A new support forum for small-to-medium enterprises
...future funding permitting. Why is the EBI ideally placed to provide this support? "As a supplier of bioinformatics services to many businesses in the biomedical arena, the EBI understands how important it is to small companies that our resources mesh seamlessly with their bioinformatics solutions every tim...New tool helps researchers bone up on osteoporosis
...ed feed efficiency. Also, little emphasis has been placed on selecting for skeletal integrity." Skeletal int...titute, part of the National Institutes of Health, placed chickens on the high priority list for sequencing of the bird's genetic makeup. The institute's prog...UCSD scientists develop novel way to screen molecules
...ion. When the CD with these molecules attached is placed in a CD player, the laser detects a small error in the digital code relative to what is read from the CD without the molecules attached. To detect proteins or other large molecules in a solution like a blood sample, the modified CD is allowed to r...Dual discoveries in genetic processing improve accuracy of genome information
...a timescale of milliseconds, which is not a demand placed on every organ," said Reenan. The phylogenetic signatures are identical sequences of genetic coding found in each species studied, serving as markers corresponding to specific genes targeted for A-to-I RNA editing. The identical presence in both spe...Scientists demonstrate new method for discovering cancer gene function
..., and the genes that produced them, the scientists placed RNA from the cancer cells on gene chips, or microarrays, which measure the activity of thousands of genes at once. The gene chips identified 21 genes that were spurred into high gear by cyclin D1, making them prime suspects for being "downstream targ...Grant funds research to develop tissue-engineered solutions for heart disease
...ment of the cells and tissues after they have been placed in the body. Project scope will encompass in vitro and preclinical studies of tissue-engineered products. In addition, discoveries made in the course of this research could benefit tissue-engineering efforts aimed at disorders that involve other "mec...Waiter, there's a shark in my soup
...st year, both basking sharks and whale sharks were placed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), a treaty that regulates global trade in threatened and endangered wildlife. During the 2000 CITES meeting, proposals to place great white sharks on the more restr...Physics tip sheet #36 - July 30, 2003
... site eBay and finds that the total number of bids placed by a consumer follows a power law distribution, as does the number of items individuals look at. This also implies that a few powerful and active individuals exert a strong influence on the final prices of items. Journal article: http://link.aps.org...In men chronically exposed to magnetic fields, no disruptions of melatonin exists
...rding device throughout the workday. At home, they placed it in a "public" room. The weekly geometric mean of individual exposures ranged from 0.1 to 2.6 T. The results are compared with those for 15 unexposed men who served as controls. Blood samples were taken hourly from 2000 to 0800. Nighttime urine was...DFG presents the new MAK and BAT Value List 2003
...ied as carcinogenic in humans and, therefore, were placed in carcinogenicity category 1. The mycotoxin ochra...s cyclohexylamine and the pesticide cyfluthrin are placed into group C, which comprises those substances from which no harm to the embryo is anticipated if th...Social mobility: Study shows bacteria seek each other out
...ents to form social organizations. The researchers placed bacteria in minute mazes and found that they sough...es a high-density population. They found that when placed in mazes the bacteria congregated in small rooms and dead-end pathways. Once clustered, the V. harve...An old, familiar love nest helps sexual success
...g twice as often in cages where the males had been placed with females previously, compared with matings in cages where the males had not previously hosted a female," says Adkins-Regan. To test the females, the same experiment was conducted with the sexes reversed. The rate of eggs fertilized was three tim...Rice makes first rapid, sensitive whole-blood immunoassay
...noassay. When the antibody-nanoshell particles are placed into a solution of blood containing the test molecule, the antibody-nanoshells bind to the test molecule, which causes slight changes the optical properties of the nanoshells. By monitoring these changes, Halas and West were able to monitor very slig...Satellites will join search for source of Ebola virus
...p better track of nomadic peoples, so we're better placed to provide them with medical help." Combating malaria which affects 300 million people worldwide and kills up to 1.5 million people annually is a particular focus of several different Epidemio users. Acquiring satellite-gathered meteorological da...Researchers use lab cultures to create robotic 'semi-living artist'
... the neural activity of a few thousand rat neurons placed in a special petri dish that keeps the cells alive. The dish, a Multi-Electrode Array (MEA), is instrumented with 60 two-way electrodes for communication between the neurons and external electronics. The neural signals are recorded and sent to a com...Sleep deprivation within five hours of learning impairs memory consolidation in mice
...of two different types of stimuli. Some mice were placed in a distinctive setting before receiving a shock, generating fear of that particular location. Others heard a tone shortly before a shock was administered, causing them to fear the tone. Abel assessed the permanence of this fear conditioning by obs...Abnormal plant shows scientists path to plant, animal development
...used microarray analysis, in which bits of DNA are placed on a microchip, to identify nine genes involved in the development pathway. They also found that a number of genes that may be important to plants in the embryonic stage apparently are not affected by PKL. "It is likely that some other proteins that ...Cold-climate creatures may be the ultimate survivors of global warming, study finds
...onitoring of cardiac activity. The animal then was placed in an experimental chamber where the temperature was either raised or lowered 0.1 C every minute until its heart stopped beating a point known as the "upper thermal tolerance limit." The goal was to determine which crabs were most likely to survive ...World first for Swedish researchers mice born from transplanted wombs
...n each recipient mouse the transplanted uterus was placed alongside the normal uterus, which acted as a control. After transplantation between genetically identical mice the grafted uterus produced pups. The mouse pups had normal body weight, showed normal behaviour and were fertile. Five out of seven uter...... 15 turned over at least three seconds faster when placed on their backs than before getting the human cells. Control rats did not improve, on average, over the 24 weeks of the study. In paralyzed rats, Kerr and his team found that most of the implanted human cells migrated into the spinal cord, and many be...