Merging Physics And Neuroscience: First Evidence Of Self-Organized Criticality In Brain Networks
...lp identify disease processes. "The waves are the fingerprint showing that the system hasorganized itself into criticality," said Jung. "This appears to bethe natural state of brain tissue. The question is what happens ifthere is something wrong with the tissue." Phenomena May Provide Clues to Disease Proces...Whitehead Receives $7 million NIH Grant To Build High-Speed Sequencing Machines
...ow law enforcementofficials to do an elaborate DNA fingerprint in about 2 minutes. The technologyhas already been proved in this area, and Drs. Ehrlich and Matsudaira areworking toward building a portable device with a grant from the NationalInstitute of Justice...."Protect Wild Dolphins" License Plate Sales To Fund Wild Dolphin Research Efforts Throughout Florida
...specialized software program (similar to the FBI's fingerprint matchingsystem), currently under development, will allow researchers to input images forimmediate identification of individual dolphins, thus expediting the entireprocess of comparative photo-id analysis throughout the State of Florida and theentire ...Duke researchers discover protein that can alert immune system to fight cancer
... thymus. "The peptides appear to act as a fingerprint of the cell," Nicchittasaid. "They tell the immune system where to marshal its forces. We are now usingthat property of these chaperone proteins to educate the immune system to fightcancer." These molecular calling cards act as immune stimula...... waters. "We can use that difference as a chemical fingerprint of which waters the larvae have inhabited," he said. Although it is difficult technically, Lea's lab can analyze quantities as small as 10 millionths of a gram to determine one part per billion. The authors want to see their data used in developing...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
...the FBI with consolidation and cost-savings of its fingerprint database. James W. Cronin, Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus of Physics, The University of Chicago, for fundamental contributions to the fields of elementary particle physics and astrophysics and as a leader in creating an international eff...Rosetta Inpharmatics approach enables identification of gene functions
...he toxicologist, each pathway may also indicate or fingerprint potential adverse effects." According to Dr. Ulrich, "Traditional methods for discovering and exploring new targets and for examining drug effects, both beneficial and adverse, are quite time-consuming." Dr. Ulrich emphasized that "time more than ma...DNA test solving Chesapeake's toxic mysteries
... Maryland, and North Carolina. The result is a DNA fingerprint of Pfiesteria used in the new test. The test can be adapted to detect other toxic marine organisms, he adds. Last year in Maryland, experiments on the new test helped show that P. piscicida existed in at least 14 rivers and increased dramatically i...Simple and inexpensive, an artificial nose senses smell by seeing colors
...he resulting changes in the array provides a color fingerprint unique to each vapor." To create an array, the researchers paint a series of tiny dots each dot is a different dye on an inert backing such as paper, plastic or glass. The array is then scanned with an ordinary flatbed scanner or an inexpensive ...Scientists report first complete genome sequence of a plant
...rt to use high-throughput "whole-genome random BAC fingerprint analysis" to map a large eukaryotic genome in its entirety and provide an ordered set of DNA clones for sequencing (BAC, bacterial artificial chromosome). This analysis of the Arabidopsis genome was completed by Wilson, Marco Marra, and their colleag...Gene chips accurately diagnose four complex childhood cancers
...including cancers, scientists can create a genetic fingerprint of that cell type. Genetic fingerprints can unique...x pattern of signal intensities that represent the fingerprint for each tumor type. As the number of genes discovered by the Human Genome Project has grown, the a...MelTec GmbH announces new technology for High-Throughput Topological Analysis of human cells
...oups of proteins that define a particular cellular fingerprint reflecting topological information, were considered, rather than just looking at individual proteins and their molecular information. The NCDS provides a unique tool for analyzing proteomic information that was not available before, linking cellular...Widespread 'superbug' is expert at acquiring drug-resistance
...e researchers were able to obtain a characteristic fingerprint of the first MRSA isolates from the United Kingdom and Denmark. Interestingly, these early isolates from the two countries proved to be identical. Equipped with this information the scientists then began a search among methicillin-susceptible strai......grees. He insists that since clones will share the fingerprint of the original person, they will be in violation of copyright. When New Scientist pointed out to Marca that clones are not exact copies but often contain a new genetic component-mitochondrial DNA from the egg used to create an embryo-he seemed taken...Stanford researchers make lung cancer finging that could vastly improve treatment and outcome
... each patient. "The short-term goal is to know the fingerprint of a tumor that has a poor prognosis," Garber said. "That will give the clinician an incentive to look a little harder within this patient for additional tumors." To find out whether genetic differences exist between lung tumors, Garber obtained RNA ...New technology may benefit health care, bioterror defense
...a complete genetic analysis would be better than a fingerprint in helping to track a pathogens origin."...New evidence for organic compounds in deep space
...it can either absorb or emit light. This forms the fingerprint of a substance. With this fingerprint, astronomers can demonstrate the presence of a substance in a distant star or cloud. In a wide range of lines of sight, in the almost empty interstellar space, bright infrared emission is observed, the spectrum o...Genetic fingerprinting improves diagnosis and treatment of sarcoma
...ide array analysis, researchers developed agenetic fingerprint of each sarcoma, which will ultimatelyimprove the diagnosis of this varied group of tumors and aidthe development of targeted therapies for this disease. "Our findings suggest that genetic fingerprinting of adultsarcomas will be useful in cases wher...DNA testing identifies suspect bacteria in coral reef disease
... By sequencing the entire 16S rRNA gene a genetic fingerprint found in all living organisms geologist Bruce Fouke and postdoctoral microbiologist researchers Jorge Frias-Lopez and George Bonheyo at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have now identified the main bacteria associated with the black b...Genetic fingerprint of lung cancer predicts treatment outcome
... Princess Margaret Hospital identifies the genetic fingerprint for lung cancer that may eventually help determine...gery will have their cancer reoccur. "This genetic fingerprint is actually a pattern of genes in the lung tumor that correlated with dramatically different chances...