Searle grant funds proteomics initiative
...borative research and new partnerships, the CBC is expected to transform how research and training are carried...ful and yield new biological knowledge. Beyond its expected scientific yields, this inaugural project of the CBC will benefit scientists and the public of the C...Development of portable infectious disease detector
...ably more difficult than most of the inventors had expected and the products that these companies have created thus far have been too expensive for the point-of-care diagnostics market. For their home fertility tester, Pria kept costs down by keeping their system as simple as possible. Instead of trying to sq...Scientists find common roots for thousands of plant compounds
...significant breakthrough, Dudareva said. "We never expected to find this," she said. "This is the first time anyone has realized that only one of the two available pathways operates to make the precursor." She also found that while some of the precursor molecules remain in the compartment where they are made,...Research may speed development of new oral drugs for fertility treatments
...etween these two components was very tight. So, we expected that if we made them together, they would stay together," he said. The resulting x-ray crystallographic structure yielded important insights into the FSH-receptor complex, said Hendrickson. "We found that the binding segment of the FSH receptor takes...Revolutionary new medical treatments: International effort to steer around obstacles
...ry pharmaceutical companies who could otherwise be expected to bring the relevant treatments to the market place are facing disturbingly turbulent conditions in their relations with policy makers, regulators and members of the public. Existing successful drugs are nearing the end of their patent life so the ...Timing is everything: First step in protein building revealed
...rprised and pleased by what we saw next." They had expected -- or at least hoped -- to see a shift in the color of light once the RNA was mixed in. Instead, they saw two shifts in the color given off. First, there was a slight shift, indicating a small change in the distance between eIF1 and its relative, and...'Moss in space' project shows how some plants grow without gravity
...showed that the plants didn't behave as scientists expected them to in the near-absence of gravity. The common...of the moss cultures still intact. The researchers expected random, unorganized growth, as seen with every other type of plant flown in space. "We don't know wh...Protein stops growth of brain tumor, OHSU study shows
... generated by the mutant EGF receptor would not be expected to respond to herstatin." She added, "This inhibitor we have is a naturally occurring one, and it's possible that the mutant EGF receptor may have developed to confer resistance to the class of inhibitors that blocks the extracellular domain" on the ...Startling results from new biomedical research international conference
...he pharmaceutical companies who could otherwise be expected to bring the relevant treatments to the market place are facing turbulent relations with policy makers, regulators and members of the public. Patents expert at the Edinburgh University School of Law, Dr. Graeme Laurie says, "How can property rights b...Genetic regions influencing male sexual orientation identified
...rothers in the study, compared to about 50 percent expected by chance. The region on chromosome 10 correlated with sexual orientation only if it was inherited from the mother. "Our study helps to establish that genes play an important role in determining whether a man is gay or heterosexual," said Mustanski. ...NJIT hosts Biomedical Engineering Showcase and Career Fair
...ations." More than 300 people and 25 companies are expected to attend the showcase. Students who are studying biomedical engineering, biotechnology and other health-science related careers will have a chance, during the afternoon career fair, to meet with prospective employers in those fields. The companies w...AAAS announces winners of the 2005 Fellowships for Reporters from Africa
... 1,200 press registrants from around the world are expected to cover the AAAS Meeting this year. The AAAS Fellowships for Reporters from Developing Regions, a program now in its second year, is intended to encourage outstanding young science reporters....New insight into regulation of blood stem cells
...ity to influence stem cell fate decisions would be expected to have a major impact on the field of stem cell therapy and to provide important in vitro model systems for the identification of genes and compounds that can be used to regulate the process of stem cell differentiation."...Key mechanism in genetic inheritance during cell division identified
... orthogonally to the microtubule axis are not only expected to strengthen interprotofilament interactions, but to also prevent protofilament peeling, which in turn would encourage further growth. Furthermore, the Berkeley researchers showed that binding between the ring and the microtubule is mediated by flex...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2005
...ificant step toward long-sought designer materials expected to have a wide range of applications, particularly as sensors and switches and in the semiconductor industry. Funding for this research, which is published in the Jan. 27 issue of Nature, is provided by ORNL'S Laboratory Directed Research and Develop...Calit2 launches prize program to encourage bioinformatics research by UCSD undergraduates
...informatics Scholar Award. The transfer student is expected to co-author a paper this quarter with graduate students Juan Rodriguez and Michael Sanders. His research focuses on predicting how human variation in genes affects protein function....NJIT hosts Spring Career Fair: Employers expected to increase hiring...
...596-5203 for directions and parking. Employers are expected to increase hiring in 2005, said Mass. He expects NJIT's annual spring career fair, scheduled for March 9, to be rife with employers hungry for resumes. The fair, held in NJIT's Estelle and Zoom Fleisher Athletic Center, brings together private and g...BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy
...of the traditional subscription publishers will be expected to go through a process of resubmitting their papers to the PubMed Central repository. In addition, they will often need to update their manuscript version with the changes introduced in the publication process, as many publishers specify that only t...Scientists discuss improved biopesticides for locust control in West Africa
..., but when the annual spring rains begin, they are expected to return. Participants at the seminar included mi...h during the secondary invasion of locusts that is expected in 2005. Agblevor discussed long-term formulation research that could expand the circumstances under...Melatonin shrinks bird gonads. What does the popular supplement do in humans?
...ail raised in simulated short days, which would be expected to produce high levels of melatonin in the brain, ...aised with longer periods of light, which would be expected to produce less melatonin. In addition, the short-day males had larger testicles than the long-day m...