Conservation biologist Michael Lannoo to win Field Museums Parker/Gentry Award
...nts: basic research, author, university professor, featured Discovery.com expert, tireless advocate for biod...etlands: A Lesson in Natural History (1996) and is featured in William Souders A Plague of Frogs (2000). In addition, he has tropical and polar field experience...Researchers discover gene that could be key in evolution of hardwoods
...dwood trees such as oaks and maples. Their work is featured on the cover of the July 11 issue of The Plant Cell. Millions of years ago, gymnosperms--including conifers such as pines and redwoods--were the only type of plants on earth. Then angiosperms--the flowering plants--appeared, among them hardwood trees...Study of flamingo genes reveals surprising family tree
... issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society and featured on the cover of that issue. The most startling and unexpected finding of the study is that the closest living relative of the elegant flamingo, with its long legs built for wading, is not another long-legged species of wading bird but the squat gre...Study of aquatic bird genes reveals surprising relationships and evolutionary history
...2001 issue of the Journal of the Royal Society and featured on the cover of that issue. The most startling and unexpected finding of the study is that the closest living relative of the elegant flamingo, with its long legs built for wading, is not another long-legged species of wading bird but the squat gre...Walking proteins need to rock and roll, new study finds
... as Alzheimer's and retinitis pigmentosa. A study featured on the cover of the June issue of the journal Nature Structural Biology adds an important piece to the puzzle. "There is a lot of interest in kinesin and how it works as a motor," says Stanford chemistry Professor W. E. Moerner, co-author of the Jun...Discover Magazine honors landmine detector, cellular research
...tp://www.discover.com . Both PNNL winners will be featured in Discover's July 2001 issue. Congress established the Christopher Columbus Foundation in 1992 to "encourage and support research, study and labor designed to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind." It choo...NIH launches online AIDS oral history project
...voices of some of them can be heard in audio clips featured in brief chapters highlighting their first encounters with AIDS patients, the discovery of HIV, the search for treatments, and other aspects of AIDS research at NIH in the 1980s. An ongoing project, the site will be updated over time with more oral...Evolution at a snail's pace: It's faster than you think
LSU researcher to be featured in June 1 issue of Science BATON ROUGE -- By studying genetic data and fossil records of a common California snail, biologists from Louisiana State University and the University of California, San Diego have found that a change in a species' te...When Shewanella meets goethite: Evidence found of recognition between animate and inanimate objects
...bject such as a mineral. The research will be featured in Science on May 18, 2001, in the article, "Bacterial Recognition of Mineral Surfaces: Nanoscale Interactions Between Shewanella and a-FeOOH," by Steven Lower, Michael F. Hochella Jr., and Terry J. Beveridge. Lower, soon to begin work as an assistan......ens mda-7 program. The cover of Molecular Medicine featured a photomicrograph which demonstrates secretion of MDA-7 protein from INGN 241 treated cells, a result which may enhance the potency of INGN 241 therapy. The research and paper are the result of the efforts of an international team of collaborators,...Free sessions open to the public at 2001 AAAS Meeting
...cs. Nasdaq President Alfred Berkeley III also is featured in a plenary lecture. And there are entertaining and educational activities that children as well as adults will enjoy. A complete listing of public activities is below. All sessions will be held at the Hilton San Francisco and Towers, 333 OFa...Pharmaceutical 'smart bomb' targets cancer cells
...tic step in the march toward a cancer cure will be featured twice during the 226th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting in New York. Hu is presenting a paper on Monday, Sept. 8 at 3:45 p.m. in the Javits Convention Center, room 1E02. In addition, Hu and his colleagues are exhibiting at a poster ...Infections may trigger autoimmunity via rare, but normal process
...sue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine and is featured on the journal's cover. The study tracked a mildly self-reactive subset of the body's so-called memory B cells - long-lived immune cells that stand ready to respond to pathogens the immune system has previously encountered. This B cell subset apparen...Sea Grant and CTDEP announce $3.5M for LI Sound lobster research
...mental Protection Agency, the NYSDEC and CTDEP-- featured experts who discussed some of the current hypotheses to explain the lobster die-off in Long Island Sound. In late May, the agencies teamed up once again to host "Lobsters and the Long Island Sound: 1999-2000," a meeting at USB that gave res...'Fat switch' fights flab at the cellular level, Science authors report
...called "adipogenesis." A simple animation, to be featured beginning 10 August on Science's STKE, the online Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment, shows pre-fat cells transforming. (Go to http://www.stke.org , then "Connections Map." Reporters: Call for earlier access to visuals.) "Wnt signaling fu...Scientists map first structure in important family of proteins
...g. 4 issue of Science. A model of the protein is featured on the cover of the journal, which is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The particular GPCR that the scientists mapped is rhodopsin, a light receptor protein that resides inside cell membranes of retinal rod cells...Molecular structure suggests how a gene can "jump"
...ther. The structure of this protein-DNA complex -- featured on the journal's cover -- gives researchers a new framework for understanding how transposable elements operate, according to the paper's lead authors Ivan Rayment and Bill Reznikoff. The finding also may accelerate the search for new drugs to inhibi...NLM exhibit features Nobelist Joshua Lederberg
...ectronic version of many of Lederberg's papers are featured in Profiles in Science, ( http://www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ ), the Library's web site devoted to great biomedical scientists in the 20th century. There you will find some 3,000 documents, including notebooks, manuscripts, personal correspondence with ...UCSD researchers find genetic key to puzzling congenital disease
...ith those seen in the mice. The research findings, featured on the cover of the June 16 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, describe the first human disease found to be linked to the I-kappa-B kinase (IKK) signaling pathway, the master switch for the body's immune and inflammatory responses, and for programm...NASA Materials Conference Features Science Results, Experts on Technologies for Exploration
...ources in space to fuel future exploration will be featured at NASA's Microgravity Materials Science Conference in the North Hall of the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala., June 6-8. For three days, experts from across the nation will discuss current hot topics in their fields - such as nanotechnology and b...