Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
... Science . Together, these single-celled organisms generate as much as 40 percent of the 50 billion to 55 billion tons of organic carbon produced each year in the sea, and in the process use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. And they are an important food source for many other marine organisms. The genome w...Researchers find color sensitive atomic switch in bacteria
... or cyanobacteria, which rely on photosynthesis to generate energy. Having a single sensory protein capable of distinguishing color would provide Anabaena with information about the color of light available in its environment, enabling more efficient harvesting of light for photosynthesis, Spudich said. "Un...DNA lends scientists a hand, revealing new chemical reactions
...ganic molecules can undergo a chemical reaction to generate a product. Because the resulting synthetic compounds are linked to DNA, techniques long used to screen and amplify the genetic mainstay can be applied. In the current work, the scientists coupled DNA-templated synthesis with in vitro selection and DN...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...y, the bacteria spread in an amazing fashion. They generate comet-like tails that push them around the cell like a speedboat. Eventually, they slam into the cell membrane and pop from one cell into the next, spreading the infection. Six years ago, Matthew D. Welch, an associate professor of molecular and cel...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
...t TEs help organisms evolve by making it easier to generate the sort of genetic novelty that is necessary for them to cope with a changing world. Thus, instead of being beasts of burden, Pack-MULEs may serve rice as a tool of evolutionary change. ...'Gene chips' research in cotton could lead to superior variety
...together in groups to share expertise necessary to generate large amounts of genomic resources for the entire research community and to the cotton industry. "Genomic resources generated in rice, corn and wheat have produced tremendous impacts on the plant research community and plant production agricu...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
... team will be able to exploit the new knowledge to generate proteins in the laboratory that will bind to almost any molecule of interest. "We think we can make proteins that bind to peptides, and make peptides that bind to larger proteins," he said. As is often the case in science, the project was in...Grant advances biochemical engineering laboratory
...Biochemical engineering holds excellent promise to generate and sustain economic development in South Dakota. In fact, it already has, through ethanol plants that have popped up in eastern South Dakota. Several chemical engineering graduates from Tech work in these plants, bringing valued-added benefits to t...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
...o use the knowledge gleaned from this discovery to generate proteins in the laboratory that will bind to almost any molecule of interest. ...The book opens on the first tree genome
...s have been customized and redeployed in poplar to generate a large woody plant instead of a small weed. We're currently comparing the poplar sequence with the genomes of rice and Arabidopsis to shed light on the evolution of these genes to see how they are differentially regulated in these diverse plants," R...Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
...retation of the visual image. For two images to generate binocular rivalry, they must provide conflicting evidence about what is present in any given part of the visual world. To ensure that rivalry was not generated until a late stage of visual processing, the experimenters used images of walking human fi...Green, leafy spinach may soon power cellphones and laptops
...ronic device," Baldo said. Plants' ability to generate energy has been optimized by evolution, so a spinach plant is extremely efficient, churning out a lot of energy relative to its size and weight. But combining biological and non-biological materials in one device has stymied researchers in the past. ...Resveratrol synthase uncovered: Cyclization specificity of type III polyketide synthases
...CHS) share 75%90% amino acid sequence identity and generate the same tetraketide, but STS enzymes cyclize this tetraketide via an intramolecular C2 to C7 aldol condensation to make stilbene, whereas the CHS cyclize via C2 to C6 condensation reaction to make chalcone. A group of researchers led by Joseph Noel ...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
... conditions." A BeeSpace team led by Robinson will generate a molecular signature of all the major roles perfo...ed by honey bees. "To do this," he said, "we will generate profiles of gene expression that occurs in the brain of individuals that are captured in the very ac...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...ils is lost. Wind's slow-spin technique, which can generate detailed spectra from these boundary regions, takes advantage of a quirk in NMR. NMR generates a spectral signature of compounds in a sample based on the frequencies of the sample's atomic nuclei as they jiggle in a strong magnetic field. NMR pioneer...Can an old gene learn new tricks?
...ugh a shuffling of existing regulatory elements to generate new combinations that are specific to the new organ," explains Dr. Lufkin....Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
...astic) for this process. Electrons are captured to generate electricity and protons pass through the membrane film, then combine with oxygen to create a environmentally neutral water byproduct. PEM fuel cells can be integrated into stacks to provide from .001 up to 250 kW of power, Vijayendran explained in...Single isolated mouse skin cell can generate into variety of epidermal tissues
...st work that indicates a single skin stem cell can generate both epidermis and hair, even after propagation in..., graft them on to the backs of hairless mice, and generate luxuriant hair growth, as well as new glands to oil the hair and fresh skin. In contrast to recent ...Genuine stem cells found in skin might treat hair loss, wounds
...erate the new follicle with each hair cycle and to generate new epidermis during wound repair, the team explained. Using new avenues to probe the cellular architecture of stem cells within the natural environment, or niche, of the hair follicle, the researchers discovered two distinct populations of resident ...Optimizing protein's 'death domain' halts leukemia in laboratory study
...ach, we were able to brace peptides from within to generate biological tools that hadn't existed before," says Walensky, "and these new molecules directly inhibit a protein interaction that we're interested in. The potential is that you could take any alpha helix involved in a pivotal protein interaction, rel...