cancer origins
...o a daily barrage of physical and chemical insults coming from the environment or produced by normal cellular metabolism," said Paul Doetsch, Ph.D., Emory Professor of Biochemistry and Radiation Oncology and Interim Associate Director for Laboratory Research, WCI. "These genotoxins can change the chemical ...