NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
... type of biophysical analysis. Currently, three fundamental technologies are used for solving the three-dimensional structures of proteins and other biological molecules: x-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and electron microscopy. Scientists have used these techniques to solve the struct...Columbia University scientist wins 2004 Nobel Prize
...lumbia when she and Dr. Axel jointly published the fundamental paper on the subject in 1991. The sense of smell has remained the most enigmatic of the senses. The work of Drs. Axel and Buck has provided understanding on how the nose is able to distinguish more than 10,000 distinct smells. The researchers discov...New Stanford center probes nanoscale material
...velop novel nanoprobes and apply them to answering fundamental questions in science and technology. "What's different about our [center] is that we're developing new tools to enable nanoscale science and technology, and we're excited to see what possibilities these tools will open up," Goldhaber-Gordon said. The...Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
...ysics of many different biological structures, the fundamental equations that describe these systems have a lot in common. We're going to create a package that can simulate everything from proteins folding to human movement." Mathematical and computational models provide the framework for understanding complexi...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
...un working on a project that is going to lead to a fundamental change in clothing," said Veronika, who has experience of designing for both the high street and London Fashion Week, and has been working on the project part-time for three years. "It's up to me to work with the new material to make somethi...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
...un working on a project that is going to lead to a fundamental change in clothing," said Veronika, who has experience of designing for both the high street and London Fashion Week, and has been working on the project part-time for three years. "It's up to me to work with the new material to make something that l...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...-provoking essay, Stephen Buetow, M.D. calls for a fundamental shift in the way we think of provider continuity, arguing the need to expand the meaning to include the patient and informal caregivers. Currently, provider continuity is defined by visits over time to the same clinician. Buetow points out that many ...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...iquitin system of regulated protein degradation, a fundamental process that influences key cellular events such as the cell cycle, malignant transformation, and responses to inflammation and immunity. Ubiquitin is a protein found within cells that targets other proteins for elimination. Scientists have long k......0th anniversary. Although its mandate to carry out fundamental research on particle physics does not give CERN an...cern.ch/environment . Information technology is a fundamental tool in modern particle physics research. In addition to being the place where the World Wide Web wa...Mitochondria findings may help beat wide range of disease
...opriate segregation of membranes and proteins is a fundamental question that the researchers sought to answer. McCaffery's team helped tackle this question by studying isolated mitochondria that had been removed from cells, observing them in test tubes using both light and electron microscopy. This cell-free app...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
...e five-year program takes aim at a process that is fundamental to our health: How do mechanical forces govern our white blood cells and assure that they protect our bodies from invaders like the flu? What forces help keep those cells from getting out of control and attacking our own tissues? The group is focusi...Gladstone researchers resolve key Huntington's disease mystery in Nature cover story
...es in any given cell over time. Beyond slowness, a fundamental problem with this conventional approach is that th...th this tool, researchers can begin to answer such fundamental questions as: Is there a relationship at all, or are the two events simply coincidental? If ther...Dr. Harris receives NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
... 30-year career, Dr. Harris and her team have made fundamental discoveries about anatomic changes in synapses that likely will not only help us better understand how we learn and remember but also pave the way for better treatments of diseases that disrupt these processes. Her latest grant helps take critical fo...Genetic data crunching achieves milestone at Stanford
...elationships between genes and illness, as well as fundamental biological discoveries. Microarrays, developed in the lab of biochemistry professor Patrick Brown, MD, PhD, in the early 1990s, took molecular biology by storm. They're small slides spotted with fixed samples of DNA, each for a different gene. When a...OHSU study: Bacterial switching mechanism key to survival
...on catabolite repression (CCR), is one of the most fundamental and oldest mechanisms used for environmental sensing and signalling in bacteria, and it's critical for successful competition in diverse and frequently changing conditions. As a neutral molecule, glucose is able to pass freely in and out of a bacteri...UF scientist: 'Brain' in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer
...rricane-force winds, the underlying goal is a more fundamental understanding of how neurons interact as a network, DeMarse said. "There's a lot of data out there that will tell you that the computation that's going on here isn't based on just one neuron. The computational property is actually an emergent prope...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
...mans-suggesting that these effects are mediated by fundamental mechanisms. The new research was presented at the 34th Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego Insight into one potential mechanism comes from studies showing how maternal care can induce alterations in gene methylation in offspring...Psychologist finds instance where 'two wrongs do make a right'
...ese findings enhance our understanding of the most fundamental concepts of how we experience and interact with the world. Dassonville and Elizabeth Walter, a graduate student, are now using the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) resources of the University of Oregon's Robert and Beverly Lewis Center fo...Clues to the puzzle of 'talking' root cells
...ay be more broadly applicable to understanding the fundamental processes of how complex tissues develop from a few cells -- one of the central mysteries in biology. Duke University biologist Philip Benfey and his colleagues published their latest findings in the Oct. 26, 2004, issue of the journal Current Bio...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
...der on the project, we haven't yet encountered any fundamental problems that say this is impossible but we have encountered lots of challenges that still need to be solved. But this is what scientific research is about. We are making solid progress and every time a new problem has come up, we have found a way ar...