Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...ne of 21 in the country that will support planning activities for groups of researchers to develop interdisciplinary strategies to solve significant biomedical or behavioral research problems. The Penn project, to be headed by Stephen E Kimmel, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, will also est...Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
...tors of their own, allow scientists to isolate the activities of specific receptors. For their study, Doyle's team chose the nuclear receptor retinoid x receptor (RXR) whose molecular structure has been well documented by other researchers. Using a technique known as structure-based codon randomization, the Ge...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...l of the genotyping, SNP discovery, and production activities related to human genetics. She also serves as scientific director of Broad Institute's portion of the International HapMap Project, a collaborative public project designed to advance genetic research and its application to disease gene discovery by ...New genetic tools provide clues to the effects of exercise and diet on obesity, diabetes
... women. "We propose that the increased activities of AK1, CK reflect a compensatory change in energy metabolism to counter a progressive decrease in mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle of increasingly obese women. We feel that this discovery provides new insights into the primary deficits in m......atters, in particular to keeping the impact of its activities on the surrounding environment to the minimum. In recent years the Organization has developed an environmental management system, set up official communication channels on environmental matters with local authorities, and communicated with the genera...ASPB opposes ban of GE crops in Butte County Ballot Measure D
...l Operations," which are exempted from the type of activities that can be designated as a public nuisance, pursuant to the county code. The proposed ordinance would define "genetically engineered organism" as an organism or the offspring of an organism, the DNA of which has been altered or amended through gen...UCR researchers identify key plant enzyme that defends against multiple infections
...ut programmed cell death in animals. Caspase-like activities have also been shown to be required for the initia...l death in plants, but the genes controlling those activities have not been identified. Natasha Raikhel, Director of the UCR Center for Plant Cell Biology, and h...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...ing Phase III, Virginia Tech will initiate new IPM activities through competitive grants for regional pest management programs, as well as for pest management problems of global concern. The second $17-million award makes Virginia Tech the lead institution and the management entity in the Sustainable Agricu...Northeastern University and Massachusetts Biotechnology Council to host drug discovery day
...t of the pipeline portfolio and project management activities at MPI. Prior to joining MPI, Dr. Celniker was the Assistant Vice President of Biotherapeutic Research Technologies at the Genetics Institute division of Wyeth Ayerst Research and prior to that was a Senior Scientist/Associate Director in the Medicin...Rutgers is on the 'NIH Roadmap'
...er-changing complement of proteins that direct the activities of living cells. Understanding protein structure, function and interactions can lead to an understanding of the molecular basis of disease. Principal investigator Ronald Levy, co-director of the BioMaPS Institute, and co-principal investigators Gaet...Medical geneticists elected to Institute of Medicine
...outreach and public education functions. His other activities at NHGRI have included co-editing a series of articles on genomic medicine for The New England Journal of Medicine, and co-founding a group called Genetic Resources on the Web, which works with organizations sponsoring genetics-related Web sites to e...Solutions to stop fishermen returning dead and dying marine animals back into sea - study
...there is minimal disturbance to day-to-day fishing activities but maximum benefit to the ecosystem."...Other highlights in the November 3 JNCI
...o spent 90 minutes or more each day doing physical activities had a lower risk of the cancer than women who spent less than 30 minutes each day doing physical activities. Contact: Caroline Roulaux, Communications Office, Maastricht University, 31-43-388-3084, Caroline.Roulaux@ssc.unimaas.nl MYH Gene Mutation...Conversion of flower organs into leaves
... shown that a so-called triple mutant, lacking the activities of three closely related genes, produces flowers that consist only of sepals. If flower organs represent modified leaves, and if this recently discovered triple mutant has only sepals, is it possible that mutations in another gene might conver...UK scientist and children's author wins EMBO Award for Communications 2004
...y many scientists to combine science communication activities with a full-time research career. Winners of the EMBO Communications Award are also put forward for the European Commission's Descartes Prize for Science Communication. The International jury applauded Balkwill for 'her spectacular work in communic...First Max Planck Partner Institute in China
...new Partner Institute will enrich the experimental activities of both organizations in the field of molecular bi...nal Biology will round off and complement research activities at the MPG and the CAS. By establishing a Partner Institute both organizations are venturing into ne...Extinction in ocean's mud presages key ecological changes
...ther organisms such as fish. In places where human activities have disrupted marine sediments, such as the enormous "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico - where excess fertilizers are dumped by the Mississippi River - nearly all life has vanished. "One thing our study suggests," Cardinale asserts, "is we ne...Muscle loss from space travel, prolonged inactivity linked to two genes
...s -- genes that produce proteins that regulate the activities of other genes. Her previous research had shown these transcriptional regulators were implicated in the process of muscle atrophy. By studying strains of mice bred to be without the nfb1 gene or without the bcl3 gene, so-called knockout mic...2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals 15,589 species at risk of extinction
...to act. But we cannot assume that any conservation activities will automatically prevent extinctions. We need better-funded efforts focused specifically on those animals and plants on the brink of extinction, and on those areas where such species are concentrated." Much of the increase in the number of threaten...... evolve and respond. Can we discover new microbial activities in such extreme environments? Are those activities something we can exploit?" The team's findings suggest that how researchers look for lif...