Rice, first crop plant to be sequenced, may help fight world hunger, Science authors say
... maize and wheat. Goff and colleagues were able to match 98 percent of publicly available maize, wheat and barley protein sequences to sequences within the japonica genome. Analysis also confirms that rice shows extensive "synteny" with these cereals--or, conservation of gene order and orientation betwe...Lake mud holds secrets to forecasting future salmon abundances, Queen's researchers say
... then there have been fluctuations, but nothing to match the magnitude of those earlier, natural changes. "Salmon are important ecological, economical, and cultural resources in the North Pacific region, and their response to future climatic change is of great uncertainty," says Smol. Human interference -...Dynamic brain atlas may help diagnose patients using advanced brain scans
.... Then computing power around the world is used to match each reference image to the patient to make a customized brain atlas. After a few seconds the doctor can see the patient images alongside the brain atlas, or can see the patient images with features from the atlas overlaid enabling them to pinpoint ...Mathematical model provides new tool to assess mail-borne spread of anthrax
... scientists found that the model provides the best match for the fall outbreak when they assume that there were six original letters, each carrying trillions of anthrax spores. They calculate that these letters, although tightly sealed, contaminated about 5,000 other letters with much smaller numbers of sp...End of 'free ride' on ecosystem CO2 absorption
...ols to ensure that moisture and temperature levels match those outside. "There have been few experiments, even in growth chambers, that could explore the effects of changes since before the Industrial Revolution, but our design enables us to do just that," said Jackson. "Thus, it gives us insights into wh...University of Louisville leads project to customize ethics training for genetic researchers
...rogram in genetic ethics that can be customized to match different types of genetic research. The project, Education in Genetic Ethics (EDGE) is being funded with a three-year, $1.3 million grant from The National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. We believe this is the ...Collaboration advances potential therapy for autoimmune diseases
...vanced Biotherapy and New Horizon Diagnostics will match DOE's funding of $650,000 through combined in-kind donations....Science editor explores the role of environmental change on global security
...onflict. "The idea was that, if you could somehow match social, religious and historical tensions on one set of maps, and put environmental change and environmental change liabilities on another map and overlay them, you could identify hotspots where it might be predicted that regional conflicts would tak...Hopkins researchers to lead independent study of 'next generation' ethics issues
...w if the immune profile of the cells would need to match the recipient if used as a medical therapy, but it's possible and even likely, and that would probably require more cell lines than we have now." The project represents the first activity of the Bioethics Institute's newly created Program in Cellula...Sex-specific genes for depression
...enable clinicians to use genetic markers to better match individual patients to treatments to which they will optimally respond, while minimizing side effects," Dr. Zubenko said. "In current practice, the choice of a particular antidepressant for a patient is largely a hit or miss proposition that often l...Infrared antenna for nano-size mapping of crystal vibrations
...ng for obtaining such tailored infrared sources to match the phonon resonance of biological minerals....Pufferfish DNA yields clues to human biology
... sequence, for 961 cases we found that there was a match in human which didn't overlap an already predicted or known human gene. "This flags up for human geneticists the position of potentially novel human genes in the human genome," Aparicio said. "In addition, direct comparisons of the fish DNA with the ...Pufferfish DNA yields clues to human biology
... sequence, for 961 cases we found that there was a match in human which didn't overlap an already predicted or known human gene. "This flags up for human geneticists the position of potentially novel human genes in the human genome," Aparicio said. "In addition, direct comparisons of the fish DNA with the ...New findings change understanding of adult stem cells
... system (PNS) tissue will require that researchers match the origin of the stem cell to the specific tissue...s of cells, suggests that it's really important to match the origin of the stem cell to the therapeutic job that you're trying to do."...Evolution of language: FOXP2 and human uniqueness in religious perspective
...ology of the larynx in chimpanzees, which does not match human physiology. However, some researchers, who noted that chimpanzees are highly gestural communicators in the wild, attempted an experiment in teaching ASL to chimpanzees. The experiments were successful enough that some reports documented chimp...Grant from Vetlesen Foundation supports URI Graduate School of Oceanography Climate Research
...fund two research proposals and provide tuition to match a NASA Space Grant Fellowship for a GSO student. GSO biological oceanographer Edward Durbin and physical oceanography postdoctoral fellow Yiyong Luo were awarded $35,000 to study pathways for transport of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus between the...Awards of the Netherlands greatest prize for science
...transplants to fail even where there was a perfect match between the white blood cell immune systems - referred to by the medical profession as the Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) system - of the donor and recipient. Professor Goulmy demonstrated that these minor antigens also play a crucial role in humans a......ne, and we show that the predictions of this model match existing data on cleaner and client behaviour. Cooperation degenerates into exploitation only as the client loses the ability to escape.......onal honeycomb of water molecules does not exactly match palladium's lattice and as a result honeycombs grow to a certain size and then stop, forming islands across the substrate'ssurface. As additional water molecules are introduced, they pile up ontop of these islands. Slight heating will break these ...UCSF begins distributing the first of its two embryonic stem cell lines
...would be needed in cell transplantation therapy to match the genetic variation of a diverse population of people. Funding for this research is supported in part by Geron Corp., with a matching grant from the University of California BioSTAR program, as well as by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. The prin...