University of Minnesota receives NSF grant to sequence legume genome
...uencing the genome, scientists will have the basic tool to understand all these processes and put them to work to improve health and nutrition, Young said. "We need to have a complete inventory of the genes and gene products," he said. "Until then, we won't even know what we don't know about legume biolog...Inability to pump oxygen during exercise could pinpoint early heart problems
...oxygen pulse during exercise is a useful screening tool for identifying heart problems. Study coauthors were Jimmy G. Lim, M.D.; Timothy J. McAveney, M.D.; Jerome L. Fleg, M.D.; and Edward P. Shapiro, M.D....Scientists determine identity, cell locale and quantity of nearly all proteins in an organism
...antity each protein acts during normal growth -- a tool that can now be used to identify the role of different proteins, the relationship between sets of genes and proteins, and the links between protein changes and disease. The new approach was far more sensitive than any previous attempt to detect low l...New NASA facility will help protect space crews from radiation
.... "Scientists will use this facility as a research tool to protect today's crews on the International Space Station and to enable the next generation of explorers to safely go beyond Earth's protected neighborhood," said Guy Fogleman, director of the Bioastronautics Research Division, Office of Biological...World's largest scientific society holds regional meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
...l Teachers Interface Luncheon. Chemistry is Reed's tool to get students to take information from every area of learning and apply it to solving problems. Selected session topics are as follows: Wednesday, Oct. 15 9:00 a.m. (Poster Session) A breath sensor for the detection of acetylaldehyde as a po...Temple study identifies molecular mechanisms that may assist gene in blocking lung cancer
...hin the cancer cell. Microarray is a powerful new tool that allows researchers to study the molecular basis of interactions on a scale that had been impossible using conventional methods. "Through the use of the microarray, we were able to see which genes were over-expressed or under-expressed because o...New research technique provides unique glimpse into Alzheimer's disease
...fluence Alzheimer's disease as well as be a useful tool in the development of new diagnostic and treatment strategies."...Packard Children's Hospital gift creates new biotech research center for children's health
...e proteomics, researchers hope to develop a better tool for early diagnosis of this inflammatory disease, which affects young children and can result in cardiac problems.* Diabetes: Approximately half of certain relatives of children diagnosed with Type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes will develop the disease the...Envisat radar altimetry tracks river levels worldwide
...leap forward for hydrologists. It gives them a new tool to study both the historical changes in water table levels and critically important data to use in forecasting models of water availability, hydroelectric power production, flood and drought events and overall climate changes." The Radar Altimeter 2...New findings in yeast may reveal why growing older is the greatest carcinogen in humans
...d. "This finding may provide scientists with a new tool to test those theories," Gottschling said. To dete...." Yeast also has been an indispensable scientific tool for unraveling the mysteries of how cells divide. The lowly microbe, best known for its supporting r...Software tackles protein pathways
...ssing enter. Within 15 seconds, an online software tool contrasts one sequence of DNA with up to 18 millio...rs catalogued in public databases. Now, a software tool developed by Whitehead Institute scientists promises to apply this same computational muscle to the ...Using GPR to estimate tree root biomass
...Canada. We believe that GPR will become a standard tool in forest research, and will someday allow us to do rapid, nondestructive root assessment across many soil types. "...SPR Annual Meeting features newsworthy discoveries
...ssive people. This finding may give researchers a tool that helps them assess the severity of the aggression disorder. The Detection of Deception using Event-related Potentials in a Highly Realistic Mock-Crime Scenario -- Ralf Mertens, John Allen, Nicholas Culp, & Lauren Crawford With tensions running...Discovering new regulators of the immune system
...lls. The authors write: "This approach provides a tool for functional cloning of regulators in numerous signal transduction pathways. [] Importantly, the outlined strategy, which requires no prior sequence information of the players involved, does not bias the search to previously known signalling molec...Lasker Award honors Rockefeller University biochemist for pioneering studies of gene activation
...nce of transcription in a test tube: a biochemical tool called a cell-free system. What's more, in the last decade, Roeder and his colleagues have discovered several members of another class of regulatory proteins, called coactivators, that represent a third level of transcriptional regulation in addition...More than 700 threatened species remain completely unprotected, new study shows
...global gap analysis should be regarded as a useful tool to guide the worldwide allocation of conservation spending, but cannot be regarded as the final word," said Ana Rodrigues, Research Fellow with CABS at CI. "More detailed analyses using more comprehensive data will reveal numerous additional areas an...Fe-TAML(R) activators developed at Carnegie Mellon decontaminate anthrax simulant
...rs has the potential to become animportant cleanup tool for anthrax contamination. The Fe-TAML activator used with hydrogen peroxide can substantially decontaminate a cultured, benign simulant of anthrax, they said. This anthrax simulant is commonly used in the laboratory testing of agents designed to e...Drug developed for rare disease may help millions more as treatment for cancer, autoimmune diseases
... psoriasis. "TM has the potential to be a powerful tool in fighting a wide range of diseases. While it has literally saved the lives of young people with Wilson's disease, Wilson's is a rare disease. If early results in cancer and inflammatory diseases hold their promise through the next phase of trials, ......ds have long been used as a qualitative diagnostic tool for certain pulmonary dysfunctions. However, analysis of lung crackle sounds has not had a solid theoretical basis. A new model of crackle sounds accurately predicts what sounds are heard as airways open and close during breathing. The work may have ......ibody stain." The actual use of EZH2 as a clinical tool is still several years away, though the U-M team is planning a prospective clinical trial to test its use in breast cancer patients. If validated, the EZH2 test may join other tools that physicians use to determine how aggressively to treat breast c...