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Genetic Underpinnings Of Sheep Traits May Yield Clues To Greater Productivity
Keeping America's sheep
healthy and productive while
expanding the market for
wool and lamb is the goal of
scientists who are matching
... > full story
Nonviable Seeds May Contain Research-Quality DNA
Agricultural Research
Service scientists have ways
of making seeds talk. They
have demonstrated that seeds
can reveal genetic
information even after
... > full story
Catalyst For Water Oxidation Adopted From Plants: A Means For Energy-efficient Production Of Hydrogen?
A team of Australian and
American researchers has
developed a catalyst that
effectively catalyzes the
photooxidation of water. The
... > full story
Protein Structure Discovery Opens Door For Drugs To Fight Bird Flu, Other Influenza Epidemics
Researchers have reported a
discovery that could help
scientists develop drugs to
fight the much-feared bird
flu and other virulent
... > full story
- Genetic Underpinnings Of Sheep Traits May Yield Clues To Greater Productivity
- Nonviable Seeds May Contain Research-Quality DNA
- Catalyst For Water Oxidation Adopted From Plants: A Means For Energy-efficient Production Of Hydrogen?
- Protein Structure Discovery Opens Door For Drugs To Fight Bird Flu, Other Influenza Epidemics
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Protein Misprediction Uncovered By New Technique
August 28, 2008 — A new bioinformatics tool is capable of identifying and correcting abnormal, incomplete and mispredicted protein annotations in public databases. The MisPred tool currently uses five principles to ... > full story -
DNA Barcoding In Danger Of 'Ringing Up' Wrong Species
August 27, 2008 — DNA barcoding is a movement to catalog all life on earth by a simple standardized genetic tag, similar to stores labeling products with unique barcodes. But the approach as currently practiced churns ... > full story -
Natural Chemical From Sea Sponges Induces Death In Cancer Cells Via Unusual Pathway
August 27, 2008 — A chemical called candidaspongiolide (CAN) inhibits protein synthesis but also kills cancer cells by triggering caspase 12-dependent programmed cell death, according to an article in the Aug. 26 ... > full story -
'Slick' Gene Helps Cattle Beat The Heat
August 26, 2008 — Pinpointing the chromosomal location of the "slick" gene identified by scientists could help breeders develop cattle with shorter, slick hair that helps keep them cool in the subtropical ... > full story -
Stem Cells Stand Up For Themselves
August 26, 2008 — Adult stem cells are not pampered pushovers. O'Reilly et al. report in the Aug. 25 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology that certain stem cells take charge of their surroundings, molding their ... > full story -
LipidomicNet: New Lipidomics Project Promotes Translational Research Towards Human Disease
August 25, 2008 — The enormous advances in biology and biomedical research during the last decade originate mainly from the fields of Genomics and Proteomics. The current revolution in lipid analysis, however, ... > full story -
Exploding Chromosomes Fuel Research About Evolution Of Genetic Storage
August 24, 2008 — Research into single-celled, aquatic algae called dinoflagellates is showing that these and related organisms may have evolved more than one way to tightly pack their DNA into chromsomes. Even so, ... > full story -
How Daughter Is Different From Mother ... In Yeast Cells
August 23, 2008 — Scientists know how mother and daughter can be so different. Mother and daughter yeast cells, that is. The researchers have discovered a new mechanism for cell fate determination -- how one cell, the ... > full story -
Genome Of Simplest Animal Reveals Ancient Lineage, Confounding Array Of Complex Capabilities
August 23, 2008 — The genome of the simple and primitive animal, Trichoplax adhaerens, appears to harbor a far more complex suite of capabilities than meets the eye. The findings establish a group of organisms as a ... > full story -
Manes, Trains And Antlers Explained: How Showy Male Traits Evolved
August 22, 2008 — For Charles Darwin, the problem of the peacock's tail, in light of his theory of natural selection, was vexing in the extreme. A team of Wisconsin scientists has turned from the question of why such ... > full story
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