NYU's Center for Comparative Functional Genomics part of $57 million MOD-ENCODE consortium
... The award to Piano, a professor in NYUs Biology Department, and the nine other researchers leading genome centers across the nation, will create a consortium of scientists who will collaborate in a four-year, $57 million scientific endeavor to understand every part of the g...NYU scientists identify how development of different species uses same genes with distinct features
... The researchers examined the fruit fly Drosophila and the wasp Nasonia as genetic model system...NYUCD study links tooth decay and gum infections to ethnicity and country of origin
... The team leader, Dr. Gustavo D. Cruz, an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Health Promotion and Director of Global Oral Public Health at NYU, undertook the largest-ever study on the oral health of immigrants to the United States, analyzing caries and periodontal disease rates in over 1,500 Chinese, Haitian, Indian, West Indian, and Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Central and South American...UCLA and NYU microbiologists crack genome of a parasite that causes a common STD
... ... Led by Patricia Johnson, a UCLA professor of microbiology in the department of microbiology, immun...NIH Nanomedicine Center draws on NYU School of Medicine expertise
... As part of a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) nanomedicine grant, David Roth, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Pathology and the Irene Diamond Professor of Immunology, is c...NYU, Scripps finding offers new path for treatment of diabetes
... ... The research team, which included NYUs Departments of Biology and C...NYU biologists identify gene that coordinates two cellular processes
... The team is using functional genomic tools to study the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), the first animal species whose genome was completely sequenced and a model organism to study how embryos develop. The study appearing in Curre...NYU scientists begin second phase of project to better understand disease
A team of researchers at New York University's Center for Comparative Functional Genomics are embarking on the second phase of a collaborative research undertaking to predict structures of key proteins, which in turn shed light on their roles in diseases and offer pathways for cures. The inter-institutional project, which uses the IBM-backed World Community Grid, will focus on key human and malar...NYU algorithm enhances ability to detect cancer genes
Researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have developed a new algorithm that enhances the ability to detect a cancer gene, and have applied their algorithm to map the set of tumor-suppressor genes involved in lung cancer. The algorithm uses data from Affymetrix's gene-chips that can scan hundreds of patients' genomes to find gains and losses in gene-copies....NYU scientists ID key factor in how fruit fly color receptor cells 'decide' their type
Biologists at New York University have identified a key factor that enables photoreceptor cells to decide their color sensitivity. The findings, which were uncovered by researchers in Professor Claude Desplan's laboratory in NYU's Center for Developmental Genetics, were published in the March 9th issue of the journal Nature....... The researchers used the fruit fly Drosophila as a genetic model s...NYU'S Childress demonstrates tool for studying hovering flight at international science meeting
A tool for examining hovering flight of insects and birds could allow researchers to study other matters pertaining to locomotion, Stephen Childress, a professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, demonstrated at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in St. Louis. The findings were part of a symposium, "How Insects Fly," wh...NYU researchers discover mechanism linking color vision and cancer genes
Biologists at New York University have discovered a system by which a random choice between two distinct cellular fates in the fruit fly eye becomes firmly established. Surprisingly, the genes involved are known 'tumor suppressor genes', i.e. genes that are inactivated in some forms of cancer due to uncontrolled cell proliferation. Because the fly eye is highly amenable to genetic analysis, thes...NYU biologists map out early stages of embryo formation
A team of genomic researchers headed by biologists at New York University's Center for Comparative Functional Genomics, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute, and Cenix Biosciences, has mapped out a preliminary molecular diagram of the early stages of embryo formation, offering for the first time a global look at how a single cell begins its path into a...NYU's Center for Comparative Functional Genomics helps to unravel the function of microRNAS
MicroRNAs are a recently discovered large class of small, non-coding genes. Each animal genome contains hundreds of these genes, which have been shown to regulate the expression of protein coding genes by binding to partially complementary sites in messenger RNAs. However, little is known about the biological function of these tiny genes, which are encoded in a string of 21 to 24 DNA bases. ......NYU chemist wins Watson Young Investigator award
New York University's Yingkai Zhang, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a $200,000 James D. Watson Young Investigator Award from the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR). The award was announced by New York Gov. George Pataki. ...... Funds for the award come from the Generating Employment through New York State Science (...NYU chemists create DNA translation machine
Chemists at New York University have developed a device that allows for the translation of DNA sequences, thereby serving as a factory for assembling the building blocks of new materials. The invention, described in the latest issue of magazine, has the potential to develop new synthetic fibers, advance the encryption of information, and improve DNA-based computation.... ...The device, develope...NYU, Rockefeller researchers find complexity of regulation by microRNA genes
Collaborating researchers at New York University and Rockefeller University have discovered that microRNA genes, which have recently been shown to have key roles in gene regulation, can team up and regulate target genes in mammals. MicroRNAs are a recently discovered large class of regulatory, non-coding genes, which bind to partially complementary sites in target messenger RNA to regulate their...NYU study reveals how brain's immune system fights viral encephalitis
New York University biologists have uncovered how the innate immune system in mice's brains fights viral infection of neurons. The findings, published as the cover study in the latest issue of Virology, show that proteins in neurons fight the virus at multiple stages--by preventing the formation of viral RNA and proteins, and blocking the virus' release, which could infect other cells in the brai...NYU and MSKCC research provides model for understanding chemically induced cancer initiation
A team from the chemistry and biology departments of New York University, in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), has uncovered a conformational switch--a change in shape in a carcinogen-damaged DNA site--in tumor suppressor genes altered by a known cancer-causing chemical found in cigarette smoke. This finding may open new horizons for understanding the initiation o...NYU biologists find new function for pacemaker neurons
A study by New York University researchers reveals a new function for the nerve cells that regulate circadian rhythms of behavior in fruit flies....... The nerve cells, called pacemaker neurons, contain a molecular clock that controls a 24-hour circadian rhythm in activity similar to the rhythms in sleep/wake cycles found in humans and many other organisms. It was previously known that pacemaker...NYU researchers simulate molecular biological clock
Researchers at New York University have developed a model of the intra-cellular mammalian biological clock that reveals how rapid interaction of molecules with DNA is necessary for producing reliable 24-hour rhythms. They also found that without the inherent randomness of molecular interactions within a cell, biological rhythms may dampen over time. These findings appeared in the most recent iss...NYU team develops enhanced algorithm for detecting changes in cancer genomes
Researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have developed a new algorithm that can lead to more accurate detection of cancer genes than previous versions. The algorithm, published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), can also be applied to the multiple biomedical technologies (e.g., different kinds of micro-arrays)...The long road to a promising malaria vaccine started at NYU School of Medicine
NEW YORK, October 15, 2004 -- The malaria vaccine reported today to reduce life-threatening cases of the parasitic disease among children in Mozambique is based on the pioneering research of Drs. Ruth and Victor Nussenzweig and their colleagues at NYU School of Medicine. ... ... Ruth Nussenzweig, Doc en Med, Ph.D., the C.V. Starr Professor of Medical and Molecular Parasitology, and her husband...