Evolutionary harmony for stinkbugs and their gut bacteria: A perfect match
...ation size and bottlenecks. Hosokawa et al. have named these gut symbionts "Candidatus Ishikawaella capsulata," in honor of Hajime Ishikawa, a pioneer in the molecular study of symbiosis, who recently passed away. With some 530 species and 56 genera in the Plataspidae family, researchers have their work ...Venomous cone snail biologist named to Institute of Medicine
...on one of medicine's top honors Monday when he was named as a new member of the Institute of Medicine. ...award as one of 20 new "Million-Dollar Professors" named by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Olivera grew up in the Philippines, where cone sna...New bird discovered on unexplored Columbian mountain
...supported by the BP Conservation Programme. It was named "Yariguies Brush-Finch," with the scientific name ...ists Club (Vol. 126: June 2006). The new bird is named for the Yariguies indigenous people who formerly inhabited the mountain range where the bird was fou...Discovery of the first resistance gene to rice yellow mottle virus
...F(iso)4G, involved in cellular RNA translation and named Rymv1, appeared to be the best candidate. Validation of the function of this resistance gene was performed by genetic transformation. For this, a line of resistant rice was modified by transgenically introducing the allele for susceptibility of this ...Animals resistant to drunken behavior offer clues to alcoholism's roots
...rticularly resistant to ethanol, he said. The team named the mutations white rabbit (whir) for their role in regulating responses to abused drugs as described in the song "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane. "Normally when you expose flies to ethanol vapor, they become hyperactive at first," Rothenfluh ...NSF awards Harvard Forest $4.9 million to study landscape change
...conservation center in Petersham, Mass., was first named as one of the NSF's 15 LTER sites. Established to support the lengthy research required to interpret many important natural processes, the LTER network is the largest ecological research program in the United States. "The LTER program now includes 2...Columbia University Medical Center receives major new NIH Clinical Science 'investment' funds
...will include: Supporting junior faculty to be named as Irving Fellows. These individuals will work with senior faculty in developing novel approaches for more collaborative interdisciplinary clinical and translational research. In an expansion of the NIH's mentored research program, support will be p...Columbia University awards 2006 Horwitz Prize to biologist who explained gene transcription
...istry. Awarded annually since 1967, the prize was named for the mother of Columbia benefactor S. Gross Horwitz. Louisa Gross Horwitz was daughter of Dr. Samuel David Gross, author of "A System of Surgery" and a founder of the American Medical Association. For additional information about the Louisa Gros...UVA studies potential target for skin cancer treatment
...ity of Virginia Health System first identified and named the SPANX gene family in 2000. "UVa continues to make strides in understanding select areas of the human genome," Herr said. "Although the X chromosome on which these genes lie is often associated with determination of female gender, in this case th...Record ozone loss during 2006 over South Pole
...nvironment and Security), ESA has backed a project named TEMIS (Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service) that provides operational ozone and UV radiation monitoring based on SCIAMACHY and GOME-1 data. The ozone-monitoring data provided by these instruments span a time period of 11 years, which wi...Chemical genomic screening identifies novel therapeutic strategies for cancer
...he researchers then used a computational tool they named the Connectivity Map to compare gene expression signatures evoked by these compounds with the gene expression signatures of drugs that had established biological activities. This comparison revealed that celastrol and gedunin inhibit heat-shock prote...With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane
...office on campus. The Biophysical Society recently named Boxer one of five Fellows and praised his ''seminal contributions and advancement of the field of biophysics through his groundbreaking research in several areas: supported membranes, Stark effect spectroscopy of proteins, properties of autofluoresce...Breakthrough offers new tool for studying degenerative disease
...es and may also have other functions it was first named by OSU alumnus Linus Pauling in 1934. "Oxygen is actually one of the more toxic molecules in the environment," Beckman said. "Breathing 100 percent pure oxygen will destroy your lungs in about three days because it increases the formation of superoxi...Pregnant prehistoric fossil offers clues to past
University of Alberta scientists have named a new species of ancient marine reptile, fondly ca...ing her PhD in palaeontology at McGill University, named it Maiaspondylus lindoei, after the technician, Allan Lindoe, who helped discover it. The research...Field Museum gives Parker/Gentry Award to missionary turned biologist, Jos 'Pepe' Alvarez
... never been seen before by ornithologists. Alvarez named the first bird he and a colleague discovered, Herpsilochmus gentryi, after Alwyn H. Gentry, one of the namesakes of the Parker/Gentry Award. The ancient antwren is four inches long, yellowish with black spots, and restricted to an area between Peru a...NIH director announces 2006 Pioneer Award recipients
...rector of the National Institutes of Health, today named 13 recipients of the 2006 NIH Director's Pioneer Award. Now in its third year, the Pioneer Award is a key component of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. The program supports exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative approaches...Earth's most diverse marine life found off Indonesia's Papua Province
...d marine biodiversity of the Bird's Head Seascape, named for the shape of the distinctive peninsula on the northwestern end of Indonesia's Papua province, includes more than 1,200 species of fish and almost 600 species of reef-building (scleractinian) coral, or 75 percent of the world's known total. Rese...HHMI hosts international scientists at Janelia Farm Research Campus
...aph infections. Valerie Mizrahi, who was recently named South Africa's woman scientist of the year, is researching the molecular mechanisms that drug-resistant tuberculosis uses to lurk in the body and reappear, more virulent than ever. On the front lines of the recent outbreak of drug-resistant TB in Sou...UT Southwestern scientist receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...ience Center at Houston. Eleven other winners were named from around the nation....Deep sea explorer and marine conservationist wins MacArthur Fellowship
...rvation Association (www.oceanrecon.org), has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2006. She will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over the next five years under the terms of the award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The foundation's criteria for the awards, popularly ...