Next edition of textbook ushers cellular microbiology out of infancy
...ging discipline that integrates the fields of cell biology and microbiology, highlighting the interaction bet...is book contain information about fundamental cell biology and fundamental microbiology, as well as articles that show the marriage of the two cellular microb...Cigarette smoke a culprit in poor healing and increased scarring
...press book is the ASCB's major effort to open cell biology research to a wider audience by helping science journalists discover the meeting's most exciting and significant new work, according to an association statement. Martins-Green, and student Lina Wong are part of a team of researchers wh...NIDCR launches unique initiative on oral biofilm
...tal science and offers another example of the rich biology of the oral cavity."...Chicken genome will help our understanding of humans and improve agriculture
...lieve it will help us to understand more about the biology of chickens and will also give us further insights into humans and fundamental biological processes. "The sequencing of the chicken genome is a major landmark as the first agriculturally important animal to have its genome sequenced and has great im......ys Gary J. Rose, a University of Utah professor of biology and principal author of the study published in the Dec. 9 issue of the journal Nature. "There are strong parallels between song learning in birds and speech learning in humans," he says. "Like humans, songbirds learn particular regional dialects, s...UCSD researchers derive lessons about human evolution from chicken genome
...rangements--and, using sophisticated computational biology techniques, they compared rearrangements in the chicken genome to those in the previously-sequenced human, mouse and rat genomes. "The chicken provides a reference point and allows us to split the evolutionary tree and look for what features are in c...Researchers compare chicken, human genomes
...elp to further understanding of avian genomics and biology in general....Chicken genome analysis unlocks secrets of mammalian and bird evolution
... a development that will benefit research in basic biology and medicine for years to come. Their analysis of ...ich it operates," said Delany, an authority on the biology and genetics of the chicken. She noted that this new information will allow researchers to better u...Canola study solves seed oil mystery
...l Nature, address a longstanding question in plant biology why do oilseed plants rely on a seemingly ineffic...ted by biochemists," said Jrg Schwender, MSU plant biology professor and lead author of the study. The researchers studied canola (or rapeseed), an an...Dream home: Malaria parasite renovates to suit its tastes
...e erythrocyte membrane. "It has been an enigma in biology how the parasite transfers proteins across the second membrane, the parasitophorous vacuole, and establishes infection in the erythrocyte," said Cowman. "Once past the parasitophorous vacuole it can renovate the erythrocyte, obtain nutrients and avoi...Scientists solve the mystery of how Botox attacks nerves and eliminates wrinkles
...e of specificity with just a single unit. Often in biology such specificity is accomplished by having large complexes of auxiliary proteins working together, but these bacteria use a very simple mechanism-in this case, a single protein. It's an extremely clever machinery." New applications Brunger hopes to...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
... company founded on the breakthroughs in synthetic biology pioneered at UC Berkeley, will develop the process...tories. Keasling also is director of the synthetic biology department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a California Institute for Quantitative Biom...Mutant gene linked to treatment-resistant depression
...er proves to be evidence of a different underlying biology remains to be investigated in future studies. The researchers say their finding provides a potential molecular mechanism for aberrant serotonin function in neuropsychiatric disorders. Also participating in the study were: Raul Gainetdino...Exploring ocean life and color on the internet
...ata provides students with information about ocean biology by looking at phytoplankton through changes in the color of the ocean surface. "Ocean color" refers primarily to the measurement of the green pigment called chlorophyll, which is contained in phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are free-floating plants tha...MIT team engineers new approaches to understanding malaria, more
...expertise in nanotechnology is quite applicable to biology and medicine. With colleagues in engineering, science and medicine at MIT, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the universities of Heidelberg and Ulm in Germany, he has adapted state-of-the-art tools for the study of the mechanical propert...Femtosecond laser technique opens new opportunities for research on neural regeneration
...te professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UCSC. "This technique will enable us to find t... a professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UCSC and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; Hulusi Cinar, a postdoctoral researcher ...Three Yale scientists receive Ellison Medical Foundation awards
..., Galn will investigate the molecular and cellular biology of interactions between Campylobacter and host cells. Ruslan Medzhitov will examine the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which immune system responses to one infectious agent affect the body's defenses against other, concurrent infections. M...... of cancer and embryo growth. Peter Becker studied biology in Heidelberg and obtained his doctorate in bioche...99. Since 1999 he has held the chair for molecular biology at the Adolf Butenandt Institute at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. Prof. Dr. Immanuel...Hummingbirds lose power at high altitudes
...mmy A. McGuire, assistant professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley. "Since we see an inverse correlation between power margin and elevation, we have to make sure it's true across a wide variety of species." McGuire obtained DNA samples from museum specimens, relying mostly upon the tropical b...Emory biochemist writes lead essay describing Nobel Prize research on ubiquitin protein
...and death," says Bryan Noe, PhD, professor of cell biology in Emory University School of Medicine and acting director of Emory's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. "All cells have a prescribed lifespan, some very short, and some very long. The rates of protein turnover are important in determining how l...