Smallpox in 50-year-old tissues detected by integrated diagnostics approach
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...ch. This provides the researchers with a wealth of tools they can use to explore the nature of the mosquito's olfactory system at the genetic and molecular level. The researchers created fruit flies with Anopheles' olfactory genes and then tested their sensitivity to different compounds found in human swea...Keck Foundation grant launches interdisciplinary brain research at Illinois
...ative in PharmaEngineering. The goal is to develop tools to understand and correct problems in brain circuitry such as those underlying mental retardation, degenerative diseases and neurochemical imbalances often associated with depression-related illnesses. The neural repair grant brings together scient...UF study suggests life on Earth sprang from borax minerals
...it might take on other planets helps us design new tools for disease diagnostics and therapy," Benner said. Diagnostic tools enabled by Benner's work seeking alternative life forms are used today in the clinic to monitor the ...Winter weather turns on flowering gene
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...chiatric communities regarding this mis-use of the tools of psychiatry. Reich learned that for years Soviet psychiatrists had diagnosed political dissidents as mentally ill, a tactic that allowed the government to avoid embarrassing public trials and to discredit dissent as the product of sick minds. Onc...CSIRO scientist wins highest global award for fisheries research
...n about the oceans we already have good scientific tools to help identify management strategies to achieve this. "Australia's Oceans Policy is a start in this direction, and one that we need to continue to develop" Dr Sainsbury said. The research team was also responsible for the scientific input that res...'Panning for gold' in the maize genome
...rce would provide growers and breeders a wealth of tools to improve maize, as well as other cereal crops." ...Mapping a road to understanding human health
... International HapMap Consortium describes the new tools and approaches it has developed that will enhance the ability of scientists to identify disease-related genes and to develop corresponding diagnostic and therapeutic measures. Individual predisposition to disease and differential response to therapie...Scientists discover how anthrax creates its deadly spores
...r making regulatory proteins and enzymes, whichare tools the anthrax bacillus uses to construct its spore." Data from the study indicates that proteins produced during the large,fifth wave of gene expression also become part of the spore itself.These include enzymes the spore needs for rapid germination, v...A first glance at global genetic networks
...rganisms, they can serve as powerful and efficient tools for assigning function to the thousands of uncharacterized sequences found in sequence databases. This model presents a framework to explore the underlying properties that govern the design and function of the cell, and provides important clues--in t...Mouse embryonic germ cells and male gametes created in the lab
...A pair of achievements in the laboratory offer new tools for better understanding how gametes (reproductive cells) form, and may offer insights to help scientists "reprogram" adult cells to create different tissues needed by the body. Working with embryonic stem cells from mice, researchers at Children's...Telescience recognized for facilitating biomedical research on a global network
...at provides, through one Web interface, a suite of tools for end-to-end electron tomography including remot...data are now able to access to a growing number of tools over the Internet to help in the study of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Telescience is cre...Newly identified genes may help predict outcome in childhood leukemia
...-cell ALL. Researchers used unsupervised learning tools and supervised machine learning algorithms to identify novel genes that were predictive of outcomes. Three strong genes were identified with both testing methods G0, an expressed sequence tag of previously unknown function; G1:GNB2L1, a G-protein (...Latest knowledge on plant cell-wall biology in new book
... biological science has developed fresh analytical tools used in molecular biology, biochemistry, spectrosc...ructure and function. The high resolution of these tools was impossible to imagine a few years ago, said Rose. "But the emergence of plant-cell research has ......scinated people for centuries. Maps are essential tools to study geography, and therefore, corn mazes provide a unique and fun way to learn about geography, including scale, relative and absolute location, land use, and other geographic themes. In a new series of lessons based on national geography conten...First-ever UN University diploma offered to grads of online water-management course
... on water processes; the impacts of water on land; tools of watershed analysis; aspects of land use planning, control and conservation. Course 4: The aquatic ecosystem The basics of the physical, chemical, biological and ecological aspects of streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and groundwater sys...Gene may protect against heart disease rather than be harmful as previously thought
...tanding of the genetics involved that gives us new tools for treating heart disease." In the recent study, Idel, Breslow and co-author Hayes M. Dansky, M.D. (Cardiovascular Institute, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine) focused on the NFkB pathway and the A20 gene that regulates this pathway. NFkB, a protein tha...Six reporters reach the 'pinnacle of excellence'
...urther, the winning entries then serve as teaching tools as they are disseminated each year to science writing programs at universities and colleges throughout the country." Since their inception nearly six decades ago, the awards have honored more than 300 individuals for their achievements in science jou...Nanotech instruments allow first direct observations of RNA 'proofreading'
... underlie disease and will pave the way for better tools to address such problems.'' Other co-authors of the Cell study are Keir C. Neuman, a postdoctoral fellow in Stanford's Department of Biological Sciences; Robert Landick of the University of Wisconsin; and Jeff Gelles of Brandeis University. Landick a...