Jan Lwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
...l that point, having a cytoskeleton was a claim to fame held only by eukaryotic cells. The inner workings of bacterial (prokaryotic) cells were now showcased against the backdrop of a flexible scaffolding. As a result, essential processes of the bacterial cell, such as cell shape maintenance, DNA segregat......lovable orange, black and white clownfish of movie fame really does come home, with around 60 per cent completing the astonishing journey back to their tiny home reef after being swept into the open ocean as babies. Working on pristine coral reefs in a marine protected area in Papua New Guinea, an inte...Exploring polar regions, understanding climate
...ensation.The choice of dangerous expeditions, over fame and the political and economic interests of individual countries was made: new regions claimed and new sea routes discovered. Now we know just how necessary International and interdisciplinary collaborations are. After the first International Pola...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 15, 2006
... as unlikely as the miller's daughter of fairytale fame spinning straw into gold, scientists in the United Kingdom have spun fine threads of biocompatible silicone that contain living human brain cells. The cells remained alive and capable of growth afterward, they say. "This has far-reaching implicatio...Polynesia explorers created worldwide web of scientific knowledge
...ring the "madness of long, lonely voyages" for the fame they might claim upon their return.Their bosses, the voyage sponsors, tended to be high-ranking naval officers, ministers of state or monarchs wealthy men who paid them to be reporters, but who also had their own "conceptions of truth." In such a dy...Media alert A look forward and a look back: 50 years of crop science
...aminathan of World Food Prize and Green Revolution fame will present the Betty Klepper Endowed Lectureship at 3:45pm, also in Grand Ballroom Salon EF of the Marriott Downtown. For more information, including a full list of papers scheduled for this symposium, see: http://crops.confex.com/crops/2005am/tec...West-Eberhard elected to the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
...i Lincei. Galileo Galilei added his great name and fame to the Accademia in 1611, and the number of members increased steadily with the addition of foreign and Italian men of science, poets, lawyers, and philologists until in 1625 the number of fellows reached 32. Currently, the aim of the Accademia Nazio......e same time that the Velociraptor of Jurassic Park fame and its cousin Utahraptor roamed what are now Asia and North America. And thats what makes Neuquenraptor so special. According to current geologic theory, the Earth of 90 million years ago featured two giant supercontinents -- one called Laurasia tha...