The Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS) is an obesity prevention research program sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), targeting young African-American girls. Expert groups have suggested that the high prevalence of obesity in African-American women could be a contributing factor to their excess morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease com...

Summary Visualization of metabolites, reactions and pathways in genome-scale metabolic networks (GEMs) can assist in understanding cellular metabolism. Three attributes are desirable in software used for visualizing GEMs: (i) automation, since GEMs can be quite large; (ii) production of understandable maps that provide ease in identification of pathways, reactions and metabolites; and (iii) vis...

The spinal muscular atrophy protein, SMN, is a cytoplasmic protein that is also found in distinct nuclear structures called "gems." Gems are closely associated with nuclear coiled bodies and both may have a direct role in snRNP maturation and pre-RNA splicing. There has been some controversy over whether gems and coiled bodies colocalize or form adjacent/independent structures in HeLa and other...

Genome scale models (GEMs) have enabled remarkable advances in systems biology, acting as functional databases of metabolism, and as scaffolds for the contextualization of high-throughput data. In the case of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), several GEMs have been published and are currently used for metabolic engineering and elucidating biological interactions. Here we review the hist...

The cell nucleus contains two closely related structures, Cajal bodies (CBs) and gems. CBs are the first site of accumulation of newly assembled splicing snRNPs (small nuclear ribonucleoproteins) following their import into the nucleus, before they form their steady-state localization in nuclear splicing speckles. Gems are the nuclear site of accumulation of survival motor neurons (SMNs), an in...

A voicing feature is used in concatenation to MFCC features to increase the performance of digit recognition at both low and high SNRs. The problem of noise robust extraction of the voicing feature is solved by using the glottal electromagnetic sensor (GEMS). The GEMS device provides reliable voicing information at all SNRs and noise environments. It is shown that although the voicing feature i...

We will demonstrate the GEMS system for automated development and evaluation of high-quality cancer diagnostic models and biomarker discovery from microarray gene expression data. The development of GEMS was informed by the results of an extensive algorithmic evaluation using 11 microarray datasets. The system was further evaluated in two cross-dataset applications and using 5 microarray datase...

Amorphous silicates containing abundant nano-inclusions have been reported in the Paris CM chondrite (Leroux et al., 2015). They chemical and morphological similarities to glass with embedded metal sulfides (GEMS) found interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) micrometeorites believed originate from comets. We used scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscop...