Looking to a new era in bee research
...yse the newly available honey bee genome sequence, generating exciting results in many areas of biology. Themes for analysis included Anti-Xenobiotic Defence Mechanisms, Bee Disease and Immunity, Brain and Behaviour, Caste Development and Reproduction, Comparative and Evolutionary Analysis, Development and M...Two national diabetes-related initiatives coordinated by MCG bioinformatics expert
...ts of 13 investigators from different institutions generating ideas for creating mouse models, a Mouse Generation and Husbandry Core to generate the mice and the Coordinating and Bioinformatics Unit to oversee consortium activities. "The NIH recognized years ago that there were few good animal models that m...Discovery of a molecular mechanism underlying limb architecture
...e posterior region of the developing limb, thereby generating the asymmetry of our limbs (for example, the fact that our fingers are different from each other). This discovery explains how limb asymmetry is genetically set up. This is an important finding as limb asymmetry is required for the broad range of mo...A little of what you fancy does you no good
... the indirect benefits of passing on good genes or generating sexy sons with high reproductive success. Many genes shaping sexual characteristics are likely affected by the conditions that favor intralocus sexual conflict in sexually reproducing organisms, the authors argue, suggesting that the phenomenon ma...Researchers report initial success in promising approach to prevent tooth decay
...tans lives and our innate immunity is much weaker, generating a strong immune response has been challenging." According to Shi, a major limitation of antibiotics and standard dental hygiene is their lack of selectivity. "At least 700 bacterial species are now known to inhabit the mouth," said Shi. "The good ...Study offers innovative profile of enzyme that aids tumor growth
...teps that accompany in vitro enzyme analysis while generating data more directly related to their naturally occurring activities. "Our hypothesis was that the determination of catalytic activities for enzymes like KIAA1363 could be done directly in living systems through the integrated application of profilin...Center for Sensory Biology Inaugural Symposium
...rvard University "Building smell: mechanisms for generating the cells, apparatus and wiring of olfaction" Randall Reed, Ph.D., Co-director, Center for Sensory Biology, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics Johns Hopkins School of Medicine "Pain insensitivity nature or nurture?" Clifford Woolf, M....Biofuel cells without the bio cells
...aking down sewage and other biological waste while generating electricity directly from the same process. An example, Squier said, is a self-powering sewage treatment plant. Using pure protein opens up the possibility of shrinking biofuel cells to power small electronic devices, Squier said. Whole-organism bio...ASU embarks on NSF grant for Nanotechnology Solar Energy Initiative
...y electrons, producing a charge in the process and generating electricity. Separating and guiding the charge along a circuit poses a difficult technical challenge. According to Diaz, in order to take greater advantage of light-gathering antennae, it is necessary to directly assemble and position them adjacent t...JCI table of contents: Oct. 12, 2006
...er the composition and function of the proteasome, generating the immunoproteasome, it is not known whether related soluble factors (type I INFs) released before IFN-gamma during viral infection can also generate the immunoproteasome. Now, in a study appearing online on October 12 in advance of publication in ......owever, electromagnets do have the disadvantage of generating weaker magnetic fields, meaning that they must be very close to the place where they are to be used. G. M. Whitesides and his co-workers at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, have now developed an uncomplicated method for producing a microfluidi...Genome archaeology illuminates the genetic engineering debate
... draw genes for insertion into an array of plants, generating unique genomes not achievable by conventional breeding," Messing said. "We could engineer plants to provide a more sustainable, healthy and productive source of food, while reducing the environmental impacts of their cultivation."...Gene therapy study takes aim at prostate cancer
...in distant points in the body. "We hope that by generating a systemic immune response, we are enabling the body to destroy prostate cancer cells that have moved elsewhere," he said. Kadmon and his colleagues plan to test six different doses of the gene. The gene therapy involves attaching an inactivated ad...Better sludge through metagenomics
...bt1247.html ). The metagenomic strategy entails generating DNA sequence information directly from samples of sewage sludge to provide a blueprint of the genes and hence the metabolic possibilities of the wastewater environment, with a view to understanding how the system works and predicting and averting fai...Wild bees make honeybees better pollinators
...ere much more effective in pollinating flowers and generating seeds, Greenleaf found. There appear to be two reasons for that. Male wild bees, probably looking for mates, will latch onto worker honeybees, which are sterile females, causing them to move from one flower to another. Secondly, female wild bees app...Conservationist and actor Harrison Ford honored by Congressional Foundation
...official debt owed the U.S. while at the same time generating funds to conserve their country's natural heritage....New insight into skin-tanning process suggests novel way of preventing skin cancer
... fair-skinned people. The researchers succeeded in generating red-haired mice whose light skin contained melanocytes, but when the mice were subjected to low levels of UV radiation, they did not tan. Nor did they tan when the UV levels were raised slightly; but when they increased slightly more, the animals got...Rodent's bizarre traits deepen mystery of genetics, evolution
...NA within the cellular compartment responsible for generating energy (the mitochondria). Some of Triant's additional work explores the unique ability of vole's mitochondrial DNA to insert itself within DNA in the cell nucleus. The nuclear genome, as it is known, contains the vast majority of a cell's DNA and is...NIH launches Knockout Mouse Project
...to avoid redundancy and maximize the efficiency of generating knockouts for all genes in the mouse genome. Furthermore, the U.S., Canadian and European groups are committed to making their data and resources rapidly and openly available to researchers around the world. "The international projects will excha...Researchers add crucial information on how the body's T cells react to parasitic diseases
...tides, despite having some 12,000 genes capable of generating hundreds of thousands of potential targets for T cells." The study was just published in the online journal PLOS Pathogens, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science. Other authors of the paper include: Diana M...