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Surprising Symbiosis: Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Eats With Friends
Like a celebrity living on mineral water, the glassy-wingedsharpshooter consumes only the dilute sap of woody plants — including grapevinesin California,which is feverishly working to prevent the insect's flight into prizedvineyards. Now, in a surprising study published in the June 6 issue of PublicLibrary of Science Biology (PLoS Biology), researchers at The Institute forGenomic Research (TIGR), the University of Arizona, and their colleagueshave discovered that the sharpshooter's deprivation diet is sneakilysupplemented by not one, but two co-dependent bacteria living inside its cells.
Gut Reaction: Researchers Define The Colon's Genome
For the first time, scientists describe the busy microbial world inside
Comparative sequence analysis of B. anthracis Ames Ancestor and a set of diverse B. anthracis strains.
Leading Department of Energy Genome Scientist to Direct Joint Marine Microbial Metagenomics Cyberinfrastructure Initiative
Dr. Paul Gilna Will Lead Moore Foundation-Funded Project Linking UC San Diego and Venter Institute
Government of Victoria, Australia and Venter Institute to Survey and Sequence Microbes in Soil and Bovine Digestive System
Environmental genomics approach expected to reveal biological diversity in lesser known ecosystems
MD Governor visits TIGR
Venter Institute Announces Summer Fellowship in Memory of Local Resident
Cookbook sales by student athletes contribute to Dan Stryer Fellowship for cancer research
Genomics-Based Vaccine Could Prevent Deadly Cattle Disease
Every year, East Coast fever destroys the small farmer's dream of escaping poverty in Africa. Killing more than a million cattle and costing some $200 million annually, this tick-borne disease rages across a dozen countries in eastern and central Africa. Now, an international team of scientists has taken the first major step toward a vaccine to prevent East Coast fever. Their work, published in the February 13-17 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how genomics can generate pivotal new vaccines.
The J. Craig Venter Institute, The University of Washington, and The Johns Hopkins University Initiate Resequencing and Genotyping Projects to Help Identify Critical Disease Pathways
Research is Part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Complimentary Resequencing and Genotyping Program
UC San Diego Partners with Venter Institute to Build Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards $24.5 Million Grant
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