Internet data-mining of natural history
...atisticians, with the goal of making the data sets accessible to researchers, conservation biologists, educators and citizens." Kelling's co-PIs at the Lab of Ornithology are Director John Fitzpatrick and Assistant Bird Population Studies Program Director Wesley Hochachka. Rich Caruana, an assistant professor ...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...o assure subject confidentiality. Results will be accessible to the investigators through a secure database int...ping Center at the Broad will make this capability accessible to many biomedical researchers and thereby have a direct impact on the understanding of disease," sa...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...brighter. Across the new enclosed courtyard and accessible by double doors is another signature element of the new Kohn Hall--a one-story auditorium shaped like the semicircle of a Greek amphitheatre. The curved side closes the courtyard. On four large panels of that convex side of the courtyard are four l...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...erlying these coevolutionary changes are known and accessible to study," Bohannan said. Forde set up microbial communities of bacteria and viruses with different nutrient levels in a series of chemostats--glass culture tubes that provide nutrients and oxygen and siphon off wastes. In one set of chemostats the c...New center to map DNA of key lab mice
...ld a web-based storehouse of mouse research models accessible to scientists throughout the world. "The data base will allow scientists to pin-point the models most useful for their own research and will allow them to focus their work on the more likely genetic links to disease," said Dr. Olden. "This will help...Electronic records to improve care for children with asthma
... records of patient care at multiple sites will be accessible to clinicians in the emergency department, all primary care settings, hospital inpatient units and specialty care." Research will focus on asthma in children, the most common chronic illness in childhood, which is responsible for 25 percent of sch...Plentiful fossils of dinosaur contemporary allow population study
... Martinsville, Va. and all specimens are currently accessible through the Martinsville museum. The quarry reveals the late Triassic Cow Branch Formation. The location was a rift basin lake, one of a series of lakes from South Carolina to New Jersey that formed inland when the European continent pulled away fr...BU chemist to map DNA's surface, uncovering details that will show how structure abets function
...s provides a picture of the surface of DNA that is accessible to the probe. By applying this probe to the ENCO...rns upon itself, and, in general, is not an easily accessible item, especially for proteins that need to bind to it for transcription. It is known, however, that...NASA satellite data to aid global conservation
...gy have made NASA's remote sensing data and images accessible and affordable worldwide by most organizations. IUCN has unparalleled access to a rich source of conservation information and knowledge. Its global membership ranges from small community-based nongovernmental organizations to large scientific institu...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...ly, to make the findings of Census scientists more accessible and to share the excitement of the technology that makes the dream of a Census a reality, CoML team members launched the educational website Investigating Marine Life at www.coml.org, accompanied by the launch of a television public service commerci...Prediction of gene function in mammals
.... The authors have made their mouse dataset openly accessible online to the research community. Tim Hughes and colleagues from the University of Toronto, Canada, looked at the mouse genome using a technique previously only applied to simple organisms such as yeast and the nematode worm C. elegans. In yeast and...NIDCR launches unique initiative on oral biofilm
... be stored in a searchable online database that is accessible free of charge to researchers worldwide. The data...n humans. "The mouth is just so much more readily accessible than other parts of the body with recognized biofilms, such as the intestine," he said. "It's a per...Neural crest stem cells in skin could provide alternative to embryonic stem cell use
...iate into many diverse cell types; they are easily accessible in the skin of adults; and the patient's own neural crest stem cells could be used for cell therapy. The latter avoids both rejection of the implant and graft-versus-host disease. Studies in the mouse showed that neural crest stem cells from adult...Gene therapy reduces skin cancer to sunburn in mouse model
...rg said. "Most importantly, skin cells are highly accessible for introducing foreign genes. Also, infection of the skin with a virus carrying the gene of interest, as we did with the mice, allows for many, many cells to receive the appropriate gene. Once some of the existing technical limitations are solved ...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
...rful new approach to developing a more affordable, accessible cure for malaria, which kills more than a million children each year. OneWorld Health, which announced the grant today (Monday, Dec. 13), will work in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and Amyris Biotechnologies. UC Berkeley w...Laser scalpel opens way for nerve regeneration studies in worms
...rm could provide answers to questions that are not accessible currently by doing experiments in more complex animals, including mice and zebrafish.A research team that included Yishi Jin , a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), Andrew Chisholm, also o...... in this way made highly complex real-life markets accessible to scientifically sound investigation. His most recent work has dealt with market architecture, promising not only great potential for basic research but also for the organisation of modern markets. Axel Ockenfels has published several groundbreaking...Scientists find impaired chromatin structure formation & imprinted gene involvement in Rett Syndrome
...enes along the slinky to be expressed they must be accessible to certain enzymes, and therefore that section of the slinky must be stretched out. Tightly compacted sections are silent because the genes cannot be accessed. In normal mice, they found that MeCP2 formed chromatin loops of silenced DNA in the vicini...First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases
...r Atlas, has been placed online where it is freely accessible to researchers studying brain development and disorders.To compile the atlas, the investigators first sifted through databases of information from the Human Genome Project, singling out all genes in the mouse that appeared to be transcription factors...Winter biological processes may help spread shrubs in the Arctic
...of subsurface soil bacteria and fungi that provide accessible nutrients for shrubs, notably nitrogen. As a result, shrubs grow more rapidly, and so the spread continues....