New statistical method links multiple genes to common complex diseases
...ltiple-gene risk factors. When such an analysis is expanded to take non-genetic risk factors into account, it should significantly improve a doctors ability to determine the risk that certain treatments, like hormone replacement therapy, represent for individual patients, he says. Most genes harbor common DNA......be incorporated into the MIRM, and with the MIRM's expanded role and mission, other university faculty will jo...rger institute will provide. I am betting that the expanded team of talented researchers will help bring our discoveries to bear in the clinic," noted Dr. Griff...Hendra virus has a growing family tree
...cterization of these new viruses has significantly expanded our knowledge about paramyxovirus evolution. A new virus genus has been established based on our recent studies, and several other viruses are yet to be classified." Retrospective analysis by the team has identified some intriguing patterns. CSIRO ...Monsanto and researchers celebrate first anniversary of sharing rice genome sequence data
...ide research community, the data has significantly expanded scientific knowledge and accelerated research proj... Ben Burr, co-lead of the IRGSP. "The result is an expanded knowledge base for the community of scientists working on rice and related cereal species." "Availab...NIAID awards grant to rapidly sequence the malaria mosquito genome
...ough the grant to Celera Genomics Group, NIAID has expanded its efforts to determine the genetic blueprint of Anopheles gambiae, a mosquito species that transmits the malaria parasite to people. As part of an international consortium of A. gambiae researchers and genome sequencing centers, Celera scientists ...Footprints of early human migration left in DNA
... that humans originated in Africa, from which they expanded eastwards between sixty and seventy thousand years ago. Ten to thirty thousand years later, the humans then in western Asia spread to many areas, including Europe and India, as well as going back to northern parts of Africa. As human populations cont...Climate plays bigger role than CO2 in make-up of plant communities
... enduring mystery about why the range of C4 plants expanded 7 million to 8 million years ago. The results suggest that climate factors may have also been important in ancient Miocene C4 expansion, Brenner said....Invasive gobies prevent sculpin spawning, impacting perch food chain
...lair. Since then, the aggressive, robust fish has expanded its population throughout most of the Great Lakes. Now, experts are concerned that the goby will spread from the Great Lakes water basin to the Mississippi water basin, further affecting North American native species and ecosystems. Round gobies loo...Alcohol researchers show 'friendly' virus slows HIV cell growth
...t toward slowing the progress of HIV infection. We expanded the previous research by looking at a very large group of patients followed at our clinic between 1988 and 2000 and found that HIV-infected people without GBV-C infection were 3.68 times more likely to die than those with GBV-C," Dr. Stapleton said. ...Controlled nerve growth factor aids brain cell transplant
...rive, without side effects." Mahoney and Saltzman expanded on a technique they previously developed to deliver NGF to the brains of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's. They filled the spaces of porous co-polymer microspheres, ranging in size from 0.5 to 7 microns (1 micron is 1 mi...NASA unveils spectacular suite of new global data products
... - March, April and May of 2001 - and is now being expanded to encompass a one-year span from November 2000 to November 2001. These advanced, scientifically useful products are an intermediate step between the earliest beta-quality products and formally validated global data sets. Yet even in this intermediat...Ecosystems slowed 1990s greenhouse gas buildup
...1990s. In the United States,trees and other growth expanded on abandoned agricultural land, whilea reduction in fires allowed forests to spread. Enhanced plant growthspurred by increasing carbon dioxide and nitrogen deposits--a processmore noticeable in Europe and Asia--also helped clear the air of CO2buildup...The Scientist and BioMed Central come together to publish high-impact magazine
...st (50,000 copies in the U.S.) will be immediately expanded with an additional 25,000 in Europe and Canada making it one of the most widely distributed life science magazines in the world. The Scientists readers are being profoundly affected by changes in Internet technology. These changes affect scientific...Discover the latest advances in stem cell therapy
...ng that umbilical cord blood stem cell populations expanded and purified through ViaCells Selective Amplification technology show engraftment ability in NOD/Scid mice, as evidenced by the presence of human DNA in their bone marrow. Presentation: # 2765, Monday, December 10, 5:15-6:30 PM Hear ViaCell rese...Keck grant launches Gulf Coast Consortia
...k Foundation funding to Baylor and Rice, and later expanded to include the UH and UT-H Health Science Center.Under the auspices of the GCC, this educational component will involve 90 faculty from six institutions, who will train more than 100 students in the latest advances in computational, mathematical, phy...Early detection device for exposure to chemical warfare agents being developed
...oid pain or distress. The primate studies will be expanded over the next six months to include giving memory tests to the monkeys who initially should actually have improved cognition because of the decreased breakdown of acetylcholine to obtain the EMG signal under confounding conditions. However, with......ase of uncontrolled cell growth is gradually being expanded by its additional characterization as a disease resulting from malfunctions in the process of cell death. Reductions in DAPK expression have been found in a variety of different types of human cancer. In this case, researchers will be searching for a...Science's Top Ten: nanoscale computing circuits named top scientific advance of 2001
...lic compound by a factor of two. Carbon buckyballs expanded with organic molecules became superconductors at 117 degrees Kelvin, suggesting new possibilities for superconducting electronics. Neuron Traffic Signals: Axons are the spindly arms of nerve cells that reach out to each other to form a neural commu...Common variation of 'klotho' gene associated with human life expectancy
...fairly homogenous group of Central Europeans, then expanded their investigation to include the Women's Health and Aging Study (723 Caucasians and 242 African-Americans over the age of 65 in the Baltimore area) and 646 newborns in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study. In these groups, the scientists discover......hed in 1998, will serve as the centerpiece for the expanded extension program....