Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...ates that UC Berkeley and Samoa will negotiate the distribution of the drug in developing nations at a minimal profit if Keasling is successful. "This may be the first time that indigenous people have extended their national sovereignty over a gene sequence" said Cox, director of the Institute for Ethnobotany at...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...ates that UC Berkeley and Samoa will negotiate the distribution of the drug in developing nations at a minimal profit if Keasling is successful. "This may be the first time that indigenous people have extended their national sovereignty over a gene sequence" said Cox, director of the Institute for Ethnobotany at...Florida Tech earns $50,000 grant to create coral database
... CoralData aims to increase understanding of the distribution and abundance of corals and could eventually provide information required to detect shifting patterns of degradation and recovery at both the local and regional levels. The ability to forecast the response of reef corals to environmental conditions,...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
... the mechanism works to target mutations, its wide distribution in nature, and features of the mechanism that relate to applications for using it. Miller's team is continuing to study the mechanism, to learn more about its biochemical properties, and to determine whether higher forms of life have similar cassette...UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
...e Laboratory in California, has studied the global distribution of rhodoliths, and is the author of numerous scientific papers on the subject. He says the discovery of rhodoliths in Alaska marks an important milestone in scientists' understanding of coralline algae. "If these beds are anything like those else...Molecule awakens and maintains neural connections
... that when we used antibody markers to look at the distribution of the protein, we saw it primarily in the dendrites, with very little in the axons," said Yuh Nung Jan. "If you look at areas of the hippocampus rich in dendrites, they just light up, whereas in axonal areas there is very little evidence for the pre......ancer, to explore its effectiveness, stability and distribution in vivo....Mitochondrial genes cause nuclear mischief
... against quickly. Combined with their differential distribution among human ethnic groups, this may make them valuable markers for tracking both long- and short-term trends in human evolution and migration....Analysis fingers causes of desertification
... include agricultural growth policies such as land distribution and redistribution. These variables, the analysis reveals, drive proximate causes of desertification such as the expansion of cropland and overgrazing, the extension of infrastructure, increased aridity, and wood extraction. Desertification, someti...Convulsions in worms mimic epileptic seizures
...ein caused similar convulsions and gaps in vesicle distribution as the LIS1 mutation. Caldwell's team now thinks that mutated LIS1 might misdirect the movement of synaptic vesicles. If vesicles fail to migrate properly to the end of the cell, GABA neurons might release less neurotransmitter and therefore not fire...Critically endangered monkey species plummets more than 50 percent since 1994
...s virtually no information about the existence and distribution of the species. In the early 1990s, hundreds of the langurs were found on limestone mountain ranges in a small area in northern Vietnam that comprises an area of only 5,000 square kilometers. The langur is distinguished from other largely black-colo...Unicellular organisms contribute more nitrogen to ocean that reported earlier
...or is playing a role in determining the abundance, distribution and activity of these unicells, Montoya explained. In the South Pacific, Montoya expects to find high rates of nitrogen fixation by unicells, he said. Their measurements already taken in the marginal waters of the South Pacific off the coast of nort...Carnegie Mellon scientists reveal ways of studying, resolving PCB contamination in US rivers
PHILADELPHIAThe distribution and movement of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in the environment has threatened scarce water supplies, ecosystems, tourism and the world's fragile fishing industry. In the three decades since PCB production and use were banned, sediments of many l...Newly discovered protein may be key to muscular dystrophy
...used fluorescence techniques to determine that the distribution of SNF-6 was altered in DGC mutants. They found that the DGC, imbedded in the muscle cell membrane, maintains the neurotransmitter transporter at the neuromuscular synapse. In this location, the transporter is available to clear excess acetylcholine....Institute for OneWorld Health nominated for the 2004 World Technology Awards
...gulatory approval in India next year, and finalize distribution plans to make the drug, paromomycin, an affordable, safe therapy to cure VL. The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first U.S. nonprofit pharmaceutical company develops new, affordable medicines for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect ...For Africa's valuable mahoganies, it's the soil, stupid
...t. Previous analyses of soils with respect to the distribution of these and other tropical tree species have looked at things like topography to infer soil conditions, completely missing the importance and complexity of soil chemistry. According to the lead author of study, WCS Conservationists Dr. Jefferson Hal......ill examine the impact of ecosystem changes on the distribution of the greater sage-grouse and the Gunnison sage-grouse in his presentation, "Changes in the distribution of sage-grouse in North America." Allen Rasmussen (Texas A&M University) will follow with a discussi...New England forests at greater risk from air pollution
...found in both regions are more restricted in their distribution in New England. "The effects are scattered in the Southeast, with over a dozen small 20- to 50-mile wide pockets of lower air quality," says Will-Wolf. "In the New England region, the poorest air quality is concentrated in fewer, larger areas. One sw...Duke study disputes idea that trees can 'relocate' quickly in response to climate change
...no further south," Clark said. "That's exactly the distribution you would predict if they were confined to areas near the ice and moved further north." Buffer zones near those ancient ice sheets are often envisioned as exceptionally cold and treeless. But Clark said his team's findings suggest there was a more be...Study reveals surprising 'remodeling' property of gene regulation process
...ly distributed throughout the genome and that this distribution was unchanging.The new study overturns this assumption, the UNC researchers said. "Except for at a few genes, it was traditionally thought that there was amonotonic organization of chromatin that did not vary throughout the genome," said senior autho...