NIH awards $18.2m to The Burnham Institute to develop Center on Proteolytic Pathways
...rotease." Equally as significant, the Center will devise computational methods for predicting the behavior of entire biochemical pathways that connect to proteases. Another outcome of research at the Center will be the development of a platform for screening small molecular libraries against all protease...Joslin researchers clarify mechanisms for beta-cell formation
...ance. These findings may some day help researchers devise ways of staving off full-blown diabetes. Insulin resistance is a condition in which the body needs increasing amounts of insulin to function properly, including keeping blood glucose levels in the normal range. It is a major contributor to type 2 dia...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
...ion of juvenile Batten disease. "We may be able to devise a way to treat juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis [Batten disease] by finding an alternate route for delivery of GalCer to the cell surface," Boustany said. GalCer also interacts with the AIDS virus and beta amyloid, the protein responsible for ...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory gets $10 million from NIH to build virtual lung
...stitutional National Institutes of Health study to devise 3-D imaging and computational models of unsurpasse...e the Department of Energy lab and its partners to devise imaging and simulation techniques that promise a better understanding of the fate of airborne contam...Pollination find could lead to cordgrass control
...ntury. The study's findings are helping biologists devise new strategies to eradicate invasive species. Davis says inefficient wind pollination could also speed the extinction of rare plants....X marks the spot: Vector insertion is viral specific
...rchers understand how HIV enters cells in order to devise drugs to block that entry. "If there's a key interaction required for growth of a virus, then that would be a target to inhibit," says Bushman. HIV needs three enzymes - reverse transcriptase, protease, and integrase - to complete a full replication ...UK biotechnology business plan competition now open to students in the US and Canada
...generate their business plans. Each team will then devise a business plan for their imaginary biotech start-up company (can be based on hypothetical or actual science.) The winning team from North America will receive $1,000. For more details and a downloadable application, please visit www.uksciencetech....Laos camera traps capture tigers
... gathered, Johnson and her collaborators will help devise ways to minimize tiger depredation of livestock in villages within and outside of protected areas. Also, the team looks to set up management guidelines to protect the forest's ungulate species from overhunting by local villagers, a problem th...HIV takes cellular opportunities to aid infection
...tors that regulate HIV replication, we may be able devise new treatments for other viral infections, as well."...New research suggests therapeutic approach for autoimmune diseases
...ew. So, Dr. Roopenian and his colleagues sought to devise methods to reduce the number of autoantibodies available for tissue destruction. The research team focused on FcRn, whose normal job is to preserve antibodies in the circulation. "While a good thing in normal individuals, FcRn could be working too ...Mexican farmers effectively cultivate phenotypic diversity in maize
...ted in Mexico on maize varieties, or landraces, to devise a different, dynamic, model judged more compatible with agricultural development and closer to the real conditions in which these plants diversified under the constant action of farmers (2). Insofar as local landraces are still grown as crops on suff...Dana-Farber launches Center for Applied Cancer Science
...r genes and then use the genes' unique features to devise specific drugs or antibodies to target them. The center will also harness the intellectual and technological capabilities of the broader Harvard community as well as establishing more productive working relationships with scientists in the biotech an...Scientists crack genome sequence of a major parasitic pathogen
...ms by which the organism causes disease, and helps devise new strategies to detect, prevent, and treat C. parvum infection in humans and animals," said Vivek Kapur, BVSc, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, faculty member of the University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Veterinary Medicine, and di...Findings could aid efforts to harness nature for making drugs
...ds, and from an engineering standpoint, we want to devise a strategy for manipulating the organism so that it makes the chemicals we want it to make."...New study shows Neanderthals were not our ancestors
...apes and Old World Monkeys. "Our motivation was to devise a quantitative method to determine what degree of difference justified classifying specimens as different species," said Harvati. "The only way we could effectively do this was to examine the skeletal morphology of living species today and come up w...Scientists uncover novel role for estrogen in bone marrow
... insight will enable researchers and clinicians to devise therapeutic strategies to manipulate this process, either to increase or decrease proplatelet formation. The authors suggest that patients suffering from low platelet counts, such as those with anemia, bone marrow abnormalities, or undergoing chemot...Proteins may help identify patients who will respond better to treatments in certain cancers
...ic and genomic markers that could help oncologists devise better treatment approaches for specific patients, and may improve clinical outcomes. The studies were presented here today at the International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics organized by the American Association of Cancer R...Common genetic damages in non-dividing cells lead to the creation of mutant proteins
... errors occur. This research also may allow us to devise explanations for physiological changes that occur in non-dividing cells exposed to damaging environmental agents. "A number of studies, culminating in this one, show that DNA damages leading to TM are an important event that may account for the delet...$9.4 million NSF grant backs UCSB-led effort in bio-image informatics
... The information in the pictures we are trying to devise computerized methods for analyzing is two- and three- and more dimensional because we are looking for patterns defined by more than one parameter ('one' being sequence of nucleic acids). "Right now there are no tools to manage such image modalities--...Physiologists findings make fishing tournaments safer for fish!
...iological impact of catch and release fishing, and devise ways to ensure survival of the maximum number of fish." Dr. Tufts' research into "Physiological Changes in Largemouth Bass Caused by Live-Release Angling Tournaments in Southeastern Ontario" is featured in the current issue of the North American Jou...