Genome annotation experts take standardized test
...st). When the results were in, many programs had detected the genes in the region with 95% accuracy compared to the experimental effort. Furthermore, the programs made predictions of genes that had not been found in that effort, which researchers are now investigating. However, the programs were less accur...Gene therapy frees two children from sterile 'bubbles,' Science authors report
... As early as 15 days later, he and his colleagues detected new cells bearing the correct version of the gene, along with rising numbers of fully functional and diverse immune cells. Currently, the two patients have T, B, and NK cell counts comparable to normal children of their age. The scientists also teste...Hopkins scientists link human papillomavirus (HPV) to head and neck cancer
...rring squamous cell head and neck cancer. HPV was detected in 62, or 25 percent, of the tumors and, of the HP...or radiation therapy. "Although HPV DNA has been detected in head and neck cancers for sometime, its role in cancer development and the means by which HPV is ...Ultrasensitive method for the diagnosis of prion diseases (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and BSE)
...inbody fluids. For the first time, prions could be detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of CJD patients.C...versity Hospital in Gttingen, prion particles were detected for the first time in the CSF of several CJD patients in a German CJD study supported by the German ...Northwestern researchers clone gene responsible for inner ear motor
... and, when the researchers applied a voltage, they detected voltage-regulated movement in the kidney cells. This provided functional proof that they had identified the motor gene and protein. In recognition of the motor's speed, the team named the gene Prestin after the musical notation presto, meaning very f...Fact sheet: the Report on Carcinogens - 9th edition
...It is also emitted from plants and trees, has been detected in tobacco smoke and automobile exhaust, and was identified as a major endogenous hydrocarbon in human breath. The Report states the listing is based on findings from laboratory animal studies of isoprene where cancer was observed in multiple organ ...Spring meeting press conferences
...e underground nuclear explosions that would not be detected by the treaty's monitoring system. Their statements stand in contrast to an AGU position statement stating that the treaty's verification goals can be met. This press conference will review the current state of monitoring capability and discuss why t...Genetic method has promise for assessing environmental cleanup
...ck in a month and take another soil sample. If you detected the gene the second time, you would have some measure of how well the steps you took to improve biodegradation worked. You have some assessment tool to determine whether adding oxygen had any effect." In some ways, the method is better than simply me...Targeted genetics presents promising data from cystic fibrosis clinical trial
...0.1-0.6 vector-delivered gene copies per cell were detected 14 days following administration of a single vecto...olized tgAAV-CF. Neutralizing antibodies were not detected in bronchial wash fluid, although they were detectable in serum from some patients. Serum antibodie...Virus linked to Kaposi's sarcoma sabotages immune system with a new and unusual strategy
...population of the viral proteins - too small to be detected experimentally - travels to the cell membrane to cause MHC-1 to become vulnerable to the cell's endocytic machinery, or -- in a more radical proposal -- the proteins may trigger a signaling pathway from their internal location that induces the cell's...Researchers announce first preimplantation genetic diagnosis for a rare inherited disease
...emia (an excess of ammonia) which causes death. If detected and treated immediately after birth, a baby may live for longer, but death can occur unexpectedly at any time. The severity of the symptoms in girls carrying a deficient OTC gene varies widely from nothing to death in the neonatal period. Other s...Study suggests diabetics can use light to measure glucose
...y correlation between the amount of infrared light detected through tissue and glucose levels, they argued, was coincidental. "Our new findings represent what we feel is the first comprehensive demonstration that noninvasive measurements can be made with infrared light," Small says. Now that they know the ...Trans-pacific air pollution is worse than was suspected,says new study
...ls with theseunique signatures from Asia have been detected all the way tothe U.S. Rocky Mountains, Cahill said. The new data are the first results of a research projectnamed the University of California Pacific Rim AerosolNetwork, which was started in 1998 with $67,000 from theuniversity system. Cahill said ...... says his group's artificial nose has successfully detected mines in a test field. Now he is working on improving it-and it still has some catching up to do, as its canine competitor is between 10 and 50 times more sensitive....An "alarming" discovery for ruffe
...pass between organisms of the same species and are detected by an animal's sense of smell. Fish commonly use pheromones to coordinate activities, such as mating and schooling, in waters that are often turbid, vast, and relatively featureless. Alarm pheromones signal the presence of potential danger. "To th...Scientists reveal new HIV vaccine target
...the war against AIDS. By the time HIV infection is detected in humans, these fleeting, but effective, first lines of defense have already come and gone. Responses that arise later in infection may not be as successful at suppressing the virus. Watkins believes that regions of the virus recognized by killer T ...Artificial muscles release medicine from tiny implants
...es on the outside of the capsule. When the sensor detected high levels of glucose, for instance, it would trigger the battery to charge the conducting plastic, and the holes would open to dispense insulin, Madou said....Discovery of armored viruses may inspire new designs for nanotechnology
...ing field of nanotechnology. The armored virus was detected by an international team of scientists from Stanford, the Scripps Research Institute, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Their findings are published in the Sept. 22 issue of the journal Science. A typical virus co...Conservation under the shade coffee canopy: ant-bird interactions in Panama croplands
...cies of forest-dependent resident birds were never detected in the shade coffee areas which were distant from areas of continuous forest. The researchers say this finding may be the result of many factors. Many of the resident bird species observed in the study have nesting habits which make them vulnerable...