Martin Saunders to receive the James Flack Norris Award
...stry. The award, established in 1963 to encourage and reward outstanding contributions to physical organ... contributions to the NMR spectroscopy, structures and rearrangements of carbocations, for a new methodology for conformational search, and for the study o...Scientists decipher genetic code of biothreat pathogen
... has an extremely regulated set of virulence genes and an unstable genome that may explain the bacterium'...esponses of its host animals mainly horses, mules and donkeys. "The combination of virulence genes and genomic instability may explain why some scienti...Research suggests new avenue for stopping, preventing colon cancer
...Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular Oncology and the VICC's associate director for Cancer Prevention and Control. The receptor, called PPARdelta, plays an important role in development, wound healing and ...Prion propagation: Avoiding the toxic oligomer
...e of diseases, including prion (from proteinaceous and infectious) diseases and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease, amyloid fibrils, or plaques...Targeted therapy knocks out pediatric brain cancer in mice
...l systems for testing novel therapies." Dr. Curran and colleagues used a mouse model of medulloblastoma t...aling pathway could interfere with the development and progression of the disease. Previous studies have implicated the Shh pathway in human medulloblastom...New anti-inflammatory strategy for cancer therapy identified by UCSD researchers
... inflammation, the connection between inflammation and malignancy, and how the delicate balance between cancer promotion and inhibition can be manipulated in the patient's...Loss of the neuronal adhesion protein d-catenin leads to severe cognitive dysfunction
...e that loss of d-catenin produces severe cognitive and synaptic dysfunction. Researchers have been partic...ocess. In the new work, researchers Inbal Israely and Xin Liu at UCLA show that mice with deletions of d-catenin display severe learning and memory defici...Amyloid fibers sprout one step at a time
...esearchers have combined sophisticated biochemical and imaging techniques to get a glimpse of the stepwis...e toxicity in amyloid diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The researchers say this may have important implications for those designing drugs to p...Chemical genetics identifies SARS inhibitors
...rus infected more than 8000 people in 29 countries and claimed more that 900 human lives. Lack of knowledge about the novel virus and the absence of therapeutics were the primary reasons that the outbreak could not be contained and ma...Genes expose secrets of sex on the side
...have been tomcatting around since time immemorial, and some traveled far from home to do it, new research...on have developed new insights into ancient mating and migration patterns in humans. Men and women differed in their participation in reproduction, the ...Resveratrol synthase uncovered: Cyclization specificity of type III polyketide synthases
...es can confer antifungal resistance to host plants and have been shown to possess health benefits for humans and other animals when present in their diet. The best known stilbene is resveratrol, which is found in ...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...ska for testing. Appropriately named Shadow III -- and painted a bright yellow that belies its sleuthy assignment -- the mini-sub includes a video camera and hydrophones (sonar mikes) to track its prey. Marine biologists, directed by Professor David Scheel a...Brown ecologist garners major National Science Foundation grant
... a model organism, whose genome has been sequenced and studied extensively. Researchers will use genomic ... a variety of seasonal signals, such as day length and temperature, to flower during favorable conditions. They will also examine how genetic variation in ...22nd amino acid synthesized and added to genetic code of e. coli bacteria
... synthesized the amino acid itself L-pyrrolysine and shown that bacteria can incorporate it into new pr...t selenocysteine lacked its own translator protein and is put into the protein through a more circuitous route. That left open the question of whether futu...Algal contact as a trigger for coral disease
...nfectious disease epidemics are causing widespread and alarming declines in reef-building coral species, ...ology Letters, Nugues, Smith, van Hooidonk, Seabra and Bak demonstrate a sinister aspect of this competition. One of the most common macroalgae, Halimeda o...Genetic modification of linseed produces healthier omega 3 and 6 fatty acids
...ring of very long chain PUFA into an oilseed crop, and is an excellent example of how genetic engineering... species can provide real benefits to human health and nutrition and the environment. In research reported this month in The Plant Cell, Ernst Heinz at the...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...s release is also available in French , Spanish and Japanese . At a school in Managua, Nicaragua, dea...gradually over generations through experimentation and improvement. In contrast, the new study suggests that the source of these similarities is the way la...Researchers develop fast track way to discover how cells are regulated
...n Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and a collaborator at the University of California at ... gene expression that is implicated in cell growth and development. The study was published today in the journal Science. "When studying the genome of an...US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
...rowth forests as well as unique grasslands, rivers and wetlands containing extraordinary wildlife. The mo...CS by the Goldman Sachs Charitable Fund in a novel and powerful alliance that will ensure conservation in the region in perpetuity. The announcement was m......othesis makes sense over a wide range of scenarios and explains some of what we know about the moon and Earth today. Someday, her simulations may predict which planets outside our solar system contain moo...