Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
...s today announced the founding of an international consortium to sequence the banana genome within five years. ...ly. "By building a strong public and non-profit consortium that unites experts in genomics and plant biology, we hope to be able to approach the private sector...... or rodents. Established in 1996, the JGI is a consortium of scientists, engineers and support staff from three Department of Energy national laboratories Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. The institute performed the sequencing for three human chromosomes 5, 16 and 19. Other member...Doctors perform more IVF treatments, but multiple births decline
...uesday, 3 July) that figures gathered by the ESHRE consortium of IVF researchers from 18 European countries show...good news." This is the second year that the ESHRE consortium of IVF researchers has collected data from the European countries that are running registers on thei...Identification of genes may tell how plants recognize pollen
...apid life cycle. In December 2000, aninternational consortium of scientists announced that it had sequenced theentire Arabidopsis genome, an achievement that plant scientists believe will lead to advances inunderstanding plant physiology. Earlier experiments byPreuss and others have shown that switching or a...X-ray crystallography at Advanced Photon Source
...l to focus on biological research. The goal of the consortium is to determine the atomic structures of very large molecules, or macromolecules, such as proteins. However, Steven Ealick, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell and NE-CAT's principal investigator and organizer, noted that "the re...New software streamlines the search for disease-causing genes
...hat to do with them," Usuka observes. "So far, the consortium has identified 1.42 million SNPs in humans. In less than a year we have identified 3,000 mouse SNPs and will soon be closer to 10,000. Imagine how the accurate the software might be when that number grows to a million."...New U. of Colorado research may reduce renewable fuel costs
...n St. Simons Island, Ga., CBPR is an international consortium that applies university biotechnology research to industrial and societal needs for the development of new and improved products and processes. Since 1989, CBPR has funded more than 240 research projects with more than $30 million in federal funds t...So just how many genes do we have?
...dollars on a wild goose chase? Or could the public consortium and Celera end up delaying the development of medi...ence (New Scientist, 17 February, p 4), the public consortium and Celera estimated that there are about another 10,000, based on computer programs that search raw...Penn State to lead Atlantic Slope Consortium with a $6 million grant from U.S. EPA
...ronmental Resources Research Institute will lead a consortium in an integrated assessment of the watersheds and ... and estuaries in the region. Participants in the consortium include the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, East C......nter provides funding for membership in a research consortium that enables investigators to use the Berkeley synchrotron, a machine that accelerates particles close to the speed of light, for structural-biology studies. A synchrotron provides a more intense diffraction pattern than standard X-ray crystallograph...Baylor College of Medicine garners research grants to sequence rat genome
...s after the NHGRI Human Genome Project, the public consortium in which Baylor HGSC played a major role, announced that it had sequenced and published the analysis of its nearly completed DNA sequence map of the human genome. Celera, a private consortium, also announced the publication of its interpretatio...Maryland crab shell team wins top engineering award
..., will receive the top ESB award. The Society is a consortium of 20 mid-Atlantic engineering societies. At center stage of the project is a new crab shell processing plant, Chitin Work's America Inc. in Cambridge, Md. It is a direct result of research at UMBI's Center for Agricultural Biotechnology (CAB) and...San Francisco, USA - DIVERSITAS, an international consortium of non-governmental and inter-governmental scientific research organizations, has launched the International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY). Scientists, biologists and ecologists around the world have committed to making 2001 and 2002 breakthro...Amidst genome data, a practical tool for researchers
...collaborating institutions in the federally funded consortium include the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (represented by Dr. Norma Nowak) and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (represented by Dr. Barbara J. Trask). The completion of the working draft of the human genome was announced in June 2000 at a W...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
... for Electric Reliability Technologies. PNNL is a consortium member. WAMS' initial development was supported by DOE and the Electric Power Research Institute. DOE named WAMS one of the top 100 innovations since that agency was created in 1977. Biotechnology strikes out chlorinated solvents - A Pacific Northw......t Whale Winter Critical Habitat Area. The EWS is a consortium of nongovernment researchers, state wildlife agencies, the U.S. Navy and other partners in the Northern Right Whale Southeast Recovery Implementation Team. The EWS uses spotters on shore, on ships and in aircraft to detect and keep track of right wha......ion has awarded $15.11 million to an international consortium of researchers, led by a University of North Carol...pal investigator for the project, which involves a consortium of more than a dozen faculty and scientists from UNC-CH, Georgia State University, the London School...Scientists report first complete genome sequence of a plant
...buted among five chromosomes. One year ago, a U.S. consortium lead by McCombie reported the DNA sequence of chro...Missouri, were principal investigators in the U.S. consortium that reported the chromosome 4 results last year. A team of scientists at The Institute for Genomi...First-ever complete plant genome sequence is announced
...medicine and energy. This achievement, by a consortium of scientists called the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative (AGI), becomes public on the cover of the journal Nature's December 14 issue, which includes four articles describing how researchers sequenced the entire genome of this weed in the mustard famil...Scientists decode genes of microbe that thrives in toxic metals
... during what was called Microbial Month. JGI is a consortium of several DOE laboratories that aims to develop and use new sequencing and computational technologies with the goal of discovering and characterizing the basic principles and relationships underlying living systems. The research on Ralstonia was fun...