BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route
...d molecular biology and director of the mouse core facility at the USC/Norris Cancer Center. "The whole project was based on creating a mouse that lacks BRCA1 in only its granulosa cells," Dubeau says. "This collaboration was essential to the project's success." What Dubeau and his colleagues found was that w...South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
...he Pantanal." Meanwhile, a large hydro-electrical facility was recently constructed on the Manso River, a principal tributary of the Cuiab River, a project designed also to regulate seasonal flooding. A lower and shorter flood peak in the Cuiab River, however, could have profound ecological impacts in the no...Bayer donates equipment to Children's Hospital, Oakland for infectious disease research
...ed last month, is a $5.6 million, state-of-the-art facility that brings together a variety of research programs focused on understanding the immunology of infectious diseases, both existing and emerging, and developing vaccines to prevent them. The equipment donated by Bayer BP will enhance the capacity for d...Unique global light source Website launched
..., clippings of news stories, links to light source facility websites, and relevant articles and presentations....d specific information regarding each light source facility including job opportunities and events related to the science outreach activities. Sponsors of th...One year after groundbreaking, desert research center takes shape on the Israeli-Jordanian border
...ging the Rift Center, a new life sciences research facility located in the remote desert region known as the c...e literally straddles the border, with half of the facility in Israel and half in Jordan. A wire fence separates the border from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea, bu...Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation
... occurring defect in Fox Chase's laboratory animal facility in 1997. Known as "helper deficient" or HD mice, they are proving to be useful for exploring the pathways of lymphocyte development, according to Kappes. Helper T cells, so called because they arise from the thymus gland, are essential for combating...The world's smallest synchrotron, MIRRORCLE-6X, now commercially available
...omes with a serious drawback, the very significant facility price tag. Synchrotron light is thus expensive, which ultimately constrains aspirations on its usage. What makes MIRRORCLE-6X so intriguing is that for the first time it may be possible to proliferate synchrotron light with a very low entrance fee. T...New Georgia Tech micro-CT imaging technique to help tissue engineers improve bone regeneration
...l additional pain. Georgia Tech's micro-CT imaging facility has been used to study tissue engineering approaches to enhance or replace the use of bone grafts clinically. Guldberg and his collaborators at the University of Rochester, for example, have explored various strategies to revitalize dead allograft bo...Key molecule in plant photo-protection identified
...NERSC is a U.S. Department of Energy national user facility hosted by Berkeley Lab. Head-Gordon is a UC Berkeley faculty chemist with Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division. "The success of this project depended on several different areas of science, from the greenhouse to the supercomputer," Fleming said...Powerful X-ray beams at Argonne, new electronic flight simulator
...sed extremely bright beams of X-rays at the BioCAT facility (a NIH- supported research center developed by IIT) at the APS and a "virtual-reality flight simulator" for flies (designed by collaborator Michael Dickinson of Caltech) to probe to the muscles in a flying fruit fly. The intense X-rays are necessary ...Scientists find common roots for thousands of plant compounds
... delivering steering wheels from one manufacturing facility to another requires some kind of transportation, molecules also rely on vehicles to travel around the interior of a cell. Exactly how the precursor molecules in this system travel from one compartment to another, however, remains a mystery. "This wor...First x-ray laser gets funding
...-Los Angeles. SLAC will build a magnet measurement facility to test, adjust and align the complex magnet structures. Another early phase task is building an injector to produce an intense electron beam ready to travel at nearly the speed of light down the last kilometer of SLAC's 3-kilometer linac. The LCLS w...Hospital epidemiologists trace outbreak of organism to commonly used wound care equipment
...atile lavage. Prior residence in a long-term care facility was also a significant risk factor, though no one facility was implicated, and it was unclear how this contributed to the outbreak. All other possible risk fa...UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases receives grant to train Brazilian scientists
...e FIOCRUZ laboratory in Belo Horizonte, a research facility that specializes in studies of tropical parasites, their vectors and their hosts. During the five-year project, trainees will develop the analysis infrastructure to support two NIH-funded studies already underway on the parasitic worm that causes sch...Lilly Endowment gives Indiana University $53 million for life sciences
... Hall, a 140,000-square-foot research and teaching facility funded by the state and members of the Simon family, is currently under construction. Life scientists, recently surveyed by The Scientist magazine, named IU one of the 10 places they'd most like to work. "Basic research is the font of all technologi...Chicken genome analysis will benefit human health and agriculture
...nd number, 256, still lives on the MSU campus in a facility that serves the lab of Jerry Dodgson, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at MSU, who has worked on mapping the chicken genome for the past 17 years. At 7, she's quite old for a chicken and is oblivious to the importance of her contribut...New approach studying protein structure could advance drug development
..., which uses the intense X-ray beams at the BioCAT facility in the Advanced Photon Source. The proteins were chosen based upon the best structures available from the Protein Data Bank that had already been observed with and without ligands using X-ray crystallography. "We chose proteins that already had cr...Academy meeting highlights advances in detecting Amish, Jewish, and Icelandic genetic diseases
...en, a non-profit pediatric diagnostic and research facility located in southeastern Pennsylvania. The clinic manages the care of children with a variety of metabolic and genetic disorders; eighty-five percent of the clinic patients are from the Plain sects (Amish and Mennonite). Over the past six years, the c...NJIT physicists expect new super lens to reveal first light by early 2006
...lescope will be installed. NJIT has operated the facility since 1997. Led by Goode, a team of solar physicists from the University of Hawaii and Korea are collaborating with NJIT on the project. (Editors: For telescope details visit http://www.bbso.njit.edu/ ; call Sheryl Weinstein, 973-596-3436, to i...Injured whooping crane recovering at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
...ane recovery and research programs. Currently, the facility produces 2/3 of all the whooping cranes used in release programs such as the ultralight migration program and non-migratory release project in central Florida. All of the whoopers used in the ultralight migration are raised at Patuxent and given thei...