Chicken embryo research tunes into inner ear
...nal, for example, and that's where our research is headed next. In any case, a cure for deafness based on this discovery won't be appearing in your drugstore anytime soon." Fekete did say, however, that the research was yet another example of the potential of stem cell research. "Even if we cannot do resear...Army awards up to $50 million to establish Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
... serve as ICB associate director. The MIT team is headed by Angela Belcher, the John Chipman Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering. At Caltech the effort is led by David Tirrell, the Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and chair of the Chemistry and Ch...New principle guides memory dynamics
...f scientists in the Weizmann Institute of Science, headed by Prof. Yadin Dudai of the Neurobiology Department, constitutes a step towards reaching this goal. Every memory that we acquire undergoes a "ripening" process (called consolidation) immediately after it is formed. In this process, it becomes imperv...Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded crop protection patent
... and structural biology. From 1991 to 1998, Beachy headed the Division of Plant Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, a leading biomedical research center in La Jolla, California. He was also Professor and Scripps Family Chair in Cell Biology and co-director of the International Laboratory for Tropica...Researchers find a pattern in evolution of lizard groups
...vel statistical and analytical techniques, a group headed by Jonathan Losos, Ph.D. and Allan Larson, Ph.D., both Washington University professors of biology in Arts & Sciences, examined two important dimensions in the evolutionary diversification of four groups of lizards: the ages of branching points on th...Natural hormone could reverse heart damage
...he enlarged heart cells. So are leptin infusions headed to your doctor's office? "It's unlikely," Barouch says, as humans process the hormone differently than mice in this model. Obese people have leptin resistance, she says, so more work needs to be done before clinical therapies can be tested. "If w...Weizmann Institute scientists report why taste and smell differ among individuals
... Now, a team at the Weizmann Institute of Science, headed by Prof. Doron Lancet of the Molecular Genetics Department, has found why this is true. In our genome, around 1,000 genes code for the nose's odor-detecting receptors (responsible for our sense of smell and a great part of flavor perception). Of the...UCSD biologists discover key step for 'designer plants' that could clean up heavy metals
...lian Schroeder, a professor of biology at UCSD who headed the study. "The roots of the plant need to secrete a substance that makes the metals in the soil soluble, making it possible for the plant to take them up. The plant needs to detoxify the metals once it takes them up, and the metals need to be transp...US $1.2m grant awarded for impact of stress on eggs and embryos
A team of researchers headed by the University of Adelaide has been awarded a US$1.27 million grant from the United States to study how lifestyle and health "stress" on eggs and embryos can impact on the later life of children. The grant from the National Institute of Child Heal...Collaborative grant to Rutgers and Rep. of Georgia for salmonella research
...ndation (CRDF). The joint U.S.-Georgian team is headed by Konstantin Severinov, associate professor at Rutgers' Waksman Institute of Microbiology and Tarasi Gabisonia of the Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology, Republic of Georgia. According to the CRDF, the team aims to create a...Electric vehicles promise economic benefits in the billions
...c drive vehicles are where the vehicle industry is headed and we wanted to get a sense of the potential impacts due to this shift."...Human genes can predict AIDS progression rate
...ed history of thousands of men infected with HIV - headed by Dr. Steven Wolinsky. The confidentiality of all individual study participants was preserved and the study itself was conducted in accordance with the highest recognized and accepted ethical standards. Los Alamos researcher Bette Korber, Elizabeth ...Researchers view protein's structural changes in real time
...iabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), headed the study of the protein myoglobin, which provides oxygen to muscles when they contract. The scientists aimed a laser pulse at the protein for a trillionth of a second to break the chemical bond that links carbon monoxide to the protein. Noting the ...Hebrew University researcher studies 'reorganization' of brain in blind people
...ance of this? A new study by a team of researchers headed by Dr. Ehud Zohary of the Department of Neurobiology at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a better understanding of this phenomenon through closer examination of how and where informatio...Mouse study identifies protective mechanism against alcohol-induced embryo toxicity
...d Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, headed up the study, with colleagues from the NICHD and the University of North Carolina Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. NAP, technically known as NAPVSIPQ, is known to be protective in minute concentrations against a wide array of neural insults and rec...Protein critical for development in fruit flies found to aid healing of cuts and wounds in mammals
...son, an associate professor of biology at UCSD who headed the research team. "So we really weren't sure what to expect when we began our study. But we eventually demonstrated in our experiments that the loss of this protein in the skin of mice causes cells to bunch up at the leading edge of a wound, much li...Public health measures can contain SARS, two modeling studies suggest
... these -- while preliminary -- suggest that we are headed in the right direction to stop the epidemic," said Caroline Ash, a microbiologist and Science editor working in Cambridge, U.K. "Modeling studies can give us important information about the quantitative aspects of the epidemic -- how many people are...Hebrew University researcher wins prize for work leading to new anti-cancer drugs
...hat Kosloff and other members of the research team headed by Kosloff's supervisor, Prof. Zvi Selinger, have done is to study G-proteins (and in particular the Ras protein within that group) to discover exactly what goes wrong with oncogenic, damaged Ras. Through combining intensive computational analysis ...Clue to prion formation found, offers step toward treating puzzling diseases
...ach for therapy against prion diseases. The team, headed by Dr. Surachai Supattapone, assistant professor of biochemistry and of medicine, includes Ralf Lucassen and Koren Nishina. The cause of certain neurodegenerative diseases has long stymied scientists. The variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans ......t be a piece of the puzzle. A group of scientists headed by Prof. Dan Yakir of the Weizmann Institutes Environmental Sciences and Energy Department found that the Yatir forest, planted at the edge of the Negev Desert 35 years ago, is expanding at an unexpected rate. The findings, published in the current i...