Bioinformatics: The quest for new drugs finds significant profits
...allenge for bioinformatics developers is to design platforms that can manage, retrieve, organize, compare, manipulate, and integrate data in a way that accelerates research, rather than acting as a bottleneck." The discovery of new drugs means substantial profits, making bioinformatics a bright new field. Bio...Applied Biosystems introduces new system for protein and metabolite analysis
...s to leverage its genomic and proteomic technology platforms to identify drug targets and diagnostic marker candidates and to discover novel therapeutics. Its Celera Discovery System online platform, to be marketed exclusively through the Knowledge Business of Applied Biosystems, is an integrated source of in...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
... through restriction and evaporation, on carbonate platforms like the Great Bahama Bank. The authors numerical simulations demonstrate that brines of reflux origin continue to drive groundwater circulation when environmental conditions on the platform-top change and waters are no longer restricted. They term t...Human running on surfaces of different stiffnesses
....7 meters/s on a level treadmill fitted with track platforms of five different compliances. All subjects wore t...jects ran for five minutes on each compliant track platforms in a mirrored fashion (running on stiffest to softest and then softest to stiffest). Beaded strings ...Potato technology may help move mail
...al in a city using stationary locations and moving platforms such as taxis and buses, destroying biological agents with microwaves and accelerators, and developing lightweight armor for people and vehicles. The INEEL is a science-based, applied engineering national laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. D...Green Mud cure for $2 billion loss
...economically out to 10 kilometres or beyond, fewer platforms are needed to exploit the field. The key to drilling these long wells in shale is to maintain the precarious balance between drilling fluid pressure and rock stresses over extended periods of time. Although they go by the unromantic name of muds, dri...December Media Mighlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...rn Canada constitutes one of the largest carbonate platforms (150,000 cubic kilometers of limestone) to have ever developed on Earth. The authors study revealed that a large part of the limestone particles have been destroyed by bioeroding microorganisms, thereby concealing the true diversity and abundance of ...Supercomputing center partners with Institute for Systems Biology
...e the use of unique hardware features in computing platforms that enable rapid pattern matching to discover gene homologies, analyze proteomics data and develop and share visualization solutions. The partnership will broaden the scope of research that is already being conducted at ARSC. Current areas o...Stratospheric balloon constellations for Earth science
... above most aircraft. Constellations of StratoSat platforms would augment and complement many satellite measurements, and possibly even replace some environmental measurement satellites. The keys to implementing this new concept are (a) affordable, long-duration balloon systems, (b) balloon flight path contro... BATON ROUGE -- Offshore oil and gas platforms may begin providing consumers with more than just ...readily harvested. The research team will examine platforms both near the coastline and offshore. "This project has great potential for allowing LSU to reall...Researchers receive federal funds to study marine organisms and potential products on oil platforms
... starfish to mussels to sponges -- attached to oil platforms or living around them, will be studied intensively...chnology. In waters off the coast of California, platforms provide artificial habitat for over 50 species of algae and invertebrates, and some of these grow at...Targeted Genetics presents advances in systemic gene delivery technology
...rating in studies of both our DCC and LPD delivery platforms validate our plan to develop multiple gene delivery strategies," said H. Stewart Parker, President and Chief Executive Officer of Targeted Genetics. "We were the first company to bring adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors into the clinic and we are ...Tube worms in deep sea discovered to have record long life spans
...bout 500 yards fromone of the deepest oil-drilling platforms in the world. "Technology now ismaking drilling possible at deeper and deeper sties, so these deep-watercommunities are no longer safe from human activity," Bergquist says. "Our research has shown that these tubeworms grow very slowly over a longtim...USGS scientists tracking Hurricane Bret's effects
.... As the storm moves inland, USGS data collection platforms are being used by theInternational Boundary and Waters Commission to monitor the streamflows in theRio Grande basin in south Texas, to determine if Bret has any effects on thosestreams and if any flooding possibilities exist. The IBWC, made up ofrepr...First Derivation Of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Reported In Science
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