Arctic mystery no longer: Dinosaurs walked Canada's great north
...hat keeps me going," he says. Larsson, who teaches biology and is curator of vertebrate palaeontology at McGill's Redpath Museum, is most interested in discovering unknown species. Of particular interest are archosaurian reptiles, (crocodiles), birds and dinosaurs. He focuses on two parallel research tracks:...Scientists explain how morphogens work
... Lin, PhD, an assistant professor of developmental biology at Cincinnati Children's, concluded that morphogens work by "diffusion." "These findings provide new insight into the understanding of the mechanisms that control the function of morphogens," Lin said. "In order to treat diseases related with mor...Nov. 18-21 nanotechnology conference in Irvine, Calif.
...nder way in a wide range of disciplines, from cell biology to computer engineering to optics. At this conference, 100 leading researchers will gather in focus groups to discuss and try to solve some major challenges facing nanotechnology today, including the building of a nano-system that can multiply and i...Researchers redrawing the Tree of Life
... of such things as the time of origin. Molecular biology and gene sequencing have changed the concept of pl...e of these plants," said Khidir Hilu, professor of biology at Virginia Tech. Formerly, flowering plants, which are the most dominant plant on the surface of th...Rutgers is on the 'NIH Roadmap'
...ill receive an in-depth introduction to a topic in biology that should prepare them for collaborating with researchers in that area and ease their entry into other biological fields. The course also provides material for the BioMaPS Web site and the curriculum for a semester-length course taught by Olson an...$2.8 million NIH grant awarded to UH for bionano training
...shed Professor of Chemistry, professor of physics, biology and biochemistry, and associate dean of computatio... integrate the principles of nanoscale science and biology in research and coursework to develop the first generation of nanobiologists. The result will be bi...Gene-altered mouse is model for rare autoimmune syndrome
...ral. "This model really tells us that the biology of Id3 and the immune system is more complex than was suspected," he said. "For example, we need to understand why autoimmunity so specifically affects the lachrymal and salivary glands when the Id3 gene is very broadly expressed in many cell types."...Leading scientists to discuss research applications for therapeutic cloning
...ics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and cell biology and physiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will join South Korean researchers Woo Suk Hwang, D.V.M., Ph.D., and Shin Yong Moon, M.D., in a panel discussion of scientific and ethical issues surrounding cloning research on Wedne...Stony Brook University medical researcher developing new medication to prevent colon cancer
...neered the application of infrared spectroscopy to biology with emphasis on cancer, and holds several relevant patents. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored a textbook of Gastroenterology, which was translated into several foreign languages. ...Large-scale forces shape local ocean life, global study shows
...ay forces. Jon Witman, associate professor of biology at Brown, said this finding was a surprise. At the...earch team also included Ron Etter, a professor of biology at the University of MassachusettsBoston and Franz Smith, a former research associate of Witman's wh...Mollusk research center will propagate endangered species
... finfish," Neves noted. "But, because conservation biology has become important, endangered species are now on the radar screen and it's been less of a problem for me to attract students." The center provides graduate and undergraduate students in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources the opportunity ...Gene for Joubert syndrom with excessive brain folds discovered by UCSD researchers and Harvard team
...in development, it can tell us something about the biology underlying a common disorder like autism." Also important are the implications for genetic testing, Gleeson added. "We receive frequent calls from parents who already have a child with Joubert Syndrome, and who want more children bu...Genetic data crunching achieves milestone at Stanford
...r was suddenly available to the field of molecular biology that only a few years earlier was inconceivable. O...Brown, MD, PhD, in the early 1990s, took molecular biology by storm. They're small slides spotted with fixed samples of DNA, each for a different gene. When a ...International human genome sequencing consortium describes finished human genome sequence
... poorer sense of smell than rodents. The molecular biology of the sense of smell was just recognized by the awarding of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck. Next, the researchers aligned the 33 pseudogenes with the draft sequence of the chimpanzee genome to determine whe...For inferring the biological tree of life, simple is better
...ationships among species - a cornerstone of modern biology - according to researchers at the University of Or... important? Inferences scientists make about human biology from model organisms such as mice or zebra fish, are based on an understanding of the evolutionary r...OHSU study: Bacterial switching mechanism key to survival
...ically relevant complexes so we can understand the biology more completely," he said. "My lab focuses on bacterial systems. If you can understand the function of the players, which control critical basic functions in bacteria, they offer the opportunity to develop novel antibiotics, which disrupt those funct...New DNA repair enzyme makes mistakes to save lives of cells
...ing frequent errors. With the aid of computational biology methods, we will be performing more detailed biochemical analyses and structural studies to determine if our impressions are correct," said Mineaki Seki, Ph.D., research associate in the basic research division at UPCI and the paper's first author. ...Molecular mechanism sheds light on neurodegenerative diseases
...ek, associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology, from Northwestern University; and Kristine E. Staniszweski, a former graduate student at Northwestern. ...Molecule that helps DNA replicate may make good target for cancer therapy
... an assistant professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics, in whose laboratory the work was performed. The first author on the paper is Robin Ricke, a graduate student. The two scientists worked with baker's yeast, an organism often used to study basic biological mechanisms. First, a little b......e will lead to a far deeper understanding of human biology and stimulate the development of new strategies for improving human health," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. While the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003, and the publication of the finished human genome sequence...