New screening method may speed hunt for disease-causing genes
...of genes, leaving researchers to sort through long lists of potentially causative genes at a substantial cost in time and money. "Although the genomes of many species have been mapped, the function of those genes is still unknown," McIntyre said. "If you have 500 genes and they are unannotated, you won't h...Monkeys show sophisticated learning abilities
...e same list and pairs that had come from different lists with similar high accuracy, responding correctly t... only an initial guess on our part that seven-item lists would be particularly challenging, but it didn't turn out be all that challenging, and it seems poss...Rockefeller, Weill Cornell researchers find link between estrogen, brain structure changes
...o shown that the ability of women to remember word lists and other experimental tasks varies during a normal monthly estrous cycle, which is characterized by the ebb and flow of estrogen. Further animal investigation revealed a dramatic decrease in dendritic spine density in rats whose ovaries were removed...Supplements that increase the effects of resistance exercise identified
...A list of substances was compiled from the product lists of eight dietary-supplement marketing companies, a review of six magazines targeted specifically at the body-building community, and five published scientific reviews on dietary supplements. The compiled list contained about 250 supplements and was u...Tracking every egg? AAAS report lists practical options for regulating human cloning
...r of making consensus recommendations, and instead lists options. For example, to support responsible research cloning, one workshop group proposed that: Research cloning methods should be approved only following animal studies; All donors must provide informed consent; The cloned embryo must not be al...Pancreatic cancer genes ID'd in most accurate study to date
...l investigator on the new grant. "Others have made lists of genes that might be involved, but ours provides a much more accurate accounting, and reveals dozens of novel genes." Logsdon, a professor of physiology at the U-M Medical School, has special expertise in studying the pancreas. He co-leads the team...MicroRNA targets: How big is the iceberg?
...uit fly Drosophila. Their method and the resulting lists of predicted targets represent an important step t...pleted mosquito genome sequence. This resulted in lists of predicted targets for over 60 Drosophila microRNAs, which the authors ordered such that those tar...Researchers describe new technique for cataloging RNA targets in rare brain disease
...cientists, for the first time, to develop complete lists of RNAs that are regulated by RNA binding proteins. According to the researchers, the method will generally be useful for scientists studying other diseases that result from defects in RNA regulation, including several autoimmune diseases, spinal mus...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...l and Research, published by Viking Press in 1941, lists the authors as ''John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts.'' That book was 598 pages long and consisted of two parts: a 270-page narrative log of the expedition, and a 338-page phyletic catalog that included descriptions and photographs of the many sea ...Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tucson
...26-4595, Fax: 520-621-9190. The conference website lists the speakers and other conference details. The website is: http://www.genomics.arizona.edu/meeting.html...Wound-healing genes influence cancer progression, say Stanford researchers
... to normal tissue. Such studies have produced long lists of genes involved in cancer biology but don't provide clues about what role those genes may be playing. Chang started from the opposite direction. He knew wound healing and cancer progression had some similarities, including the growth of new blood...Report in BioScience details global decline of nonmarine mollusks
...freshwater mollusks). The World Conservation Union lists in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species a total of 1,930 threatened nonmarine mollusks, which is nearly half the number of all known amphibian species, more than twice the number of shark and ray species, and nearly seven times the number of turtl...New database aids medical device exporters
... 30 developed and maintained by NIST. The database lists 96 approved reference materials; NIST is the source for 72 of these. For more information, see www.cstl.nist.gov/nist839/jctlm.htm ....Predicting cancer patient survival with gene expression data
...atients with similar gene expression profiles. The lists of subgroups, based on gene expression profiles and clinical outcomes of previous patients, could be used to assign future patients to the appropriate subgroup. By providing a method to cull the thousands of genes generated by a microarray t...Gene-based screen sorts cancer cases, say Stanford researchers
...on's survival. These studies have resulted in huge lists of mostly non-overlapping genes. Not only are there too many genes to be screened by most medical labs, the research groups haven't agreed on which genes should be part of those screens. Levy and his colleagues narrowed the list of potentially inform...American Lung Association's 2004 State of the Air report ranks cities and counties with dirty air
...nd local pollution control programs. For the full lists or to contact members of Congress to oppose revisions to the Clean Air Act, including loopholes for polluting power plants that would weaken existing laws, individuals can log onto www.lungusa.org .......investigators. The new Web site has comprehensive lists of degree and research programs in biogeoscience, applicable journals and other publications, and a complete database of relevant conferences and meetings. Special sections, symposia, or field trips concerning biogeoscience are also featured. One of...Researcher issues caution on live virus vaccines
...oncerns, the authors write. The article lists five main lessons learned from other live virus vaccines: reversion of vaccine strains to increased virulence; development of disease in individuals with compromised immune systems; birth defects, particularly if the vaccine is given in the first...Newly grown kidneys can sustain life in rats
... kidney disease," Hammerman says. "But the waiting lists for kidney transplants can run as high as 100,000 individuals, and most patients die of the disease before an organ becomes available." Kidney function in pigs is similar to that in humans, and Hammerman's eventual goal is to use embryonic pig tissue...Spanish scientists develop powerful tool for exploration and integration of biological information
...searches result in long and not always informative lists of abstracts, navigation along this gene-guided network allows for a stepwise and controlled exploration of the information space. The iHOP system shows that distant medical and biological concepts can be related by surprisingly few intermediate gene...