DFG loosens eligibility requirements for the Emmy Noether Programme
...is part of the Emmy Noether Programme, intended to enable young researchers to qualify for a professorship rapidly after completing their doctorate, entered its final funding period with the meeting of the Grants Committee responsible for it, which took place in December 2004. The measures for modernisatio...Researchers discover a stem-cell switch lurking within leukemias
...able to therapeutically target these programs that enable a leukemia gene to confer self-renewal. And, we should be able to learn to switch on these same programs in normal cells to trigger tissue regeneration and, although it's something of a pipe dream, perhaps even organ regeneration." Specifically, sai...Cells don festive holiday colors
... visually. The availability of the new colors will enable scientists to track the effects of multiple geneti...n said such a variety of fluorescent proteins will enable scientists to have considerable choices in making such tradeoffs, "and one of the reasons we name th...MSI reveals invention for detection and precise quantification of molecules
... engineering, computer science, and mathematics to enable precise, quantitative, prediction of the future behaviors of biological systems....Scientists identify molecular events that drive cell senescence
...ists have identified specific cellular events that enable a cell to make the transition from a state of active growth to an irreversible state of growth arrest, called senescence. Understanding the mysterious process of senescence is of great importance to human biology, because a failure to enter this norm...Protein in urine may warn of preeclampsia risk in pregnant women
...culating angiogenic growth factor molecules, which enable the growth of small blood vessels. "In a normal pregnancy, the developing fetus signals the mother's body to widen blood vessels to the placenta, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the fetus," explains Karumanchi. "But for women with preeclampsia...Agilent Technologies announces breakthrough for cancer researchers studying chromosomal changes
...sually by amplifying only specific DNA regions, to enable study. Researchers using Agilent's platform can use either amplified or non-amplified total genomic DNA in studies of the whole genome, providing better ease of use and improved experimental design. Through the flexibility of Agilent's in situ, ink-j...NSBRI news: Bone-quality assessment tool for space and Earth
...Confocal Acoustic Diagnostic system, or SCAD, will enable doctors to determine the rate of loss and plan treatment options with the aid of high-quality images, taken noninvasively. Studies of cosmonauts and astronauts who spent months on space station Mir revealed that space travelers can lose, on average, ...Protein transformation gives new twist to medical research
...d a team of researchers. Understanding Lyz could enable medical researchers to design drugs to turn off or on proteins at the cellular level, which could lead to treatment for some of the most difficult to cure diseases such as cancer and HIV. Lyz is a lysozyme, a protein that degrades the tough cell wal...MSI releases 'moleculizer' - a new approach to simulation of intracellular biochemical networks
...mathematics together with biology and chemistry to enable precise, quantitative, prediction of the future behaviors of biological systems. In keeping with the MSI's support for an open source biology, Moleculizer will be made freely available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Nature Biotechnology...Systems microbiology has great scientific promise in health and environment
... systems microbiology is a centralized database to enable rapid submission and retrieval of data and to expedite access to information from diverse areas of research. Continued systems microbiology research will provide the tools and approaches necessary for achieving a better understanding of life and ec...Searle grant funds proteomics initiative
...the heart to pump blood efficiently. The FTMS will enable us to identify these subtle changes and provide information important in the diagnosis and treatment of major killers such as heart disease." The CBC expects the FTMS to be in place and usable by summer of 2005. Before then, scientists at Northwester...First x-ray laser gets funding
... synchrotron sources like SSRL's SPEAR3. That will enable breakthrough science such as the creation and study of exotic states of matter, imaging the structures and dynamics of biological and chemical molecules on the atomic scale and probing the fundamental aspects of atomic structure. Congress began fundi...Study in Royal Society journal on managing GM crops for environmental benefit
...onal systems. These changes to GM crop management enable farmers to reduce herbicide use and costs, whilst satisfying public demands for increasing benefits to wildlife. Contact: Dr Mike May, Rothamstead Research, Broom's Barn, Higham, SUFFOLK, IP28 6NP, United Kingdom Cellular fine structures and histo...Research may speed development of new oral drugs for fertility treatments
...he details of the hormone-receptor structure could enable modifications to FSH used in treatment to make it more potent and longer-lived in the bloodstream. One could also imagine the possibility of designing small-molecule contraceptive compounds that would bind to the receptor and prevent hormone binding....Deciphering the genetic babel of brain cells
...nt and function of the brain. For example, it will enable researchers to genetically tag, manipulate, and even knock out the function of specific subtypes of neurons to study their function. Also, by comparing genetic profiles of cells in normal and diseased brains, researchers can gain invaluable clues to ...DNA molecules used to assemble nanoparticles
...er quickly and easily in many different ways would enable a clinic to offer 25 different "flavors" of dendrimer with only ten synthesis steps, Baker said. Baker foresees a nanoparticle cluster in which a single dendrimer carries three single-strands of DNA, each with a sequence specific to the DNA attached...University of Arizona receives IBM grant for massive virtual storage system for life sciences data
...rent tiers of storage. At its core, the grant will enable the development of a data life cycle management system that allows researchers to have data storage provisioned autonomically as it is needed, in a non-disruptive manner transparent to users and applications. "This solution will permit growth while t...Molecular probes for biology research and drug discovery
...ins. Methods developed for combinatorial chemistry enable the synthesis of biological potentially relevant l...euro for an initial period of 5 years. This should enable the instalment of several junior research groups and support the research activities at the particip...UCLA researchers detail the evolution of quantum dot imaging in the journal Science
...er (see attached figure). The qdot technology will enable researchers to locate a tumor within the body, look at it very precisely at the cellular level to determine what type of cancer it is and then perhaps arm it with toxic therapies designed to kill the disease, said physicist Xavier Michalet, the first...