Prominent physicist Freeman Dyson to speak at NJIT: Promises and perils of genetic engineering
Will the emerging revolution in genetic engineering and biotechnology change the course of Darwinian evolution - drastically altering the nature of life on earth? Internationally-known physicist and futurist Freeman Dyson, of Princeton University's Institute of Advan...Scientists raise concerns about second wave of 'mad cow' prion infection
...ed to take measures to prevent the spread of newly emerging infectious threats before they reach epidemic proportions. "Whatever microbes exist in developing and third world nations will eventually exist in our blood system because humankind is on the move as never before," she stated. "Because of the speed o...Virginia Tech, TIGR sign memorandum for new alliance
...considered biothreat agents or are associated with emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases. Virginia Bioin...icine, and now with TIGR, build on Virginia Tech's emerging research foundation in biomedical and health research."......n the stream bottom, which decreased adult insects emerging from the stream to the forest. In turn, this caus...t-dwellers such as birds and bats, prey on insects emerging from the stream. This research demonstrates that species invasions can decouple critical connection...New Royal Society journal studies
...e need to determine control strategies for new and emerging infections, but the design of these strategies is hampered by the obvious lack of data. A new model, based on work first published in 1927 is described. The model is parameterized by the progression of the infection in an individual and the initial d...Award will help unlock mysteries of one of Earth's most important organisms
...mbrust is the sixth recipient named. The award is emerging as one of the world's most prestigious, and certainly the highest paying, of any specifically given to oceanographers, according to Arthur Nowell, dean of the UW College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences. "Ginger is doing work that is absolutely fundamen...HIV, diagnostic health care tools top of list for UH researchers
...100 of the nation's top researchers to discuss the emerging science of nanotechnology Nov. 19-21 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif. Kurt Krause, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at UH, and Rigoberto Advincula, associate professor of chemistry at UH, are two of only 12 res...Concord grape juice increased HDL, lowered inflammatory marker linked to heart disease
...how its positive effect on soluble CD40 ligand, an emerging marker of cardiovascular inflammation, even in subjects on a daily aspirin regimen." The double blind, placebo-controlled study looked at 20 subjects, with a mean age of 63 years, who had previously been diagnosed with coronary artery disease and wer...US trees affected by growing number of health concerns
St. Paul, Minn. (November 30, 2004) - A number of emerging forest health issues are affecting the overall vitality of North American forests, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS). At a recent APS Northeastern Division meeting, plant pathologists highlighted several types...Vaccination with anthrax capsule protects against experimental infection in animals
...bility of technological surprise when dealing with emerging biological threats."...Carnegie Mellon scientist develops way to deliver promising genetic tool into living cells
...t is translated into proteins, is the target of an emerging field called antisense therapy. "We found that we could modify PNAs so that they bind sequence-specifically to mRNA," Ly said. By binding to specific mRNAs, these agents could dampen the production of select disease-causing proteins, he added. First ...Next edition of textbook ushers cellular microbiology out of infancy
...96, the term "cellular microbiology" identifies an emerging discipline that integrates the fields of cell biology and microbiology, highlighting the interaction between microbes and host cells. The advent of genomics, proteomics and postgenomics has resulted in more widespread understanding of the field of c...New tuberculosis antibiotic may shorten treatment time, fight drug-resistant strains
...ugs have been discovered in the last 40 years, and emerging strains of the bacterium that are resistant to multiple drugs are an increasingly worrisome problem. The current treatment for drug-sensitive tuberculosis recommended by the World Health Organization consists of a cocktail of drugs that must be taken...In wake of Lyme disease vaccine for people, mice may be next in line for shots
...s are not the same. "It shows us that with many emerging infectious diseases originating from animals, no one approach is likely to be a cure-all," Tsao said. "Diseases like this demand you think at the wildlife-community level, not just at the patient level." Lyme disease is caused by bacteria that mu...NASA finds trees and insect outbreaks affect carbon dioxide levels
...ng global satellite data. "A historical picture is emerging of periodic droughts and heat waves, possibly coupled with herbivorous insect outbreaks, as among the most important causes of ecosystem disturbances in North America," Potter said. According to scientists, the reason insects affect the planet's carb...Lilly Endowment gives Indiana University $53 million for life sciences
...unds will be focused on metabolomics and cytomics, emerging fields that are bringing an explosion of genetic information to bear on scientists' understanding of metabolism and the inner workings of cells. The new Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics (METACyt) Initiative will build on the foundation of genomic an...Weizmann Insitute scientists show how proteins beat the evolutionary stakes
...nomenon that has been puzzling biologists: rapidly emerging drug and antibiotic resistance, and enzymes that have adapted to break down man-made chemicals that have only been around for 50 years. Natural evolution, according to standard theory, should take thousands and hundreds of thousands of years to work....Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH
...tire room. Similar advances are being made in the emerging field of synthetic biology at the University of Houston, now allowing researchers to inexpensively program the chemical synthesis of entire genes on a single microchip. Xiaolian Gao, a professor in the department of biology and biochemistry at UH, ...MSI reveals invention for detection and precise quantification of molecules
...al monitoring, to detection of pathogens during an emerging infectious disease or a deliberate biological attack. Methods based on these molecules are designed to work with the existing infrastructure of PCR machines, which are widely deployed and found most county public health departments in the United Stat...UGA partners with U of Pennsylvania for bio-defense and infectious disease research project
... are considered to be biothreats or are related to emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases. Once a genome is sequenced, a database project must be developed to provide access to the data and provide tools to analyze it. "You have to be able to read the sequenced genome, use it, learn it and study it," ...