Researchers link gene to hereditary form of prostate cancer
BETHESDA, MD - For the first time, scientists have publicly reported that they found a gene on chromosome 1 that's associated with an inherited form of prostate cancer in some families. The findings, released on the Internet today in the Advance Online Publication of Nature Genetics ( http://www.nature.com/n...Ecologist Gretchen Daily advocates saving the planet by making conservation profitable
... to soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide or creating publicly traded corporations dedicated to making wildlife restoration profitable. Some members of the conservation community object to this profit-driven approach on moral grounds, Daily concedes, but the idea of protecting the environment with charity alone ...International rice genome project progressing ahead of schedule
...currently supports approximately 30 percent of the publicly available rice genomic sequence data. This percen...g , which makes the data available at no charge to publicly funded researchers. Since the database was established, more than 760 researchers, many located in d...Rice, first crop plant to be sequenced, may help fight world hunger, Science authors say
...CURACY To confirm accuracy, Yus group gathered all publicly available rice gene sequences and rice gene marker...38,357 contigs. Although the researchers used some publicly funded rice genome data as markers to guide the assembly, no public rice genome data was incorporate...Scientists identify the 'Bin Laden' of cancer causing faulty proteins
...the researchers - the analogy is used to highlight publicly available research that will hopefully make a difference to the future treatment of cancer. If however you still feel that the analogy should not have been used blame me as press officer not the researchers....New UNC study reveals screening tests can boost early discovery of AIDS virus
...esearchers focused on 8,505 people who visited 110 publicly funded testing sites in North Carolina for routine HIV testing and counseling in August and December of 2001. Of the 8,194 subjects who had not previously tested positive for HIV and also had enough serum for additional evaluation, investigators foun...Vessel reporting a weak link in national strategy to stem the flow of alien organisms to the U.S.
...ion Clearinghouse data and biennial report are now publicly accessible at http://invasions.si.edu/whats.htm. Ships' ballast water, used to maintain stability, is a leading mechanism for the unwanted transfer of non-native marine- and freshwater species throughout the world. Decades of research indicate that...Pufferfish DNA yields clues to human biology
...u genome, announced last October, marked the first publicly released animal genome after the human sequence, and the first vertebrate genome publicly sequenced and assembled using the whole genome shotgun method. The Fugu genome sequence, along with...Pufferfish DNA yields clues to human biology
...u genome, announced last October, marked the first publicly released animal genome after the human sequence, and the first vertebrate genome publicly sequenced and assembled using the whole genome shotgun method. The Fugu genome sequence, along with ...Scientists sequence genome of rice-killing fungus
...ture of a significant plant pathogen has been made publicly available. Joint funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Science Foundation Microbial Genome Sequencing Program spearheaded the research. Dean said this project was the only one jointly funded by these two organizations. "We now ha...Joint Genome Institute to sequence key African frog genome
...aid Paul Richardson, the JGI project manager. "The publicly available Xenopus genome sequence will be a scientifically valuable resource for the research community." "Until now, experiments with frogs have shown us how vertebrates develop from an egg to an organism," said Richard Harland, a developmental bio...Researchers characterize a crucial family of signaling proteins in the human genome
...or faster. Kostich and his colleagues searched the publicly available sequence databases to find sequences with similarity to known protein kinase molecules. After removals of duplicates and pseudogenes (genes that are not used), they found 510 sequences that were similar to known protein kinases, of which 60...Parasite, mosquito genomes complete malaria picture
...oduced by both teams had been disseminated through publicly accessible databases. For example, P. falciparum genes were identified that allow the parasite to avoid detection by human immune response cells. Other genes involved in parasite metabolism have no counterparts in humans. Inhibitors of those genes' p...NASA researchers developing tools to help track and predict West Nile Virus
...Healthy Planet program is researchingapproaches to publicly disseminate information from NASAEarth-observing satellites and data archives, scientificresearch and communications networks. Healthy Planet has helped Pennsylvania implement the PA WestNile Virus Surveillance System (PAWNVSS), a state-wideGeographi...JGI to decode DNA of destructive plant pathogen
...ormatics annotation system. They will be the first publicly available Stramenopile pathogen genomes. "Phytophthora pathogens are literally destroyers from a distant (biological) kingdom," Tyler said. "The genome sequences of these two species will for the first time enable us to identify and target their vul...Funding for global protein database
...f Dental and Craniofacial Research, $50,000. As a publicly funded project, UniProt's data will be freely accessible and will be released in a timely manner. A new web site will be created for UniProt and the web address will be: www.uniprot.org . NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the NIH, wh...The mouse genome and the measure of man
...tutions). "This is another stunning success for a publicly funded international consortium that is already ac...clone-based, or hierarchical, sequencing using the publicly available mouse genome clone map.The quality of the working draft sequence far exceeds the consortiu...Comparisons of the new mouse genome sequence
...ature by the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium of publicly funded laboratories, Genome Biology publishes the first comparison of this 'public' mouse genome sequence with the mouse genome sequence generated by the private company Celera, and with the human genome. In this article, Michael Zhang and his collea...OXiGENE announces commencement of Phase I/II clinical trial of Combretastatin A4 Prodrug
...orts. However, OXiGENE undertakes no obligation to publicly update forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.......e DNA transposons, the researchers made use of the publicly available genome sequences for two subspecies of rice, japonica and indica. The researchers reasoned that in plants where such transposons move actively there would be multiple copies of an almost identical sequence. If they could find the conserve...