Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
...that variola research be conducted, and a research plan was approved by the WHO to develop an animal model of the disease. Peter B. Jahrling of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) led the research team. Jahrling and his colleagues exposed 36 cynomolgous monkeys to o...Internet data-mining of natural history
...al history data are telling us." Caruana says the plan to develop new data mining techniques that will allow modeling of long-term population trends, geospatial abundance patterns, and seasonal or irruptive species movements will result in a revolutionary infrastructure for the environmental community an...Plants provide model for new shape-changing materials
...ressure changes to cause large shape changes. The plan calls for the investigation of the protein structures of plants for the purpose of understanding their role in generating shape changes in natural materials. The protein structures under analysis would then be used to develop a synthetic material tha...Good news: As you age, leg blood vessels adapt so you can still exercise without fainting
...omen (both on estrogen replacement and not). They plan to study the mechanisms underlying age-related changes in vascular responsiveness to sympathetic stimulation; and to examine the importance of sympathetic outflow in regulating vascular tone and oxygen delivery to exercising muscles. Research is sup...'Immediately open access' option for the leading journal Genome Research
... to subscribe to Genome Research" Inglis said. "We plan to engage the library community in a dialogue as our experience with this option grows, to make sure the journal's ability to contribute to the advance of science isn't undermined." Dr. Hillary Sussman, Managing Editor of Genome Research added, "It i...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...rocesses involved in many diseases. The scientists plan to use the new genetic information to create antibodies. And they hope to begin experiments impossible without those antibodies as soon as the project is complete. "Sequencing the clam genome will be a quantum leap for our research," said Hershko. (R...After flu exposure, mild exercise protects mature mice from dying
...surprising," Woods said. The Illinois researchers plan on doing followup studies with animals that had been exercising regularly, as well as studies that to try and uncover the overall protective effect and its mechanisms. Areas that they'll be studying include: lung histopathology, cytokine gene and pro...... Japan Researchers are continuing sequencing and plan to have a 6-fold draft of the bovine genome completed sometime in the first half of 2005. They are also comparing the bovine genome sequence with those of the human and other organisms that have already been sequenced. Results of these analyses will ......s, to study and prevent environmental risks and to plan sustainable reconstruction and rehabilitation of areas affected by natural phenomena. The UNOSAT development group is hosted by CERN. Sharing is in the mandate and in the culture of CERN. Sharing knowledge is essential for a centre of excellence in p...Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants
...y of Health and Human Services, outlined a 10-year plan to deliver "consumer-centric and information-rich health care." For more information on the CDC grants, see http://www.cdc.gov/od/hpri/awards.htm . Children's Hospital Boston is the nation's leading pediatric medical center, the largest provider of...Johns Hopkins team wins British biotech business plan competition
...g Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES), an academic business plan competition designed to teach young postgraduate scientists the issues involved in the commercialization of science. The Hopkins team will be presented with an all-expense paid trip to London to represent the U.S. and Canada at the final nine-team co...Muscling in on a deadly cancer
...subtypes of muscle stem cells. Keller and Capecchi plan to test those cells. But Keller says that when the Pax3:Fkhr fusion gene was turned on in tens of thousands of satellite stem cells, those cells didn't become cancerous, so it seems likely the gene must cause cancer by becoming active in some other t...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...ncorporation into DNA. This is part of the group's plan to eventually build a full-scale sequencing system. Stephen R. Quake, Ph.D., Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. $1.8 million (3 years) "High-Throughput, Single-Molecule DNA Sequencing" This group will try to improve its sequencing-by-synthesis te...Small business at NJIT's business incubator takes two awards
...ive encouragement from our peers that our business plan and technology have merit," said Urovalve, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Harvey D. Homan, PhD. "We hope this kind of attention can increase our odds for future funding and support from the business community." Urovalve, Inc. is a fled...To save dolphin's dorsal fin experts combine medical technology and teamwork
...hen we first put Liko's medical team and treatment plan together, we were outwardly hopeful, but harbored some serious doubts that we would be able to save this dolphin's dorsal fin," said Dr. Stone. "But Liko surprised us all. Today we're optimistic that his fin will eventually be fully reattached and st...Pesticides may promote Parkinson's disease and exercise may offer protection
...st in the mouse model. Scheller and his colleagues plan to continue their investigations in other animal species. Recent experiments suggest that exercise may protect against the loss of dopamine neurons--and thus help slow or prevent the development of Parkinson's disease, according to new studies on ra...Potential new oncogene may be missing link in cancer-causing chain
...ancer in these cases." Next Bu and his colleagues plan to screen a larger group of breast cancer samples to see how frequently the LRP6 gene is overactivated in tumor tissue. Because LRP6 is an essential component of a key signaling pathway and located in an exposed position on the surface of cells, Bu b...Predicting infection risk of mosquito-borne disease
...meters of transmission are well characterized. Any plan to prevent and control the spread of mosquito-born infections would clearly benefit from paying attention to mosquito demography and behavior....A clear view of mycobacterial infection
...agues have now shown that the bacteria have a game plan of their own. One problem in understanding the interaction between the mycobacterium and the host has been that it occurs deep in the lung of the infected animal. To overcome this limitation, Ramakrishnan and colleagues used zebrafish embryos, which......el's three-dimensional structure, Li and his group plan to perform additional high-resolution imaging experiments using the same crystal sheet, but tilting it to large angles. This will allow the electrons to scatter off and produce an image of the protein channel's other sides. ...