Researcher receives $1.8M AIDS-related grant
...ch focuses on the JC virus, discovered in 1971 and named for the initials of a patient who died of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML. A disease that afflicts patients with a weakened immune system, PML kills by, essentially, causing the brain's neurons to short-circuit. Aggressive and incu...Craig Venter, leading scientist and innovator, to get honorary degree
... maverick in both science and business, Venter was named Scientist of the Year by TIME magazine in 2000. His success in cracking the human genetic code was called perhaps the most important scientific event of the past century, with implications for virtually every aspect of biology and medicine. Venter...Chinese medicinal compound stops formation of cysts in polycystic kidney disease in lab
...iptolide is derived from a Chinese medicinal herb, named Lei Gong Teng, which has been used in traditional medicine to treat cancer, inflammation, and auto-immune diseases and, more recently, also has been tested in Phase I clinical trials as an anti-tumor agent. This study, with mice bred to have a dise...How to manage forests in hurricane impact zones
...7 hurricane season for the Atlantic coast, with 17 named storms, including 5 major hurricanes. The analysis included a 74 percent probability of a major hurricane hitting the U.S. coast before the season ends on November 30. "Coastal areas in the southern United States are adapted to disturbance from bot...UF scientists discover new genus of frogmouth bird in Solomon Islands
...describes the bird as a new genus and species, now named Rigidipenna inexpectata. "This discovery unders...e Florida Museum. Frogmouths are predatory birds named for their strikingly wide, strong beak that resembles a frogs mouth; but their beak also sports a sm...2-protein team would be lost without each other
...a key player in normal development. Short-root was named for the disorder exhibited by plants that lack this key regulatory gene. In Arabidopsis, Short-root is produced in the center of the root tip and moves outward to adjacent cells. Along the way, it promotes cell division and identity. In the single la...New deep-sea hydrothermal vents, life form discovered
...le Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts have named their discovery the Medusa Hydrothermal Vent Field. The researchers chose that name to highlight the presence there of a unique pink form of the jellyfish order stauromedusae. The jellyfish resemble "the serpent-haired Medusa of Greek myth," said e...Do we need a paradigm change? Disputing coevolution in herbivorous insects
... in their sheer species numbers: with over 350,000 named species and many more to be described, they constitute about one fourth of all species on the Planet! It is commonly accepted that phytophagous beetles and their host plants (mainly the likewise speciose angiosperms or flowering plants) have radiat...Mouse model advances understanding of synovial sarcoma
...h, the researchers discovered that, although it is named for its common proximity to limb joints, this tumor appears to arise from skeletal muscle precursor cells called myoblasts. Remarkably, expression of SYT-SSX in myoblasts was sufficient to induce synovial sarcoma with an astonishing 100% penetrance. ......, Capecchi says. The researchers used an enzyme named Cre to activate the human cancer-causing SYT-SSX2 fusion gene in the precursor and muscle cells. Cre is a switch that allows us to turn the fusion gene on and off when and where we want it, says Capecchi. In less mature muscle cell precursors, the...Bronfman gift to Mount Sinai catalyzes genomics-based medicine
...Bronfman Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai was named in honor of their father....Deflecting damage: Flexible electronics aid brain injury research
...en recognized by Technology Review magazine, which named her to its 2006 list of 35 leading innovators under age 35. Together, the engineers created the first working stretchable circuits by linking tiny pieces of traditional semiconductors mounted on a rubbery membrane with thin pieces of gold. Even whe...... dog chromosome 15 next to a previously known gene named IGF1, for insulin-like growth factor 1. The gene and regulatory sequence together are known as a haplotype or variant, and that haplotype was found in all breeds of small dogs, showing it "is a major contributor to body size in all small dogs," the r...AACR establishes new lecture in honor of Princess Takamatsu
... In 2004, the University of California, San Diego named him Distinguished Professor. Princess Takamatsu became involved in cancer research following the death of her mother from bowel cancer in 1933. In 1968, she established the Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund, a trust that allocates public monie...Leading researchers honored for progress in cancer prevention, detection and treatment
...the AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Council, is named in honor of Jane Cooke Wright, M.D., an African-American woman pioneer in clinical cancer chemotherapy and an exceptional scientist. Dr. Freeman's lecture will take place at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, April 15, 2007 in Hall B of the Los Angeles Conventio...NIH establishes Center of Excellence for influenza research at Mount Sinai
...e for Influenza Research and Surveillance has been named Center for Research in Influenza Pathogenesis or CRIP. Mount Sinai researchers Adolfo Garca-Sastre and Peter Palese, in collaboration with Daniel Perez, at University of Maryland, and Ron Fouchier, at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, will continu...UC Davis wins new national center for avian flu research
UC Davis today was named a partner in a new $18.5 million nationalresearch center that will study influenza viruses with pandemicpotential, such as avian influenza H5N1 ("bird flu"). The Center for Rapid Influenza Surveillance and Research (CRISAR) isone of six new centers...Counting heads or measuring space?
...eveloped a synthesis of the two models, which they named efficiency sensing: the microbes always perceive a mixture of cell density, cell distribution and diffusion limitation due to spatial conditions, because these aspects cannot be strictly separated it depends on the circumstances and habitat quality ...U OF M awarded $22.5 million NIH contract to study avian influenza
... of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today named the University of Minnesota as one of six sites across the country that will establish a Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance. The Minnesota NIH/NIAID Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (MCEIRS) will ...Alternative-fuels pioneer receives first-ever $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
... for Sustainability, the Lemelson-MIT Program also named Timothy M. Swager as the 2007 winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize today. Swager is the Department Head and John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is being recognized for inventing a range of ma...