Some 400 'fragile regions' of genome more vulnerable to evolutionary breaks
...break, but we don't know how big all its component units are. So the best we can do is look at large quantities of data and use computational methods to discern patterns." Concluded Pevzner: "I am confident that within a few years, we will be able to figure out where the 'faults' are in the human genome, a...QuikClot (TM) will be made available to public
...eld die before they are evacuated to field medical units because they hemorrhage to death (a statistic unch...th the UN for mine clearing. Another 50,000 bagged units were shipped to Iraq. An injured serviceman can apply the clotting powder himself, and an account of...Possible new cell type found in developing inner ear
... to determine if VENT cells are part of functional units within the inner ear. "What we have to do is find out where they end up. Are they part of the cochlea? Are they part of the sensory organs?" he says. His work is funded by the National Institutes of Health....Lab, OSU join in new microproducts institute
...s like E. coli, and heat-actuated air conditioning units no bigger than a shoebox that would use waste engine heat to cool automobiles. The institute should help spawn a new industry in the Pacific Northwest based on small, lightweight and more efficient chemical, energy and biological systems for commerci...Collaboration at EMSL produces innovative mass spectrometer
...n measuring the mass of peptides (small structural units obtained by cutting proteins into pieces). It offers such sensitivity and precision that scientists can detect hundreds of thousands of peptide species in a single analysis." Identifying peptides is an important part of proteomics research to determi...Born under the sun: UV light and the origin of life
...erved just as protecting units. Accordingly these units were replaceable and variable. Exactly this variability could have paved the way to the variability of the future genomes". Three of the four nitrogenous bases that protected RNA from UV on primordial Earth are the same as those that make up the gen...Engineered proteins will lead to 'synthetic biology'
...ck. Proteins consist of long strings of amino acid units that fold upon themselves to form intricate globular structures. Basically, the computational design process developed in Hellinga's laboratory involves redesigning a normal protein's "lock" to fit a very different molecular key. The computational pr...Johns Hopkins researchers devise methods to evaluate disaster drills
...thin five minutes of starting the drill, the first units of the Guatemalan Red Cross responded, quickly followed by municipal and volunteer firefighter and police units. In total, there were 40 health care providers in 12 vehicles, caring for 49 victims. Evaluators measured the times until patients were ...Microbes related to infant lung infections reduced using specialized ventilation system device
...age concentration of 600 bacterial-colony-forming units to less than 200 units by two months, Ryan said. "This is a real boon for our patients," she said. Additional authors o...'Work stinks': It's more than just a slogan among ants, researchers find
...e inner workings of the mind. "A brain consists of units called neurons, none of which can make any global assessments, and yet somehow in the aggregate, lots of neurons together manage to think and remember," Gordon explained. "We hope that by learning more about how a particular system - like an ant colo...Genome sequence of bread mold revealed by international team, including Hebew University researcher
...strated for the first time that specific genes, as units of heredity, also encode the specific proteins that carry out much of the work of the cell. "This first decoding of the Neurospora genome constitutes a breakthrough in the deeper understanding of the genetic base of this representative of the fungal...MIT lab works to mimic spider silk
...anism for toughness and seeing [if] the structural units produce toughness the same way the amino acids in spider silk produce toughness," he continued. James-Korley's work focuses on the soft segment of spider silk. It has been suggested that this soft part has two different regions, one of which is sligh...Smart mathematical model prevents the spread of swine fever
...h an average pig density, relatively many breeding units and a virus of average virulence. The virus is comparable with that present during the epidemic of 1997 and 1998. The model has calculated that the vaccination takes effect after about a week. Vaccination reduces the spread of the virus but does not ...A new class of catalysts will help boost production, quality of transportation fuels
... catalysts are compatible with existing processing units at refineries," Oyama said. "This will help limit the need for installing new units to achieve the federally mandated reductions of S and N in the final product." Oyama, the Fred W. Bu...Hand-portable device detects biological agents
...l agents in under 30 minutes. Over 350 R.A.P.I.D. units are currently in use by US DOD, NATO members and others worldwide. "Real-time PCR machines will be an essential component of the response to a bio-terrorist attack. Such machines should be portable, have low power consumption and require minimal ex...Study concludes environmental management systems can boost performance, compliance
...mprove the environmental performance of government units and businesses as well as their operating and management efficiencies, a major new study concludes. Sometimes, the organizations' compliance with various regulations also gets better. "These results are more likely for facilities that are subsidiarie...Mathematical models reveal 'molten' and 'glassy' states of RNA
... which two strands of complementary base units bind to each other to create ...from a certain number of base units coming together. But simulating very realistic RNA molecules -- that is, ...Berkeley scientists create first 3-D map of protein universe
...ion and the formation of supersecondary structural units became possible." Since understanding the molecular functions of proteins is key to understanding cellular functions, the map developed by Kim and his colleagues holds promise for a number of areas of biology and biomedical research, including the d...First draft of 'periodic table' of protein structures helps visualize nature's universe of proteins
...ourth group of motifs is composed of prefabricated units of multiple bricks used to build proteins," Kim said. To see if the apparent evolutionary relationships suggested by the map are real, Kim and his group compared plots of the proteins from three individual organisms. A salt-loving microbe, Halobacter...Microbial forensics: An overview (news briefing and symposium)
...levision shows involving crime-scene-investigation units in Las Vegas and Miami, small traces of just about anything have been found and used to reel in criminal confessions. Note, however, viewers don't see the cases in court. The real world, says microbiologist Abigail Salyers of the University of Illin...