Systems microbiology has great scientific promise in health and environment
...ganisms on Earth, are ideal candidates for systems biology research because they are relatively easy to manipulate and because they play critical roles in health, environment, agriculture, and energy production." The report recommends that professionals engaged in systems microbiology research develop more...Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake
...ue because it is able to live on its own," says UO biology professor Michelle Wood. She obtained samples containing the organism while studying the diversity of blue-green algae in the hypersaline lake as part of the comprehensive study of the Salton Sea coordinated by Professor Stuart Hurlbert, director of ...Searle grant funds proteomics initiative
...nts. "Proteomics is the new frontier for molecular biology and medicine," said Richard I. Morimoto, John Evans Professor of Biology and Northwestern's CBC liaison. "It is a shift to wellness. If we can understand proteins and their interactions, we can use proteins to tell us how a person's health is at the ...New lensless imaging technique opens door to nanoscale world
... to small structures coming from material science, biology or chemistry," Luening said. State-of-the-art light sources such as BESSY and SPEAR3 at SLAC achieve lensless imaging by filtering light so that the only remaining X-rays are "coherent"--that is, all the X-ray light waves are in phase with each other...Unusual reproductive behavior of odd ants surprises scientists
..., a professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at Ohio State University. But in a new study, Riss...led by Sara Helms Cahan, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Vermont. A typical ant colony includes one queen and, in the case of harvester ...The Louis-Jeantet-Prize for Medicine 2005
...or Alan Hall Alan Hall is a professor of molecular biology and the director of the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology & Cell Biology Unit at the University College London. Alan Hall is a British citizen. He was born in 1952. The cytoskeleton, composed of actin and myosin, is impor...The simple truth: Animal development not as complicated as it seems
...evedo, an assistant professor in the department of biology and biochemistry, specializes in how evolution cha... develop. His recent findings using computational biology to reveal the surprisingly simple patterns of cell division in the embryos of small invertebrates is...Sardines may prevent toxic gas eruptions off the California and African coasts
...ember of the Pew Institute and professor of marine biology and fisheries at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "It is at least encouraging that a minor resurgence of sardine abundance coincided with a noticeable temporary hiatus in eruption frequency off Namibia in ...Anti-seizure drugs slow aging in worms
...eld, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of molecular biology and pharmacology. "We wanted to look in an unbiased way at available compounds to see if any of them happened to have anti-aging activity." The researchers grew the roundworm C. elegans in the presence of the 19 drugs and found that an anticonvulsant...Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections
...ope of questions that can be asked about the basic biology of Cryptococcus as well as the disease process," says Lodge, who is SLU's Associate Dean for Research and who helped coordinate the C. neoformans genome project. Heitman says, "The genomic sequence and transcriptome analysis are already prov...Study finds more than one-third of human genome regulated by RNA
...iated," says Whitehead Member and MIT professor of biology David Bartel. MicroRNAs interrupt a gene's abili... Whitehead's Bartel and MIT associate professor of biology Christopher Burge, provides the first evidence that microRNAs influence a large percentage of life's...Erkki Ruoslahti of The Burnham Institute named recipient of 2005 Japan Prize
...ptide RGD. Dr. Ruoslahti's discoveries in cancer biology are also relevant to a broad range of cell behaviors, which are involved in managing heart attack, stroke, osteoporosis, and angiogenesis. Dr. Ruoslahti earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He held various a...EB and IUPS - Where cures of tomorrow can be seen in the science of today
...connection between infection and autoimmunity; the biology of how the immune response "remembers" and how thi...etic maps of blood pressure control; computational biology of cardiac arrhythmias; discovery of the genes for polycystic kidney disease; gene regulation for su...Big, old fish key to restoring groundfish stocks
...ng fisheries. "As we come to better understand the biology of these fish populations and what may have led to their dramatic decline, more and more people are realizing the role that selected reserves could play in addressing some of these problems," Hixon said. "They offer some benefits that frankly cannot ...ASBMB-Amgen Award Lecture to focus on orphan nuclear receptors
...s in the application of biochemistry and molecular biology to the understanding of disease. The Award consis...r, has made important discoveries to the molecular biology of nuclear receptors, metabolic regulation and disease."...Study in Royal Society journal on managing GM crops for environmental benefit
...rofessor P Schmid-Hempel An unresolved problem in biology is why females mate with several males. Bumblebee ...olow and Professor WK Smith A central question in biology concerns the number of species in a taxonomic or other group. A common approach to estimating the nu...Sinking coastlines may precede large subduction zone quakes
...Jere Lipps, a UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and study coauthor. "If the land continues to subside instead of relaxing back to normal, it could indicate a big earthquake and a tsunami might occur some time in the next few years." Subduction zones are areas where one of the Earth's tectonic plat...Scientific heavyweights to speak at Jan. 28 Hopkins symposium
...ium, whose title refers to anticipated advances in biology in the post-double-helix, post-genome-sequencing w..., Watson and Crick merged evidence from chemistry, biology and structural biology to correctly describe the double-helical structure of DNA. The first "new bio...Priming embryonic stem cells to fulfill their promise
...You would not predict that from the customary cell biology experiments," said Bhatia. "By using this combinat...ogy for stem cell research and other areas of cell biology in the sense that all of a sudden scientists can use inexpensive and widely available reagents and m...Scientists find missing link between whale and its closest relative, the hippo
...Human Evolution Research Center run by integrative biology professor Tim White at UC Berkeley, Boisserie decided to attempt a resolution of the conflict between the molecular data and the fossil record. New whale fossils discovered in Pakistan in 2001, some of which have limb characteristics similar to artio...