Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
...oratory researchers tripled the speed of a popular biomolecular simulation package using standard programming languages on a system offered by SRC Computers. While field-programmable gate arrays, which are a different type of logic chip than traditional microprocessors, are traditionally used for other purposes -...Unlocking proteins from their cellular shell
... types," Dennis Discher, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Penn, said. Proteins are the molecular instigators for almost every biologic action and reaction in living things. Their assembly and reactions are the foundation of processes from the division of cells to the complex chain of events ...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
...aid Lauffenburger. "The signaling pathways are the biomolecular circuits that process that information from the environment and regulate the mechanisms that execute the behavorial functions." The pathways work via a series of signals in which proteins, known as kinases, activate other cell machinery to achieve ...Scientists discover new way to study nanostructures
..., and transport mechanisms in metallic,organic and biomolecular nanostructures. One of our aims is the development of devices and sensing methodologies that utilize the insights gained from our research, said Landman....5 OHSU faculty members singled out for honors
..., professor in the department of environmental and biomolecular systems in the OGI School of Science & Engineering. Tratnyek, an environmental chemist, was cited for his skill at finding ways to bring things togetherwhether carbon atoms, disparate disciplines or peopleand contributing to the collaborative environ...MIT, BU team builds viruses to combat harmful 'biofilms'
...merging field that aims to design and build useful biomolecular systems, researchers from MIT and Boston University are engineering viruses to attack and destroy the surface biofilms that harbor harmful bacteria in the body and on industrial and medical devices. They have already successfully demonstrated one ...Damon Runyon names new class of rising stars in cancer research
...ing novel drug delivery systems for a new class of biomolecular anti-cancer agents called siRNAs. Maya Capelson, PhD, with her sponsor Martin W. Hetzer, PhD, at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, is investigating the role of gene gates or nuclear pores in tumor formation and cancer p...Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial drug resistance
...ed gene, PfMDR1 and its protein, they have all the biomolecular tools necessary to molecularly understand how the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum), has become resistant to most of the drugs that could once destroy it. They have already described and expressed two other genes known to confer...New NIST reference material for peptide analysis
...asure the masses and concentrations of peptides in biomolecular samples. The new reference material is expected to be an important tool in the analysis of proteins, both for disease diagnosis and drug discovery. Proteomicsthe study of proteins and the roles they play in biologyis one of the most fertile fields ...Phillip A. Sharp to receive the 2007 Winthrop-Sears Award
...Cambridge, Massachusetts) as a world leader in the biomolecular sciences and technologies. He was director of its Center for Cancer Research from 1985 to 1991 and chair of the Department of Biology from 1991 to 1999. He served as founding director of the McGovern Institute at MIT from 2000 through 2004. In 1999 h...Lab-on-a-chip device from Berkeley Lab to speed proteomics research
...eographed network of interdependent machines. This biomolecular machinery also controls nearly every chemical process inside a cell, and forms much of the connectivity that enable cells to come together into tissues and organs. One of the first steps in proteomics research is to determine the identity and modific...Research group gets $7 million to pursue new antibiotic agents
...try Willem (Wilfred) A. van der Donk, chemical and biomolecular engineering professor 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. ...'Junk' DNA now looks like powerful regulator, Stanford researcher finds
...rano, along with David Haussler, PhD, professor of biomolecular engineering at UC-Santa Cruz, are remnants of unusual DNA pieces called transposons that duplicate themselves and hop around the genome. "We used to think they were mostly messing things up. Here is a case where they are actually useful," Bejerano sa...National Academies host spring season of Distinctive Voices programs in Irvine, Calif.
...l world. Dr. Hammack is professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. An award-winning commentator on technology, he can be heard on public radio's Marketplace . The New Industrial Revolution Wednesday, May 2 7 p.m. Is "environmentally sound manufacturi...Marine moss reveals clues to anticancer compound
...rgo Haygood, Ph.D., professor of environmental and biomolecular systems at OHSU's OGI School of Science & Engineering, has detailed her research team's discovery of the large gene cluster in a bacterium that protects the larvae of the bushy marine bryozoan Bugula neritina. The bacterium, Endobugula sertula, act...New medications, cancer diagnosis goals of UH engineers with $1M in grants
...rical and computer engineering and of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at UH. Along with his co-investigators Richard Willson, professor of chemical engineering and biochemical and biophysical sciences, and John Wolfe, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Li...... of BioChE XV will be engineering biology from the biomolecular scale to the multicellular, tissue, and population level in areas ranging from biopharmaceuticals to biochemicals to bioenergy. BioChE XV will include plenary and keynote presentations, oral and poster sessions, and social gatherings that bring toget...From a lowly yeast, researchers divine a clue to human disease
... senior author of the new study and a professor of biomolecular chemistry in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. A host of proteins are responsible for controlling which genetic messages are read and how much of the information is used. Working with yeast, Brow and his colleagues show that a protein ca...NIH selects Purdue to use phi29 DNA packaging motor for National Nanomedicine Development Center
...ools with classical synthetic methods and delicate biomolecular building blocks to create materials with unique biomedical properties." The nanomedicine center will employ these tools by adapting a viral motor to package therapeutic cargo within a drug-delivery system that is already widely used in cancer clini...... Huimin Zhao, a U. of I. professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. "We hope to understand the complete pathway for how fosfomycin is made." In a paper to appear in the Nov. 27 journal Chemistry and Biology, Zhao and U. of I. chemistry professor Wilfred A. van der Donk report the first successful synthes...