Two projects share Lillehammer Award 2006
...KA Ministerial Conference in Prague. "It's a great surprise and pleasure for us," commented ECDVAT coordinator Professor Thomas Bechtold of the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Enga Luye of the BIOMAC project, from Belair Biotech, Switzerland said: "It has been a great benefit to be part of a EUREKA proje...Parallel evolution: Proteins do it, too
...olobus monkey. "We sequenced the gene, and to our surprise we found not one, not two, but three RNASE1 genes," Zhang said. "Further analysis showed that the duplications in African monkeys and Asian monkeys were separate, independent events." Next, Zhang wanted to know if the duplications resulted in similar...Finding about cellular microtubule rigidity could lead to development of new nano-materials
...oretical physicists on the research team. To the surprise of the scientists, they found that the longer the filament, the more rigid it became. Florin and his coauthors attribute the microtubules' unique properties to their molecular architecture. The nanometer-sized filaments are hollow tubes made of tub...Stevens professor named an Early Career Principal Investigator
... Department, Alan Blumberg. "The award is really a surprise to me. I am happy that in the next three years, I can do something that is both important and that I enjoy. To me, that is essential for genuine research," said Xu. "I would like to thank [Dean of Engineering] George Korfiatis, Alan Blumberg, my othe...Johns Hopkins researchers find link between cell's energy use and genome health
...t cell's energy. They discovered to their complete surprise that the removal of one of them led the cell to turn off 70 percent of its 5,000 genes and die. "We were completely unprepared for such a dramatic event," says Jef Boeke, Ph.D., Sc.D., a professor of molecular biology and genetics at Hopkins and au...Stevens' Davidson Laboratory acquires new research vessel
...ons to the lab," said Bruno. "It was a complete surprise when Professor Bruno told me about this honor," said Savitsky. "Many of my results have been based on data collected for boat models tested in the Davidson Laboratory towing tanks. Having my name on a full-scale research vessel that can also be used ...Pinning down a cancer threesome
...rolling several hundred other genes. Their first surprise was that the mice without the c-myc gene in their skin cells didn't suffer any adverse effects. Unexpectedly, epidermal cells do not require c-myc for survival, normal differentiation or cellular division. However, even more surprising was that these...Evidence of rapid evolution is found at the tips of chromosomes
...bryonic lethal at a very early stage." The other surprise came from the POT1a/b double knock-out mouse. While it had a very strong DNA damage response, similar to cells missing TRF2, there was hardly any chromosome end fusion. This result lead de Lange and Hockemeyer to realize that while POT1a and b are re...Surprise finding for stretched DNA
...who led this experiment. "That is why it was such surprise when we directly measured twist-stretch coupling t...olecule, when studied at close range, continues to surprise us!" Bustamante is a leading authority on the use of single-molecule visualization and manipulatio...A humble aquarium fish may be the key to new therapies for birth defects
...zebrafish and in humans. This didn't come as a big surprise because the researchers know that evolution tends to be highly conservative. That is, when nature finds an effective way to accomplish a life-critical operation, it tends to keep using it. Handling metal atoms like copper is one such operation. These...New research points toward mechanism of age-onset toxicity of Alzheimer's protein
...en the cell is left with no other options." The surprise was that very high molecular weight species were actually less toxic than smaller aggregates. "For a long time large protein aggregates were considered the toxic species," explains Cohen. "The fact that cells protect themselves by temporarily storing...'Portion distortion' may contribute to expanding waistlines, study reports
...h portions being distorted to this degree, it's no surprise that people's waistlines are expanding." Byrd-Bredbenner remarked. Nutrition Education May Serve Well The good news is that efforts to educate the public to limit certain foods that add excess calories may have been successful. For example, the ......ock cyclic GMP's breakdown, Rosenberg says. One surprise in the research was that the main message telling the brain to go to sleep probably does not come from neurons, but from neighboring glial cells, which appear to produce the greatest amounts of nitric oxide. Until recently, glial cells have been assu...Scientists discuss new frontiers in single-molecule research at American Chemical Society
...d the cell randomly," Moerner said. "But more of a surprise was that some MreBs were part of a filament of many MreBs that moved like a treadmill inside the cell."The researchers discovered that a single MreB molecule joins one end of the filament and treadmills across its entire length--a distance of approxi...Natural anti-viral enzyme helps keep cancer cells alive, researchers find
...hers report in today's issue of Cell. "We got the surprise that this mechanism is involved in cancer cell survival, even though it's normally involved in immune response," said Dr. Michael White, associate professor of cell biology. "We found something a little bit different an Achilles' heel of cancer cell...Leveling the field for babies with persistent pulmonary hypertension
...tely, persistent pulmonary hypertension comes as a surprise in full-term babies, says Dr. Jatinder J.S. Bhatia, chief of the MCG Section of Neonatology. The pregnancy seems uneventful until the hours following birth when breathing trouble requires rapid transport to a neonatal intensive care unit. "What happ...'Urban Wildlife Management' book something to crow about
..." may be something to crow about. "It comes as no surprise to wildlife managers that the major issues we are facing today are in urban areas. There's never been a book to use in teaching this," said Dr. Clark E. Adams, professor of wildlife at Texas A&M University. Adams, who has been teaching the topic for...Mars Express and the story of water on Mars
...e in the Martian polar regions and also received a surprise from some of the very first results that MARSIS returned. When the radar passed over the mid northern latitudes of Chryse Planitia, the signals showed a buried impact crater, below the surface. Inside this impact structure was a thick layer of possib...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...nches and a thinner primary dendrite. However, the surprise was that the lack of granule cell IP 3 R1s was responsible for the Purkinje cell defect. The authors revealed this non-cell-autonomous effect by culturing wild-type and mutant Purkinje cells alone or with wild-type and mutant granule or glial cells. ......vement. We thought the problem was solved, and the surprise is in the last few years the dead zone is back." Researchers from U-M, the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, NOAA, and several other universities will study the possible causes of the dead zone, as well as develop manageme...