Microbial activity key component of global environmental change
...cterize and harness the abilities of microbes that transform the active greenhouse trace gases and toxic elements. --Establish multi-year research programs that draw on microbiology and partner disciplines such as earth and atmospheric sciences to gain an integrated understanding of complex global change probl...Stanford researchers win National Science Foundation grants for information technology research
...Professor Jennifer Widom won a $2,200,000 grant to transform today's World Wide Web into a Global InfoBase (GIB). The GIB will be a ubiquitous information resource that is easy to use, current and comprehensive. The researchers will attempt to integrate existing technologies into a "universal" information mode...NIGMS awards 'Glue Grant' to create virtual cell
...harmacologist at NIGMS. "Al Gilman's vision is to transform the way cell signaling research is done, and he's dedicating his career from this point forward to making this work," she added. The "Alliance," as the AFCS is also called, is a consortium of approximately 50 scientists working at 20 different academ...'Fat switch' fights flab at the cellular level, Science authors report
... signaling caused muscle precursors to go soft and transform into fat. The Wnt family of cell signalers includes more than 20 different proteins. Of these, Ross suggests that Wnt-10b is likely to be the culprit in the fat-formation process. Named for "wingless" (wng), a developmental control gene first id......asked how the chemical bonds could form rapidly to transform a protein's loose unfolded structure into its compact folded structure held together by all of the fully formed chemical bonds. "This question is of great interest from an experimental and an engineering point of view," Maritan says. The researche...Medicine and biology take a lesson in physics
...ther open-access publishing initiatives promise to transform the biomedical landscape by making research available for free to all. However, even PubMed Central only goes part of the way to catching up with the physics publishing model where research is submitted to the open-access archive before peer-review ...Scientists issue telomerase caution
... the life-span of cultured cells did not appear to transform these cells into a hyperproliferative, cancerous state. Now, Beach and his colleagues have shown that at least one hallmark of cancer cells is observed in such cells, namely, activation of the c-myc oncogene. Frequently, cells grown in culture--su...McGill launches Centre for Bioinformatics
...e of the "post-genomic age" which experts say will transform our society to an extent unparalleled in historyMcGill has established a Centre for Bioinformatics. A search has begun immediately to recruit Centre staff. Within the next 18 months, the core of the Centre, to be led by an internationally-renowned...June 'Geology' and 'GSA Today' highlights
.... note that the seismically active North Anatolian transform fault dives under the Marmara Sea and changes char...oriented long axes, that serve to accommodate both transform motion and crustal extension. The points of rupture that produce earthquakes are restricted to depth...... a patented process that uses several chemicals to transform this cell line into fully differentiated non-dividing human neuronal cells (LBS-Neurons) that can be used in clinical applications. In extensive preclinical testing, implants of LBS-Neurons reversed cognitive and motor deficits in animals in which s...White House honors Hutchinson Center Scientist with Presidential Early Career Award
...talks about the thrill of watching a ball of cells transform within hours into a distinct, structurally sophisticated organism. "Development in general, but zebrafish development in particular, is beautiful to watch," she says. Because zebrafish embryos are transparent -- almost as clear as glass -- and grow o...New science resources available from the ESA
... because human modifications to the land typically transform highly diverse ecosystems into relatively species-poor ecosystems. The Ecological Society of America's fourth edition of Issues in Ecology review observational and experimental ecosystem studies in North America and Europe. A panel of twelve scienti...Acid-loving microbe may be a key to mine pollution
...es from the earth. The microbe shows an ability to transform the sulfide found in metal ores to sulfuric acid, the chemical pollutant that contaminates mining sites and drains into nearby rivers, streams and groundwater. "We think this new archaeon might be one of the more important players in catalyzing thes...USGS scientists find new population of Asian swamp eels in south Florida
... spending part of their life as females, some eels transform into large males. At first, said Curnutt, biologists believed that the Homestead population represented a range expansion by animals from the population known to exist around the Miami-Dade/Broward County line, but recently completed genetic tests ...BioOne appoints first board of directors
...One aggregation offers the critical mass needed to transform societies into competitive players in the publishing marketplace while maintaining a focus on research and researchers." A broad selection of the journals published by many of the AIBS' 70 member societies will form BioOne's core offerings. BioOne ...Researchers show that proteins can transmit heritable traits
...domains, that can be attached to other proteins to transform them into prions. In their experiments, the scientists created a fully functional artificial prion by attaching the prion-determining domains of Sup35 to a rat protein called a glucocorticoid receptor. "We chose the rat protein because it was qui...Whitaker Foundation funds Washington University biomedical engineering facility
...ains," said Byrnes. "The Foundation's awards will transform the young department with limited space into a major center of research and teaching." While the young department is small, with a core faculty of five full-time professors, there already are 19 joint faculty members and 60 adjunct faculty. U.S. Ne...Transformation of normal human cells into cancer cells
...s in a cell. Althoughscientists have been able to transform normal mouse cells into tumor-formingcells by introducing several cooperating oncogenes (cancer-causing genes) intothese cells, human cells have been resistant to such transformation. "We wondered what it was about the mouse cells that made them so......nformation, there are greater possibilities now to transform cassava from an "orphan" crop to a more commercially viable one that could be used as a fiber source. Cassava ranks sixth among crops in global production. Denizens of the developed world have sampled cassava in tapioca and perhaps some flours at s...