8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...eir "early achievements and creative excellence in solving problems relevant to biodiversity. . ." They will ...hown early achievements and creative excellence in solving problems relevant to conserving biodiversity." They are: Nina Ingle , a citizen of the U.K. who wor...Scientists visualise cellular handmaiden that restores shape to proteins
...ted in 3D space. Professor Iwata is well known for solving the structure of proteins embedded in the membrane of cells, such as the crucial photosynthesis enzyme Photosystem II, published last year in Science. The crystals of chaperonin complex were grown and prepared in Iwata's lab, and after X-ray analysis...The solving of the human genome sequence was hailed a few year... the course of several years. The importance of solving the human genome and the genomes of other species is that those billions of letters of DNA are depos...Laboratory grows world record length carbon nanotube
...duce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to defense, energy, environment, infrastructure, health and national security concerns....Anthrax enzyme images reveal secrets of antibiotic resistance, suggest new drug design
... make folate, the St. Jude study holds promise for solving the growing problem of antibiotic resistance among microorganisms causing tuberculosis, pneumonia and a variety of other diseases, according to Kerim Babaoglu, the paper's first author. "The pharmaceutical industry is reducing its investment in devel...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...w.theschepens.org/nih_roadmap.htm ) In addition to solving some of the major biomedical dilemmas involved in eye research, Schepens and NIH hope that the work of these research teams will in turn help find new treatments for incurable diseases in other organs of the human body. According to Michael Gilmore, ...