Lecture on ecology of infectious diseases
...will be able to provide wildlife managers with the tools necessary to protect declining populations of prairie dogs and to minimize public exposure to plague. Who: Sharon Collinge, principal investigator, NSF-NIH Ecology of Infectious Diseases Program What: Lecture on plague, prairie dogs and ...Researchers report new gene test for isolated cleft lip and palate
...t, and environmental factors, and current research tools are just beginning to cut through the complexity. ... just a few years ago. One of the first diagnostic tools of its kind, the gene test is based on distinct mutations in and around the gene IRF6, which encodes...Adaptive changes in the genome may provide insight into the genetics of complex disease
...me that have beentargets of natural selection, the tools and resources needed to do so areonly now becoming widely available. In the paper, researchers describe the largest signature of naturalselection discovered to date: a series of four contiguous genes onChromosome 7 that appear to have been transforme...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...ng and ever more miniaturized and novel electronic tools and consumer products. [Contact: Bill Cabage 865-574-4399; cabagewh@ornl.gov ] ENERGY -- An untapped resource . . . Natural methane hydrate deposits offer a potentially vast source of energy, greatly surpassing all known fossil fuel resources, ...Complex cells likely arose from combination of bacterial and extreme-microbe genomes
...n and among living things. "New computational tools and comparative analyses will undoubtedly find instances in which the evolutionary record will need to be set straight," said James Rodman, a program officer in NSF directorate for biology, which funded the research. "This new fellowship among micro...Reducing allergens in the home helps inner-city children with asthma
...es, told why it was necessary and given the needed tools to accomplish the task. Researchers followed up by phone and collected information about the child's asthma every few months during the intervention year and one year after. ...Optimizing protein's 'death domain' halts leukemia in laboratory study
... brace peptides from within to generate biological tools that hadn't existed before," says Walensky, "and these new molecules directly inhibit a protein interaction that we're interested in. The potential is that you could take any alpha helix involved in a pivotal protein interaction, relevant to cancer o...Molecular staples shape a cancer killer
... stapling -- then we might have a whole new set of tools to study and manipulate protein interactions within cells."...Essential smell gene may provide key to new insect repellents
...and release a repellent. Having a lot of different tools -- repellents to ward off biting insects like mosquitoes as well as drugs to fight the diseases they spread -- will help us prevent diseases like malaria."...Stuck on you: Scientists lay bare secrets of bacterial attachment proteins
...ave produced a finely detailed model of one of the tools used by some of the nastiest varieties of the stomach bug, Escherichia coli, to stick to and gain entry to host cells. Led by senior author Dr Stephen Matthews, Reader in Chemical and Structural Biology at Imperial College London, the research is pu...Researchers identify the genome's controlling elements
...ting just one gene regulator with conventional lab tools can take many years. The Whitehead/MIT team, in th...ve located all 203 regulators in yeast," and using tools developed in Fraenkel's lab have also been able to nail down the exact landing points. As a result, ...NIGMS funds Center for Quantitative Biology
... will use state-of-the-art microscopes and imaging tools to examine molecules in living cells and tissues. ...es, the center will make all its data and analysis tools freely available to the scientific community. The goals and approaches of the center fit squarely wi...Analysis of biological clock may lead to greater understanding of human disease
...rative work, and how systems engineering ideas and tools can be used to unravel design principles in a complex biological system." The authors chose to analyze the circuitry of the fruit fly because it is one of the most studied of all organisms. They were able to take mathematical information from the sci...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory gets $10 million from NIH to build virtual lung
...esearchers and clinicians with uniquely predictive tools to understand the impact of airborne environmental agents and inhaled drugs on human health and to answer important questions on how respiratory structure relates to function. This will greatly assist in the evaluation, diagnosis and development of t...One-hundred-fifty year old lessons of John Snow still relevant today
...lar to population, and he marshaled all scientific tools available to him, often with great ingenuity," wrote co-author Nigel Paneth, a professor of epidemiology who has written a piece about Snow that will appear in the September issue of the journal Epidemiology. Howard Brody, a professor of family pract...NJIT chemist speaks Aug. 25 about compound derived from pine tree
...e them eventually providing one of the most useful tools for green chemistry," said Sanjay V. Malhotra, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry at NJIT. Malhotra is the principal investigator of a one-year study nearing completion this fall. A larger grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) has sup...Trojan Horses, xenon imaging and remote controlled genes
...IA As our understanding of biology increases, the tools of research become almost as important as the researchers wielding them. Currently, one of the major obstacles to research is actually getting inside of cells and tissue to see what is going on as it happens. At the University of Pennsylvania, rese...Improving crops without genetic modification natural variation holds the key
...reeding strategy. Their hybrid model--applying the tools of modern genomics to traditional plant breeding--offers plant breeders a powerful approach to improving the quality and yield of cultivated plants by taking advantage of the inherent biodiversity of the natural world. It's a strategy that may well a...Gold quantum dots have applications in biological labeling, nanoscale optics
...plained Dickson. "We are basically developing the tools for in-vivo, single-molecule sensitivity and labeling in living systems in the presence of very high backgrounds. We expect to produce a new set of probes that will be size-tunable, non-toxic and very bright." Beyond the potential applications, stud...Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort
...ll set of measurement, assessment and interpretive tools and capabilities to federal, state and local governments and those in the commercial sector charged with the security of near-shore regions. Ecker sees both environmental and security research benefiting from the new emphasis. "While PNNL scientists ...