Feb 01 2010 Gene Function Discovery: Guilt by Association By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA—Scientists have created a new computational model that can be used to predict gene function of uncharacterized plant genes with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The network, dubbed AraNet, has over 19,600 genes associated to each ...
Dec 14 2009 Antagonistic genes control rice growth By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA —Scientists at the Carnegie Institution, with colleagues,* have found that a plant steroid prompts two genes to battle each other—one suppresses the other to ensure that leaves grow normally in rice and the experimental plant ...
Dec 09 2009 Season’s Greetings from Carnegie By Carnegie HQ This image was selected as our holiday card for 2009. It is a portion of AraNet, a gene association network built from over 50 million data points of functional genomics data from the experimental mustard plant Arabidopsis . Each line represents a ...
Nov 24 2009 “Safety Valve” Protects Photosynthesis from Too Much Light By Carnegie HQ Photosynthetic organisms need to cope with a wide range of light intensities, which can change over timescales of seconds to minutes. Too much light can damage the photosynthetic machinery and cause cell death. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution ...
Sep 16 2009 Carnegie’s Winslow Briggs Receives International Prize for Biology By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA— Director Emeritus of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology , Winslow Briggs , will be awarded the prestigious International Prize for Biology from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at a ceremony in Tokyo November 30, ...
Aug 06 2009 Carnegie donates landmark clones to biology By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA —With the information explosion, it’s remarkable that so little is known about the interactions that proteins have with each other and the protective membrane that surrounds a cell. These interactive, so-called membrane proteins ...
Jul 01 2009 Plants Put Limit on Ice Ages By admin Palo Alto, CA — When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth’s surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists because leading models have indicated that over the past ...
Jun 22 2009 Midget Plant Gets Makeover By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA— A tiny plant with a long name ( Arabidopsis thaliana ) helps researchers from over 120 countries learn how to design new crops to help meet increasing demands for food, biofuels, industrial materials, and new medicines. The genes, ...
Jun 15 2009 Advance in understanding cellulose synthesis By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto , CA —Cellulose is a fibrous molecule that makes up plant cell walls, gives plants shape and form and is a target of renewable, plant-based biofuels research. But how it forms, and thus how it can be modified to design energy-rich crops, ...