Asian elephant sex pheromone transporter revealed
In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Lazar and colleagues report an unexpected finding about pheromone transport in the Asian elephant, an endangered species of which only a few thousand individuals remain.... ...Female elephants communicate their readiness to mate by excreting a sex pheromone in their urine. Male elephants exhibit a range of responses to this pheromone, beginning with sniffing...Jennie Hunter-Cevera wins 2004 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award
WASHINGTON, DC--APRIL 23, 2004--Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera, Ph.D., President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, will receive the 2004 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award. Supported by the United States Federation for Culture Collections (USFCC) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the award recognizes Hunter-Cevera's remarkable expertise in collecting, maintaining, and p...New database aids medical device exporters
A new international database has been released that identifies measurement procedures and materials that will help U.S. makers of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical devices ensure that their products comply with European Union requirements. Staff from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) played a key role in the establishment and leadership of the international committee that...Reporters from Science Magazine to receive ASM Public Communications Award
WASHINGTON, DC April 7, 2004 Two journalists from Science magazine have been named the recipients of the American Society for Microbiology 2004 Public Communications Award. The winning entry, written by Martin Enserink and Dennis Normile, is a two-part series, "SARS in China." It focuses on China's initial denial of the emerging epidemic and insistence that the cause was the Chlamydia bacteri...How amphetamine affects the dopamine transporter
Essential for normal central nervous system function, dopamine signaling mediates physiological functions as diverse as movement and lactation. The dopamine transporter (DAT) is involved in terminating dopamine signaling by removing the dopamine chemical messenger molecules from nerve synapses and returning them into the releasing neurons (a process called reuptake). DAT can also bind amphetamine...Transporter's function provides support for eating vegetables, limiting antibiotics
Researchers have found another good reason to eat your fruits and vegetables and not abuse antibiotics.... ...A transporter in the colon called SLC5A8 plays an important role in enabling the colon to get the last bit of good out of food before the unusable is flushed away, according to research currently published online as an accelerated communication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.... ...Ten Chinese reporters receive AAAS Fellowships
AAAS, the science society, has named 10 outstanding young Chinese reporters to receive the first ever AAAS Fellowships for Reporters in Developing Regions....... ; and Xinhua News, among others....... "Th...Six reporters reach the 'pinnacle of excellence'
A multimedia account of an expedition to Antarctica, a view of Hong Kong at the height of the SARS health crisis, a program that brings gravity waves to life, and an article that illustrates how politics can derail scientific research, are among the entries named to win the 2003 AAAS Science Journalism Awards.... ...Sponsored by The Whitaker Foundation, the AAAS Science Journalism Awards program,...First structure of transporter enzyme family is solved
Scientists are a step closer to understanding how essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals are ferried into cells.... ...For the first time, a member of the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS) of transport proteins, found in almost every form of life, has been visualised by researchers from Imperial College London and the University of California, Los Angeles.... ...Reporting in Science today,...Study of thyroxine transporter molecule shows how key hormone hitches a lift round body
Structural analysis has revealed for the first time how a key messenger in the body's chemical communication system hooks up with one of the proteins that delivers it to sites of action in the body....... Using X-ray crystallography, scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Hawaii have identified the location of four binding sites on human serum albumin (HSA), the principal p...2003 ASM Communications Award goes to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters
WASHINGTON, DCApril 25, 2003Two journalists from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have been named the recipients of the American Society for Microbiology 2003 Public Communication Award. The winning entry, written by John Fauber and Mark Johnson, was a two-part series on the arrival of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin that also explored the complex science of the abnormal proteins called prions...Six reporters named to receive 2002 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
A broadcast program on "18 Ways to Make a Baby," an expose on burning coal fires, and feature coverage of research that draws a line between bird songs and neurodegenerative disease, are among the entries named to win 2002 AAAS Science Journalism Awards....... Sponsored by The Whitaker Foundation, the AAAS Science Journalism Awards program, informally known as the "AAAS pinnacle of excellence pri...Bethesda, Md. - In what could provide new clues to the causes underlying the serious complications associated with premature birth, scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) have discovered a possible link between reduced vitamin C availability during pregnancy, and the devastating respiratory failure and massive cerebral bleeding that can occur immediately following prem...La Jolla, CA, September 7, 2001 -- A scientist at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has published an x-ray crystal structure on the cover of the current issue of the journal Science that provides the first detailed glimpse of a membrane transporter protein, a finding that could be useful for improving cancer therapy and fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.... ...Antibiotic-resistant bacter....Until recently, a storehouse of antibiotics could fight off most infections from.bacteria. But the overuse of antibiotics by doctors and veterinarians has.created dangerous strains of bacteria resistant to these once powerful drugs..Many Americans are unaware that a major contributor to this problem is.industrial livestock production, where cows, pigs, and chickens are fed.antibiotics to fatten....(Washington, D.C.--March 3, 1999) The new Food Insight Media Guide on Food Safety.and Nutrition--an invaluable tool for reporters and professionals dealing with.food and health-related communications--is available from the International Food.Information Council (IFIC) Foundation. The Media Guide is free to credentialed.media. Non-media can order the Media Guide for $95.95.. .This resource, a...