Biotechnology Study Center honors Jean-Pierre Changeux, Charles Weissmann and Eric Kandel
On Monday, April 24, The Biotechnology Study Center of NYU School of Medicine...will hold its annual awards symposium to honor three outstanding pioneers in neurobiology and cognition. The Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Awards recognize the role of pure science in the development of pharmaceuticals, and ...particularly honor those scientists whose work has led to major advances at the bedside...Jeans too tight? 50 percent of adults can blame their genes and not just diet and exercise
ST. LOUIS -- If you're a middle-aged guy who's packed on the pounds and now is battling to take them off, it's a 50-50 shot that your jeans are fitting tighter because of your genes, according to a Saint Louis University School of Public Health study. ......"About 50 percent of adult onset weight change remains genetic," says James C. Romeis, Ph.D., professor of health services research at Saint...The Louis-Jeantet-Prize for Medicine encourages further projects of excellence in the prize-winners' laboratories. Alan HALL receives the prize for pioneering work on the regulation of cytoskeleton dynamics in cell adhesion, migration and polarity. With the prize, Alan Hall will further investigate the role of certain enzymes, known as small GTPases and guanine nucleotide exchange factors, in rel...