New Discovery About Genes Has Implications For Genetic Therapy
... team, along with researcher Phillip S. Perlman, a biochemist from the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, was supported by grants from the National Institute of General Medical Science. The researchers have applied for a patent to protect their process....Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
...f cancer," said Gerald F. Combs Jr., a nutritional biochemist and Cornell professor of nutritional sciences. Combs and a group of co-authors reported their findings in the Jan. 1, 1997 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. The senior author is epidemiologist Larry Clark, who was at Cornel......mposium speakers will include: David Bramhill, a biochemist at Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, NJ, whowill speak about how having the complete E. coli genome in hand has led toinnovation in drug development. Yale University biologist Michael Snyder will discuss his research on theyeast genome, which ...Biochemist Solves Riddle Of Collagen Stability
...unds and repairing damaged organs, said UW-Madison biochemist Ron Raines. It also holds promise in finding new t...n the human body, Raines said. About 25 years ago, biochemist Darwin Prockop unlocked some of the first clues to the molecular stability of collagen. He found tha...Breakthrough: Scientists Create 3-D Map Of Cell Membrane Ion Pump At Near Atomic Resolution
...n regulate thesemolecules in disease states," the biochemist said. In recognition of his continuing experiments, the Alexander von HumboldtFoundation last month awarded Scarborough one of its prestigious $80,000Humboldt prizes to pay for travel and other personal expenses associated withhis research. ...ASU Scientists Join NASA Astrobiology Institute
...mistry that preceded the origin of lifeon Earth, biochemist John Cronin and new ASU cosmochemist Laurie Leshinwill investigate the organic chemistry of carbonaceous meteorites andinterplanetary dust particles. (This work will involve the extensive use of ASU'sworld-class meteorite collection.) In exploring th...Molecular "Fossils" Of Early Life
...y occurring RNA enzymes, or ribozymes, earned Yale biochemist SidneyAltman and University of Colorado researcher Thomas Cech the 1989 Nobel Prize inChemistry. In separate experiments, Altman and Cech exploded the myth that RNAis merely a passive carrier of genetic code incapable of triggering cellactivity. ......animate as astone. But now Thomas Smith, a biochemist at Purdue University in Lafayette,Indiana, says that this is not the full story. Smith studies the rhinoviruswhich causes the common cold. "We know that proteins move in solution," he says."But it's hard for most people to visualise the virus as dyna...Studies Suggest Cold Can Protect Valuable Papers
...kes a camera shutter to open and close,"the UNC-CH biochemist said. "The extreme slowness of these reactions withoutenzymes provides a first glimpse of the extraordinary power of enzymes ascatalysts." To determine speeds at which bonds are broken, the scientists tookadvantage of the fact that heat c...How A Common Protein Becomes A Cancer Killer
...ow anew study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist finds that a "cousin"of that frog protein found in mammals has the same cancer-fighting potential. Biochemist Ron Raines reports in the Sept. 1 Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences that ribonuclease A - a digestive protein made by the pancr......ncis publishers.The book, edited by Wiegel and UGA biochemist Dr. Michael W. W. Adams, publishesinformation first presented at a workshop on the University of Georgia campus in1996. The event at UGA was unusual because international experts in a numberof different fields came together to discuss the imp...A "Fossil" Virus Involved In AIDS Drug Resistance?
... protease have been observed," says SAICstructural biochemist Sergei Gulnik, Ph.D. It is possible that resistance is not due entirely to mutations, say thescientists. Maybe the HERV-K protease, made within a patient's own body, istaking over for some of the HIV-1 protease when it is inactivated. "We tried tod...New Discovery Offers Hope For Controlling Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis
...educe the level ofcholesterol in theblood," claims biochemist Michael Phillips, Ph.D. of MCP Hahnemann University inPhiladelphia. Though the researchers admit they don't yet know exactly how the newly foundproteinworks, lead author Helmut Hauser, Ph.D. of the Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology inZurich compar...Sunscreen Ingredient Causes DNA Damage In Light
...uchdamage were to occur to DNA inside cells," says biochemist R. Jeremy H. Davies,Ph.D. of Queen's University in Belfast, "it could increase the risk ofdevelopingskin cancer." While stressing that there is currently no evidence that PBSA actually entershuman skin cells, Davies adds that "this new information r...New Insights About 'Good Cholesterol'
...gging plaques. University of OttawaHeartInstitute biochemist Daniel L. Sparks, Ph.D., now says HDL's antioxidant abilityis partly due to an attached enzyme called lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase(LCAT). "We have shown that LCAT has the ability to both eliminate and prevent theformation of oxidized lipids ......he paper is Joel A. Ybe, Ph.D., assistant research biochemist inthe Brodsky laboratory. Senior author is Peter K. Hwang, Ph.D., associate researchbiochemisty in the UCSF biochemistry and biophysics department. Other collaborators and co-authors are Kai Lin, Ph.D., former postdoctoral fellowin Fletterick's labor...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
...rom a long-standing collaboration with Spudich.The biochemist showed Chu ways to attach tiny micron spheres to strands of DNA,which allowed Chu to use optical tweezers to become the first person to studythe physical properties of individual polymer strands. In return, Chu's studentstaught Spudich's students how...Enzyme discovery may link underlying processes in cancer and heart disease
...ymes in the new class, theEmory scientists, led by biochemist J. David Lambeth, M.D., Ph.D., incollaboration with cardiology researcher Kathy Griendling, Ph.D., found that thereactive oxygen produced by the enzymes functions as a potent growth signalinside cells, instructing cells to divide more rapidly. Abnor......ne A2, and PGF2alpha. COX-2inhibitors developed by biochemist Lawrence J. Marnett, Ph.D., associatedirector of research programs at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, preventedthe formation of all of these products and blocked the cell migration response.Of the three products, only thromboxane A2 turned out t......raditional drugs. The research, led by Brandeis biochemist Dorothee Kern, also involved scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California at Berkeley. Current-generation antibiotics, which kill off normal strains of bacteria while leaving ...