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...ius of the scientists and engineers at ournational labs that made these technologies possible and a recognition of thepractical contributions that the Department of Energy research makes to thecountry."...National Science Board approves five new NSF Science and Technology Centers
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...samples from the various sites were returned to UC labs and extracted forthe DNA comparisons. The biologists focused on variable-number-tandem-repeat(VNTR) sequences, a type of DNA fingerprinting modified after similar techniquesused with humans. By sampling a wide area in the Midwest and a site known t...News from the zebrafish cousin of the human genome: A radiation hybrid map of the zebrafish genome
...oon become equally important for the zebrafish, as labs inEurope and U.S. are generating tens of thousands of ESTs, many of which will becandidate genes for the Tuebingen mutations. To make use of this wealth ofpotentially interesting genes, the Tuebingen group is now preparing for an evenbigger task: the...Harvard Medical School researchers discover first in a new class of mitosis inhibitors
...sts knew from earlier work in Mitchison'sand other labs that monoasters also appeared in cells with damage in aparticular motor protein. Called Eg5, it is a member of a far-flung family whosefounding member kinesin transports vesicles along microtubules along neuronalaxons and in other cells. It so happen...Yale yeast genome study could lead to further understanding of diseases like cancer
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...a new investigator has grown." And,many older UCSF labs need renovation before a new researcher can set up shop.This new grant will help the School of Medicine to continue recruiting the bestyoung scientists to its faculty, Hall said. The grant will also support disease research, including a core group o...Wake Forest starts center for human genomics
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...said that researchers in other labs are currently trying to grow bone, bladder, kidney, liver, and cornea cells using related technologies. "The underlying principles that we are providing will help those people now, and hope...