Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease
...une to East Coast fever. To complement TIGR's gene selection strategy, ILRI also incorporated a random screen of T. parva DNA for vaccine candidates. In total, the team found five candidate vaccine antigens. In lab tests, these antigens triggered a response from cattle immune killer T cells. Going a further...Americans prefer to leave child's sex to chance, survey finds
...irst to examine the demand and preferences for sex selection among the U.S. general population. "We found that ...8 percent of people would use pre-implantation sex selection for non-medical reasons," said Dr. Tarun Jain, assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and...CU, USDA team to curb two invasive, poisonous vines
...ederal approval. "Our research will help guide the selection of an effective agent." Milbrath, whose funding from USDA supports the Cornell collaboration on a three-year project, is working with researchers at a USDA facility in Montpellier, France, and other colleagues who are working in Ukraine and southwest...AAAS honors scientist's commitment to justice for workers and scientific integrity in public policy
...oming objections from DOD and industry. The AAAS selection panel noted that the efforts cited above were typical of Dr. Michaels' work earlier in his career. At that time, his concerns for disadvantaged groups of people often ignored by researchers in the health sciences was exemplified by his service as fo......l reproduction magnifies the efficiency of natural selection in eliminating deleterious mutations from populati...e versa. In essence, the theory holds that natural selection operates best when parts of the genome are free to shuffle. The present report provides evidence th...Virginia Tech helping to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties
...ese molecular markers to increase the precision in selection of varieties having the best trait combinations. Researchers will work with USDA genotyping laboratories to provide thousands of molecular analyses required to deploy the targeted genes into breeding lines. The genetic information will be stored in ...There's something fishy about human brain evolution
...the human brain, he says. "Initially there wasn't selection for a larger brain," argues Dr. Cunnane. "The genetic possibility was there, but it remained silent until it was catalyzed by this shore-based diet." Dr. Cunnane acknowledges that for the past 20 years he's been swimming upstream when it comes to con...Ernst Mayr's theory illustrated in genetic epidemiology studies
...teraction in turn led to an interaction of natural selection with genetic drift that could cause genetic revolu...ent suite of interactions to occur so that natural selection will drive the founder population in a different direction. He saw a very strong interaction betwee...Astronomer announces shortlist of stellar candidates for habitable worlds
... But the exercise is worthwhile, she said, and her selection criteria really did drive her toward a couple top choices and a handful of other candidates....Texas A&M to participate in applied wheat genome research
...on state wheat breederin Amarillo. Marker assisted selection takes genome research from thelaboratory to the field via new disease-resistant, high quality varieties. Texas' portion of the $5 million grant will be $182,750 over fouryears, Rudd said. The Experiment Station recognized the value of thisprogram to ...New evidence that natural selection is a general driving force behind the origin of species
...tended his original work. However, linking natural selection to the origin of the 30 to 100 million different s...of specific species have demonstrated that natural selection can cause sub-populations to adapt to new environments in ways that reduce their ability to interbre...Most Americans do not expect widespread human cases of avian flu in US in the next year
...ay and days of the week, and systematic respondent selection within households, are used to ensure that the sample is representative....Sex: Why bother? Evolutionary mysteries probed at UH
...production confers an advantage by helping natural selection remove harmful mutations from the population. "According to MDH, in order for sexual populations to overcome the twofold cost of sex, two things must be true," he said. "The production rate of harmful mutations must be relatively high, such that e...20 of world's top women scientists honored in Paris for groundbreaking research in life sciences
...andidates, who are then judged by an international selection committee. Three recipients are named per region: Africa, Arab States, Asia/Pacific, Europe/North America and Latin America/Caribbean. The beneficiaries of the 2006 Fellowships can be found at www.forwomeninscience.com The L'ORAL National Fellowsh...Nutritional friend or foe? Vitamin E sends mixed messages
...sion. We want to know why that is, and whether the selection of the alpha-tocopherol confers an evolutionary benefit in animal cells." Cornwell and Ma explain their findings in this week's Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They conducted the study with several colleagues fro...Convergent evolution of molecules in electric fish
...elevant to human health, adds Zakon. "When natural selection is acting to cause changes in a part of a molecule...ow it's functionally important," he says. "Natural selection can start showing you the important parts of molecules. We took the evolutionary approach, which is ...Mining the human genome for signs of recent selection
...nts that may be targets of recent natural positive selection during the past 10,000 years of human evolution. I...und roughly the same number of signals of positive selection within each population. They also found that each population shares about one fifth of the signals w...Scan of human genome reveals evidence of more than 700 recently evolving genes
...nts that may be targets of recent natural positive selection during the past 10,000 years of human evolution. I...und roughly the same number of signals of positive selection within each population. They also found that each population shares about one fifth of the signals w...California researcher to receive prestigious award in biodiversity informatics
...the US delegation to the GBIF Governing Board. The selection of the Prize winner is conducted by the GBIF Science Committee, which in making its announcement noted, "John Wieczorek has a long and very good track record as an amazingly creative force for biodiversity informatics." Letters in support of Wieczore...Oxford biologists explore ability for some females to conceive during pregnancy
...ing the genetic diversity of the litter. "Natural selection and sexual selection act on both sexes. However, emphasis on sexual selection as a direct evolutionary force acting on ma...