Washington state researchers receive award for making genetic analysis easier
...osciences Inc. Researchers are using DNA probes to decipher the human genome, diagnosis diseases such as leukemia, and screen for inherited diseases. The American Chemical Societys Industrial Innovation Awards recognize individuals and teams whose discoveries and inventions contribute to the commercial succes...Super hearing in flies may improve hearing aid technology
...ne sound - a task that would enable them to better decipher what one person is saying in a crowd of people. "Hearing aids made with directional microphones would make selective listening much easier," says Mason. But he cautions that more research needs to be completed before this potential can be realized. T......n Indo-European, languages. Geneticists trying to decipher anthropologically murky origins have been limited by cumbersome methods for genetic sampling, but this month Ann-Christine Syvnen and colleagues from the National Public Health Institute in Finland report an efficient method for 'gene-typing' individ......eveloped a simple computer algorithm that can help decipher the heart's complexity and use it to distinguish between diseased and healthy hearts. Under normal conditions, timing between heartbeats changes instant to instant in a seemingly random way. Actually, though, scientists are finding those beats have ...Scientists isolate premature ovarian failure gene
... decades later. The finding could help researchers decipher how genetic processes during fetal development can have immediate manifestations at birth and also lead to certain age-associated changes later in life. The newly identified gene, called FOXL2, is required for the normal eyelid development in newbor...Penn researchers protein's link to leukemia
...is understood, it will be easier for scientists to decipher what the protein's presence means when it appears as part of SET-CAN in cancer cells, Chakravarti said. "Previously, neither the function of SET nor CAN was understood. Now that we understand at least one function, we can investigate whether the SE...Scientists discover potent protein that prevents HIV infection
... Whitehead Institute used x-ray crystallography to decipher the architecture of gp41. This protein plays a key role in allowing the virus membrane to fuse with the membrane of the cell it is attacking. Scientists have long targeted gp41, hoping that a drug aimed at this protein could nip HIV infection in the ...Science's Top 10: genome sequencing named top scientific advance of 2000
...mune system. In the 21st century, researchers will decipher whole families of genes and whole pathways of interactive proteins. These advances will bring with them a host of ethical questions that we have only begun to address. Yet, genome sequencing's potential for advancing human health and our understan...DNA arrays decipher genome's master switches
...ented a powerful new microarray technique that can decipher the function of master switches in a cell by identifying the circuit, or the set of genes, they control across the entire genome. The researchers show that the technique can correctly identify the circuits controlled by two known master switches in y...NHLBI launches genomic applications initiative -- $37 million awarded in initial effort
...ply this knowledge, however, scientists must still decipher many of the individual genes and their specific functions. "The PGA initiative is one of the NHLBI's most ambitious, wide-ranging efforts to date," says NHLBI Director Dr. Claude Lenfant. "Our challenge is to clearly identify the subsets of genes li...Five New York City research institutions collaborate to study 3-D structures of proteins
...GRC) $4.5 million to develop high-speed methods to decipher the three-dimensional structures of proteins. The award will fund the first year of a five year pilot program launched by NIGMS called the Protein Structure Initiative The member institutions of the consortium are Albert Einstein College of Medicine,...Whitehead Institute receives National Science Foundation grant to sequence Neurospora
... developed to sequence the human genome to rapidly decipher the sequence of Neurospora." Like the fruit fly, Neurospora has long served as a powerful laboratory model to study genetics and biological mechanisms. In fact, it was with Neurospora that scientists first demonstrated the concept that one gene...NIGMS Structural Genomics Awards scale up protein structure studies
...d perhaps find ways to control their action--is to decipher their three-dimensional structures. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has developed a major new initiative to determine the structures of thousands of proteins over the next decade. Work toward this goal will be divided in......ene database and develop new and improved tools to decipher this genetic Rosetta Stone of immunology. John A. Hansen, M.D., at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in Seattle, will lead the project. According to Dr. Hansen, head of FHCRC's Human Immunogenetics Program and a professor of medici...Scientists map first structure in important family of proteins
...models that will guide us in future experiments to decipher how those other receptors work," said the paper's lead author, Dr. Krzystof Palczewski, Bishop professor of ophthalmology in the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Tetsuji Okada, a postdoctoral fellow in Palczewski's laboratory, initia...Scientists decipher structure of toxin responsible for botulism
...to find preventive measures," Swaminathan says. To decipher the toxin's molecular structure, the scientists bombard crystalline samples with high-intensity x-rays at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), one of the most widely used scientific facilities in the world. By studying how the x-ray...Even the Immune System works with Pincers
Max-Planck-Scientists decipher central protein complex in the human immune system / Relevance for future therapies in allergies, autoimmune diseases and transplantation medicine A key building block of the human immune system was identified up to the atomic...Rosetta Inpharmatics approach enables identification of gene functions
...iate genetically modified organisms can be used to decipher the function of previously uncharacterized genes. As described in Cell, the use of this approach enabled Rosetta Inpharmatics to identify a new drug target that had not been previously identified. Rosetta Inpharmatics' scientists were able to generat...What makes cells tick detailed by Dartmouth researchers
...ene, pull it out and further explore it. They can decipher the sequence of its chemical units and determine how it acts. From his studies, Dunlap says, "we see what proteins might be good candidates for genes that might be mutated in sleep disorders and where to start looking." The clock mechanism, called a...Microbes on Earth may be key to identifying life on other planets
... With that environmental context, we can start to decipher the geological record and to reconstruct ancient environments." Geochemical evaluation of the spring water and underlying travertine has suggested that inorganic processes such as carbon dioxide de-gassing, temperature decreases and possibly evaporat...