Genome Canada, Gnome Qubec and Universit de Montral launch P3G Consortium and CARTaGENE Project
...r in population health, Canada will now be able to offer researchers a world-class resource for scientific discovery to improve the health and well-being of people around the world." Minister Bachand noted the commitment of the Government of Quebec to research, particularly in the cutting-edge field of ge...BioMed Central announces new interdisciplinary Biofuels Journal
...ss. Such cellulosic biofuels have the potential to offer significant economic and environmental benefits if techniques can be developed to produce them cost-effectively. Biotechnology for Biofuels is being launched to provide a forum for publication of research focused on advances in the development of c...Landmark study details demographic, ecological and genetic spread of rabies in raccoon outbreak
...ic data ripe for analysis. "Together these data offer a rare chance to examine how the demographic and spatial processes of spread and population expansion over 30 years have shaped viral evolution on a geographic scale," says Dr. Real. "Landscape features, such as rivers and mountains, can have a prono...No magic tomato? Study breaks link between lycopene and prostate cancer prevention
...lycopene in their bloodstream. "Our results do not offer support for the benefits of lycopene against prostate cancer," Peters said. Most surprisingly, says Peters, was the relationship between increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer defined as disease that has spread beyond the prostate and beta-...Natural immune-control system may aid treatment of autoimmune disease and tissue rejection
...-- The immune systems ability to police itself may offer a new method of arresting the cells responsible for autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and for the rejection of transplanted organs and tissues, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report in a study in the May issue of the journal ...Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes
... Sciences, the first applications of the technique offer a glimpse into the contorted form of a human protein that is implicated in type II diabetes. Pancreatic damage in type II diabetes has been linked to toxic clumps of the protein hIAPP (human islet amyloid polypeptide), which is normally produced b...NASA-funded robotic sub makes final dive to reach bottom of Earth's deepest sinkhole
...ists believe that deep cracks and holes in the ice offer a chance of finding extraterrestrial life. The DEPTHX technology has also been approved for a new NASA mission to explore one of Antarctica's ice-bound polar lakes. Researchers believe ice-bound lakes hold clues to the origins of life on Earth. ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...cent studies real-time PCR technology has shown to offer several advantages in regard to speed, detection limit and cost. In the study researchers developed a 12-hour DNA-based method for detecting Salmonella bacteria using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and tested it in minced meat samples following...Medical research scientists make ethical value judgments in research
...end that training in epidemiology and other fields offer some instruction related to the ethical and social dimensions of research," adds Dr. de Melo-Martn. "The paper makes a compelling argument for integrating ethical reasoning into epidemiological studies in order to make explicit the value judgments ...DNA-damage test could aid drug development
...on. Down the road, she suggests, such a test might offer a new way to examine how different individuals respond to chemotherapeutic agents. "The presumption is that, for some biological processes, in vitro human models could be closer to in vivo human than in vivo mouse," notes Shuga. "That premise will ...Burroughs Wellcome Fund awards $14M to support physician-scientists
...Independence awards (K99/R00), of which they would offer 175-200 a year, roughly five times the amount BWF would be able to make. BWF prides itself on supporting underfunded areas of science. The shouldering of the career development awards by the government meant that this area had significant support....... molecular mechanism for slowing the heartbeat may offer new avenues of diagnosis, drug design and treatment of many common heart diseases," said Solaro. "Further, now that we know something of how this enzyme works in the pacemaker cell, we may discover it is involved in the regulation of other processe...ISN's Nexus Hypertension-Kidney debate
...iplnary approach, Hypertension and the Kidney will offer it series of three parallel sessions to deliver th...els, the Baisc Science and Clinical Sessions will offer in-depth, rigorous updates on and around RAAS and Cardiovascular Risk, Proteinuria and Hypertension ...Survival of the rarest: Fruit flies shed light on the evolution of behavior
... says. If this process is common in nature, it may offer one explanation for why individuals, in general, vary so much from one to another in almost all species. The researchers' next step is to show that this phenomenon is also taking place in the wild. In addition, since the foraging gene is found in ...InfoSNM highlights advances in computer, information sciences for molecular imaging
...gram will increase in years to come. InfoSNM will offer computer demonstrations by vendors, computer classrooms used for commercial presentations and general computer education, and computer-based presentations on the use of information science and technology that has been developed in laboratories, said ...Global heartbeat control suggests therapy for beating heart failure
...found global orchestrators of heart function might offer a novel approach to managing diseases of the heart muscle, according to the researchers. "The heart is a simple pumping organ," said Vincent Giguere of McGill University in Montreal. "What it needs is energy, which it gets from different fuelsgluco...World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'
...ns of pages of the scientific literature that will offer open access to detailed knowledge. In fact, the BHL now has scanning centers operating in London, Boston, and Washington DC, and has scanned the first 1.25 million pages for the Encyclopedia. "I dream that in a few years wherever a reference to a ...New technique will produce a better chromosome map
...s way provide useable images and even those rarely offer crisp structural details, Novikov said. The new approach includes two components: the use of mechanical devices to spread and flatten the cells, and the application of computer-based image processing to analyze hundreds of examples of the same chro...Scientists offer new view of photosynthesis
...y said. The robustness of the natural system may offer some useful lessons for engineers trying to improve on current technologies. Woodbury proposed that there might be a way to increase the flexibility of the system used in organic solar cells by incorporating solvents that move on a variety of time s...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...pidemics and pandemics unless vaccination programs offer incentives to individuals. According to the researchers, the severity of such a health crisis could be reduced if programs were to provide several years of free vaccinations to individuals who pay for only one year. Interestingly, however, some inc...