EMBO Gold Medal 2004 goes to Spanish scientist
...e telomerase RNA in the mouse producing a powerful tool to understand the role of telomerase on cancer and aging. In 1997, Blasco started her own research group in mammalian telomeres and telomerase at the National Centre of Biotechnology in Madrid. Most recently, the scientist moved her group to the Span...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
...g beasts of burden, Pack-MULEs may serve rice as a tool of evolutionary change. ...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
...and resources, or sustainability. A vital tool for decision makers and DCDC researchers is the Decision Center for the New Arizona, housed in the ASU Brickyard in Tempe. This center, informally referred to as Decision Theater, is a three-dimensional "immersive environment" where researchers use c...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...ntrol and Prevention, Julie Gerberding, called his tool the "absolute state-of-the-art probe for viral gen...nt of cases.) He also is hoping to begin using the tool with neurologist Stephen Hauser, MD, to examine multiple sclerosis, which is believed to have a vira...DNA barcode finds four new bird species
...t and used in the PLoS Biology paper is the latest tool to be added to the taxonomist's toolkit, and it has enormous potential for broad impact," says David Schindel, Ph.D., executive director of the International Consortium for the Barcode of Life, based at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C....Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
...ographic origin of ivory that could prove a potent tool in slowing elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade by identifying hot spots where enforcement should be increased. It is relatively easy to monitor elephant populations with flights over the open savannas of eastern, central and southern Afric...'Gene chips' research in cotton could lead to superior variety
...." The technology "provides a high-throughput tool for practical applications," Chen said. Those include a wide variety from medical diagnostics to plant breeding programs. The work was initially funded by Cotton Incorporated and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Collaborators inclu...NSF and AIBS sign cooperative agreement for NEON project office
... forecast biological change, ecologists need a new tool to study their structure and dynamics. NEON is that tool." ......or control, Krding and colleagues have added a new tool to biologists' repertoire. Though their approach hasn't closed the case on the mysteries of movement, it could help explain why we settle for a particular, non-silly walk. ...Yale digital diagnostic technology is basis of new company, HistoRx Inc.
...Yale tissue archive, provides an extraordinary new tool for substantial improvement in tissue analysis both for pharmaceutical research and development, and for patient care." He said that HistoRx recently entered into feasibility studies with two major pharmaceutical companies and is scheduled to ship ...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...his extremely accurate sequence will be a powerful tool for scientists trying to understand human disease," said Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. "I'm pleased that the Department of Energy, which launched the human genome project in the mid-1980s, could help make this important contribution." Lawre...Newborns have ear preferences, too
...n the 1990s. The project goal was to find the best tool for screening newborns for hearing impairment. Cone-Wesson, who directed the project in Los Angeles County, tested more than 3,500 infants at her hospital. And, after it all, Cone-Wesson said, "We had a bucketload of data" on newborn babies' inner e...Snakehead in your inbox? Welcome to the nonindigenous Aquatic Species Alert System
...ult than monitoring land. We anticipate that this tool will be quite useful to the wildlife management community." Before the alert gets to your inbox, the information is checked against the National Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database that tracks aquatic introductions to make sure it is a new locatio...Early detection hope for eye disease
...res of the retina could give medics a powerful new tool in diagnosing and monitoring the most prevalent di...are very hopeful that this will be a promising new tool that will help doctors screen and monitor the major diseases of the eye." "Some of the existing scre...Maine-based biophysics institute gets funding for first US-based 4Pi nanoscale microscope
...searchers in genetics and biology have an advanced tool to examine the very structure of the mouse, human and other genomes." The 4Pi microscope is manufactured by Leica Microsystems in Mannheim, Germany, based on technology developed by Stefen Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry ...$18 million bioinformatics center to become weapon against deadly diseases
...profit organization specializing in bioinformatics tool development and comparative genomics research. They will use the funds to set up a National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource Center to help scientists to accelerate their research into the biology and evolution of deadly microorganisms and develop m...Optimizing protein's 'death domain' halts leukemia in laboratory study
...nit from the protein and use it as a sharply aimed tool to shut down the BCL-2 protein and activate the death pathway in cancer cells, without harming normal cells. If that proved successful, it would show that the BH3 alpha helix and alpha helices from many other proteins could be used like keys to tur...Purdue study finds antioxidant protects metal-eating plants
...nism behind nickel tolerance provides an important tool for researchers like Salt, whose goal is to develop plants that remove toxic metals from the environment in a process known as phytoremediation, or extract useful metals from soil, a process known as phytomining. While previous research has shown wh...Analysis of gene expression in lymphoid cells can determine lymphoma cancer
...s. "Basically, this new method is a very powerful tool in determining the presence of cancer by analyzing these two molecules in the lymphoid tissue," explains Giordano, an internationally recognized researcher in the genetics of cancer and gene therapy. "The change of levels of CDK9 and CYCLIN T1 in ly...Analysis of biological clock may lead to greater understanding of human disease
...the system a hierarchical control scheme, a design tool often used in engineering. The mechanism is called a negative feedback loop similar to that employed by an air conditioning thermostat system. It reacts when the temperature gets too cold by reducing the cooling. The engineers are looking for the pr...