8 Current news of University of Washington
rss10-25-2011
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the winners of the 2011 eMerging Insights grant program: Dr. Michael J. MacCoss of the University of Washington and Dr. Peter J. Park of Harvard University. Each will be awarded $75,000 toward their ongoing research on open source data-integration tools.The ...
Molecular structure of retrovirus enzyme solved, doors open to new AIDS drug design
09-19-2011
Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery by playing Foldit, an online game that allows players to collaborate and compete in predicting the structure of protein ...
Determining the molecular configuration of proteins is important in nanotechology, drug design, disease research and many other fields
05-03-2011
The structures of many protein molecules remain unsolved even after experts apply an extensive array of approaches. An international collaboration has led to a new, high-performance method that rapidly determined the structure of protein molecules in several cases where previous methods had ...
05-27-2010
You might call it comparing apples and oranges, but lining up different species' genomes is common practice in evolutionary research. Scientists can see how species have evolved, pinpoint which sections of DNA are similar between species, meaning they probably are crucial to the animals' ...
Numbers can vary from person to person
09-01-2009
A newly designed computational method has proven its usefulness in counting copies of duplicated genome sequences and in doing initial assessments of their contents, according to a study in Nature Genetics. The number of copies of particular DNA segments can differ from one person to the ...
02-23-2009
Including genetic information in a patient's clinical profile might help determine the optimal starting dose of the common blood-thinner warfarin, according to findings from a large-scale study that will be published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers from more than 20 ...
07-28-2008
A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous under federal laws, but none of those chemicals was listed on ...
Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies Targeted in Protein Study Enabled by Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX's Advanced Technologies
08-25-2006
Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, and its joint venture partner, MDS Sciex, a division of MDS Inc., announced the outcome of the scientific research community's most extensive, spinal fluid-based protein study on neurodegenerative diseases to date. Researchers from the ...
