Internet data-mining of natural history
...ot be answered without more sophisticated tools to organize and analyze the information," says Steve Kelling, the Lab of Ornithology's information technologies (IT) director and a principal investigator (PI) on the grant. "The funding provided by NSF will allow us to build those tools by bringing together the...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
.... The Census is building a cyber-infrastructure to organize what is known about this huge micro-world and prep...line at www.coml.org. Census researchers organize their work in two ways, according to kinds of life and geography. Scientists are studying everything...Genetic discovery paves way to decode sense of smell in mammals
...proteins that help the olfactory system in mammals organize properly. Thus the proteins are key to the ability of mammals, including humans, to detect and respond appropriately to chemicals in the environment via their sense of smell. The finding in mice paves the way for scientists to unravel the underlying ...MBL scientists embark on international effort to uncover microbial diversity in world's oceans
...eam is about to begin work on a database that will organize and manage the unprecedented volume of morphological and molecular data IcoMM will produce. Sogin and his colleagues expect to eventually support pilot projects with the potential to shape larger-scale research initiatives in marine microbial...Discovery of first demethylase molecule, a long-sought gene regulator
... protein scaffolds built of histones. The histones organize DNA into a packed structure that can fit into the nucleus, and the packing determines whether the genes are available to be read or not. Acetyl, methyl, or other chemical tags appended to the histones determine how the histones and DNA interact to fo...The Louis-Jeantet-Prize for Medicine 2005
...thelial cells to adopt the correct polarity and to organize cell-cell junctions that attach them firmly to neighbouring cells so that they form a cell layer. The cytoskeleton is also profoundly rearranged when cells migrate. Alan Hall receives the Louis-Jeantet Prize for his discovery that specific enzymes, s...University of Arizona receives IBM grant for massive virtual storage system for life sciences data
...ir current repository of digital assets as well as organize and convert non-digitized assets to a digital format. IBM TotalStorage disk and tape systems will allow data to be managed throughout its lifecycle in different tiers of storage. At its core, the grant will enable the development of a data life cycle...Plants, animals share molecular growth mechanisms
...tant for cell growth and movement. Actin filaments organize the inside of the cell and allow it to grow, and they determine where certain structures in a cell are positioned and how plants respond to gravity and light. Szymanski's team used a deformed version of a common research plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, ...Future diabetes drugs may target new protein interaction
...ving molecular "decorations" on proteins that help organize DNA and restrict access to genes. It turns out that sirtuin1 also removes these decorations from PGC1, and then remains bound to PGC1 as it starts up the sugar-making process, the researchers found. "Because both proteins are required for the liver t...RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide
...e difficult conceptual issues, the consortium will organize frequent face-to-face meetings of RNA scientists. Members will also report their progress at the annual RNA Society meetings and receive feedback from the wider community of researchers. The ontology team will identify all RNA motifs, or repeated pat...Ecologist plays critical role in first global ecosystem study
...om strength" scenario, the world could potentially organize around one superpower that wields military or economic power to control global activities. While such dominance could be used in some regions to environmental benefit, inequities could also arise as the world becomes increasingly polarized. Finally, ...Regional AAAS meeting to be held at The University of Arizona April 13 through 16
...ee-Ring Research, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, helped organize SWARM as a regional division of AAAS. Thomas Swetn...e tree-ring lab, we thought it was fitting that we organize a symposium for this year's meeting in Tucson that highlights some of the remarkable applications an...Shirley Malcom of AAAS named to election reform commission
... Center for Democracy and Election Management will organize the work of the commission, in association with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, The Carter Center in Atlanta, and electionline.org, a national clearinghouse of election reform information sponsored by The Pew Ch...UB conference to gather leaders in 'computational anatomy'
...nformatics and Life Sciences. "How are we to organize and manage the newly available biomedical data in ways that also can be fruitful in leading to new clinical discoveries?" he asks. "One answer is in terms of spatial relations. Everything that takes place in the body takes place at some spatial locat...Chemokines orchestrate more than migration for immune cells
...L19/CCL21 and suggest that chemokines may not only organize the migration of DCs but also directly regulate their ability to prime T cell responses," writes Dr. Bachmann. A clear understanding of the influence of these chemokines on T cell immune responses will be useful for rational design of future antivir...Study finds enzyme activity promotes rare form of leukemia, offers potential target for new drugs
...proteins forming the molecular scaffold that helps organize DNA within the nucleus of every cell. Histone modifications affect gene activity and include methylation, in which a methyl component is attached to the histone protein. "The prevailing model is that methylation on histones serves as a docking site,...3-D study of immune cell interactions reveals details of an effective antibody response
...sease. B cells and helper T cells must interact to organize an effective B-cell antibody response, but until recently there has been no way to observe the directed migration processes that guide the lymphocytes to the zone where they can interact. In a new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Biol...Vitamin A's paradoxical role in influencing symmetry during embryonic development revealed
...rming the embryo's three main layers of cells that organize into the brain and nervous system, the gastrointestinal tract, and other systems of the body. Cells in the vicinity of the node are instructed to behave differently depending on whether they are on the left or right sides of the embryo. The action of...For young canaries learning their song, freedom in youth gives way to rules in adulthood
...l course of learning their song, canaries begin to organize syllables into phrases by the time they are two months old. But the birds growing up listening to the random walk and glissando songs instead did their best to imitate the atypical, synthetic songs of their tutors for several months, producing long s...National Institute on Aging awards UCI $9 million to continue Alzheimer's disease research
...hat use the latest computer technology to collect, organize and analyze large amounts of biological data. This allows the ADRC to tie more closely together basic research into early cellular and molecular mechanisms of the disease with clinical applications. Clinical insights also are used to inform basic ADR...