32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...rds and Technology (NIST). The 32 new ATP projects span a broad range of key technology areas. Among the areas targeted are: new energy technologies for oil exploration and for fuel cells, new medical diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, improvements in electronics and automobile manufacturing and an ...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...uencing and analysis technologies. "These projects span an impressive spectrum of novel technologies from sequencing by synthesis to nanopore technology. Many of these new approaches have shown significant promise, yet far more exploration and development are needed if these sequencing technologies are t...Large-scale forces shape local ocean life, global study shows
...nal to species diversity in that region, which can span thousands of square miles. Researchers came to this conclusion after examining 1,500 photographic samples taken of invertebrates clinging to rock walls in every corner of the world. For example, Witman and his team sampled five sites from Maine ...OHSU scientists identify key gene that delays female puberty
...cts the timing of puberty and can shorten the time span for reproduction. The research was led by Sergio O...r pups in each litter, and their reproductive time span was half that of a normal animal. Ojeda and his colleagues now are tracking other genes that might i...U-M researcher examines the cell's housekeeping habits
...dings that caloric restriction can extend the life span in rats, since near-starvation triggers more autophagy as the cells recycle parts of themselves for fuel. Sustained autophagy may also increase longevity by protecting cells against free radical damage and mutations in DNA. "This is becoming a very...Look at past sea-level rise points to troubling future
... Christi Bay increased by about one third over the span of about 200 years," said John Anderson, the W. Maurice Ewing Chair in Oceanography and professor of earth science at Rice University in Houston. "Even without factoring in any effects from global warming, that's only about 20 percent slower than the...Sex-determining genes of infectious fungus resemble human Y chromosome
...s region of the genome, but which typically do not span an entire chromosome. C. neoformans exists in two mating types determined by a single genetic locus. Earlier work found that this sex-determining region is unusually large in C. neoformans compared to other fungi, containing a series of more than 20 ......or their function in phosphorylation cascades that span the cell membrane. The role of the GFR co-receptors in these complexes was long thought to be limited to as a co-receptor for RET, but GFRs have recently been suggested to play other roles as well. The individual functions of the RET and GFR subunit...Birds, butterflies, bacteria same law of biology appears to apply
...f-acre in a New England salt marsh. The studies span different microbial taxa, habitats, continents, molecular techniques and spatial scales, leading Green to say, "Our data firmly establishes that like plants and animals, microbes are not randomly distributed but rather exhibit spatially predictable, ......of cancer risk as a public health problem over the span of many decades. Our findings indicate that genetic factors contribute to the risk of specific cancers, but also that certain types of cancer can be looked upon collectively as broad, complex phenotypes. The next step in this work is to isolate the k...Holes in fossil shells show effects of competition and evolution
...he study. "Although measuring biodiversity or the span of species that exist is important, it does not necessarily tell us how ecosystems function." Marine snails feed on clams by drilling a hole through the shell to reach the soft body inside. Using a rasping tongue and a cocktail of chemicals to drill...Combination therapy boosts effectiveness of telomere-directed cancer cell death
...somes that play a key role in controlling the life span of cells. With every cell division, telomeres get a bit shorter until eventually they become so short that the enzymes that copy DNA for cell division no longer work properly and the cell stops dividing. In a sense, telomeres function as a kind of co...A new mechanism of regulating RNA degradation
...scription, by moderating the activity and the life span of the RNA itself. One major pathway for such post... that it plays a major role in regulating the life span of numerous RNAs, and thus controls gene activity. To better understand what controls the NMD syste...Gene with broad role also causes prevalent, inherited nerve disorder
...t in the peripheral nerves given that neurons must span the distance from the spinal cord to the feet and hands, Vance said. Further study revealed that the defects in the dynamin 2 gene all fell in the region that encodes the same portion of its product protein. Two of the families, who carried a mutati...Assumptions of effects of rising carbon dioxide probed
...izal fungal community to CO2 concentrations over a span of six years, which included 21 generations. The fungi, which live around the root systems of plants, are considered a beneficial partner to plants helping them cope with natural stresses, such as low soil fertility, drought and temperature extremes...Intervention cuts nerve damage, boosts life span
...ied a new point of intervention for extending life span by adjusting the amount of oxidative damage to ner...Expression of hUCP2 in adult neurons extended life span on average 28 percent in female flies and 11 percent in males as compared to genetically identical f...Dental researchers answer key enamel question
... question is: can a protein with a very short life span provide a reliable structure for biomineralization? The answer is yes, according Oldak and her team, whose discovery was serendipitous. The researchers, in collaboration with Giuseppe Falini at the Universita di Bologna in Italy, had been attempting ...Fasting intermittently reduces cell proliferation, a marker for cancer risk, study finds
...cell proliferation, it can extend the maximum life span of a variety of organisms, including rats, flies, ... dramatic, with 30 to 70 percent increases in life span reported in the studies. "Significant caloric restriction is the one and only thing that has been sc...Two UT Southwestern researchers named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
...hen and Dr. Michael Rosen, whose research programs span the forefront of chemistry and biology, were named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators today. They are the only investigators from Texas out of 43 nationwide named this year by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a philanthropic ...Ophthalmologists and physicists team up to design 'bionic eye'
...lanker said. It operates in brightness levels that span eight orders of magnitude, meaning it can detect both dim objects and those 100 million times brighter, "from moonless night to bright day," he said. It may seem counterintuitive that as it gets processed by the visual system, the signal travels from...