The book opens on the first tree genome
...r said. The poplar consortium researchers plan to publish the results of their analysis early next year. "Carbon management issues are overwhelming, but poplar trees could play a significant role in the solution," said Gerald Tuskan, whose team at the ORNL leads the poplar research effort. "Trees have a b...Cell's gatekeeper for ammonia revealed in unprecedented detail
... September 10 issue of Science , UCSF researchers publish the first atomic-level structure of the channel that controls the passage of ammonia in and out of cells. The complex structure -- depicted on the cover of Science -- was determined in greater detail than that of any cell membrane channel yet descr...Scientific publications: Time for change
...d have made it possible for many UK researchers to publish free of charge in Open Access journals. The Commi...s and Marketing manager said: "All the research we publish is already immediately archived in the Open Access repository, PubMed Central. As a service to autho......ing the dog and human genome sequences and plan to publish results of their analysis in the next several months. The dog genome is similar in size to the genomes of humans and other mammals, containing approximately 2.5 billion DNA base pairs. Due to a long history of selective breeding, many types of dogs ...Open Access journals proven to compete on quality
...pts that are submitted. Thomson ISI is expected to publish an update of their citation analysis shortly comparing citation counts for Open Access journals and traditional subscription products. In the press release announcing the April version of the report, ISI stated "journals published in the new Open Ac...Researchers establish first molecular link between eating and aging
...rtment of Biology who is lead author of the paper, publish their research results about how the Sirt1 mammalian gene promotes fat mobilization in mice. A mammal generally burns the protein and carbohydrates in its food immediately; it stores fat in special cells called white adipose tissue (WAT). When it r...When 'reaper' gene comes, cell death follows
...and doctoral student Viravuth P. Yin. The two will publish their findings in the May 25 print edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article will appear online the week of May 17. "They are true (cell) death genes in Drosophila that are critical for the destruction of larval t...New screening method turns up potential compound for treating anthrax
...in laboratory tests. Nature Biotechnology will publish the findings online on May 16 and in the June issue of the journal's print edition. Anthrax lethal factor can only be effectively treated with antibiotics if administered soon after infection, making it difficult to treat patients who were unknowingl...High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
...t group. He adds that having faculty increasingly publish papers in journals like Science, Nature and Cell also makes a difference. While interdisciplinary programs play a large role in UH's general research success, the citation power coming out of biology and biochemistry is almost entirely internal to ...Making sense of the brain's mind-boggling complexity
...ely $100 million. More than 65,000 neuroscientists publish their results each month in some 300 journals, wit...no longer sufficient for neuroscientists to simply publish their findings piecemeal. We're trying to make the most of advanced information technologies to weav...Warning to preserve 'unique' red squirrel from extinction
...des from Holland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK, publish their report in the current edition of the academic journal Conservation Genetics *. Cumbria, along with North East England and parts of Scotland, is one of the last strongholds of the red squirrel in the UK. Populations of the species are declining...Ferns diversified in shadow of flowering plants
...chneider, Eric Schuettpelz and Kathleen Pryer will publish their findings in the April 1, 2004, issue of the journal Nature. The team also includes Raymond Cranfill, Susana Magalln and Richard Lupia. The National Science Foundation (NSF), the independent federal agency that supports fundamental research an...Policy review in Science calls for Bush Administration to protect wild salmon
...ond science into policy. The scientists decided to publish in Science to make sure the policy implicationsreached a wide audience because of their concern for the recovery of ecologically significant populations of wild salmon in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. World renowned ecologist Robert Pain...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
... by publishers who claim the research reports they publish as their private property. Even at Stanford, the restrictions on access prevent us from being able to search the entire corpus of scientific articles for particular terms, concepts, methods, data or images and retrieve the results - you can't "Google...Transporter's function provides support for eating vegetables, limiting antibiotics
...didn't include small intestine or colon. Unable to publish the finding without evidence of the transporter's function, he moved on to other things. "Where the transport system is expressed in the body provides clues of what it transports," he says. The Case Western Reserve research told him the transporter ...Mouth microbes may help shape immune system, says Stanford research team
...been seen anywhere. The group is also expecting to publish a study soon on organisms previously not known to play a role in human disease. Relman's lab is collaborating with biochemistry professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Patrick Brown, MD, PhD, on developing microarrays - glass slide...New 'bumpy' jelly found in deep sea
...f its true range." The researchers waited years to publish their discovery of this jelly because they wanted to be able to present information about its habits and distribution, as well as its appearance. As Matsumoto put it, "you need enough observations to understand the natural variations in the animal's ...CIESIN receives grant to establish government biological information site
...o worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society to publish an inventory of the world's wild places called Last of the Wild, and with Yale University to issue an annual Environmental Sustainability Index measuring countries' performance as it relates to the Earth's resources. The International Council of Scie...Protein data bank opens new era with broader support
...ted.Coordinating with the biological journals that publish thediscovery of new protein structures, the PDB also ensures thatthe data is available in the public domain. As the PDB grows and evolves, one of its central challenges willbe the expanded integration of its wealth of information withother biologica...International HapMap Consortium publishes scientific strategy
...ect's scientific strategy, the consortium plans to publish a companion paper describing in more detail how the project is addressing the ethical, social and cultural concerns raised by this type of genomics research....