Jonathon Knight receives ASM Communications Award
Washington, DCMay 6, 2001--Jonathan Knight, a contributing correspondent for Nature, has been named the recipient of the 2002 American Society for Microbiology Public Communications Award. His winning entry, Meet the Herod Bug, appeared in Nature on July 5, 2001.... Wohlbachia transmit themselves through the ovaries, so to them males are useless. Some force sex changes on the males they infect,...UFS Mcknight Brain Institute researchers: Pioneering spinal cord procedure appears safe
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers report in the September issue of the Journal of Neurotrauma that it is both feasible and apparently safe to implant human embryonic tissue in people with spinal cord injuries. ...The findings could help lay the groundwork for future efforts to treat spinal cord injury with other types of cell transplants. ... In their first peer-reviewed ana...