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...ses; and Alan Perelson, in theoretical biology and biophysics at LosAlamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, distinguished for his work inimmunology and for recent theoretical work fundamental in developing newtreatments for AIDS....Computer Model Offers New Insight On Bacterial Photosynthesis
...us Schulten, director of the Beckman's theoretical biophysics groupand holder of the U. of I. Swanlund Chair in Physics. "The bacteriacan store the energy captured from the sun better in a ring, because ofthe symmetry of the structure. " To arrive at their model of the entire photosynthetic unit, Hu and Schul...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...nclude sensory systems, artificial joints, and the biophysics and biomechanics of bone. Interactions with industry will be emphasized. Tulane will expand its biomedical engineering program by developing a new laboratory and research program in computational tissue engineering. The grant will help set up th...3-D Structure Of HIV Components May Pave The Way For New Anti-AIDS Drugs
...hor Dr.Philip N. Borer, professor of chemistry and biophysics at Syracuse University. Nucleocapsid uses two "zinc knuckles"--special structures that each require azinc atom to function--to grip the packaging domain on viral RNA. The proteinwinds the RNA to form the core of new virus particles, which eventually......o drug discovery that integrates advanced biology, biophysics andchemistry. The Company is concentrating on the discovery and development ofdrugs for the treatment of viral diseases, multidrug resistance in cancer,autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases....AAAS, State Of Arizona Co-Host Conference On Research And Development
...ill be hosted by ASU's Stuart Lindsay,professor of biophysics and UA Dean of Agriculture Eugene Sander. Panel participants areMaryanna Henkart, deputy director of the NSF's Molecular and Cellular BioscienceDivision; and Dov Jaron, associate director of Biomedical Technology at the NIH. A panel on materials scie...Studies Suggest Cold Can Protect Valuable Papers
...Alumni Distinguished professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the UNC-CHSchool of Medicine. "Unexpectedly, we found that the decomposition, orhydrolysis, of these bonds is extremely sensitive to changing temperature andthat refrigeration should provide a singularly effective means of preservingvaluable docum......o drug discovery that integrates advanced biology, biophysics andchemistry. The Company is concentrating on the discovery and development ofdrugs for the treatment of viral diseases, multidrug resistance in cancer,autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. There can be no assurance t...Proteins Deep Inside The Nucleus Hold Clues For Two Diseases
...PhD, the Isaac Norris professorof biochemistry and biophysics at Penn and a Howard Hughes Medical Instituteinvestigator, has centered on the mechanisms of how the genetic code istranslated, via messenger RNA (mRNA), to correctly construct proteins thatorchestrate the human body. This very basic work has turned ......ner, MD, a professor of neurology,biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF, the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine, and the other senior author of the study. In an effort to tease out the component of prion protein that mightactually confer the most crucial distinction in strains--the ti......er Englander, PhD, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics atthe University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: "Even with a small,100-amino-acid-long protein, the number of possible three-dimensional structuresthat the protein might manifest is larger than the number of molecules in theuniverse." Protein bi...UB Stroke Researchers Develop New Technique To Measure Blood Rate-of-flow, Treat Brain Malformations
...ad researcher William Granger, a UB physiology and biophysics doctoral candidate. Neurosurgeons with UB's Toshiba Stroke Research Center have used the procedure on 21 patients, with no complications. An AVM is a tangle of fragile vessels in the brain or spinal chord that forms between an artery, which carrie...Measurements Of Protein Surface Verify Electrostatics Model
...ing. To probe the local surface charges, Leckband, biophysics professor ShankarSubramaniam and graduate research assistantSanjeevi Sivasankar first prepared homogeneously oriented monolayers ofstreptavidin by anchoring the protein to asupported lipid bilayer. Using a surface-force apparatus, they then measured ...Antibody Revolution Targets STDs, Stomach Viruses, Common Cold
...esare," said Kevin Whaley, a research scientist in biophysics and one of theauthors of the report. "Immunology, of course, has been around forever and ever,but mucosal immunology is relatively new. "Soon, we believe, with the use of monoclonal antibodies, a person couldtake a small tablet for travele......ementof Science, Schulten told how his theoretical biophysics group at the U. of I.Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology combined X-raycrystallography and computational modeling to identify the structure of aprotein called the two light-harvesting complex in the purple bacteriaRhodobacter sphaer...Researchers Uncover 3-D Structure Of Virus Replication Technique
...shifting," explainsKamal Shukla, director of NSF's biophysics program, which funded the research. "Until now, the detailed three-dimensional structure of the pseudoknot - socalled because the RNA is not truly knotted, but tightly bound together -- hasnot been known." The RNA pseudoknot formed by the beet weste...Story Tips: Engineering Students Pursue Cutting-Edge Research
...ust in Panama City, Fla. About six months earlier, biophysics major Joshua Apgar, 21, of Newton, Mass.,had learned about the event and recruited Alquaddoomi, Morris and several otherstudents to construct aHopkins entry. "We spent about a month designing it," Apgar recalls. "We onlyhad time to buildit once. Ther...Genes Found That Label Cell Proteins For Disposal
... Yue Xiong, assistant professor ofbiochemistry and biophysics at the UNC-CH School of Medicine. "Balance is the key word. How the cell cycle of growth and divisionmaintains balance is what we're studying," Xiong says. "It may be that humandiseases are somehow linked to a degradation breakdown, one that ......ter Englander, PhD, a professor ofbiochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School ofMedicine. In times of stress, cells produce chaperonins, which are huge proteinmolecules that police other proteins that have misfolded as a result of anynumber of stressors -- including heat, heavy-metal po......hD, associate professor of molecularphysiology and biophysics and director of the Program in Human Genetics atVanderbilt University School of Medicine. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, theMedical Research Council of Canada, the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, and theAlzheim...