Salk news: Gene chips and crop yield
...tire plant genome by 2010. "Finding the genes that lurk in the DNA sequence sounds like an easy problem, but in fact is tremendously challenging," said Robert Last, program director of the NSF's plant genome research program. "Completion of the DNA sequence of a genome such as Arabidopsis is an important ...The roots of human behavior? AAAS and The Hastings Center host a public meeting
... arena. "Substantial misunderstandings continue to lurk behind ongoing controversies over behavioral genetics," says Steven Hyman, Harvard University Provost and Keynote Speaker at the meeting. "In fact, the nature vs. nurture debate has no relevance to current science. Instead, we recognize that patterns...Coils slash death/disabilty from brain aneurysms
... brain aneurysms to ticking time bombs. "They can lurk for years without causing symptoms. Then, without warning, they can burst, spilling blood into the brain with potentially catastrophic results. The ISAT results offer the first large-scale clinical evidence that coiling may be a new, useful method fo...New mouse model shows how news of pathogen reaches immune system
...handle all infections in the body. Dendritic cells lurk in the skin, lungs, gut and other tissues. On sentry duty, they continually snack on things around them, which might include a pathogenic bacteria that has sneaked past the skin barrier, stomach acid or other innate defenses. When a dendritic cell ha...Natural-born killers enlisted to fight anthrax
... used to both detect and eliminate spores that may lurk in mailrooms or subway stations, in addition to those stubborn few that might remain hidden in people's noses. Old strategy reinvented The idea of using phage to fight bacterial infections is not new. Beginning in the 1930s, Soviet physicians emp...Top Experts To Address Top Food Safety Concerns At IFT Meeting
...he global food supply. Where L. monocytogenes may lurk and why "zerotolerance" policies may not be effective will be included in this discussion. "Stressed Pathogens Compromise the Safety of New Generation Foods:Assessment and Control of Pathogens" (Symposium 43, July 26, 1:30 PM) willexamine me...... them a cue,disrupting the experiment. Researchers lurk just out of sightbehind black curtains that wall off the arena, watching thesnakes on closed-circuit television and using a computer toanalyze and catalog their movements. Holtzman hopes his work may someday have major implicationsfor people, in...