BU chemist to map DNA's surface, uncovering details that will show how structure abets function
... will give scientists a finely detailed picture of how the most fundamental aspects of naked DNA -- DNA w...gulatory proteins bind to genomic DNA, but also of how DNA's structure abets its function. The six 2004 technology development grants are the second set of...Research team discovers possible genetic mechanism behind congenital heart defects
...s. This finding has implications for understanding how congenital heart defects occur, and may lead to ge...r certain defects, such as proteins that determine how genes are expressed. This also opens new insights into how general chromosome properties can relate ...Structure of new DNA enzyme family member found
...iversity researchers, who are trying to understand how proteins evolve and function by looking at their s...hate group to a DNA or RNA precursor. "When we saw how very similar these proteins look, we began to ask whether there might be a common ancestor or whethe...Researchers uncover how infections combat plant immune responses
...versity of Florida and at UC Davis, have uncovered how viruses circumvent the immune response of plants. The findings were published in the Nov. 2 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in a paper titled "Three Distinct Suppressors of RNA Silencing Encoded By a 20-kb Viral RNA Ge...International Rice Functional Genomics meeting in Tucson Nov. 15-17
...ice researchers from all over the world to discuss how to tackle the next step: figuring out what all tho...enes-- just 1 percent of the rice genome. Learning how the genes act inside the plant is crucial for developing better varieties of rice. Wing estimates th...People cause more soil erosion than all natural processes
...tivity on soil loss, but most have only guessed at how erosion due to natural forces such as glaciers and...o calculate rates of natural erosion. "If you ask how fast erosion takes place over geologic time---say over the last 500 million years---on average, you ...Researchers discover transport molecule that allows boron into cells
... discovery of NaBC1 may help scientists understand how cells control internal boron concentration and the...tion and crop size but until recently, no one knew how it entered plant cells. A borate transporter discovered in the plant Arabidopsis by another research...U-M researcher examines the cell's housekeeping habits
...n tinker with the regulation of the process to see how it works. Cancer researchers have been trying to figure out how to turn apoptosis on as a way to have cancer cells kill themselves. Being able to control autophagy ...UNC Lineberger researchers identify molecular markers of aging
...tissues and organs for transplantation, to predict how well a patient will heal after surgery and, by being able to characterize the regenerative ability of a patient's bone marrow, predict future toxicity of chemotherapy in a cancer patient. Both p16INK4a and ARF are known potent tum...Link between immune protein and longer survival in melanoma patients identified
...ing immune cells, as well as instruct the cells on how to find tumors. Together, that will improve the efficacy of vaccines against cancer in the future," said the study's principal investigator David W. Mullins, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and a researcher in the Human Immune Therapy Center...Scientists find acid rain an unlikely ally in the battle against a greenhouse gas
Depending on how you look at it, something good can always come out...al sulfate pollution began. In order to determine how the acid rain interacts with methane in wetlands, lead author of the study, Dr. Vincent Gauci of Ope...NASA & partners create new worldwide coral reef library
...letely inadequate to answer the key question about how the reefs and the fragile ecosystems they support are adapting to a changing environment. This newly released dataset will help provide the baseline against which future observations can be compared," said Gene Carl Feldman, SeaWiFS Project manager a...Powerful 'toolkit' developed for functional profiling of yeast genes
...searchers then use special microarrays to find out how much of each mutant is present. An improved barcod...r numbers are sufficient to get the big picture of how genes interact, and the technique has better potential to scale to the whole genome than other techn...NJIT stem cell researcher to receive research award from biomedical group
...ld is wide open and has the potential to influence how physicians treat patients with severely damaged or diseased tissues."...New study reveals locations of possible Alzheimer's genes
...her genes will be a huge step toward understanding how Alzheimer's begins and how it can be treated. It will also allow clinicians to predict who will develop Alzheimer's later in li...Virginia Tech, TIGR sign memorandum for new alliance
...atics tools for the life sciences is an example of how this cooperative effort can provide wider benefits for multiple scientific communities." Steger noted that the university has done research with plants and animals since its founding in 1872 and has been at the cutting edge of using biotechnology and...Sexual competition drives evolution of a sex-related gene
...hat the rate of evolution actually correlates with how intense the sexual selection is."...For yeast, a DNA break ensures sex switch for a grandchild
...k has established a molecular mechanism to explain how fission yeast cells manage to switch the mating ty... break. The discovery has general implications for how DNA can be marked for asymmetric inheritance that can affect cell destiny. ...Stowers Institute scientist named American Cancer Society research professor
...ompany malignant transformation. A clearer view of how chromosomes are properly transmitted during cell division has direct implications for understanding cancer. In addition to his work at the Stowers Institute, Dr. Hawley is a Professor of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas, Lawren...Molecular switch provides clues to remarkable adaptability of human pathogen
...of Developmental Cell, provides new evidence about how bacteria regulate gene expression in response to changing environmental conditions to promote adaptation and long-term survival. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is frequently found in soil, water, plants, and animals and can thrive in a wide variety of enviro...