Researcher Discovers Plant Genes For Phosphate Uptake
...take mechanisms. It did. Then they probed the DNA libraries of the starved plants for genes that produce phosphate transporter proteins. They found the genes there, isolated them, and decoded them. They also noted that the phosphate-starved plants sent out significantly more messages calling for production of...New Sensor Will Detech Chemical And Biological Pathogens At Incredibly Small Doses
...rphy says.It can take six to nine months to screen libraries of new chemicals, but withthe new sensor, configured in an array of 100 fibers, a determination could bemade within a few weeks. A typical library can contain between 10,000 and 10million compounds from which to choose a new drug. "This application i...Insect Taste Buds Target Of Control Method
...he neurons in the taste buds. A search of chemical libraries for potentially useful chemicals could then identify candidate substances that might also be less water soluble than those that are already known. It may also allow researchers to design chemicals specifically to stimulate or suppress feeding beh......hese proteins and used the antisera to screen cDNA libraries for corresponding clones. One of the resulting clones, designated R1, is encoding a 160 kDa protein that is partially localized on starch granules. Lorberth et al. describe in Nature Biotechnology (Vol.16 (5) -...UB Researcher Developing Method That Employs "Evolution" To Identify New Drug Leads
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Just as conventional libraries are only as good as the books on their shelves, chemical libraries synthesized by pharmaceutical scientists are only as useful as the new compounds they generate. A n...Blindness Linked To The Cytoskeleton?
...ed gene; also searching physical and electronic libraries for transcribed sequences (cDNA) around the integration site failed to succeed. Therefore, lead author Uwe Schwahn and his co-workers decided to use an alternative method called exon trapping. This is an artificial transcripti...A New Encyclopedia Of Mouse Genes
...he Oklahoma Medical ResearchFoundation created the libraries of messenger RNA clones that were used forsequencing, and a team of scientists from the Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory in California distributed them. Many scientists have not waited for a formal announcement to begin using thedata, some of wh...Researchers Discover How The Immune System Shuts Down Faulty T Cells
...fine the whole rangeof tumor antigens with peptide libraries and then deploy a cocktail of tumorantigens in their vaccines rather than counting on one or two. That should work,since researchers know tumor cells cannot downregulate all antigens. The study also helps explain observations that have long ...New screening method identifies areas susceptible to Selenium contamination in Western United States
...nd Elko (275 Third Street, Room 208) and at public libraries inCarson City (900 N. Roop St.) and Reno (301 S. C... St.).The report may be inspected also at the USGS libraries in Menlo Park,Calif., Denver, Colo., and Reston, Va., and at the USGS EarthScience Information Cente...Computers have had dramatic impact on chemistry
..., spread sheets, andrelevant articles from digital libraries and web pages. "It's complex and freeform. You have to sign it in such a way so you know who did what," says Dessy. "Maybe you use a signature pad similar to UPS or a smart card. Paranoidcompanies might scan fingerprints. "The beauty is, you can sh...Harvard Medical School researchers discover first in a new class of mitosis inhibitors
...ast, cheap, and sensitive assay to screen compound libraries that he andothers in the Schreiber lab had previou...mportant in a disease, and then screening compound libraries against thatsingle target, as does industry, the ICCB scientists screened a library againstcell divi...Taking a SNP in the gene pool: Scientists harvest human gene differences
...individuals. After searching each of 50 different libraries for known genes, they compared sequences from each...oding SNPs, a promising harvest that suggests gene libraries will be a plentiful future source of important human SNPs....BioOne appoints first board of directors
...and Big 12 Plus member libraries, along with other libraries that are committed to playing a leading role in transforming scientific communications....Bitter taste receptors identified
...cell," says Zuker. Next, the researchers screened libraries of mouse genes in a search for the mouse versions of the new gene family. Mice are useful in studying taste because strains have been bred with the inborn ability to taste or not taste certain bitter substances. Studies of these mice have pinpointed ...Putting medical research on-line to give patients the information they need
... research articles then had to be obtained through libraries and, on the few occasions when they are available, on the Internet. By learning the terminology necessary to search the Medline archives, Jean was able to compile information from the world's leading authorities in her field of interest. Last year, ...Biodiversity databases: biodiversity information on every desktop
...nowledge drawn from information available in print libraries and "Species Bank," a compilation of facts about each individual species. The target date for establishing GBIF is early in 2001. GBIF will be open and freely available to anyone with access to the World Wide Web. Most of its activities wil...Five Rutgers professors named fellows of national science association
...athematical models to the design and evaluation of libraries and networked information systems." Kantor, a resident of Highland Park, also directs Rutgers' Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries. His primary research area is the networked information environment with particular emphasis on the cost of ......r small designer fragments to search vast chemical libraries for more potent compounds," he said. These chemical libraries contain thousands of drug-like chemicals that can be searched through computer databases. "Without......irlawn, New Jersey, resident has established large libraries of mutant enzymes that carry out different biological functions for use in the biotechnology industry. Patel plans a career in drug discovery and cancer research. He has been honored by the Puget Sound Blood Center for his active role in minority bo...First dinosaur found with its body covering intact; displays primitive feathers from head to toe
...h laboratories, one of the largest natural history libraries in the Western Hemisphere, and a permanent collection of 32 million specimens and cultural artifacts. With a scientific staff of more than 200, including 47 curators, the Museum supports research divisions in Anthropology, Paleontology, Invertebrate...