UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...st, and biophysicist, is focused on unraveling the secrets of bacterial infection. In 1997, Eva Harris, PhD, formerly of the UCSF laboratory of Nina Agabian, PhD, in the UCSF Department of Stomatology, was named a MacArthur Fellow for her work in developing techniques to diagnose and treat disease i...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...ere--species that perhaps will hold new and unique secrets to share with us," Fisher said. "The microbes at sites like these--thriving in super-hot temperatures--likely have their own remarkable biochemical pathways and capabilities that we are only beginning to appreciate." "The Lau Basin is a candy store ...Entrepreneurs to be told how nature's secrets can improve business
...tors from all over the globe will soon be told the secrets of nature that can help them succeed in business. Academics from the University of Bath's prestigious Centre for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies are to release at a workshop the results of their latest research harnessing the power of natur...Virus known for its photo ops makes its movie screen debut
...ulminated in a movie of the process - could reveal secrets of viral infection and improve gene therapy techniques, according to a Purdue University research group. Structural biologists including Michael G. Rossmann have obtained clearer pictures of how the T4 virus, long known to infect E. coli bacteria, a...JCI table of contents, 2 August, 2004
.../19876.pdf ACCOMPANYING COMMENTARY: Unlocking the secrets of the pancreatic beta cell: man and mouse provide the key AUTHOR CONTACT: Andrew T. Hattersley Peninsula Medical School, Barrack Rd, Exeter, EX2 5AX, UK Phone: 44-1392-403089; Fax: 44-1392-403027; E-mail: A.T.Hattersley@ex.ac.uk View the PDF of t...Leroy Hood to receive 2004 Biotechnology Heritage Award
...e also played a pioneering role in deciphering the secrets of antibody diversity. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Association of Arts and Sciences, Hood's many awards and honors include the Lasker Award in 1987 for ...Tufts University groundbreaking research on caterpillar locomotion
... Barry Trimmer is inching his way to unlocking the secrets behind the way caterpillars maneuver and climb, and is using that knowledge to one day build flexible robots that could explore internal organs, blood vessels and the insides of pipelines. Trimmer recently received his third National Science Foundat...Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop DOE leadership-class computing capability for science
... ORNL will enable researchers to probe the deepest secrets of Nature and facilitate the technical, economic and social benefits such understanding will yield, said Secretary Abraham. It is no exaggeration to say that this machine will give both the U.S. scientific community and industrial sector a signif...ASU advance could provide insight into human's ability to recognize patterns
...up with a model that could help unlock some of the secrets of how humans process patterns and possibly lead to smarter robots. The advance concerns oscillatory associative memory networks, basically the ability to see a pattern, store it and then retrieve that pattern when needed. A good example is how human...Archaeologists announce discoveries at the ancient Maya site of Waka' in northern Guatemala
...obedo says. "Researching the site and learning its secrets are the first steps toward making a meaningful contribution to Petn, and to Guatemala as a whole." That first step is the archaeological research of the site that is being conducted by a team of 20 Guatemalan, American and Canadian archaeologists und...Seabed secrets in English clay
...les of green sulfur bacteria are helping to unlock secrets of what may have been a period of helter-skelter climate change and mass kills of sea life during the Jurassic Period some 150-160 million years ago. The fossils were found in sedimentary rock commonly used to make house bricks in England, quar...The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
... windiest continent on Earth in order to learn the secrets of the mysterious Weddell seals, the only wild mammals capable of surviving Antarctic winters. In her new book, The Hunter's Breath, Williams interweaves two amazing stories from those expeditions: One is the story of the seals and their remarkable a...'Crystal engineering' helps scientists solve 3-D protein structures
...researchers had been unsuccessful in unlocking the secrets of this protein, which plays a key role in the bacterium's ability to cause the plague. Working with Derewenda's group, David S. Waugh, Ph.D., of the NIH's National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Md., was able to crystallize the protein and then dete...Can you tell the difference between Quarks and DNA?
...he nuclei of atoms will unlock some of the deepest secrets of the universe, helping us to understand how all the matter we see around us was created, how the universe evolved and how it will ultimately end. Just as importantly, the applications of this sort of research in nuclear medicine is at work in hospi...Pioneering flu researcher wins major Imperial scientific award
...st three decades has not only unlocked some of the secrets of flu, but he has also pioneered many structural biology techniques to help fellow researchers decipher how cells function." The winner of the Ernst Chain Prize is chosen by a panel of five and receives a personal award of UKP10,000 together with a ...ESA prepares mission to search for life on Mars
...robotic missions that will reveal the Red Planet's secrets and pave the way for a human expedition in decades to come. A major step towards the realisation of this ambitious robotic programme was completed this week with the selection of two industrial teams to carry out the detailed design of the ExoMars r...Intelligent design: The new 'big tent' for evolution's critics
... science has not unraveled many of the biochemical secrets of life is evidence that an "intelligent designer" has intervened, its theorists assert. This argument, says Numbers, ups the antievolution ante by arguing that science itself must change to accommodate the things it cannot explain. "They are claimin...The Rosetta space probe's long trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...ientific instruments. Their job is to draw out the secrets of the comet's chemical and physical composition and reveal its magnetic and electrical properties. Using a specially designed camera, the lander will take pictures in the macro and micro ranges and send all the data thus acquired back to Earth, via ...Dazzling new light source opens at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
... x-ray light each year to illuminate the long-kept secrets of materials, chemical and biological matter. SPEAR3, was formally opened at a dedication ceremony at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) on January 29. SPEAR3 incorporates the latest technology--much of it pioneered at SSRL and SLAC--to m......sures that the PDB can continue to help unlock the secrets of biological systems in 21st century medical and pharmaceutical research." The structures archived in the PDB represent an increasingly large fraction of all the molecules of life ones that will interact with new drugs being designed. These large ...