Researchers find local environment directly influences adult stem cell reservoirs
... Dennis McKearin, associate professor of molecular biology and associate dean for the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study."We want to understand the biochemistry behind stem cells that distinguishes them from other types of cells," Dr. McKearin said. "This wor...Protein tyrosine phosphatases to be topic of ASBMB-Merck Award lecture
...ong chemical background and expertise in molecular biology and molecular genetics to his research investigati...eptide hormones. He adopted the tools of molecular biology as they became available in the late 1970's, and his laboratory was among the first to use a synthet...'Moss in space' project shows how some plants grow without gravity
...or and a professor of plant cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State University. He and his colleagues noted this even in moss cultures grown aboard the second of the two space shuttle missions, STS-107, which had disintegrated upon its reentry in early 2003. Most of the hardware that contained the moss ...Novel approach yields predictions validated by experiments
...it said. "The real Holy Grail will be a theory of biology that allows us to make solid predictions," Voit sa...cists because they have all sorts of theories. But biology is so much more complicated. We're on our way there, and we're looking for biological design princip...Molecular probes for biology research and drug discovery
...g development, because it integrates chemistry and biology already in an early stage in the research process....the genetics research reality, it is required that biology and chemistry form an alliance", says Herbert Waldmann, director at the Max Planck Institute for Mol...Quantum dots research leads to new knowledge about protein binding in plants
...Integrating materials science, chemistry and plant biology to understand how and where specific proteins act on a pollen tube is one more step towards a better understanding of the fundamental processes involved, namely the network of the signaling process in plant reproduction," said Ozkan. "A better unders...Protein stops growth of brain tumor, OHSU study shows
...on, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the OHSU School of Medicine who co-authored the study appearing this month in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. "The growth is completely blocked in the intracranial model," said Clinton, a member of the OHSU Cancer Institute. Over-expression ...Scientists ID molecular 'switch' in liver that triggers harmful effects of saturated and trans fats
...lained Spiegelman, who is also a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School. Saturated fats are found in fatty cuts of meat, whole-milk dairy products, butter, and palm and coconut oils; they are associated with higher risk of coronary disease. The healthier polyunsaturated fats are those that remai...Molecular biology fills gaps in knowledge of bat evolution
...8 issue of the journal Science that uses molecular biology and the fossil data to fill in many of the gaps. Springer coauthors the paper, titled A Molecular Phylogeny for Bats Illuminates Biogeography and the Fossil Record, with William Murphy, Stephen J. O'Brien and Emma. C. Teeling of the National Cancer ...Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks
...ycles. Gregory M. Cahill, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at UH, and Maki Kaneko, a fellow ...nt professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell biology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City and received his postdoctoral training at ...A gene's fist 'kiss' sets off that affair known as puberty
...ant, Ph.D., a professor in the departments of cell biology and physiology and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, as well as director of the Center for Research in Reproductive Physiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The research, performed in collaboration with teams at ...Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
...aid Norman Terry, professor of plant and microbial biology at UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources and ...Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits, associate professor of biology at Colorado State University, and Bruce E. Mackey, a biostatistician at the USDA's ARS. The study w...Scientists find male finches frugal in their attempts to attract females
... low. Dr. Keith W. Sockman, assistant professor of biology in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, studies mating behavior in songbirds and the songs that play such a central role in their reproduction. "From people to praying mantises, individuals invest everything from their homes to their heads to attract ...Wisconsin scientists find portal to show animals evolve
...elanogaster , is among the most-studied animals in biology and is a workhorse of modern genetics. But there are thousands of species of fruit fly, and unlike the very plain melanogaster, the wings of males of many species sport decorations that are as diverse and as beautiful as the wings of butterflies. The......f the journal Molecular Cell. "A major question in biology today is how human cells with 30,000 genes produce at least 120,000 proteins," said Dr. Bert O'Malley, chair of the BCM department of molecular and cellular biology. The answer is a process called alternative splicing in which certain information fro...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2005
...Oak Ridge National Laboratory are taking a systems biology approach to the problem, investigating a series of eight mutant mouse strains that could serve as animal models for deciphering the complex molecular interactions underlying skull development. Mutations in the gene that codes for a novel cell-signali...BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy
...l's Open Access journals, which cover all areas of biology and medicine, are assured that the published version of their paper will be placed in PubMed Central for them, immediately and without any need for additional work from them. Researchers are thus saved the time and effort of going through the deposit...Grid expectations for networked computing: From global Earth monitoring to black hole detection
...s of our time from climate modelling to molecular biology or high energy physics - are larger and more diffuse than ever before, Grid computing offers a promising way for such groups to perform 'e-collaboration': forming virtual organisations able to remotely work together, sharing data, tools and resources...Fourth Stowers researcher awarded Basil O'Connor Award
... Dr. Li earned his Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from New York University Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Edward Ziff. In addition to his primary appointment at the Stowers Institute, Dr. Li holds an academic appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at The Universit...Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication
...thogens," said Ann Stevens, associate professor of biology at Virginia Tech. This sequence research is descri...rsity Chicago. Ann Stevens, associate professor of biology at Virginia Tech, studies how cell-to-cell interaction regulates bacterial processes that include an...