New genetic data overturn long-held theory of limb development
...said lead author Marcus Davis, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Neil Shubins lab at the University of Chicago. ...to make fish fins. Davis working with postdoctoral fellow Randall Dahn, PhD, and Shubin, PhD, professor and associate dean for organismal and evolutionary bio...Plants that produce more vitamin C may result from UCLA-Dartmouth discovery
... pollution." Carole Linster, a UCLA postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and biochemistry and lead author of the study, discovered the controlling enzyme, GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase, which serves as the biosynthetic pathway by which plants manufacture vitamin C. "Our finding leads to attractive approache...How does day length affect aggression in mice? It's in the genes
...n Trainor, co-author of the study and postdoctoral fellow in psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State University. "It is quite a surprising finding." While other studies have examined how environment interacts with genes to influence behavior, most of these studies have examined very complex environm...UF researchers awaken vision cells in blind mice
...esearcher John J. Alexander, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the department of ophthalmology at UF. "Animals are much more difficult. What makes this test so fantastic is that it involves an animals natural response, and the results tell us that the animals brains are involved in the process, that they are ...Fused nasal bones helped tyrannosaurids dismember prey
...," said Dr. Eric Snively, a post doctoral research fellow at the University of Alberta. "This adaptation, for instance, was keeping the T. rexes from breaking their own skull while breaking the bones of their prey." Snively and co-authors, number-crunching physicist Donald Henderson from the Royal Tyrrell...EPA and nanotechnology: Oversight for the 21st century
...forward-thinking report with author Davies, senior fellow at Resources for the Future, and senior advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. Dr. Davies also wrote the report, Managing the Effects of Nanotechnology, released in January 2006 by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. *** Webcas...Reproductive speed protects large animals from being hunted to extinction
...lutionary biologist Samantha Price, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham. This key variable helps explain, for example, why the American bison was nearly wiped out in just a few years of intense hunting pressure with relatively slight habitat change while the white...Biodiversity loss linked to economic inequality worldwide
...learn to share economic resources more fairly with fellow members of our own species, it may help us to share ecological resources more fairly with other species," said Dr. Greg Mikkelson, assistant professor in the McGill School of Environment and Department of Philosophy. The study appears in the May 16 i...DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis
...atis, lead author of the paper and a post-doctoral fellow in DOE JGI's Genome Biology Program. "We are now exploring ways to analyze metagenomic data to enable accurate classification of sequence fragments into their corresponding species populations. The goal is to reconstruct metabolic pathways by compar...University of Arizona neurobiologist John Hildebrand elected to the National Academy of Sciences
...r its research on insects. He also is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1986); an elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina -- the oldest academy of sciences in the world (1998); an elected Foreign Member in the Norwegian Academy of Sc...Ronald Cape to receive 2007 Biotechnology Heritage Award
... he served as president from 1983 to 1985. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. About the Biotechnology Heritage Award The Biotechnology Heritage Award is presented yearly at a spe...Scientists report new take on sexual signaling
...oul National University and is now a post-doctoral fellow at Ewha Womens University in Korea. As the tide recedes, revealing great expanses of Pacific beach, fiddler crabs (Uca terpsichores) segue in and out of their burrows, dodging predatory shorebirds. Male crabs build hood-like sand castles next to the ...Newborn neurons like to hang with the 'in' crowd
...ate into the rest of the brain," says postdoctoral fellow Nicolas Toni, Ph.D., who headed the current study. To figure out how the newcomers do it, the Salk researchers injected a virus carrying the gene for green fluorescent protein into the hippocampus, a brain region harboring neural stem cells that gi...March of Dimes awards $250K prize to stem cell research, reproductive biology pioneers
... the University of Cambridge, In 1958, she and a fellow scientist reported in the journal Nature that they were the first to successfully grew a mouse embryo in a test tube and then implant it into a mouse uterus to be born naturally -- thus paving the way for human in vitro fertilization. "During a care...Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows
...blood," said Russell During, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at UF's College of Medicine. "We're trying to develop a test that would allow detection within two or three hours of the bugs entering the blood and secreting toxins." Once inhaled, anthrax releases a lethal toxin that immobilizes the white blood c...Nitric oxide: Key to cardiovascular and pulmonary function and drug effectiveness
...e two biological systems. Whalen is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Robert Lefkowitz, M.D., a How... a collaboration with Matt Foster, a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jonathan Stamler M.D. G-protein coupled receptors reside on the cell surface ...5 Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
...f the Annual Review of Sociology. Cook is a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral...igma Xi scientific research society and an elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fayer has rece...Salk researchers discover first gene that specifically links calorie restriction to longevity
...ate student Suzanne Wolff and former post-doctoral fellow Hugo Aguilaniu, Ph.D., now an assistant professor at the cole Normale Suprieure de Lyon, France, set out to determine if any of them teamed up with SMK-1 to delay aging in the CR-response. They did this by knocking out each gene separately and observ...Scripps research team sheds light on long-sought cold sensation gene
..." says Ajay Dhaka, a Scripps Research postdoctoral fellow in the Patapoutian lab and lead author on the Neuron paper. "It really highlights the importance of the peripheral nervous system and how temperature affects our behavior," he says. The altered mice also showed little response to the application ...Lab-on-a-chip device from Berkeley Lab to speed proteomics research
...rs of the ACS paper were Woong Kim, a postdoctoral fellow in the Molecular Foundry, and Mingquan Guo, a postdoctoral fellow in the Life Sciences Division. When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, giving scient...