Stolen gene allows insect virus to enter cells
...chemical insecticides. Studying baculoviruses also yields insights into general viral behavior. The current study examined how baculoviruses took the evolutionary leap needed to become the nasty bugs they are today. In the study, reported in the July 1 issue of the Journal of Virology, BTI researchers Gar...Chinese Minister of Sciences visits Ghent biotechnologists
...echnology for producing rice and wheat with higher yields and better uptake of water and nutrients....Digging in the dirt for life's biochemical foundations
...s of the Green Revolution to increase agricultural yields around the world has relied on the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. The price of fertilizers is increasing, however, as are concerns about nitrogen runoff from large agricultural operations. Nitrogen also is a component of acid rain, which rema...Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive
...brain systems." fMRI confirms major predictions, yields "remarkable implications"; autism link Aron reported that, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and other measurements, he and his colleagues found support for their two major predictions: (1) early stage, intense romantic love is as...Leprosy microbes lead scientists to immune discovery
...ucceeds in limiting the damage, but in other cases yields to a dangerous, spreading infection. Led by Stephan R. Krutzik of UCLA, a team of scientists that includes Barry R. Bloom, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, reported the work on May 8 in an advance online publication of Nature Medicine. Th...Same fold in viral shells point to common ancestry
...capsid fold in the T4 virus. X-ray crystallography yields more precise results because it is capable of higher resolution than cryoelectron microscopy. The researchers used X-ray crystallography to view the gp24 protein at a resolution of 2.9 angstroms. The X-ray crystallography data confirmed that gp24 has...Genetically modified rice in China benefits farmers' health, study finds
... benefit from adopting GM rice by both higher crop yields and reduced use of pesticides, which also contribu...y farmers using conventional rice varieties. Rice yields The survey data also showed that there was a difference in yields between the genetically modified ...Highlights of chemical society national meeting in San Diego, March 13-17
...ced in bacteria and fungi in tiny amounts. Limited yields from natural sources and the difficulty of making ...The development could lead to increased commercial yields and faster drug development to combat growing antibiotic resistance and high cancer rates, they say....New winter hulless barley has high protein
...inputs. For example, producers would obtain higher yields of a safer and higher quality grain that is resistant to Fusarium head blight, commonly referred to as scab. Scab problems have occurred on an annual basis during the past decade, and severe epidemics nearly devastated the crop in Virginia during 199...Plan to protect soybean crop is ready
...rs. The disease, which extensively reduced soybean yields in Brazil, was identified in Louisiana last fall and has been confirmed in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, and Tennessee. A Soybean Rust Task Force was formed in Virginia several years ago when the danger f...Asian interest provides opportunities for US hard white wheat
...ties less susceptible to sprout damage with higher yields and diseaseresistance. "The Asian market has potential for the future of Texas wheat exports,"Mosier said....Gene therapy promising for growing tooth-supporting bone
...l, or using donated bone from a tissue bank, which yields unpredictable results. William Giannobile, professor of periodontics, prevention and geriatrics, led a team at the U-M School of Dentistry that delivered the gene encoding for bone morphogenetic protein-7 (BMP-7) to large bone defects in rats in an a...Steroid discoveries could add bulk to crop harvests
... desirable nature by boosting the biomass and seed yields of crops. Unfortunately, plant steroids are complex, expensive chemicals, and the biological mechanisms by which they alter plant growth and development have remained largely a mystery. Now, however, two research articles by Howard Hughes Medical Ins...Want to petrify wood without waiting a few million years? Try this
...s from gaseous effluents. The acid-leaching method yields an identical, positive reproduction of the wood. If Shin wants to capture a negative impression, he can alter the pH to favor the base end of the scale. "The positive replica is a lot better in terms of surface area and uniformity," Shin said. "Negat...Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development
...the embryo," says Reinisch. The sequence of images yields a three-dimensional representation of the embryos' developing neurons. Reinisch and company examined periodically recorded images to see what effect, if any, the chemicals had. They also measured the levels of proteins in the normal and treated embry...Healthy cleavage: How statins protect against Alzheimer disease
...ting") cleavage by an enzyme called beta-secretase yields "sticky" (A b ) peptides that aggregate to form deposits, whereas non-amyloidogenic cleavage by alpha-secretases generates soluble peptides that do not form deposits. Studies in animal models and cell culture suggest that statins might modulate APP p...MIT creates new model of cancer syndrome
...le point mutation in the tumor suppressor gene p53 yields a mouse that develops a broad tumor spectrum that is reminiscent of LFS. Although LFS is a rare genetic disease, affecting fewer than 400 families worldwide, the p53 gene is also very commonly mutated in tumors unrelated to LFS. Mutations in p53 ar...Prediction of gene function in mammals
...on] is effective for our data, and we show that it yields almost universally superior predictions of gene function in comparison to using information regarding simple tissue specificity or tissue restriction" say the authors. This new, quick, high-throughput method for predicting mammalian gene function mer...New source for heart bypass replacement blood vessels: Fibrin-based TEVs
...n stimulates synthesis of collagen and elastin and yields TEV constructs with improved mechanical properties, suggesting that fibrin may be a more appropriate scaffold for cardiovascular tissue engineering," they said. In the current study, the SUNY Buffalo researchers took lamb vascular smooth muscle and e...... as a byproduct of the megasonic cleaning process, yields light that can provide information on the removal of 100 nanometer-and-larger particles from the silicon wafer. He will discuss efforts to develop a nanoscale optical damage probe to maximize cleaning and minimize damage to nanoscale circuit compone...