RIKEN aids international structural genomics efforts

Structural genomics

theory, based on the shape and location of coral formations, on coral’s inability to grow at depths greater than 30 fathoms, and most of all on a scenario for which he had no evidence: that each reef or atoll represents the outer limit of an island that has slowly subsided into the ocean. Read this chapter, if only to be struck by its masterly fusion of acute observation and trenchant imaginati...

Bioinformatics in structural genomics.

Expectations from structural genomics.

Structural genomics projects aim to provide an experimental structure or a good model for every protein in all completed genomes. Most of the experimental work for these projects will be directed toward proteins whose fold cannot be readily recognized by simple sequence comparison with proteins of known structure. Based on the history of proteins classified in the SCOP structure database, we ex...

International efforts to measure health expectancy.

International efforts for better health--Norway's role.

It is possible to break the vicious circle of poverty and poor health, but this demands major efforts from several sectors of society. Employees in the health sector have an important role to play, not only by virtue of performing curative and preventive work, but also by trying to influence politicians and act as whistle-blowers about unacceptable conditions. The health sector must be develope...