Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...uce, preventing the mutation from making it to the next generation. So far, nobody has shown what role the conserved regions play. "What this says is that we don't know as much about this conserved stuff as we think we do," Schmutz said. Hidden in the chromosome 5 sequence are clues to how humans evolved...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
...for support as they move their technologies to the next level," said Jamshed Bharucha, Tufts provost and senior vice president. "Tufts is proud to be part of this growing field," he added. ...Molecule awakens and maintains neural connections
... by Dasm1 that we need to explore," she said. The next step, the researchers say, is to knock out the Dasm1 gene in mice to see whether the observations they have made in isolated brain tissue and cultured cells can be extended to neural development in vivo....DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
...Firefighter Suits, a $830,000 grant to develop the next generation of firefighter turnout gear. Dr. Roger Barker, head of the Textile Protection and Comfort Center (TPACC) at N.C. State's College of Textiles said, "The best firefighter suits today offer protection against several chemicals, such as batte...Charting the future in prostate cancer care: A call to action
...ion men are battling prostate cancer, and over the next decade, about three million more will be compelled...mon non-skin cancer in the U.S. In fact, over the next decade, the number of new prostate cancer cases in the U.S. is expected to increase by 50 percent to...The search for a kinder, gentler chemotherapy
...ten cancer cells to take in the nanoparticles, the next step is to see how they behave with a toxic payload. "In the lab right now we're loading particles with anticancer agents and understanding the fundamentals of how the particles can encapsulate them, how tightly they can hold onto them and how closel...Bacteria use 'molecular lasso' to cop copper
...-bearing methanobactin molecules, but what happens next isn't known. Also, unlike a cowboy's lasso, methanobactin has no tether to its mother cell. Therefore, when bacterial cells release their methanobactin molecules, they probably never see them again; instead, they take delivery of copper from methanob...Second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator Award
... intended to support the career development of the next generation of leading researchers and, at the same time, to increase the attractiveness of the European Research Area on an international level for the long term. A EURYI Award will give young researchers the opportunity to establish and lead an inde...Heart gene yields insights into evolution, disease risk
...ion for tens of millions of years. The researchers next compared the variation in the regulatory region of the MMP3 gene among seven populations from around the world -- Cameroon, China, England, Ethiopia, India, Southern Italy and Papua New Guinea. They compared the pattern of variation with the random g...As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...ted Kingdom will come to the IU Bloomington campus next week to decide where their field should be going as part of a conference, "Informatics: Defining the Research Agenda," Sept. 10-12. Daniel Reed, director of the Institute for Renaissance Computing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a...New fumigant to replace gas that damages ozone layer
...ng forward with the registration of EDN within the next two months and we are in the process of finalising a supply agreement," Mr Smith says. "Introducing EDN, initially into the South Pacific market, also satisfies the needs of growers, fumigators and producers who have been willing to participate in th......ientists make progress in tissue engineering." The next step, says Chuong, is to look into how these areas of cell proliferation are localized physiologically, "an issue that's also of concern to cancer research," he adds. In addition, he and his colleagues will be trying to understand how BMP4 and other ...Battle between bubbles might have started evolution
...pontaneously," he said. According to Szostak, the next step in the research will depend on another major effort under way in his laboratory to create artificial, replicating RNA molecules. "If we can get self-replicating RNAs, then we can put them into these simple membrane compartments and hope to actu...Small, Smac-like molecule encourages death of cancer cells
...need a tiny amount to have a dramatic impact." The next step in the research is to test the compound in animals. "If it does well, hopefully it will someday find its way to people," he said. "That's the ultimate goal."...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...e accident. However until now nobody had taken the next step to find out just how much a risk there is and whether it rises along with radiation dose." While previous Chernobyl studies have relied on broad-stroke estimates of radiation exposure based on such factors as ground contamination, geographic pro...Study reveals first genetic step necessary for prostate cancer growth
...ion therapy. With this in mind, Greenberg said his next goal is to identify the additional mutations - such as occur in p53 or other tumor suppressor genes - that must collaborate with Rb to drive the benign condition to cancer. Ideally, blood or other simple tests to detect these mutations could be devel...Disease diagnosis, drug development focus of UH prof's biochip research
...to an international audience of top nanoscientists next week. B. Montgomery Pettitt, the Hugh Roy and Li...have uncovered important design principles for the next generation of biochips." The research in Pettitt's lab is directed toward understanding the funda...Purdue study finds antioxidant protects metal-eating plants
...rrelation doesn't prove causation, however, so the next step in Salt's study was to establish that glutathione played a functional role in nickel tolerance. He and his colleagues isolated a gene called SAT, and inserted it into a model lab plant called Arabidopsis thaliana, which does not normally tolera...Researchers identify the genome's controlling elements
...ing human health and disease. "This is really the next stage in human genome research," says Whitehead Me... before we could understand what they meant." The next challenge is to scale the platform so it can tackle human cells, something that the researchers are ...Analysis of gene expression in lymphoid cells can determine lymphoma cancer
...www.temple.edu/news_media/hkg696.html/ ). Over the next 10 years, CDK9 would prove to be a "multi-functional" gene, playing many different roles. According to Giordano, among the many functions of CDK9 that have been discovered, one of the most interesting is the role of this kinase in cellular different...