Laboratory rat gene sequencing completed
...." The laboratory rat is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development and has made inestimable contributions to human health. The new data expand and consolidate its role as a research resource. The BN rat sequence is the third complete mammalian genome to be sequenced to high quality and...Carnegie Mellon U. conducts first comprehensive proteomic analysis of developing animal
...es in an animal's development, together with other experimental tools, can help uncover the network of functions and interactions required for a variety of developmental processes and disease states." Minden said....Study: Mimicking viruses may provide new way to defeat them
... The researchers note that the models are based on experimental data and decades of biophysical and biochemical studies. The analysis shows that when the parasitic molecule was absent, the virus had produced more than 10,000 copies of itself in less than 20 minutes after infection. In the presence of the parasit...New study of land use effects on amphibian populations gets underway at UGA laboratory
...ver the next five years. In the first year (2004), experimental arrays are being created at four wetlands in each region. Each experimental array is centered on an existing isolated or ephemeral wetland, with the terrestrial habitat adjacen...UNC's Siderovski wins pharmacology award
...ous award for young scientists in pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. This is Siderovski's third national career award since joining the UNC faculty in 1999. He was named a Year 2000 Neuroscience Scholar by the EJLB Foundation of Montreal and in 2001 received a New Investigator Award in Basic Pharmacologi...Building the whole cell from pieces
...es and cellular structures using computational and experimental techniques. "This study has built a solid framework for further research with the great advantage that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: new experiments will improve it continuously", Aloy says. "The number of machines that we can plac...Ohio State wetlands professor wins prestigious Water Prize
...n the decade we have already invested to study the experimental wetlands at the ORWRP before we can determine whether or not man-made wetlands work just as well as natural ones. That's one reason why it is so important to have this facility on a university campus." The Stockholm International Water Institute, a t...Study offers new model for breast cancer
...ors like those found in humans. "This is the first experimental model of human breast cancer in the mouse that we've ever had," says Charlotte Kuperwasser, lead author of the study and a former postdoctoral researcher in the Weinberg lab who now is an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Th...Natural enemies help scientists untangle tropical forest food webs
British ecologists have gathered compelling new experimental evidence on how tropical rain forest food webs are...the development of this theory, and its associated experimental tests, will be essential to understand the diversity and structure of insect communities, especially...Combination therapy drives cancer into remission
Researchers have achieved an experimental breakthrough in the simultaneous use of two or more agents for treating cancer, known as combination therapy. If it is shown to be safe and effective in humans, the therapy outlined by the new study is a promising general strategy for treating many c...Germ-free transparent fish open new window into gut development
...h. After months of trial and error with different experimental conditions, the team finally succeeded in developing germ-free zebrafish that survived until late juvenile stages. They discovered that several biological processes were disturbed in germ-free zebrafish. These impairments were similar to those the te...Newly cloned gene key to global adaptation of wheat
...ditional application of this discovery will be the experimental manipulation of cereals' flowering time. And a de... with flower formation. The researchers found that experimental down-regulation of the VRN2 gene accelerated flowering time in genetically modified wheat plants by ...Sequencing project results in six-fold reduction of effective size of maize genome
...imated to be 20 times larger than Arabidopsis, an experimental plant that is the first plant genome to be completely sequenced. However, maize probably has only twice as many genes as Arabidopsis. The rest of the maize genome is made up of a large amount of highly repetitive DNA including many mobile DNA element...Topical vaccine protects against inhaled ricin
BALTIMORE, MD March 8, 2004 -- An experimental vaccine that can be applied directly to the skin or via a patch protects mice from lethal exposure to aerosolized ricin. Researchers present their findings today at the American Society for Microbiology's (ASM) Biodefense Research Meeting. "No vacc...Top US scientist honored with prestigious award
...ing countries. Her research group has developed an experimental variety of transgenic maize resistant to the Maize Streak Virus, a disease which has devastating effects on smallholder agriculture, in parts of Africa where maize is the staple food and livestock forage crop. Christine Petit , Professor in Genetic...NETs protect against pathogenic bacteria
...yndrome. The scientists were able to find NETs in experimental cell cultures as well as in tissue samples of dysentery and human biopsies of appendicitis....Researchers discover 1.2 million new genes in Sargasso Sea microbes
...ational infrastructure for systems biology -- both experimental and computational -- needed to achieve this understanding. The enormous amount of data to be collected by Genomics: GTL researchers dwarfs the data collected in the Human Genome Project. However, no amount of additional information will in itself y...DNA chip will catch beefed up chicken
...potential of the test and comparing it with a more experimental system built by Agilent of California. However, determined food fraudsters may be able to outwit the chip. It has been claimed that some producers are treating beef or pork extracts to destroy the DNA before they add them to other meats. If the chi...Stanford study questions identity of alleged Romanov bones
... de Knijff, noting that Ivanov refused to disclose experimental details and claimed that the handkerchief DNA was degraded and hence analysis was unfeasible - an assertion that other scientists dispute. These sorts of irregularities provided the original impetus for Knight's entry into the forensic debate. About ......d brightness of NSLS-II will lead to many advanced experimental capabilities in a wide range of scientific disciplines including materials and nanoscience, life sciences and chemistry, geosciences and more. The program will feature an overview of NSLS-II; a perspective from Pat Dehmer, Associate Director of the D...