University of Arizona receives IBM grant for massive virtual storage system for life sciences data
...ch Laboratories (ARL) at the University of Arizona today announced it was awarded a new IBM Shared University Research (SUR) grant of a storage infrastructure that will give researchers efficient access and ability to manage vast amounts of biological data. "It is a wonderful opportunity to team with IBM i...Research could lead to new treatments for blindness
...ertain forms of blindness. The research, published today (January 27) in the science journal Nature , shows that a gene called melanopsin causes nerve cells to become photoreceptive. The team of experts from The University of Manchester and Imperial College London found that activating melanopsin in cells...Molecular probes for biology research and drug discovery
...d studied in molecular detail. Nevertheless, up to today for only 500 of the over 100.00 proteins encoded by the human genome a chemical compound is known that interacts with and influences the protein. Therefore research following the sequencing of the genome is increasingly focussed on the function of it...Researchers discover way to make cells in the eye sensitive to light
...ngle gene. According to research published online today in Nature , the team from Imperial College London and the University of Manchester, have discovered that activating the melanopsin gene in the nerve cells causes them to become light responsive, or photoreceptive. Using mouse cells, the researchers ...Recognizing new aneurysm syndrome can save lives
... centimeters, so we quickly scheduled surgery, and today she's doing well." The researchers also found the genetic mutations behind the syndrome, for which a diagnostic test is available at Johns Hopkins' DNA Diagnostic Laboratory. The syndrome runs in families, but syndrome-causing mutations have also bee...AAAS announces winners of the 2005 Fellowships for Reporters from Africa
...virus Vaccine Program (RVP), an affiliate of PATH, today announced winners of the prestigious 2005 Fellowships for Reporters from Africa. AAAS, GAVI, PATH and The Vaccine Fund wish to thank the many outstanding science reporters from Africa who applied for this program. Five science reporters were selected......emical industry greener. This research is reported today in a special Einstein Year issue of the New Journal of Physics ( www.njp.org ) published jointly by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft). Changsong Zhou and a group of physicists at the Univer...Physicists discover temperature key to avalanche movement
...pharmaceutical industry. This research is reported today in a special Einstein Year issue of the New Journal of Physics ( http://www.njp.org ) published jointly by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft). Everything from powdery snow to desert sands, f...Wiley presents its 2004 Gaden Award to Jeffrey A. Hubbell
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that the recipient of the 2004 Gaden Award is Jeffrey A. Hubbell for his article "Synthetic Extracellular Matrices for In Situ Tissue Engineering" (co-authored by Alison B. Pratt, Franz E. Weber, Hugo G. Schmoekel, and Ralph Mller). The art...Gene therapy promising for growing tooth-supporting bone
...he new tooth in place. Such reconstructive surgery today involves either taking a bone graft from the patient's chin or jaw, which leaves a second wound needing to heal, or using donated bone from a tissue bank, which yields unpredictable results. William Giannobile, professor of periodontics, prevention a...National Academy of Engineering announces million-dollar challenge to provide safe drinking water
...he National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today the establishment of the Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability. This prize will award $1 million for a practical technology that can prevent the slow poisoning of people throughout the world as a result of arsenic contamination of drinking wat......urnal Molecular Cell. "A major question in biology today is how human cells with 30,000 genes produce at least 120,000 proteins," said Dr. Bert O'Malley, chair of the BCM department of molecular and cellular biology. The answer is a process called alternative splicing in which certain information from a ge...'Man the Hunter' theory is debunked in new book
...avannah antelope and certain ground-living monkeys today is around 6 percent to 10 percent as well. Sussman and Hart provide evidence that many of our modern human traits, including those of cooperation and socialization, developed as a result of being a prey species and the early human's ability to out-s...Cricket's finicky mating behavior boosts biodiversity
...ctural characteristics, Mendelson says, scientists today are more likely to use genetic data to come up with estimates. Closely related species of Laupala have no clear morphological differences, Mendelson says. They are similar in appearance, they have similar diets, and they live in similar habitats. Mem...Dartmouth Medical School lab blends DNA and technology to aid in crime-solving
...iggest problems facing the criminal justice system today is the substantial backlog of unanalyzed DNA sampl...iggest problems facing the criminal justice system today is the substantial backlog of unanalyzed DNA samples and biological evidence from crime scenes, espe...International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort
...additional $3.3 million in public-private support, today announced plans to create an even more powerful map of human genetic variation than originally envisioned. The map will accelerate the discovery of genes related to common diseases, such as asthma, cancer, diabetes and heart disease. When the projec...PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay
...est. PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D., announced today that PCRM has developed the world's first cruelty-free insulin assay, a test used to measure insulin levels in individuals with diabetes. The assay, which uses no animals, was developed as part of PCRM's ongoing clinical trials to test the effects of...New monkey species name to be auctioned
...ith Bolivian protected area authorities, announced today a one-of-a-kind international auction for the right to name an entire species of monkey. The online auction runs from Feb. 24th to March 3rd, and will be hosted by Charity Folks ( www.charityfolks.com ), an online auction venue for nonprofits that re...New system can measure productivity of oceans
... University, NASA and other institutions announced today the discovery of a method to determine from outer ...A group of scientists also explained the new study today in a national teleconference. "The new information on phytoplankton growth rates and biomass will gr...Study finds markers for premature birth risk at the molecular level
... been greater, experts say. The news was announced today at the 25th annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) meeting here. "We studied the amniotic fluid of three groups of patients those with preterm labor who delivered at term, those with intra-amniotic inflammation who had both preterm labor ...