Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...nty-five years ago, Avram Hershko took a road less traveled in science and began studying how cells rid themselves of unwanted or damaged proteins. With the help of his colleagues, Hershko discovered the ubiquitin system and eventually determined that it impacts major physiological processes in the body. Scie...Johns Hopkins team wins British biotech business plan competition
...arma, Raymond Cheong and Saurabh Paliwal, recently traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, where they presented their ideas for a fictional commercial biotechnology product to a group of judges representing the UK business and legal professions. Under the fictional name of Innovative Clinical Unlimited, the team out...Gene exchange between species is aided by parasitism
... of attacking plants suggests a way DNA could have traveled between parasite and host, the IU scientists say. As part of their parasitism, dodder cells penetrate the cells of their hosts, making it possible for errant parasite DNA to sidestep several obstacles on its way into a host cell....New bulls may revive the Texas state Bison Herd
... representatives, along with Texas A&M researchers traveled to New Mexico and chose three 1-year-old bison bulls. "We picked the three handsomest, orneriest, teen-aged bulls that were in there," Derr said, laughing. The bulls arrived in January 2003 and have been placed in quarantine as a precaution against...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...ifornia, rarest of the 26 sturgeon species, having traveled 1,000 km north to Canada's Brook's Peninsula. The finding may prompt new protection strategies for this endangered fish, known to spawn only in a few western U.S. rivers. Comparing Past and Present Populations By study...Injured whooping crane recovering at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
... Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, had been shot as it traveled through Kansas on its way south. The bird had 11 pellets in its body and a broken wing. Another crane that was shot during this incident did not survive. The bird arrived at Patuxent on Thurs., Nov. 18, from Kansas State University, where it receive...What have scientists learned since Mount St. Helens erupted?
...udy the aftermath. Crisafulli and his colleagues traveled by helicopter into the volcanic disturbance zones to gather ecological data. Crisafulli, a scientist at the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, spent the next 25 years analyzing data that enabled him to produce long-term data se...Whooping crane shot in Kansas dies
...thern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, was shot as he traveled through Kansas on migration south. The bird had 11 pellets in its body and a broken wing. Another male crane was shot during this incident and did not survive. The injured crane received extensive treatment at Kansas State University before being sen...Research led by UGA professor reports first routine tool use by wild capuchin monkeys
...nvil" areas that indicated long-term use. When she traveled to the area in Brazil where the photographs were taken, she wasn't quite sure what to expect, but soon she saw, from a blind built in front of a nut-cracking site, monkeys coming to break open nuts with huge stones. The study adds important new info...Potent anticancer drug increases function of axons in mouse model of neurodegeneration
...low dose for 12 weeks. At both doses, more protein traveled down the spinal axon and the density of microtubules was greater in the Paxceed-treated mice. The drugs also reduced motor impairment in the tau transgenic mice. Because microtubule-binding drugs such as Paxceed are approved for treating patients wit...Scientists discuss improved biopesticides for locust control in West Africa
...ciate professor of biological systems engineering, traveled to Senegal to speak about their biopesticide research at the "International Scientific Seminar on Desert Locusts" held in Dakar in January. Biopesticides are types of pesticides derived from natural materials such as microbes, principally viruses, ba...UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile
...camera to watch the carrier's movement. "The virus traveled through the animal's bloodstream and homed straight to the cancer cells in the lungs, where the melanoma had migrated," said Chen. When the researchers held the mouse under the camera, the luciferase illuminated the cancer cells, which glowed throu...Restoration efforts in Iraq's degraded marshes to be described in D.C. news briefing and symposium
...nd March of 2004, Richardson and other researchers traveled through the area, often under guard, to conduct water, soil and wildlife surveys. They also worked with Iraqi scientists -- some of whose laboratories had been looted -- to launch rehabilitation projects. Those trips have left Richardson, who is a pr...... Richard Leakey and his team of paleontologists traveled in 1967 to the Kibish Formation along the Omo River in southernmost Ethiopia, near the town of Kibish. They found the skull (minus the face) and partial skeleton (parts of arms, legs, feet and the pelvis) of Omo I, and the top and back of the skull o...2005's highest engineering honors awarded
...ad an elaborate film path to handle the film as it traveled from the supply spool through the exposure frame, paused for exposure, and resumed transport to a spool -- all at 18 inches/second. Ground control operated the camera remotely. DON H. SCHOESSLER was lead engineer of the Kodak film design and prod...Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
...ng. They were so convinced by his report that they traveled to Arkansas and then with Sparling to the bayou where he had seen the bird. On Feb. 27, as Sparling paddled ahead, a large black-and-white woodpecker flew across the bayou less than 70 feet in front of Gallagher and Harrison, who simultaneously crie...University of Chicago researchers reveal secrets of snake flight
...ropping vertically. The best flight Socha recorded traveled 13 degrees from the horizon at the end of its traj... gliders. To collect and study these snakes, Socha traveled to Singapore twice and Thailand once with grants from National Geographic Committee for Research and...Scripps Nierenberg Prize awarded to nature filmmaker Sir David Attenborough
...nriched the lives of all humans." Attenborough has traveled the world making innovative nature programs for more than 50 years. Shortly after joining BBC in 1952, he began hosting the 10-year-long series, Zoo Quest, which helped establish his career as well as the reputation of BBC's Natural History Unit. A l...Fox Chase study shows that weakened T-cell receptor signals change T-cell lineage
...ds diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." "Gamma-delta T cells represent the road less traveled," Wiest said. "However, the role of the TCR in determining lineage is controversial, particularly whether different forms of TCR predetermine a cell's f...One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's
...n regions where the neurons project. The dyes then traveled back to the bodies of the cells in the high vocal center. As a result, replaceable and nonreplaceable neurons could easily be distinguished under the microscope. Then, looking at very thin slices of brain tissue, the researchers used a technique cal...