Defects in 'orphan' inositol polyphosphates may be linked to manic depression, cancer
...into possible targets of lithium - and this year's recipient of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Schering Plough Award -- will describe his current research on April 21 at the Experimental Biology 2002 meeting in New Orleans. Dr. John D. York, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Assist...New findings represent the first aerobic capacity QTLs identified in genetic models
...ther high or low aerobic capacity QTL alleles into recipient strains having the reciprocal genetic backgrounds ...eparate chromosomes are introgressed into the same recipient strain to test whether there is such an interaction. The researchers suggest such an approach may be...Brookhaven Lab scientist wins Environmental Mutagen Society Award
...Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named the recipient of the 2002 Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) Award. He is being recognized for his research contributions to the field of environmental mutagenesis, which involves the study of how various agents in the environment, such as chemicals and radiation...UT Southwestern researcher receives $15 million grant from Japan Science and Technology Corp.
...grant from Japan Science and Technology. The other recipient is Dr. Shuji Nakamura, a professor of materials science at the University of California, Santa Barbara....From arts to neurobiology versatile Duke scientist chosen for NSF Waterman Award
...Award on May 7 in Washington, D.C. He is the 27th recipient of the award since it was created in 1975 by Congress to commemorate NSFs 25th anniversary. The award is named after NSFs first director. As part of the Waterman honor, Jarvis will receive a $500,000 grant to continue his research. Erich Jarvi...Filtering patient's blood before kidney transplant allows transplant from any donor
...hed so the donor from one pair gives a kidney to a recipient of another pair, and vice versa. In the match-up, the donors and recipients have compatible blood types and require no special therapy before the transplant. Other study authors were Milagros D. Samaniego, M.D.; Andrea A. Zachary, Ph.D.; Christoph...Mathematical model provides new tool to assess mail-borne spread of anthrax
...ry striking is that only one of the deaths was the recipient of an original letter, says Webb. The much greater danger is to postal workers and to the recipients of cross-contaminated letters. So the threat is much greater than what people believed earlier. If their model is correct, the rapid and widespread u...Jonathon Knight receives ASM Communications Award
...uting 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. Knight wrote about Wohlbachia, bacteria that can infect insect species and convert males to females ...1st evidence that nuclear transplantation ('therapeutic cloning') can eliminate tissue rejection
...y energy to the cell) entirely or in part from the recipient egg and not the donor cell. The presence of these foreign genes raises the question whether 'non-self' proteins in cloned cells could lead to rejection after transplantation and defeat the main objective of the procedure. The Nature Biotechnology pa...New hope for diabetics in treating blindness
...enile diabetes. It strikes suddenly and makes the recipient insulin dependent for life. With type 1 diabetes, the body's immune systems attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Insulin and a controlled diet do not cure diabetes, nor does it prevent the eventual and devastating effect...Harden McConnell named winner of 2002 Welch Award in Chemistry
...in Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus -- is the 32nd recipient of the award, which includes a gold medallion and a $300,000 prize to be presented in Houston in October. McConnell's selection brings Stanford's number of Welch Award recipients to four -- more than anyother institution. In announci...Jorge R. Barrio, PhD receives Aebersold Award for research
... and author Jorge Raul Barrio, PhD, has been named recipient of the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) Paul C. Aebersold Award. Presented at the Society's annual meeting June 15-19 in Los Angeles, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in basic science applied to nuclear medicine. Dr. Barrio, professo...H. William Strauss receives de Hevesy Pioneer Award
...'s Weill School of Medicine, New York City, is the recipient of the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award. The award will be presented at the Society's Annual Meeting June 15-19 in Los Angeles and recognizes one or more individuals for outstanding contributions to t...New cellular evolution theory rejects Darwinian assumptions
...nes and proteins, work to promote the evolution of recipient cellular entities. Woese presents his theory of ce...gainst traditional thinking is not new to Woese, a recipient of the National Medal of Science (2000), and holder of the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair at Ill...Evidence that adults stem cells differentiate like embryonic stem cells published in Nature
...ls, when we inject the bone marrow stem cells into recipient animals, the bone marrow stem cells do not form teratomas [tumors containing many different tissue types], but respond to local cues and differentiate into blood cells as well as into epithelium of liver, gut, and lung." In response to recent critics...Hopkins researchers to lead independent study of 'next generation' ethics issues
...mmune profile of the cells would need to match the recipient if used as a medical therapy, but it's possible and even likely, and that would probably require more cell lines than we have now." The project represents the first activity of the Bioethics Institute's newly created Program in Cellular Engineering,...Discovery of activated protein C leads to lifesaving drug
...ard was Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who was the recipient of the IPO Legislator of the Year award for his strong support of the intellectual property legislation passed by Congress in recent years. Long came to the University of Vermont (UVM) in 1986 after working as a Senior Research Scientist at Eli Lilly...Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
...9, 2002 Washington University in St. Louis is the recipient of a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) intended to enhance undergraduate biology education, graduate teaching skills and the incorporation of emerging scientific disciplines into undergraduate biology education. Undergraduate bi......elby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota Florida, is the recipient of the Odum Education Award. The Eugene P. Odum A...Krebs of the University of British Columbia is the recipient for the Eminent Ecologist Award for 2002. This award, presented annually, recognizes a senior ecolo...Harvard Medical School consortium receives grant to harness microbe genomes for environment/energy
...f Technology and Partners HealthCare, is today the recipient of a $15 million, five-year grant that will be used to study three bacteria each with unique properties important to the environment and energy production. Knowledge from this project may allow researchers to engineer microorganisms as miniature mac...