EMBO Gold Medal 2004 goes to Spanish scientist
...r, Mara Blasco, commented: "I'm honoured to accept this prestigious award. It's extremely satisfying to ga...ghted to be the first Spanish scientist to receive this prize and as a female scientist, I hope my achievement will inspire other women in science to persev...Researchers find color sensitive atomic switch in bacteria
...esting to us that light of different colors drives this protein back and forth between two differently col...en proved that the switch, buried in the middle of this membrane-embedded protein, similar in structure to our visual pigments, is controlled by blue versus...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
.... It is the only eye research institute to receive this type of award. The grant is part of a larger initi...H Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "By providing this sustained and systematic support to interdisciplinary research through these new Exploratory Centers...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...tablished last year and awarded for the first time this year. The NIH Director's Pioneer Award (NDPA) prog...plains. "Perhaps more importantly, I want to apply this knowledge to the creation of a vaccine that will prevent people from developing AIDS -- and that wil...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...ved to be better than ATRA with chemotherapy. What this means is that we now have the possibility of offer...tional chemotherapy. It also means that if we have this drug and other effective drugs such as ATRA available as well, most patients will be able to avoid t...DNA lends scientists a hand, revealing new chemical reactions
...by Harvard University chemist David R. Liu, report this week in the journal Nature that their system for r...ivity space' has been mined thus far, or even what this space looks like. We were therefore intrigued by a different approach to reaction discovery that doe...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
... to develop their own interests and approaches. In this way, students and post docs can explore their maximum potential. So Jiang allowed herself to get a little sentimental. The first Pack-MULE she found in a piece of rice sequence was lugging around the gene that triggers cold responses in a plant. In ...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...or controlling gene expression are truly worthy of this recognition by the NIH." Dr. Alfred Gilman, ..., said: "I am excited, very proud and pleased that this incredibly innovative scientist has won such a prestigious award." Dr. McKnight is a member o...Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
...under and Executive Producer of the X PRIZE. "With this contribution, we're signaling our belief that Priz...eams around the world are vying for the prize, and this new contribution is expected to swell that number. "By encouraging the development of technologies t...Phase II trials of second-generation antisense cancer drug planned following successful early study
... tissue. Being able to identify the active dose in this way gives us confidence that the Phase II dose of ... the year, and a Phase I lung cancer trial started this month. The trials will recruit around 40 to 50 patients each and accrual should be complete in aroun...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...ident of research and development for Cerus. "With this strain, we are now moving from essentially pure re...xicity studies to submit to the FDA." One hope for this and other cancer vaccines is that they will stimulate the immune system to seek out metastatic cance...Award winning researchers reveal potential new role for Glivec
...s intuitive to try imatinib in the disease because this translocation results in over expression of PDGFB ... from targeted therapeutics. We are confident that this approach will first benefit patients by tailoring their treatments and avoiding unnecessary therapy ...Trial shows which brain cancer patients benefit from temozolomide
...moter is methylated, the MGMT gene is silenced and this means that no MGMT repair enzyme will be produced,...ilent and their DNA repair system was impaired. In this tested group 106 of the patients have been treated with radiotherapy and temozolomide. There was a 4...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
... half of the human genome is derived from TEs and, this value can go to an astounding 95 percent or even h...t that these instances were so rare suggested that this was not an important process." In analyzing the TE content of the entire rice genome, Ning Jiang ...'Most recent common ancestor' of all living humans surprisingly recent
New Haven, Conn. -- In this week's issue of Nature , a Yale mathematician pre... on the paper. Chang established the basis of this research in a previous publication with an intentionally simplified model that ignored such complexi...Genetic differences might help distinguish thyroid cancers
...ed 23,600 new cases of thyroid cancer are expected this year, nearly two-thirds of which will occur in women, and 1,460 Americans are expected to die from the disease. PTC represents about 80 percent of all thyroid cancers, with FTC representing about 10 percent of cases. Eng and her colleagues have sh...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
...ur commitment to research with a purpose, which in this case is ensuring a sustainable future for our dese... of urban growth all come into play as we focus on this increasingly important issue of sustainability in arid regions. We know that growth in areas such as...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...as viral proteins, demonstrating the complexity of this common virus," explained Dan Streblow Ph.D., a res...own cellular proteins as camouflage. Before this study, a comprehensive analysis of the proteins that constitute the HCMV virion had not been possib...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...animal swam during its search. By the end of this training phase, each mouse had learned where the p... DeVries and her colleagues are continuing this work by looking at how different types of social interactions influence the number and health of neu...4 October press briefing to focus on minority recruitment to science and engineering programs
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