Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...dication given for the same medical problem. While billions of prescriptions are written each year in the hopes of improving health and preventing disease in Americans, these medications do not work as hoped in everyone, and indeed sometimes result in serious side effects. Genetic variability in the response ...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
... be able to process from 200 million to as many as billions of genotypes per year, depending on the technology platform used and the needs of outside users. The cost for genotyping will be on the order of pennies per genotype, varying according to the technology platform used. Two decades ago, the cost was ...Ancient creature fossilized by the bacteria that ate it
...ria have suggested that this group has existed for billions of years. But fossil remains of archaebacteria have rarely been found, and never been found as fossils in Antarctica, until now. The geologists presented their results Wednesday at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver. Babc...Building a tree of life needs less 'wood'
...ving things have evolved since the origins of life billions of years ago, grouping related organisms on the same branch. Such trees provide an organizing framework for biology. They can be used for predicting the properties of poorly known species and are powerful tools for tasks such as drug discovery, said ...Linking empires, economics, evolution
...Human society is still following rules established billions of years ago, and nothing suggests that we can change that direction, Vermeij said. But our ability to anticipate and learn may help us to find ways to survive without destroying our environment and ourselves. Vermeij received his bachelor's deg...Novel biotoxin being studied for use in opioid withdrawal
...s are all affected, with associated costs reaching billions of dollars each year. "There's a need for new treatments for heroin dependence and for opiate abuse, and this is one potential new approach, directed at modifying the physical dependence that occurs with repeated use of drugs like heroin," said Dr. ...MBL scientists embark on international effort to uncover microbial diversity in world's oceans
...ICoMM will range from tens of millions to multiple billions of dollars." ...The logic of life brings order to our genes
...stable and resilient to changed conditions. Out of billions of cells, not a single one falls into chaos. How can order be maintained? A question that scientists have been pondering since the 1960s may now have been answered by theoretical physicists at Lund University. In the most recent issue of the Proceed...Common lineage suggested for viruses that infect hosts from all three domains of life
... in hosts, may have evolved from a common ancestor billions of years ago. The findings will be published in th.... For viruses that diverged from a common ancestor billions of years ago, and so have significant differences in genome size, genetic complexity, and host, stru...Genetic defect confers risk of major depression, resistance to SSRI drug therapy
...ute of Health Research. The brain is a network of billions of cells called neurons. When stimulated, neurons fire, sending a wave of electrical signals from one end to the other. One neuron will trigger an impulse in others by launching bursts of chemical neurotransmitters, including serotonin, that set off ...Research points to new theory driving evolutionary changes
...ns - a change from one letter to another among the billions of letters contained in the code - minutely but inexorably change an organism's appearance. UT Southwestern scientists, however, believe the single-point mutation process is much too slow and happens much too infrequently to account for the rapid ri...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Salty, acidic soup could have supported life on Mars
...lace that could have been capable of cradling life billions of years ago, when life on Earth was getting its start. This milestone plus nine other research advances make up Science 's list of the top ten scientific developments in 2004, chosen for their profound implications for society and the advancement ...Violent ocean motion no magic potion for reefs
...ly related to Caulerpa taxifolia, which has caused billions of dollars in damage since accidental introduction to the Mediterranean in 1989. South Florida dive operators have reported for years that overgrowth was so bad at some previously popular dive reefs that these locations were no longer worth visiting....New lensless imaging technique opens door to nanoscale world
...erials. Just one pulse of X-ray light, rather than billions of pulses, will be needed to capture a clear picture of the action at that moment in time. Scientists could take a series of such images to create a "movie" of the changes, analogous to time-lapse photography for slow processes like a flower coming i...New drug may aid battle against nicotine addiction, Alzheimer's and other disorders
...perties of the cell. The human brain coordinates billions of neurons to mediate complex behaviors such as an infant learning to recognize his or her parents, a senior citizen learning to play piano, or the process of addiction following repetitive exposure to specific drugs. These behaviors all result from ...Bioartificial kidney under study at MCG
Whether a bioartificial kidney containing billions of donor kidney cells will help intensive care pa...une system. The new device for kidney failure adds billions of kidney cells that can perform many of these important kidney functions. Human proximal tubule cel...NASA research to aid federal invasive species council efforts
...invasive species annually cost the country tens of billions of dollars," he said. NASA will enhance partner's abilities to respond effectively and efficiently to invasive species' challenges. NASA provides Earth observations and predictive models resulting from space research and systems engineering expertise...Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
...receive goods in the United States. It would cost billions and billion of dollars." Working at Jean Lafitte National Historic Park, Barataria Preserve and Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) facilities in Cocdrie and Port Fourchon, LA - expedition scientists are looking at how marsh subsidence ...Discovery offers cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment hopes
...icant in light of recent findings that, within the billions of cells of a tumor, there exists a few 'cancer stem cells' that seem to be the cells that are resistant to cancer therapy," Trosko said. "In other words, current practices to treat cancers have been directed at the wrong tumor cells." The oct-4 gene......, Allen says, "the challenge is to ensure that the billions of poor who do not currently consume adequate amounts can improve their access to these foods. To ignore this problem is to ignore the tremendous loss of human capital that results from the subsequent micronutrient deficiencies."...