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University-Industry Interactions: the Case of the UK Biotech Industry
ABSTRACT This paper's focus is on both the geography of entrepreneurship and on industry-collaborative links internationally, nationally and at the local level in the UK biotech industry, the world's second largest biotech industry. The paper reports on a pilot survey of the UK biotech industry. The survey has two goals:...
Crystal Structure of T7 Gene 4 Ring Helicase Indicates a Mechanism for Sequential Hydrolysis of Nucleotides
This paper determines the crystal structure of an active, hexameric fragment of the gene 4 helicase from bactewereriophage T7. The structure reveals how subunit contacts stabilize the hexamer. The structural consequences of the asymmetry suggest a "binding change" mechanism to explain how cooperative binding and hydrolysis of nucleotides are coupled...
Illumina Selected by the National Institutes of Health to Participate in the International HapMap Project; Illumina One of Five Principal U.S. Research Groups Contributing to Project
Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K SAN DIEGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 29, 2002 Illumina, Inc. (Nasdaq:ILMN) announced today that it will play a significant role in the International HapMap Project, a global consortium aimed at creating a detailed map of genetic variation and speeding the discovery of genes related...
Body builders.
Mar 12, 2002 The Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- Computational physiology involves the computerised modelling of human systems. There are a number of projects in operation around the word that are part of these mapping exercises. A "virtual heart" project, part of the "Physiome...
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Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome, by Nancy C. Andreasen (Oxford University Press, 2001; $29.95) Neuroimaging of the thalamus reveals that it is smaller in schizophrenics. According to Andreasen, a neuroscientist, future mapping of the organ holds the promise of finding in "this...
Structure in Science and Art.(Review) (book review)
SOMETIMES YOU NEED to step back for that bigger "what's-it-all-about" engineering picture and get it from different perspectives. Engineers and Their Profession, Fifth Edition, by John D Kemper and Billy R Sanders, looks at what engineers--not just EEs--do in various aspects of their vocation. The $37.95...
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GENIE IN A BOTTLE If this issue's cover story has left you wondering what in the world a genome even is, let alone how it could be mapped and what that has to do with you, consider picking up Enrico Coen's the art of...
Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and University of Oxford create first DNA motors.
M2 PRESSWIRE-10 August 2000-Lucent Technologies: Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and University of Oxford create first DNA motors C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09082000 MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Scientists from Bell Labs, the research and development arm of...
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Watching, From the Edge of Extinction Watching, From the Edge of Extinction By Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns (Yale University Press, 1999; $30; 288pp.; illus.) Of the approximately 7 million species on Earth, between seventy and seven hundred become extinct each year. Journalist Beverly Stearns and...
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