Bacterial response to oxidation studied as toxin barometer
...rial damage in cell cultures. If we can create a library of cellular response, we might have either a generic or a specific predictor, said Brian Love, professor of materials science and engineering at Virginia Tech. We dont know yet because we havent tested other cell types. Brian Love has been assistin...Building green made easier with new roadmap
...urces available, Kwok said, the book is a one-stop library of knowledge. It puts a lot of resources together in one book so the user doesnt have to go all over to find the needed information. The book is widely available and is on the Royal Institute of British Architects International Awards 2007 long lis...Massive gene screening points way to more effective chemotherapy
...uthwestern Medical Center describe how they used a library of small RNA molecules the first used by a university research center to identify the genes. When the researchers blocked the action of some of the 87 genes inside isolated lung-cancer cells, they found that those cells were up to 10,000 times mo...LSU professors monkey around with the Rhesus Macaque genome
...esearchers have dedicated themselves to creating a library of comprehensive, species-specific genetic sequence "maps" available for study. Scientists at LSU recently took part in the International Rhesus Macaque Sequence and Analysis Consortium, which successfully detailed the full DNA sequence of the rhesus...Genes and biomarkers that allow doctors to choose the right therapy for the right patient
...ers at Vanderbilt University are using a biomarker library of peptides to determine whether or not tyrosine k...ent surrounding the tumors. This phage displayed library called so after the bacteriophage viruses used to capture protein fragments was then isolated and ...LSU professor involved in genome sequencing of the first marsupial
...esearchers have dedicated themselves to creating a library of comprehensive, species-specific genetic sequence "maps" available for study. Scientists at LSU recently took part in a multi-institutional effort spearheaded by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University to sequence the complete genome of t...UCSB Assistant Professor Patrick Daugherty wins Young Investigator Award from ACS
...lay methodologies, fluorescent protein sensors and library screening methodologies. Daugherty will deliver the Biochemical Technology Young Investigator Award Lecture at the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston in August. The award, which includes a $3,000 prize, is sponsored by Genentech, Inc. D...A new wrinkle in evolution -- man-made proteins
...nding just one or two new proteins and generated a library of random amino acid sequences so vast 400 trillion that it dwarfs the number of items in the entire Library of Congress (134 million). They started with a small protein stretch 80 amino acids long. This basic protein segment acts as a prot...Weizmann Institute scientists develop a general 'control switch' for protein activity
...a set of genetically engineered proteins (called a library in scientific language) with the amino acid segment inserted in different places. In the second stage, the engineered proteins are screened to identify the ones that respond to the drug in a desired manner. The researchers have discovered that in so...Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life
...ed the data using the SIOExplorer-in-a-Box digital library system ( http://SIOExplorer.ucsd.edu ) and then stored the information in collections at SDSC for access and analysis by scientists now and in the future. Just getting to the icebergs was a challenge. First the scientists used satellite images to ...'Virtual' mouse brains now available online
...mputer infrastructure to collect a rapidly growing library of 3-D mouse brain data, and make all the data available on the web http://tinyurl.com/3cgj6z . The goal is to use mouse brains as surrogates for human brains to study the connections between genes and brain structure. Investigators from all over th...MIT, BU team builds viruses to combat harmful 'biofilms'
...ated one such virus, and thanks to a plug and play library of parts believe that many more could be custom-de...t of as a plug and play library, says Collins. The library could contain different phages that target different species or strains of bacteria, each constructe...Researchers use new approach to predict protein function
...nown proteins were likely to bind to any of a vast library of potential target molecules, or substrates. Determining which substrate binds to a given protein is vital to understanding the proteins function. This study describes an integrated approach using experimental techniques, computational techniques ...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
... Pyrosequencing This investigator will design a library of synthetic molecular tools designed to optimize the pyrosequencing method to overcome the difficulties deciphering repetitive regions of DNA templates. The current pyrosequencing method utilizes unmodified DNA base pairs and polymerases to synthesi...... In the coming months, Grompe's lab will develop a library of human liver cells from common variations of hum...tabolize drugs differently. So we want to create a library of cells from different humans to capture some of that variability," Grompe said....