GIS, bioinformatics collaborations offer promising new perspectives
...eir needs in silkjkljmilar ways. According to GIS expert Michael Goodchild of UC-Santa Barbara, the meeting was long needed. "In GIS and bioinformatics there is increasing need to share data among researchers, policy makers, and the general public," he said. Goodchild noted that, more than ever before, the...Pioneering experiments testing effects of greenhouse gases on crops
...arch here," said Stephen P. Long, a photosynthesis expert and the Robert Emerson Professor of Plant Biology at the UI. "Up to now, experiments related to global warming on many crops have been done in locations on the periphery of major food production areas." Researchers want to know how soybeans may be a...DNA analysis of salamanders turns up new species under almost every log, UC Berkeley zoologists find
...tion afforded to other groups." Wake, a recognized expert on amphibians, especially salamanders and frogs, is turning up new species seemingly under every log. Even in areas that supposedly have been combed thoroughly - Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks in California - Wake and his colleagues are finding ...'Gene pill' patent extended to include all proteins secreted into blood
...to be adjusted or stopped easily," said German, an expert on diabetes. To demonstrate the validity of the method, the UCSF research team had to show, among other obstacles, that neither stomach acids nor intestinal enzymes would destroy the DNA. "People thought the oral delivery of genes might be possible i...Pneumococcus genome sequence completed
...dy of pneumococcus, is a co-author who acted as an expert consultant in the sequencing work. The sequencing was performed by the Rockville, Md.-based Institute for Genomic Research. The strain is a clinical isolate of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, or pneumococcus, taken from the blood of a 30-year...... this line of research. But the prevailing view of expert scientific opinion isthat it is far too early to k...curing themost up-to-date scientific data and best expert opinion on the state of the science and its likelydevelopment in the years ahead. It is critical tha...UC Davis biomedical engineering department awarded $12 million by Whitaker Foundation
...on Cherry, who joined the department July 1, is an expert on PET who will expand existing research in the area. Other areas of research in the fledgling department include development of microinstruments for medical use, studies of fluid dynamics in blood, and how white blood cells stick to other cells. A...Component of fly saliva makes promising Leishmaniasis vaccine
...iddle East. NIAID's Jos Ribeiro, M.D., Ph.D., an expert on the biochemistry of blood-feeding bugs, has spent more than 30 years studying how components of saliva not only help insects and ticks obtain their blood meals but also modulate the immune response. He and others have previously shown that labora...Widespread 'superbug' is expert at acquiring drug-resistance
... persistent lineage of Staphylococcus aureus is an expert at acquiring resistance to antibiotics. "The capacity of this bacterium to acquire resistance traits against antibiotics is amazing," says Alexander Tomasz, Ph.D., co-author of the paper and head of the Laboratory of Microbiology at Rockefeller. The...Botanists collect, study rare Hawaiian plants
...here else in the world. Ballard, an international expert on violets whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation, is collecting DNA samples of the flowering herb to determine what varieties have taken a foothold on the islands, and whether they threaten to wipe out other violets, including rare ...Conservation biologist Michael Lannoo to win Field Museums Parker/Gentry Award
Amphibian expert will give lecture Sept. 11 CHICAGO When it comes to the environment, frogs are the canaries in the coalmine.Because their thin skin is permeable to water and grunge, frogs and other amphibians serve as excellent bioindicators. The presence of abun...3rd animal species cloned at Texas A&M
.... "Dr. Fuller Bazer, an internationally recognized expert in swine reproductive physiology, and his group provided essential expertise that facilitated successful completion of the swine cloning project," added Piedrahita. Bazer holds a joint appointment with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences an......t Chris Cobbett of the University of Melbourne, an expert on plant processing of heavy metals. "The particularly satisfying aspect of this work is that studies in plants have led to the identification of a previously unsuspected mechanism of heavy metal detoxification in some animal species." Scientists pu...Harbor Branch scientist aids in Mexico manatee rescue effort
...ks to the efforts of a HARBOR BRANCH marine mammal expert who helped to rescue them and arrange for their thousand-mile journey to a new home. Dr. Greg Bossart, head of Marine Mammal Research and Conservation at HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Institution, was asked by the Mexican government to travel to Jonuta...DNA transcription is tuned to specific cells
...ith Robert E. Hammer, a mouse reproductive biology expert at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The researchers found that the defect in the knockout mice affected the granulosa cells that are part of the follicle surrounding developing eggs in the ovaries. "While that work nailed down the...Brain scan patterns identify objects being viewed
... recognition site might instead be specialized for expert recognition of any category of objects. By contrast, the NIMH group finds evidence for a different kind of organization. They show that information specific to numerous categories is more widely distributed and overlapping. For example, even with...Researchers discover secrets of Anthrax's killer toxin
...he University of Wisconsin's John Young, Ph.D., an expert on receptor molecules, joined forces with John Collier, Ph.D., a Harvard University specialist on anthrax toxin. Researchers have long known that anthrax toxin uses an unidentified receptor molecule as a type of Trojan horse, riding the receptor int...UC Berkeley expert on insect flight receives prestigious MacArthur 'genius' award
... evolutionary biology at Harvard University and an expert on how fish swim. "Michael is the only one I know who has quantified the forces on a moving biological appendage." In other experiments he and his laboratory colleagues dissect fly flight muscles and nerves to tease out their interconnections or to r......incipal investigator of the Seattle consortium, an expert in both environmental sciences and DNA-array technology, is Helmut Zarbl, Ph.D., member of the Hutchinson Center's Human Biology and Public Health Sciences divisions. His work focuses on using DNA-array technology to determine whether particular gene...Research shows compound reduces length of painful sickle cell crises
...ened crises," said Orringer, a sickle cell disease expert and executive associate dean of medicine. "The beneficial effect of PP188 was particularly apparent in two specific subgroups of patients. One group was patients who were already taking the drug hydroxyurea, and the other was children." A report on t...