Stony Brook University medical researcher developing new medication to prevent colon cancer
...0 peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored a textbook of Gastroenterology, which was translated into several foreign languages. ...Horwitz Prize to be shared by Tony Hunter, Anthony Pawson
...American Medical Association President and surgery textbook author Samuel David Gross. Protein phosphorylation is the addition of a phosphate group to a protein, in order to provide an on-off switch for molecular signals within and between cells. For example, many enzymes and receptors are turned "on" or...Next edition of textbook ushers cellular microbiology out of infancy
...4 -- ASM Press announces the latest edition of its textbook Cellular Microbiology. Geared towards scientists ..." The second edition of this textbook offers five new chapters that comprehensively cover bacterial human pathogen genomes; structure and ...MSI reveals invention for detection and precise quantification of molecules
...Human Genome Research Institute. "This is almost a textbook example of how research into fundamental biology can spin off applications that might impact human health and safety in fairly short order," said Dr. Brent. The invention is also described in an accompanying Nature Methods "News and Views" article ...Researchers discover way to make cells in the eye sensitive to light
...e characteristics of this interesting protein. The textbook view of the eye is that it contains only two light sensing systems, the rods and cones. However, over the last few years it has become increasingly accepted that we have a third system, which uses melanopsin, that has lain undetected during decades o...Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
...edition engages students in real science, not just textbook theory," said explorer Robert Ballard, founder of the JASON Foundation for Education and best known for his discovery of the Titanic. "These students are conducting wetland experiments in their own communities, so they can determine the health and v...Preparing for the inevitable: New book for nurses guides patient care during a disaster
...ly -- during any natural or man-made disaster. The textbook includes an extensive list of procedures nurses can follow, personal anecdotes from nurses who have dealt with disasters and trauma care, and extensive Internet resources. It is written in an easy, non-technical style and presents practical informati...In the mating game, male wild turkeys benefit even when they don't get the girl
...y, graduate student. The American wild turkey is a textbook example of cooperative courtship, where subordinat...me that it actually worked. I always expected this textbook example of kin selection not to be true," Koenig said. "Alan's real lasting contribution is that he ...Researchers make surprise discovery that some neurons can transmit three signals at once
...ngly at odds with each other. One, glutamate, is a textbook excitatory neurotransmitter; while the other two, GABA and glycine, are quintessential inhibitory neurotransmitters. Information is transmitted between neurons when one cell releases a neurotransmitter at a synapse, the point of contact between cell...UF researcher: Ideas about fossil horses undergo evolution in thinking
... other animals because they are one of the classic textbook examples of evolution, MacFadden said. Descriptions of evolution in college textbooks often show family trees depicting the lineage of the horse, he said....Cornell graduate student named 2005 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leader
...In her spare time she has coordinated a scientific textbook drive for libraries in Afghanistan in conjunction with Books for Freedom; volunteered as a math and science tutor; and served on Cornell's Mellon Student Research Grants Review Panel and Grad Student Invited Speaker Committee. Says AIBS Executive Di...Scientific Integrity text adds website support to new edition
...NGTON, DC May 13, 2005 -- The latest edition of a textbook on scientific ethics from ASM Press comes with the added bonus of a continually updated website containing links to online resources for both students and instructors. Scientific Integrity: Texts and Cases in Responsible Conduct of Research, 3rd Edi...New law for resolution allows unprecedented sharpness in fluorescence microscopy
...s being insurmountable. For higher resolution, the textbook knowledge was that a complicated and costly electron or scanning tunneling microscope would be required. However, over the past few years, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, have developed ...Joslin's new textbook is leading source for advances in diabetes care
... of the first edition (published in 1916), the new textbook contains eight main sections, each designed to hel...nologists and diabetes specialists, the new Joslin textbook is an important tool for primary care physicians, nurses and educators. "With millions of people wit...Fossils tell the hole story of killer drillers and their prey
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---In the classic textbook example, predators and prey are locked in an escalating evolutionary arms race. As prey develop defenses against their attackers, predators go them one better, devising new ways of penetrating their victims' defenses. But it doesn't always happen th...Electronic connectivity isn't all that great, warns computer guru at NJIT talk
...and graduate programs since 1992. His co-authored textbook (with Kerr Inkson), Management: Perspectives for New Zealand (Addison-Wesley-Longman), is widely-used in New Zealand. The UPS Foundation is committed to making a difference through focus funded programs in the areas of human welfare, education and ...Textbook explanation of mRNA translation may need rethinking
...ling model for RNA translocation. According to the textbook model EF-G provides the energy needed for the translocation phase of translation by bringing GTP into the ribosome where GTP is subsequently hydrolysed into GDP. Andrei Zavialov, Vasili Hauryliuk and Mns Ehrenberg from Uppsala University in Sweden f......ansmitters involved in neuronal communication. The textbook view of the synapse describes it as a place where ... means that you can't really trust the traditional textbook view -- in which all the vesicles are released at the active zone -- that's taken for granted now." ...Salk scientists overturn a dogma of nerve cell communication
La Jolla, CA - Every neurobiology textbook invariably states that nerve cells communicate with each other through synapses, the specialized cell-cell contacts found at the end of the cells' threadlike extensions. In this week's journal Science, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological...Wiley to publish new edition of Textbook of Biochemistry in November 2005
...ochemistry with Clinical Correlations, a benchmark textbook in the field of mammalian biochemistry for undergr...ry. With the publication of the sixth edition, the textbook includes new and exciting descriptions of cell biology processes. Additionally, the textbook will b...