Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...Thursday, Sept. 30) in Apia, the capital of Samoa, supports Samoa's assertion of national sovereignty over the gene sequence of Prostratin, a drug extracted from the bark of the mamala tree (Homalanthus nutans). The drug currently is being studied by scientists around the world because of its potential to for...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...Thursday, Sept. 30) in Apia, the capital of Samoa, supports Samoa's assertion of national sovereignty over the gene sequence of Prostratin, a drug extracted from the bark of the mamala tree (Homalanthus nutans). The drug currently is being studied by scientists around the world because of its potential to for...Molecular motor implicated in tissue remodeling
...es the foundation of the extracellular matrix that supports the cells in the body's tissues. "By digesting collagen, enzymes such as MMP-1 initiate tissue remodeling, which can have a variety of purposes from organ development to tissue repair to metastatic invasion of tumors," says senior author Gregory Gol...Fortifying food with folic acid benefits babies
...t be added to flour, cornmeal and pasta. The study supports the continuation of this food fortification strategy. The way that folic acid works to reduce the risk of neural tube defects in developing babies is poorly understood, yet the evidence that this vitamin is of benefit is clear. Since 1992, many healt...Keep genome data freely accessible
...mation to be freely available on the internet--and supports the recent report by the US National Research Council recommending that such information should remain freely accessible to all. The editorial comments: 'But while free and open access to these data is a boon to science, it carries some risk: among t...March of Dimes statement on newborn screening report
...ge of Medical Genetics (ACMG): The March of Dimes supports comprehensive newborn screening for all babies in this country, regardless of their place of birth. Our policy is to support screening for specific conditions when there is a documented benefit to the child and there is a reliable test that enables ...US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
... spectacular snow-capped mountains. The landscape supports a wide range of wildlife, including Magellanic woo... glaciers and sub-Antarctic rainforests. WCS also supports blue whale conservation in southern Chile and research of southern sea birds found in this diverse r...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...egrative Biological Research (FIBR) program, which supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. "The hallmark of life is movement," said Robert Full, professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley and leader of the team. "Yet, no single systems-level model, reachi...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...rved over vast evolutionary distances, it strongly supports the idea that they must contain something important," said Jeremy Schmutz, the informatics group leader at SHGC. Any mutation that appeared in those conserved regions was likely to have either killed the animal or made it less able to reproduce, prev...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...nding in this multi-year effort. The joint program supports efforts to understand the ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships between human -induced environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases. Interdisciplinary projects funded through the EID program...Complex cells likely arose from combination of bacterial and extreme-microbe genomes
...tional Science Foundation--the federal agency that supports research and education across all disciplines of science and engineering--to re-examine historical schemes for classifying Earth's living creatures, a process that was once based on easily observable traits. Microbes, plants or animals were said to ...Pig-human transplantation not PERVerted
...direct human cell transmission of PERV, these work supports the potential safety of using pigs as source animals for transplantation to humans. ...JCI table of contents: 1 September, 2004
...direct human cell transmission of PERV, these work supports the potential safety of using pigs as source animals for transplantation to humans. TITLE: Mouse retrovirus mediates porcine endogenous retrovirus transmission into human cells in long-term human-porcine chimeric mice AUTHOR CONTACT: Yong-Guang Yang...Virginia Tech professor honored with DeLaval Award
...nia Tech. DeLaval is an international company that supports the production of quality milk in a quality environment. It provides dairy producers optimal technology and comprehensive service. Consistently ranked by the National Science Foundation among the top 10 institutions in agricultural research, Virgini...Protein fishing in America: The movie
...national meeting of the American Chemical Society, supports the fly-fishing theory of protein communication. "In the past five years, the field of protein-protein interaction dynamics has exploded," said Lu, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy laboratory in Richland, Wash. "Measurements to date hav...Embryonic stem cell therapy shows steady benefits in rebuilding infarcted heart
... structure and function in this experimental model supports the potential for stem cell-based reparative treatment of myocardial infarction. By regenerating diseased myocardium and promoting cardiac repair, embryonic stem cells provide a unique therapeutic modality that has the potential to reduce the morbidi...Gene duplication allowed pigs to have more babies
... the relationship between life and the planet that supports it." The researchers used genetic information to estimate that the ancestral aromatase gene duplicated twice, to give three genes, between 27 and 38 million years ago. By analysing the genetic sequence from two living relatives of Sus scrofa, peccar...Tobacco promising factory for biopharmaceuticals
...t Virginia Tech. The Protein Separation Laboratory supports research in protein expression and purification pr...expression systems. The Unit Operations Laboratory supports a course by the same name taught by Zhang in biological systems engineering. He is also affiliated w...Preschool bolsters early childhood immunity, reduces risk of young adult Hodgkin's lymphoma
...exposure to common childhood infections, the study supports the hypothesis that delayed infection increases the risk of young-adult Hodgkin's lymphoma, but fails to uphold the link to socioeconomic factors. The research also shows that Hodgkin's lymphoma among adults aged 55 and over is associated with l...Computer imaging of Archeopteryx skull suggests this dinosaur-bird link could fly
...s Darwin published "On The Origin of Species," and supports the theory of evolution. The new findings suggest it will also help define when bird flight began. Dinosaurs found in China and elsewhere during the past decade have caused scientists to speculate that some had feathers, but couldn't fly. This resea...