German Microarray Excellence Center integrates Genomatix Chip Analysis Pipeline
...inked to the gene regulation seen. "A KFB-customer receives a thoroughly compiled report of the findings. But beyond this static report, live dynamic results are delivered allowing for the customer to do further scientific analyses and research with the temporary full access to BiblioSphere PathwayEdition . T...Infection 'alarm' yields clues to immune system behavior
...vels from the surface of a cell to its nucleus, it receives critical help from a molecule called Inhibitor of KappaB Kinase, or IKK. "IKK filters and interprets the warning message," said Cheong, who is an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "It carefully controls the level of the im...20 of world's top women scientists honored in Paris for groundbreaking research in life sciences
...h America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Each Laureate receives USD$100,000. "L'ORAL's' commitment alongside UNESCO in the For Women in Science partnership is a concrete expression of our firm intention to promote women in scientific research," said Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman and CEO of L'ORAL. "Innovati...Weighting cancer drugs to make them hit tumors harder
...e normal blood vessels. As a result, normal tissue receives less of the drug than does the tumor. Results of the study, funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, are published in the March 1, 2006, issue of the Journal of the Nati...Innovative technology for production of new pharmaceuticals forms basis of new company
...hich utilizes plant-derived compounds. Technology receives approval This week, the authoritative scientific journal PNAS is publishing results from the Flemish and Finnish researchers. In their article, the researchers reveal the genetic profile of the Madagascar periwinkle, a natural source of a drug that ...Contaminants linked to sturgeon decline in Columbia river
...ments bearing the contaminants moves. The Columbia receives input from numerous sources, so any population of fish at any one site can be exposed to a myriad of substances." The OSU researchers say it is difficult to estimate the numbers of sturgeon in the Columbia, but there has been a noticeable decline in ...Movement of chromosome in nucleus visualized
...y and moves to the interior of the nucleus when it receives an activating signal. "The movement following activation was radically different from the rapid, but short-range, diffuse movement previously observed in these nuclei," said Dr. Andrew Belmont, professor of cell and developmental biology at UIUC, pr...Caltech's Emmanuel Candes to receive $500,000 Waterman Award
...g a doctorate. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $500,000 over a 3-year period for scientific research or advanced study in the mathematical, physical, medical, biological, engineering, social, or other sciences at the institution of the recipient's choice. "Candes' work is nothing short...News Tips from The Journal of Neuroscience
...sient responses to visual stimuli. Because the TRN receives multimodal input, the authors examined responses i...sient responses to visual stimuli. Because the TRN receives multimodal input, the authors examined responses in which monkeys shifted their attention from audit...Why nerve cells work faster than the theory allows
...o process and transmit messages. When a nerve cell receives an impulse, the voltage across the cell membrane is reversed. This "action potential" spreads out through the long appendages of the cell with high speed. At the end of the appendages it is transmitted to other cells. In 1952, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and ...The greenbeards have blue throats in a breakthrough study of the evolution of altruistic behavior
...ars all the costs and another unrelated individual receives the benefits, is called "true altruism." These lizards have an annual life cycle, so this behavior may spell the end of the altruistic male's lineage. The evolution of cooperation is puzzling because cooperative systems are vulnerable to cheaters or...Free access to world-class biological databases for European science thanks to FELICS
... scientific infrastructure. The EBI site currently receives around 2 million hits every day, and even the most conservative estimates suggest a rise to ten million during the next five years. The need for centralized public information resources to provide global services for basic and applied biomolecular an...In the loop: Scientists reveal how signals travel through rat's whiskers
...n object. But how the brain decodes the signals it receives from the whiskers is unclear. Ph.D. student Chunxiu Yu, working together with colleagues Dori Derdikman and Dr. Sebastian Haidarliu in the laboratory of Prof. Ehud Ahissar of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, have now provided surpri...NWO/Spinoza Prize for psychologist, immunologist, biologist and physicist
...he biggest Dutch prize in science. Each researcher receives one-and-a-half million euros to freely devote to research of his or her choice. The researchers receive the prestigious prize for their outstanding, pioneering and inspiring scientific work. The winners of the NWO/Spinoza Prize 2006 are: Prof. J.M....Mutations point the way to new leukemia drugs
...n that sits on the surface of some blood cells and receives growth signals, communicating to JAK2 when a signal has arrived. Mutated MPL, however, constantly tells JAK2 to trigger growth--whether or not the appropriate signal has reached the cell. Thus, the end result is the same as that of a mutation that ac...Costa Rican environmental leader to receive new conservation award
...y, July 24, at the Costa Rican Embassy. Rodriguez receives the $150,000 award for making significant advances in both terrestrial and marine conservation while serving as Costa Rica's environment and energy minister during the previous administration. He is recognized as an expert and advocate for the val...UT Southwestern scientist named Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research
...e program, each grant recipient's home institution receives an award of up to $1 million to support the scientist's research activities for five years. Nominations from institutions are accepted on an invitation-only basis. Dr. Hongtao Yu, associate professor of pharmacology at UT Southwestern, was named a ...African water authorities receive space tool training
... a limited natural resource in South Africa, which receives only around half the average rainfall of other countries. Water availability is heavily dependent on climate, water use and management and land-use practices. The country's National Water Act of 1998 is based on the principles of sustainability of us...Scientific issues associated with carbon-neutral energy sources such as cellulosic ethanol
...evelop alternative sources of energy." The earth receives approximately 4,000 times more energy from the sun each year than the total projected human uses in the year 2050, Somerville commented. Green plants growing throughout the world capture the sun's (solar) energy and convert it to bio-chemical energy...A humble aquarium fish may be the key to new therapies for birth defects
...n precisely regulate the nutrients that the embryo receives largely free from maternal influence. In the paper, the researchers describe the discovery of a mutation in the zebrafish that disrupts the distribution of the critical nutrient copper within the fish cells and causes defects that are remarkably si...