NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...and dependable methods to produce membrane protein samples that scientists can use to solve structures and investigate physiological functions associated with those three-dimensional structures. The new grant pulls together a group of scientists at Scripps Research, including several who were already involv...Studying the chemistry of drugs in wastewater
...entists around the world often find drugs in water samples taken from streams and other waterways, but little is known about byproducts of those drugs created during chlorine treatment or time spent in the environment. The topic drew a large audience at the American Chemical Society annual meeting last month...Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
...the method actually produced approximately 380,000 samples which would have been impossible to test using co...nd not some other compound contained in the yeast, samples were then smeared onto another petri plate that did not contain LG335. Any colonies that grew there...Endangered frogs coexist with fungus once thought fatal
...LoS Biology study, Retallick et al. tested tissue samples taken from frogs between 1994 and 1998 - before th...s were released back into the wild at the time the samples were collected. The authors found fungal infections in the samples of two species, including T. eun...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
...om year to year, but a higher rate of infection in samples taken during the cooler seasons, leading the researchers to speculate that temperature may be a factor affecting the virulence of the fungus and/or the ability of the frogs to survive it. While the Gastric Brooding Frog went extinct, and T...New Stanford center probes nanoscale material
...erstand the interactions between the tip and their samples and design tips optimized for specific applications. Calvin Quate (Applied Physics), co-developer of the AFM with IBM's Gerd Binnig and Christoph Gerber, will consult with students and faculty on issues related to the conception, design and fabricati...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...abase linked to an in-house DNA repository and all samples will be coded to assure subject confidentiality. Results will be accessible to the investigators through a secure database integrated with a suite of data management and analytic tools for analysis of correlations among variants and with disease phe...Viruses found in untreated city water
...ater source."Researchers tested 48 untreated water samples from six of the city's 15 wells to evaluate whethe...s were present in the raw water. Half of the water samples contained at least one type of gastrointestinal virus and 23 percent of the samples contained two or...New risks for bladder cancer identified by MIT team
...ir paper. Specifically, they analyzed blood samples from some 600 of the people involved in the study. Half had bladder cancer; the others did not but were matched against their counterparts for such things as age, sex and neighborhood. The team then measured exposure to the arylamines via a te...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...rrorism agents in food, clinical and environmental samples and can be used to detect disease in its earliest stages, Tan said. "This is really the interface of biological science and nanotechnology," he said. "In situations when the very sensitive detection of bacteria or other biological reagents is the c...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...the microbes in the chemostats yet. She has stored samples from the chemostat experiments in a freezer, awaiting genetic analysis. She plans to look at the genes involved in the coevolutionary interactions, identify specific mutations, and trace the genetic dynamics of the interactions through time. "It's li......ied on microarray analysis of 32 post-mortem brain samples -- the microarray method can simultaneously measur...ifferent kinds of messenger RNA in dissected brain samples from people who died from suicide, accidents and sudden medical causes. Messenger RNA levels are a m...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
...oped a fast, efficient means of analyzing chemical samples found on surfaces, resulting in a device that coul... are unwieldy, cabinet-sized machines that require samples to undergo hours of intensive preparation before testing, Cooks' team has found a way to test untrea...Sniffing out the culprits of dust allergies
...ultaneous identification of proteases from complex samples and isolation of protease-specific inhibitors. In this way, Der 1 p was identified as an active cysteine protease in dust mite extracts, and a Der 1 p-specific small-molecule inhibitor was isolated from a peptide nucleic acid (PNA)-encoded small-mole...Normal cells in tumors may aid cancer growth
..." Eng and her colleagues analyzed 134 tissue samples from invasive breast tumors. They examined stromal cells known as fibroblasts, the major component of the tumor stroma. Fibroblasts produce the fibrous scaffolding in tumors and normal tissues. (Stromal cells also include immune cells, fat cells and ...Biomedical engineers at case develop first sliver-sized sensor to monitor glucose levels
... this technology, freeing them from having to take samples from their fingers several times a day to monitor blood sugar levels," Gratzl said. "The monitor could also help doctors with close monitoring of electrolytes, metabolites and other vital biochemicals in the body, primarily those of critically ill pa...Peakadilly nv biopharmaceutical firm created
... technology is that it can be used on blood. Blood samples are routinely used, of course, for diagnosing a number of (infectious) diseases - but the current techniques obtain only a limited amount of information from the sample. Peakadilly's bio-markers should make it possible to detect diseases more quickly...Urine testing might prove to be an alternative screening test for cervical cancer
...testing of women from Senegal, West Africa. Urine samples were taken from 41 women with negative or low-grade lesions, 72 women with invasive cancer, and 30 women with high-grade lesions. Urine-based detection of abnormal methylation of three genes was used to identify women at risk of cervical cancer. I...Gene-altered mouse is model for rare autoimmune syndrome
...disease in humans. They have begun to screen blood samples from patients with the disorder....Large-scale forces shape local ocean life, global study shows
...this conclusion after examining 1,500 photographic samples taken of invertebrates clinging to rock walls in e.... They took anywhere from 18 to 200 of these photo samples at each site. Back in the lab, they examined a total of 1,500 slides and counted the species found i...