Researchers create model of cancer-preventing enzyme, study how it works
...ed with John J. Tanner, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in MUs College of Arts and Science, and Navasona Krishnan, a doctoral student at the Unviersity of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Donald F. Becker, an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to create the first model of proline dehydrogenas...Study revises dynamin's role in nerve cell function
...ns co-senior author Dr. Timothy Ryan, professor of biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College. The discovery is a potentially important new piece of the puzzle for scientists investigating neurological injury and disease. "In the long run, what we're trying to achieve here is a kind of biochemical repair m...University of Arizona neurobiologist John Hildebrand elected to the National Academy of Sciences
...tomy, physiology, behavior, developmental biology, biochemistry and neurobiology. "I was thrilled to hear that J...gy at Harvard College in 1964 and his doctorate in biochemistry at Rockefeller University in 1969. Before coming to Arizona, he was on the faculty at Columbia Unive...Einstein's Dr. Vern Schramm elected to the National Academy of Sciences
...amms many contributions in more than 35 years as a biochemistry researcher and teacher, including the 2006 Replige...nstein in 1987 as professor and chair of Einsteins biochemistry department. He was named Professor and Ruth Merns Chair of Biochemistry in 1995. Dr. Schramm is a re...72 new members chosen by academy
...es Medical Institute, and professor, department of biochemistry and biophysics, University of California, San Fran...; Regents Professor and professor of neurobiology, biochemistry and molecular biophysics, entomology, and molecular and cellular biology, and director, Arizona Rese...Craig Venter, leading scientist and innovator, to get honorary degree
...in Vietnam, Venter earned his bachelor's degree in biochemistry and a doctorate in physiology and pharmacology from the University of California, San Diego. At the National Institutes of Health he developed express sequence tags for gene discovery, and later founded The Institute for Genomic Research, where he an...Research group gets $7 million to pursue new antibiotic agents
...Huimin Zhao, chemistry professor Neil Kelleher and biochemistry professor Satish Nair, of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology. Jo Handelsman, of the University of Wisconsin, also will contribute to the effort. Metcalf, a microbial geneticist, has long been intrigued by bacterial phosphate metabo...Jefferson researchers' discovery may change thinking on how viruses invade the brain
...uthor John Williams, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Jefferson Medical College. "We found that while transport must happen its essential to viral infection and spread and disease progression its not through this mechanism. Theres more to the story." "We think we have to hav...Link found between immune system and high plasma lipid levels
...hor Godfrey Getz, MD, PhD, professor of pathology, biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago. "This study may explain why. The next step would be to determine whether we can use this technique to manipulate the immune response and have a favorable impact on lipid metabolism." Using an asso...Discovery in plants suggests entirely new approach to treating human cancers
...ention of those studying the molecular biology and biochemistry of human ubiquitin ligases. ...UT Metroplex institutions to collaborate on biomedical research
... "Skip" Garner, professor of internal medicine and biochemistry at UT Southwestern, and Dr. Paul Pantano, associate professor of chemistry at UT Dallas. This project relates to the use of carbon nanotubes as sensors within living cells as well as their potential use in targeted cancer therapies. "A pattern-...Newly discovered 'platform' for processing dietary fat
...for instanceone thing is for certain: "Soon, every biochemistry book will have to be revised," she said. Dietary fats in mammals are packaged by the intestine into "chylomicrons," which are large triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, Beigneux explained. After reaching the bloodstream, the triglycerides within chylomi...Scientists reveal structure of gateways to gene control
...nism's genes," said B. Franklin Pugh, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and the study's lead investi... Pugh and Stephan Schuster, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, the Penn State research team then used antibodies that bind only to this H2A....Nanoparticles for delivery of prostate cancer treatment
...lan Garen , professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale has received a $100,000 award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to expand research on the delivery of a targeted therapy for prostate cancer using nanoparticles. Garen and his collaborator Zhiwei Hu have developed a way to directly targ...LED array signals successful binding of drug-delivery molecules to DNA
...d year student at Virginia Tech who is majoring in biochemistry and biology, with a minor in chemistry, has created an LED system that glows a beautiful shade of blue when the special molecules successfully bind to DNA. It allows us to do 100 tests per day, instead of one or two, said Karen Brewer, professor of c...UC San Diego supercomputer simulations may pinpoint causes of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's diseases
... Igor Tsigelny, project scientist in chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego and a researcher at SDSC, said that the teams research helped confirm what researchers had suspected. The present study using molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations in combination with biochemical and ultrastructural ...RNA enzyme structure offers a glimpse into the origins of life
...illiam Scott, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz. Scott and postdoctoral researcher Michael Robertson determined the structure of a ribozyme that joins two RNA subunits together in the same reaction that is carried out in biological systems by the protein known as RNA polymerase.......t there are unusual aspects of its composition and biochemistry that set it apart from most other bacteria and that could provide new targets for antibiotic drugs. "When we began looking at the bug and its DNA content in more detail, we noticed it had some unusual characteristics. In particular, we noted the pr...NC research campus and UNC universities host major symposium on nutritional biotechnology
...f you read the paper or watch TV, the story of the biochemistry of a healthy diet keeps changing. What is it now that is that you are supposed to eat and what are you supposed to avoid? What causes cancer, heart disease, brain disease? What prevents them? Does being a man or a woman or pregnant affect what is goo...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
...gn and reaction, antibiotics for the 21st century, biochemistry and signaling of lipids, and genome dynamics, from the genome to the epigenome (the chemical modifications to DNA believed likely to produce some of the earliest diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic clinical tools). Ten distinguished scientists w...