Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
...BioS Center will be located in the Clark Center in shared spaces that the biocomputation faculty has allocated for just this sort of collaboration. "One of the challenging elements of the project is our goal to simulate a range of living systems from individual atoms to entire organisms," said Delp, who is...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...Bildsten describes the problem, offices tend to be shared by visiting physicists. So someone dropping by to talk to one of the office's inhabitants disturbs the concentration of the other. Collaborators need therefore to leave the office to talk, and they have to have somewhere to go where their conversat...Defense provides additional $4.9 million for pathogen research tool
... Established in 2000 as a Commonwealth of Virginia shared resource, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech has a research platform centered on understanding the "disease triangle" of host-pathogen-environment interactions. With almost $42 million in extramural research funding awarded to dat...Using fruitflies to examine alcohol tolerance
...into developmental and cellular processes that are shared with higher animals, including humans," said Berger. "Flies have a relatively sophisticated nervous system and are capable of many well-characterized complex behaviors, including response to drugs of abuse such as alcohol, cocaine, PCP, and nicotine...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
...here in the cosmos." John B. Fenn, who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for chemistry, said that the DESI technique could also be used for biomedical testing. "The truly exciting aspect of this work is that substances can be detected on the outer surface of a living species," said Fenn, w...Pushing the envelope to overcome HIV drug resistance
...ope" to define the three-dimensional shape that is shared by all the substrates as they are bound in the active site. They then go on to define an "inhibitor envelope" that shows how numerous protease inhibitors fit only partially within the substrate envelope. Where the inhibitors protrude beyond the confi...$2.8 million NIH grant awarded to UH for bionano training
...new NIH roadmap initiative, the grant supports the shared vision of interdisciplinary education to which the...onal and Structural Biology allows the grant to be shared among the member institutions of the GCC. With six institutions and 40 other investigators besides ...Mice thrive despite massive genetic makeover
... that, after deleting large swaths of DNA sequence shared by mice and humans, they were still able to generate mice that suffered no apparent ills from their genomes being millions of letters lighter. The research findings are published in the October 21 edition of the journal Nature.After completing the...Researchers discover gene mutations for Parkinson's disease
...oup identified a small region of the chromosome 12 shared by all of the Basque families and then systematically assessed each gene in this region for mutations that might cause disease. The investigators identified two mutations in the same gene, one associated with Parkinson's disease in the Basque familie...Emory study details dolphin brain evolution for the first time
...ights into odontocete evolution, whether there are shared features with hominoid brain evolution, and more g...ities of odontocetes are, in a sense, convergently shared with humans, she says. "Dolphin brains are four to five times larger for their body size when com...Humans and dolphins: If brain size is a measure, we're not that different
...ights into Odontocete evolution: whether there are shared features with hominoid brain evolution, and more generally how large brains evolve," Marino says. To investigate how the large brains of Odontocetes changed over time, Marino and her colleagues quantified and averaged estimates of brain and body s...Darwin's greatest challenge tackled: the mystery of eye evolution
...that these cells and the vertebrate rods and cones shared a molecular fingerprint. This was concrete evidence of common evolutionary origin. We had finally solved one of the big mysteries in human eye evolution."...Global climate change threatens reindeer, caribou
...will be structured and how the information will be shared among participants and the public. "In northwestern North America there has been dramatic warming in the spring," Russell said. "But in the central barrens of Northwest Territories (NWT) and Nunavut the fall has undergone warming while east of...'Broken' gene reveals evolution of salt retention and possible ties to hypertension
..."is remarkable," the authors note, "and suggests a shared selective pressure." The National Institutes of Health funded this study through the Pharmacogenetics Research Network. Additional authors include E. E. Thompson, H. Kuttab-Boulos and D. Witonsky of the University of Chicago, and L. Yang and B. A. R...Electronic records to improve care for children with asthma
...Yale and a group of community partners implement a shared electronic health record system for providers in primary care, school health, specialty care and emergency medicine. The goal is to electronically capture and add clinical data from emergency room visits, hospitalizations and specialty clinic visits,...NASA & partners create new worldwide coral reef library
...on, international agencies and other universities, shared data, so natural resource managers could have a comprehensive world data resource on coral reefs and adjacent land areas. NASA contributed funding and satellite data to the project to develop global reef maps as a base for future research. The pro...Virginia Tech, TIGR sign memorandum for new alliance
...The agreement anticipates joint research projects, shared use of related facilities, adjunct faculty appoint... Established in 2000 as a Commonwealth of Virginia shared resource, VBI has a research platform centered on understanding the "disease triangle" of host-patho...Six reporters reach the 'Pinnacle of Excellence'
... antibiotics, the dramatization of how Polynesians shared their sea-faring skills with the Chumash people of Santa Barbara, the launch of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers (M.E.R.), and an account of Iceland's ambitious hydrogen energy plan, are among the entries named to win the 2004 AAAS Science Journalism......us skeleton shows a variety of important features shared by modern great apes, according to the researchers. "The importance of this new fossil is that for the first time all the key areas that define modern great apes are well-preserved," Moy-Sol said. Although Pierolapithecus was discovere...