UCR biologists unravel the genetic secrets of black widow spider silk
... identify the genes encoding the two key proteins, named MaSp1 and MaSp2, and determine the genes complete DNA sequences. The UCR Office of Technology Commercialization has filed a patent application on the gene sequences. There are currently no products on the market based on the dragline silk of spide...New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
...nd recurrent fevers. The new species, recently named Bartonella rochalimae, is also closely related to the bacterium identified about 10 years ago as the cause of cat scratch disease: Bartonella henselae, which infects more than 25,000 people a year in the U.S. The discovery is reported in the June 7...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 30, 2007
...normal beta globin genes into cells. The system, named for a fish gene reawakened by other researchers in 1997 after 15 million years of dormancy, fulfills essential requirements for gene therapy, the report states. Cells take up genes transferred with SB-Tn technology, the genes produce beta globin in...Depiction of findings selected as '2007 Image of the Year' by Society for Nuclear Medicine
...ain chemistry with aggressive personality has been named 2007 Image of the Year by the Society for Nuclear Medicine (SNM). The research, which was performed at the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory, showed that healthy men with lower levels of a particular brain enzyme exhibited mor...Michael R. Zalutsky receives SNM's 2007 Paul C. Aebersold Award
... Aebersold recipient. Zalutsky received the award, named for Paul C. Aebersold, a pioneer in the biologic and medical application of radioactive materials and the first director of the Atomic Energy Commissions Division of Isotope Development, at the meetings June opening session. Thakur indicated that Zal...Scientists discover 5 new species of sea slugs from the Tropical Eastern Pacific
...rom the Bahia de Santiago, Colima in Mexico and is named for Roberto Chavez, who provided assistance during...ny in La Gordornia, Guerrero, Mexico, and thus, is named for the boat. Cuthona millenae, named for Sandra Millen for her knowledge of Pacific nudibranchs...Scientists honored with 'Excellence in Clinical Research Award'
...nted each year at the JDRF's annual conference, is named for JDRF International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine M.D. in honor of their longtime extraordinary efforts and commitment to JDRF's mission to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research....Want to save polar bears? Follow the ice
...shrink as a result of global warming. In a project named "Warm Waters for Cool Bears," WCS will use both current and historical satellite imagery to predict where sea ice is likely to persist and where subsequent conservation efforts to save the species will be most effective. The new project will be fu...For many insects, winter survival is in the genes
...o extremely high temperatures. The proteins are so named because they were initially discovered in fruit flies that were exposed to high heat. Humans make these proteins when we run a high fever. "But insects make these very same stress proteins during times of low temperature as well as during exposure ...Pointing a finger at the source of fecal bacteria
...y the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality named Plum Creek the most contaminated tributary to the middle reaches of the Platte River. The researchers used two fecal source-tracking tools to analyze contaminated water and stream-sediment samples in the Plum Creek watershed. The source-tracking t...Canadian paper innovation holds promise for improved global health safety
...ernment agencies have formed a research consortium named the SENTINEL Bioactive Paper Network to develop low-cost and easy-to-use paper-based products with biologically active chemicals that can protect the public against increasing incidents of food-, water- and air-borne illnesses. Potential products t...Revelle family endows UC San Diego chair honoring Roger Revelle
... 1965, the first of UC San Diegos six colleges was named Revelle College in his honor. For more than five decades, Revelle's counsel and guidance was sought by national and international agencies in areas ranging from the environment and education to agriculture and world population. He was described by ...Genome of yellow fever/dengue fever mosquito sequenced
...egypti genome. For example, a transposable element named Feilai has more than 50,000 copies interspersed in the genome. By comparison, Anopheles gambiae, the malaria mosquito genome is probably less than 25 percent TEs. The Ae. aegypti genome is five times the size of the malaria mosquito genome. "Althou...Study of unexplained respiratory infections leads researchers to new virus
...tious agent. Polyoma viruses previously have been named after the initials of the patient in whom they wer...y Act, that's no longer possible. So the virus was named after Washington University. In addition to the follow-up needed to link the WU virus to respirator...From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone
... one unique attribute," Daly said. She and Gusmo named A. pearseae after Vicki Pearse, the naturalist who first collected the specimens during a cruise of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's research vessel the Western Flyer. Pearse is a research associate at the Institute of Marine Sciences a...Brain, size and gender surprises in latest fossil tying humans, apes and monkeys
...eir large brains at a later point in time." Simons named this creature Aegyptopithecus zeuxis -- or "linking Egyptian ape" -- after his team found the first skull in 1966. Simons and his colleagues reported the findings online during the week of May 14 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy ...World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'
...cedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of lif...sity Information Facility who today was officially named Executive Director of the Encyclopedia of Life. "Through collaboration, we all can increase our app...Phillip A. Sharp to receive the 2007 Winthrop-Sears Award
...tute at MIT from 2000 through 2004. In 1999 he was named Institute Professor, a title given to a small numb...dustry and the betterment of mankind. The award is named in honor of two of America's earliest chemical entrepreneurs, John Winthrop, Jr., and John Sears. ...Osborn named Guyton Teacher of the Year by APS
...alachian Math Science Partnership (AMSP), has been named the 2007 Arthur C. Guyton Teacher of the Year by the American Physiological Society (APS). In addition to research on the neural control of renal sodium and water balance and the role of renal sympathetic control mechanisms in genetic models of hyp...Einstein's Dr. Vern Schramm elected to the National Academy of Sciences
...chair of Einsteins biochemistry department. He was named Professor and Ruth Merns Chair of Biochemistry in 1995. Dr. Schramm is a resident of New Rochelle, New York....