EMBL scientists found start-up company to develop anti-cancer drugs
...nti-cancer actions in screening experiments. Elara receives seed funding from EMBL Ventures and has been granted exclusive license rights to selected discoveries made at EMBL. "Elara draws on the skills and know-how of some of Europe's leading molecular biologists and the cutting-edge technology of EMBL's Che...UC Davis researchers move biotechnology closer to replacing electronic pacemakers
... atrium, the upper right chamber of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood from the body. "We were even able to create new pacemaker regions on the left atrium," Li said. According to Li, the current study moves research beyond using animal models such as mice and rats, whose hearts can beat up to 60...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... in handy when gauging distances. Because each eye receives a slightly different image of an object on the retina, the disparity allows us to compute the distance to the object, as well as its position relative to nearby objects. The conventional view is that depth perception has little to do with the actual ...Environmental toxins may cause body's defenses to worsen lung disease
...continues its survey for problems. But if the cell receives a signal that the tissue is infected, it will automatically destroy it to protect the body from disease. "The immune system thinks it's eradicating disease from the body when it destroys cells that have been damaged by environmental toxins, but in c...Frank Uhlmann of London Research Institute wins 'EMBO Gold'
...tute is the winner of the 2006 EMBO Gold Medal. He receives the award "in recognition of a decade of extraordinary work that has revolutionised our understanding of the cell cycle and opened the door to new possibilities in cancer treatment," said EMBO Executive Director, Frank Gannon. The EMBO Gold Medal i...Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease
...-ChilD (because each child is precious!) currently receives funding of 1m from the European Union, but in its earlier stages it was supported by an Academic Links Scheme funded by the British Council and the Indian University Grants Commission. Professor Williams commented: "All cases of diarrhoea look the ...Engineer ramps up protein production, develops versatile viral spheres
...e viral spheres At the ACS session where Swartz receives the award he also will present one of the most recent innovations in his lab, the cell-free production of engineered viral capsids. The capsids are based on the outer shell of a naturally occurring virus that infects E. coli bacteria. They are formed...UC develops new approach to Web-based drug withdrawal warnings
... announces a drug withdrawal, the NetWellness team receives an alert by MedWatch E-List and immediately checks the site's database for instances of the drug name, including trade and generic names. Instances are then hyperlinked using an automated find-and-replace function built into the site's content manage...JCI table of contents: Oct. 2, 2006
...y regulated process that occurs only when a T cell receives exactly the right amount of stimulation. The level of stimulation that a T cell receives is a combination of lots of positive and negative signals. In a study appearing in the October issue...EMBO honors triple talents of UK scientist, author, broadcaster
...elopmental geneticist from Imperial College London receives the award in recognition of his remarkable contributions to science communication. Author of an acclaimed popular science book, Leroi has also written and presented scientific documentaries for TV. Why are most of us born with one nose, two legs, t......e jumpy video stream, the visual system constantly receives feedback about the eye movements that the brain is generating." Hafed and Krauzlis took the question of how the brain is able to maintain perception under less than optimal circumstances one step further. "If you think of the video stream as a bun...How Rett Syndrome mutation targets the brain
...n response to neuronal activity, as when the brain receives sensory experience, they found. Without such activation, as occurs when MeCP2 is "crippled" by a mutation affecting S421, the protein does not function properly. Particularly significant was the researchers' finding that MeCP2 is selectively phosp...Weather forecasting technique wins top prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition
...s. Hashi and Zhu receive a $15,000 prize, and Yang receives a $10,000 prize. The 2006 Competition is sponsored by the Abbott Fund and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This year's winners were announced during a Thursday evening awards ceremony at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. They were recogn...VIB and Johnson & Johnson set up a new fund
...departmental collaboration). Each winning project receives 125 000 EUR, which is sufficient to pay one post doctoral researcher and his bench fee for one year. In this manner one hopes to sow the seeds for larger collaborations between VIB and J&J. Kick-Off MeetingOn Monday, October 23, 2006 (3-7 pm) the ...Cougar predation key to ecosystem health
...Zion Canyon, simply by their presence. That canyon receives nearly three million human visitors a year, the adjacent North Creek a stray handful of hikers. Cougars in Zion Canyon were not intentionally killed or removed, they just left due to the increased presence of humans. As findings such as t......ke University Medical Center. The ventricle, which receives blood and then pumps it back out to the body, is one of two chambers that make up the fish heart. "This study gets at some of the important mechanistic questions about how they rebuild the heart, and some of the key factors that contribute." In cont...Two nerve cells in direct contact
...re and secondly, indirectly via the CH cell, which receives information via several intermediate stops from the other half of the brain and which inhibits the H2 cell on the same side with chemical synapses. Both connections were in principle suitable for achieving the effect described; however the question r...One signal elicits thousands of answers
...November 2, 2006). The mammalian cell constantly receives signals from its surroundings to which it has to respond appropriately. Growth factors, for example, can lead to growth of a cell, its differentiation or proliferation. Defects in these tightly regulated and controlled processes can cause cancer and ...Scientists discover role for dueling RNAs
...-that is, the DNA duplicates so each daughter cell receives exactly the same number of chromosomes as the original cell. However, when the yeast cells are starving, IME4 switches on and activates a process called meiosis. Here, the cells divide into germ-cell spores that, like mammalian egg and sperm cells, h...A chilling solution: Measuring below-ground carbon without destroying trees
...e phloem of 10 loblolly pine trees in a stand that receives annual fertilization, comparing responses with those from physically girdled trees in both fertilized and unfertilized stands to determine whether the technique would give accurate results. They wrapped each tree in 30 coils of copper tubing, then ci...