Cellular traffic backups implicated in skeletal malformations
...st hours after fertilization. But the mutant fish, named crusher, hatched and survived to nine days, albeit with striking skeletal abnormalities craniofacial defects, kinked fins and shortened body. The pathway affected by the crusher mutation is key to transporting proteins outside of the cell. All pro...Carnegie's Joseph G. Gall wins 2006 Lasker Award
...any animal. They reside in amphibian eggs and were named when first viewed in the nineteenth century becaus...bled in structures in the GV, called Cajal bodies, named for the man who described them 100 years ago, Spanish neurobiologist and Nobel laureate Ramn y Cajal...Northwestern biologists demote Southeast Asia's 'forest ox'
...eath said, "I've been involved in showing that two named species of large mammal may never have existed as such." But, he notes, "In the end, good science is about what is true, not what is desired to be true." Galbreath hopes the paper will serve to focus conservation time, dollars and attention on rea...Engineer ramps up protein production, develops versatile viral spheres
...e the Gaden Award at the ACS meeting. The award is named for Elmer L. Gaden, the founding editor of the journal Biotechnology & Bioengineering, and recognizes the most outstanding paper of the year in that journal. Swartz, who holds the Leland T. Edwards Professorship in the School of Engineering at Stanfo...Craig Mello named winner of The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
...r at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been named the inaugural recipient of The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research. Dr. Mello was selected for his role in the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) and the elucidation of its biological functions. The Award will be presented to Dr. Mello t...Animal physiology conference sheds light on human physiology
...esearch in Antarctica on the Weddell seal. She was named one of the top 50 women scientists in 2002 by Discover magazine. Hear Williams speak on Tuesday, Oct. 10. Her talk is embargoed until 3 p.m. Carlos Martinez del Rio, University of Wyoming Hummingbirds live in the fast lane, but this pedal-to-th...Pregnant drivers, football players safer thanks to a top Virginia Tech researcher
...ch-Wake Forest Center for Injury Biomechanics, was named by Technology Review to the 2006 "TR35" roster of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. The editors of Technology Review, a publication of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the oldest technology magazine in existence, select...Genetic surprise confirms neglected 70-year-old evolutionary hypothesis
...enly recalled an off-hand comment from a scientist named Hermann J. Muller in a paper 60 years earlier. Muller speculated that perhaps since the sterility in the flies is so recessive--meaning it's almost completely non-functional--perhaps the gene in question has jumped clear off the chromosome. "It had n...DoD awards $10.7 million Center of Excellence Grant to Fox Chase's V. Craig Jordan
...n Foundation in 1992. In 2002, Queen Elizabeth II named him an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to international breast cancer research....Two at Yale named outstanding new environmental scientists by NIEHS
...careers in environmental health research have been named recipients of this year's eight Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Awards by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) . Yale ONES Award recipients are Sven-Eric Jordt , an assistant professor of pharmacology ...DOE JGI, VBI describe disease mechanisms of sudden oak death, related soybean pathogens
... the 65-million-base P. ramorum genome. The aptly named genus Phytophthora derives its moniker from the Greek words for "plant destroyer." Part of a fungus-like group of organisms known as oomycetes, or water molds, they are relatives of such aquatic algae as diatoms and kelp. The pathogens survive as thi...3rd Annual AIBS, BSCS, NESCent Evolution Science and Education Symposium
...has been recognized for his teaching, and has been named a Fulbright scholar. Dr. Levinton will speak about the "Cambrian Explosion and the Nature of Evidence." Dr. Nipam Patel is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of ...Cell's fight against cancer revealed
...tions including highly efficient tumor promotion named it "The Most Amazing Molecule in the Universe" in one of his presentations. Pipas called Chen's new study "a very important piece of work" that shows how a healthy cell's tumor defenses break down. "Understanding exactly how this works is going t...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 23, 2006
...scribe the long-sought portable mass spectrometer, named the Mini 10, in a report scheduled for the Sept. 15 issue of the ACS journal, Analytical Chemistry. Traditional mass spectrometers -- mainstays in identifying unknown chemical compounds -- are large, delicate laboratory instruments. Rugged and portab...Biophysical Society names 2007 award recipients
...dition, five Biophysical Society members have been named to the 2007 class of Society Fellows. They are: Steven G. Boxer, Stanford University, for his seminal contributions and advancement of the field of biophysics through his groundbreaking research in several areas: supported membranes, Stark effe...Manatee traveler in northeastern waters not Chessie
...ngs that were not properly identified. Chessie was named after this purported sea monster. "Cooperation among members of the Marine Mammal Sighting Networks, government agencies and the public on Chessie's migration has raised the public's awareness of this unique endangered marine mammal," said Jim Reid,...Biophysical Society names 2007 award recipients
...dition, five Biophysical Society members have been named to the 2007 class of Society Fellows. They are: Steven G. Boxer, Stanford University, for his seminal contributions and advancement of the field of biophysics through his groundbreaking research in several areas: supported membranes, Stark effect...Pam Henderson receives plant pathology journalism award
...06) - The American Phytopathological Society (APS) named Pam Henderson, crops and issues editor, Farm Journal Media, the recipient of the society's first Plant Pathology Journalism Award. The APS Plant Pathology Journalism Award recognizes outstanding achievement in increasing public awareness, knowledge...A new tool against brain disease
...tions based on what is learned from the new toxin named alpha conotoxin OmIA (oh-em-one-ay) isolated from a cone snail species named Conus omaria, which lives in the Pacific and Indian oceans and eats other snails. It ranges from 1 t...... showed that HAR1 ispart of two overlapping genes, named HAR1F and HAR1R. Evidencesuggests that neither gene produces a protein, but the RNA producedby the HAR1 sequence probably has its own function. Most of the othergenes identified by the study also fall outside protein-codingregions, Pollard said. St...