A laser uncovers the logic of the stomata function
...ning depends on the releasing of a light receptor, named PHOTOTROPIN1, from the cell membrane to the interior cell. These researches unravelled that, in addition to this process, stomatal opening requires changes directly induced by light in the interior cell. The nature of such as changes is unknown, and ...Lab on a Chip and Corning Incorporated are pleased to announce
David Beebe has been named as the first winner of this prestigious new prize, established by two of the major players in the miniaturisation sector, the Lab on a Chip journal and Corning Incorporated. The prize aims to promote miniaturisation through micro and nanotechnologi...UCSF stem cell study reveals cells' capability in mouse brain tissue repair
...e in such a way that they lacked two key proteins, named Numb and Numblike. These proteins are known to play a critical role in maintaining neural stem cell function in embryonic mice, but scientists have not known their actual function. They suspected that the proteins might be active in the SVZ of pos...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...eeting on 7 December 2006, the DFG Joint Committee named ten scientists and academics eight men and two women as recipients of Germanys most highly endowed research award. For the first time, the prize winners for 2007 will receive up to 2.5 million euros (previously: 1.55 million euros) and be able to u...Chikashi Toyoshima to present National Lecture at the Biophysical Society 51st Annual Meeting
...ng in Baltimore, Maryland, March 3-7, 2007. Being named the National Lecturer is the Society's highest honor. Dr. Toyoshima is a professor at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the University of Tokyo in Japan and was elected a Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Sciences in ...Project to intensify agricultural production in Great Lakes -- Africa's most impoverished region
...creasing altitudes. Conservation International has named the Albertine Rift one of the world's "biodiversity hot spots"home to more mammals, birds, and amphibians than anywhere else in Africa. Part of the region is still covered by tropical rain forest. The Kagera Basin is in the border area of Burundi...Gene discovered by UNC researchers tied to pancreatic cancer
...nts die within five years. Palladin, which Otey named for 16th century architect Andrea Palladio, "is very involved in the architecture of cells, specifically via the actin cytoskeleton, a polymer protein complex that provides much of the basis for cell shape," Otey said. In 1996 Dr. Teresa A. Brentna...Antibody extends life of mice with breast cancer
... animals by more than 50 percent. The antibody, named JAA-F11, targets a particular disaccharide, an antigen known as TF-Ag, which aids the adhesion and spread of certain cancer cells. While the antibody did not kill the cancer cells, it blocked stages of cancer-cell growth that allow the cells to adhe...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...odiversity, its discovery added a new genus, Kiwa, named for the mythological Polynesian goddess of shellfi...searchers found an abundance of squat lobsters, so named because they appear to squat on the ocean floor, inhabiting seamounts off the New Zealand coast, som...Regulating the nuclear architecture of the cell
...ression, known as suppressors of variegation, were named Su(vars). The gene family known as Su(var)3-9 codes for proteins that chemically modify certain histones in the nucleosomes. Su(var)3-9 proteins attach methyl groups to the histone labeled H3 at its ninth amino acid residue, which is a lysine. In ...'Best of both worlds' -- Targeting a single gene could inhibit bone decay and stimulate bone growth
...eniors with osteoporosis." Dr. Choi was recently named the 2006 winner of Koreas prestigious Ho-Am Prize for his work in osteoimmunology. The award recognizes scholars and researchers who make outstanding achievements by international standards while encouraging future activities of even higher levels an...Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita
... when the vaquita was scientifically described and named as a species, the Mexican Government has finally taken specific actions to try to prevent its extinction. On 29 December 2005 the Ministry of Environment declared a Vaquita Refuge that contains within its borders approximately 80% of all verified vaq...American scientist's research of life's first cells
...orth America and the Grand Prize winner, today was named to receive the $25,000 GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists, supported by GE Healthcare and the journal Science , which is published by AAAS, the nonprofit society. Chen will receive her award in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday, 11 December...APS names UC Davis professor 'Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist'
...ibutions to physiological research. The award is named in honor of Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen, the first wo...to become professor of physiology in 1978. She was named distinguished professor in 2003. From 1991-1998 Horwitz was chair of UC, Davis Department of Anima......illips have found three new genes, which they have named zim-1, zim-2, and zim-3, that perform the same functions for the worm's five additional chromosomes. Their results are published in the December issue of Developmental Cell. All four of these genes code for different but highly related "zinc-fing...Cell death following blood 'reflow' injury tracked to natural toxin
...of Cell Engineering (ICE). The research team has named the cell death process caused by PAR-polymer "parthanatos," after Thanatos, the personification of death from Greek mythology. To establish that PAR-polymer is indeed the culprit in the kind of reperfusion injuries long linked to heart attacks, stro...NYU, Scripps finding offers new path for treatment of diabetes
...cilitated the target fishing. The hit compound was named GAPDS (GAPDH segregator) as GAPDS disassemble the multi-part structure of GAPDH into monomers. The segregation of GAPDH releases the suppressor of insulin signaling from the cell membrane, and thus activates the insulin signaling to eventually help t...Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum, to receive Prestigious Wilson Award
...) and faculty member at Yale since 1967, has been named the recipient of the 2006 E. B. Wilson Medal, the ...d the microtubule-based core of the flagella. They named the process intraflagellar transport (IFT). These initial observations led to biochemical and gen...... One of the most important neurotransmitters is named glutamate, and it binds to proteins known as "AMPA receptors," which are embedded in the dendritic spines on the receiving end of nerve cells. The AMPA receptor proteins are held in the membrane by other proteins called "scaffolding proteins." Bressl......l of Marine and Atmospheric Science, were recently named Associates of the World Technology Network and cited as two of the "Most Innovative People and Organizations in the Science and Technology World in 2006" in the environment category. The World Technology Network (WTN), a group of close to 1,000 in...