NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...g. A lot of biology can be understood simply by seeing what a molecule looks like, but the scale of biological molecules is extraordinarily small. All but the largest molecular complexes are considerably smaller than the wavelength of visible light, which means that scientists who want to know what an in...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...alue on continuity of care. They note that simply seeing the same doctor over time does not guarantee that the patient will feel a personal relationship with or loyalty to the doctor. Interpersonal Continuity of Care and Patient Satisfaction: A Critical Review By John W. Saultz, M.D., et al In a system...Interactive health information system to detect Japanese encephalitis in Asia
... "We are eagerly looking forward to seeing the Voxiva system put into effect. It should greatly facilitate our work, " said, Dr. Mastan Rao, Director of Health in Andhra Pradesh.Rao noted that the PATH project should help health workers to share information more efficiently, and help strengt...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...or for technology development. "We look forward to seeing which of these technologies fulfill their promise and achieve the quantum leaps that are needed to take DNA sequencing to the next level." "$100,000" Genome Grants NHGRI's "Near-Term Development for Genome Sequencing" grants will support research a...Manipulation of epigenome turns off as many genes as it turns on
...icular gene or a few particular genes, they aren't seeing the whole picture," says Andrew Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H., King Fahd Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Their report appears in the October issue of Cancer Cell. The research team probed the global effects of each of three approaches to unhookin......ability to detect the hidden emotions of others by seeing a colourful 'aura' or energy field that they give ... in terms of colours, GW actually reported vividly seeing them. Indeed, when "James" (a pink word) was written in the wrong colour (e.g. blue), her reaction ...NIEHS to develop new RNAi library to help fight disease
...emoving a genetic step from a cellular program and seeing what happens, we gain insight into important cellular responses to stress and ultimately to public health issues like the effects of exposures to environmental toxicants." The library will be a resource available to the scientific community administe......ent" -- adding water to the Atacama's soils -- and seeing whether the team could then detect microbial activity. ...Acid-resistant bug doesn't give in to alcohol either
...n is to find out how a couple of examples work and seeing if we can find general principles." ...Purdue researchers align nanotubes to improve artificial joints
...very short period of time, one hour, we're already seeing a big improvement in how well the cells stick to the nanotubes," Webster said. Future research may focus on combining the two methods for aligning nanotubes. Using the grid technique creates a greater number of aligned nanotubes on the surface, which...Efforts to clone primates move forward
... been able to overcome some of the hurdles we were seeing before," said Dr. Schatten, senior author of the study and professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and cell biology and physiology in Pitt's School of Medicine. "This is a significant step forward and gives us hope for eventuall...New approach studying protein structure could advance drug development
...rse we wanted to convince people that what we were seeing is real." The tested proteins displayed changes that directly corresponded to those documented from the crystal structures, proving the observations were real and validating the method as a potential drug discovery tool. The other author on the repor...U. of Colorado research team discovers life in Rock Glacier
...ctica, said Knauf. "The microbial activity we are seeing appears to be much more like what researchers have found in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica than anything found in North American temperate areas," she said. Microbes, which are microscopic, single-celled organisms, have been found residing in boilin...NASA's aura satellite sheds new light on air quality and ozone hole
...ed between the satellite and the troposphere makes seeing tropospheric ozone very difficult. Aura's Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) uses new technology to see through the stratospheric ozone layer, to measure tropospheric ozone. Aura also provides new insights into the physical and chemical proce...Research team discovers first evidence of microbes living in a rock glacier
...ctica, said Knauf. "The microbial activity we are seeing appears to be much more like what researchers have found in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica than anything found in North American temperate areas," she said. Microbes, which are microscopic, single-celled organisms, have been found in boiling water in ...Where the brain harbors unconscious fears
...ore quickly in the color-identification task after seeing a "masked" fearful face versus a neutral face, a sign that they were more stimulated. "These findings provide a biological basis for the unconscious emotional vigilance characteristic of normal and pathological anxiety, as well as a new means for inv...New painkiller was born in Utah
...rchers to learn what nerve circuits do normally by seeing what goes wrong when the connections are blocked, Olivera says. The university didn't patent omega-MVIIA because the substance "didn't have a definitive therapeutic use" at the time, he adds. "As with many basic science discoveries, the clinica...Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a 'designer ecosystem'
... "There's also a relationship our researchers are seeing between the spatial distribution of where the water is, where all the plants are and where the wealth is," she noted. "This is something that we still don't know the mechanisms of, but one of the most interesting findings is that the diversity of pla...Lack of potential mates has lead to 'sloppy' gene control and risk of disease for humans
...sed to viewing us as the pinnacle of evolution but seeing that rodents control their genes much more precisely is somewhat sobering," said Dr Martin Lercher from the University of Bath. "As a species we have become used to the benefits of ever-increasing health care and nutrition, but if what we found is st...'Moss in space' project shows how some plants grow without gravity
...said, as this is the first time researchers report seeing this kind of plant growth response in space. "Unlike the ordered response of moss cells in space, other types of plants grow randomly," he said. "So in moss, gravity must normally mask a default growth pattern. This pattern is only revealed when the ...