U OF M awarded $22.5 million NIH contract to study avian influenza
... Excellence established at the U of M will work to rapidly identify and characterize influenza viruses that have pandemic potential by monitoring domestic and international wild bird, poultry, and swine populations, said Marguerite Pappaioanou, D.V.M., Ph.D., principal investigator and professor of infectiou...Genomic test could help detect radioactivity exposure from terrorist attacks
... Medical Center have developed a new blood test to rapidly detect levels of radiation exposure so that potentially life-saving treatments could be administered to the people who need them most. There appears to be a critical window of 48 to 72 hours for administering treatments aimed at halting the devasta...Why are there so many more species of insects? Because insects have been here longer
...ng, these findings are also quite sobering. We are rapidly losing what it has taken nature hundreds of millions of years to construct, and only time can repair it. ...Titanium dioxide -- It slices, it dices ...
...new microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices designed to rapidly analyze minute amount of biological samples. Bec...es a small cleavage zone of hydroxyl radicals that rapidly cut nearby proteins at the locations of the amino acid proline. Although development work remains ...Elsevier launches new journal, Marine Genomics
...rterly, and will focus on the advances in the very rapidly expanding field of genomic studies on marine organisms. The first issue will appear in March 2008.Prof. William Martin, Group Director at Heinrich-Heine University in Dsseldorf (Germany) will be the Co-Editor of the new journal. A very prestigious In...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March 28, 2007
...g the signaling networks these proteins control to rapidly respond to their cells environment, according to the article by C&EN Associate Editor Sarah Everts. She interviewed several scientists who have provided new insights into these fascinating proteins, which make up at least 30 percent of human proteins...Scientists reveal structure of gateways to gene control
...ence hundreds of thousands of DNA strands at once, rapidly learning incredible amounts of new information," Pugh said. The knowledge that most genes are packaged basically the same way is powerful information with implications for future research and potential applications. "One implication that I think i...New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology'
...de publicly available in international archives as rapidly as possible. The databases should include not only gene sequences but also information about sampling and DNA extraction techniques, as well as the computational and algorithmic methods used to analyze the data. ...Engineering the heart piece by piece
... and in labs worldwide. Tissue engineering is a rapidly evolving field, and cardiovascular tissue is one of the most exciting areas but also one of the most challenging, says Ravi Birla, Ph.D., the papers senior author and director of the U-M Artificial Heart Laboratory. With this paper, were presenting t...Smithsonian-led Amazon research team wins scientific prize
...wo football fields. These forests are being felled rapidly and fragmented into small "islands" as a result of timber extraction operations, cattle ranches and industrial soy farms. The team, which included scientists from the United States, Brazil, Panama and France, studied the fates of nearly 32,000 Amazo...Battlefield and terrorist explosions pose new health risks
...e and depth were sharply inhibited; lung edema was rapidly induced, [and] acute and delayed lung damage occurred. Gu said that the research represents the first real-time measurements of breathing changes due to the inhalation of nitrogen dioxide gas. No other laboratories have conducted the same research ...'Dipstick' test could reduce risk of food poisoning by rapidly detecting spoilage
...s describe as a disposable dipstick, is capable of rapidly (less than 5 minutes) detecting the presence of chemicals formed by disease-causing bacteria. In preliminary studies, the test had a 90 percent accuracy rate, the researchers say. The test could help avoid illnesses and even deaths caused by food poi...Making mice with enhanced color vision
...r vision, a sign that the brain can adapt far more rapidly to new sensory information than anticipated. This work, appearing March 23 in Science, also suggests that when the first ancestral primate inherited a new type of photoreceptor more than 40 million years ago, it probably experienced immediate colo...Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection
... to traditional antibiotics, to which bacteria are rapidly becoming resistant. The bacteria that cause middle ear infections, Streptococcus pneumoniae, arent transmitted at school. They already reside on the mucosal membranes in the nose, waiting for their chance to strike. When a child catches the flu, or...20 of world's 162 grouper species threatened with extinction
...continued reproduction of many grouper species are rapidly eliminated by uncontrolled fishing. Increasing int... face heavy and unmanaged fishing pressure that is rapidly reducing their populations. In North and South America, heavy fishing of grouper for the chilled f...Will the plague pathogen become resistant to antibiotics?
...levels of MDR in the causative agent of plague may rapidly evolve naturally, and present a vital biomedical, public health, and biodefense threat."...New bird species found in Idaho
...on characteristic of recognized species can evolve rapidly even in the continued face of potential gene flow"...o shows that coevolution can be a potent force for rapidly generating biodiversity....Wilson Center and Pew Charitable Trusts expand efforts to examine risks/benefits of nanotechnology
...hnologies is engaged in something very rare in our rapidly changing, technology-driven world," said Wilson Center President and Director Lee Hamilton. "It is working to look over the horizon at one of the most critical technologies of the day and help the nation to stay ahead of the technology curve." Toda...DOE JGI releases enhanced Genome Data Management System IMG 2.1 marking 2-year anniversary
...MGs functionality in response to the demand in the rapidly growing microbial genomics domain," said Victor Ma...their database a valuable tool, especially for the rapidly growing study of horizontal gene transfer and for applications in genetic engineering." IMG 2.1 co......t failure resulting from dilated cardiomyopathy is rapidly emerging as a disease of epidemic proportions.1 Molecular mechanisms are being studied and advances have been made in a minority of cases, e.g.: the familial forms. Intracellular [Ca2+]i homeostasis is essential for normal cardiac function and integr...