Pollutant-eating microbe could speed gasworks cleanup
...ways difficult, but we've shown that SIP makes the search a little easier." The SIP strategy had been tested before in the laboratory and in agricultural plots but never before in a genuine contaminated field site. Other authors of the PNAS article, "Discovery of a novel bacterium, with distinctive dioxyg...Scientists, physicians discuss latest discoveries for stopping cancer before it starts
...h the chances of its recurrence is augmenting the search for a cure. "AACR launched the annual cancer prevention meetings last year, to facilitate the exchange of research results from laboratories and clinical trials, foster translational research, and strengthen the vitally important partnership among b...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
... As well, some things are unknowable because the search is impractical -- for example, a sea to be explored is inaccessible, specimens explode from extreme pressure when brought to the surface, or the cost and tedium of exploration become overwhelming. Life in the "Six Ocean Realms" The report describes...New genomic data helps resolve biology's tree of life
...ry biology, but also for efforts as diverse as the search for new drugs and agricultural agents, studies of emerging diseases, and evaluating issues of species conservation and ecosystem restoration. "The overall goal is that we want to know who is related to whom," says Sean B. Carroll, a UW-Madison profes...Embryonic pathway critical to growth of digestive tract tumors
...ents because there just isn't enough of it, so the search is on to find Hedgehog blockers that could be made in quantities necessary for human studies, say the researchers. The researchers checked for Hedgehog activation in cell lines and fresh samples of digestive tract tumors because the gut comes from t...Research collaboration identifies gene essential to puberty
...MD, of the Reproductive Endocrine Unit began as a search for genes that cause idiopathic hypogonadotropic h...roup at the MGH more than 20 years ago. In their search for genes causing IHH, Seminara and her colleagues identified a family from Saudi Arabia in which ma...New protein provides clue to diabetes
...rotein which they call TUG following a five-year search for molecules that control a glucose transporter n...armaceutical companies who are employing it in the search for diabetes drug targets. Says Avruch, "TUG might turn out to be a target, or it might be the ...Nerve disorder in mice and men linked to mutated gene
... scientists at the University of Iowa narrowed the search to one region on human chromosome 19, which included 50 to 100 genes, but couldn't locate the specific gene responsible for the disorder. Meanwhile, Burmeister was working with a strain of mutant mice, called "jittery", with similar neurological symp...Bright autumn colouration in trees - a warning signal to insects?
...on is a warning signal directed towards insects in search of favourable hosts for their progeny....Rutgers targets Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan with $3.5 million from NIH
...ng ground for a new generation of scientists. The search for and identification of the biological resources from which these products are derived also can form the basis for conserving the native biodiversity. Raskin described the biodiversity of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan as extremely varied and largely ...HIV vaccine in worldwide trial
...sts and institutions dedicated to accelerating the search for an HIV vaccine. This is the first collaboration between Merck and the network.The phase I trial is designed to test at varying doses -- the vaccine's safety and ability to stimulate immune responses in healthy, uninfected volunteers between the ...HIV protein attacks body's innate protection system that could prevent virus' replication
...fense system works, it's a shot in the arm for the search for more targeted, effective anti-HIV drugs. "This is definitely relevant to drug development and pharmacology in the fight against AIDS," Kabat said. Kabat's team found that the HIV-encoded protein viral infectivity factor, or Vif neutralizes a po...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...king for information about BRCA1, for example, can search by any of its names and get a single entry that contains everything -- its alternative names, structure, function and sequence, how it's modified, other proteins with which it interacts, where it's found in cells, where it's found in the body and lin...Nerac.com and Infinata partner to offer BioPharm Insight(TM) Resource
...e, Nerac's Information Specialists will be able to search for drug development activities that include recently approved drugs, drugs with expired patents, prescription and wholesale data, investigational drug programs, clinical trial results, drug family information and thousands of drugs and compounds ava...Packard Children's Hospital gift creates new biotech research center for children's health
...n chemistry. Alan Krensky, MD, headed the national search for the senior scientist, a position that he views as ''connecting clinicians, clinician scientists and basic scientists'' and helping guide the effort to bring research from the laboratory to the patients and bring the knowledge gained from the pati...New gene for rare inherited paralysis may aid other spinal cord research, too
...tained a mutant HSP gene. Rainier had narrowed the search to a very small region of chromosome 15, and carefully analyzed genes in this region as potential candidates. Meanwhile, Nicholls and his lab had been searching for genes in the same stretch of DNA. Sharing of information and materials between the tw...Could diabetes treatments fight cancer?
...be a target for new anti-diabetes drugs, and their search ended with an enzyme called LKB1. Surprisingly, a lack of LKB1 is a known cause of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, in which the risk of developing some cancers is 15 times higher than normal. "It was totally unexpected," said Dario Alessi, one of the resear...Identifying cancer genes Will it really lead to better treatment?
...ch, and are becoming increasingly important in the search for effective cancer treatments. Genes are implicated in cancer in a number of ways as oncogenes, which drive cancer forward, as tumour suppressor genes that slow down cell division, and as DNA repair genes, which help to keep chromosomes intact w...Two studies find Gulf War veterans have increased risk of ALS
...or illness, including ALS, which makes an accurate search for possible triggers very difficult. Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS involves the degeneration of motor neurons which causes muscles to waste away. Approximately 20,000 Americans have ALS, which is usually fatal within five years after diagn......r radar, the Internet, Web browsers and the Google search engine, American Sign Language, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ink jet printers and tissue engineering. The NSF CAREER program, which has supported three of the Brilliant 10, recognizes research and education excellence by those teacher-scholars w...