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    Petition fights closing of healthy dining hall  Oct 1, 2009
    "Personally, I'm going to be very disappointed if there isn't a dining hall dedicated to healthy eating," Hostetler (sophomore-biochemistry and molecular biology) said. Sahba Oboudiyat, Hostetler's roommate, said while the decision may be unfortunate, he understands the need for more residential space to be satisfied. (Daily Collegian, PA)

    Transgenic Songbirds Provide New Tool To Understand The Brain  Sep 30, 2009
    "With transgenic songbirds, we hope to have a splendid tool to get into the molecular biology of vocal learning and neuronal replacement in an adult vertebrate brain," Nottebohm says. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)

    New Sequencing Technique Could Boost Pine Beetle Fight, Improve Cancer Research  Sep 30, 2009
    29, 2009) UBC researchers have helped developed a cheaper, faster way to compile draft genome sequences that could advance the fight against mountain pine beetle (MPB) infestation and improve cancer research. Current sequencing methods have a variety of advantages and disadvantages--including the cost involved. (Science Daily)

    Stimulus-funded university research addressing issues from climate change to cancer, creating jobs and training a new generation of scientists  Sep 30, 2009
    The university's new Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, one of 16 Energy Frontier Research Centers funded through the ARRA, will support the study of the molecular biology of cellulose. Understanding this will aid in developing better methods for converting plant biomass into fuel. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)

    Scientists discover clues to what makes human muscle age  Sep 30, 2009
    The findings will be reported in the Sept. 30 issue of the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine, a peer-reviewed, scientific publication of the European Molecular Biology Organization. "Our study shows that the ability of old human muscle to be maintained and repaired by muscle stem cells can be restored to youthful vigor given the right mix of biochemical signals," said Professor Irina Conboy, a faculty member in the graduate bioengineering program that is run jointly by UC Berkeley and UC San... (EurekAlert!)

    How the 100th protein structure solved at Diamond impacts our understanding of how insects smell  Sep 30, 2009
    Published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, the study was carried out by Dr Jing-Jiang Zhou and colleagues at the world's oldest agricultural research centre and the largest UK facility, Rothamsted Research, in collaboration with Professor Nick Keep's group from the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at Birkbeck, University of London. Dr Jing-Jiang Zhou, Senior Research Scientist in insect molecular biology at Rothamsted Research, studies insect olfaction and chemical ecology at... (EurekAlert!)

    Study gives insight into ancestral population of India  Sep 30, 2009
    "We understand that incidence of genetic diseases among Indians is different from populations in the rest of the world," scientists from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and Harvard Medical School said in a study published in scientific journal 'Nature. They have also predicted that there will an excess of 'recessive diseases' (single gene disorder that occur only when an individual carries two malfunctioning copies of the relevant genes) in India which should be possible to... (India Times, India -- Health/Science)

    Uganda: It's Highly Unlikely That 'God' Exists  Sep 26, 2009
    It should be noted that anyone accepting the claims of Creationism as true is in complete conflict; not only with evolutionary biology but also everything we know from physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, cosmology, molecular biology, genomics, linguistics, anthropology and archaeology - whose findings are completely incompatible with Creationism (including the global flood myth). A good number of fundamentalist Christians have realised this problem and have opted to abandon any respect for... (allAfrica.com)

    Mechanism for potential Friedreich's ataxia drug uncovered  Sep 26, 2009
    "It will be very rewarding if our work actually leads to a therapy for Friedreich's," says Joel Gottesfeld, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and leader of the Scripps Research team that discovered the potential treatment. "This is a horrible disease.". (EurekAlert!)

    Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study  Sep 25, 2009
    there is no north-south divide,'' Lalji Singh, former director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and a co-author of the study, said at a press conference here on Thursday. Senior CCMB scientist Kumarasamy Thangarajan said there was no truth to the Aryan-Dravidian theory as they came hundreds or thousands of years after the ancestral north and south Indians had settled in India. (India Times, India)

    DNA trawl shows long history of India's castes  Sep 25, 2009
    "It is impossible to distinguish castes from tribes using the data," Kumarasamy Thangaraj of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India, who worked on the study, said in a statement. "This supports the view that castes grew directly out of tribal-like organizations during the formation of Indian society.". (India Times, India)

    Official plans new research centers  Sep 24, 2009
    Dr. Valerie Hu, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is the chair of the 15-person committee. She said she has been working on autism research for more than five years and had been working on the possibility of creating an autism research center, but her plan was much narrower than Chalupa's vision. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)

    Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobel Laureates  Sep 24, 2009
    USA -and- Carol W. Greider Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Md. USA -and- Jack W. Szostak Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital; also, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Boston, Mass. (PR Newswire)

    How Proteins Talk To Each Other  Sep 24, 2009
    The paper was published on September 20 in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Prior to this study, scientists believed that proteases primarily cleave in unstructured loops, unstable parts of proteins that are readily accessible. (Science Daily)

    INDIA CASTES  Sep 24, 2009
    "It is impossible to distinguish castes from tribes using the data," Kumarasamy Thangaraj of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India, who worked on the study, said in a statement. "This supports the view that castes grew directly out of tribal-like organizations during the formation of Indian society." (Editing by Julie Steenhuysen and David Storey). (AlertNet)

    XOMA to Develop Therapeutic Antibody for H1N1 and H5N1 Influenza Viruses Under $2.2 Million U.S. Government Program Managed by SRI International  Sep 24, 2009
    Results from initial evaluations of the antibody were recently published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology (Sui, et al. 2009, 16(3):265-73). "The first line of defense against any flu virus is vaccination, although the pandemic outbreak of influenza presents challenges to quickly manufacture enough vaccine to treat the population," said Patrick J. Scannon, M.D., Ph. (Primezone Releases)

    Ancestral Populations Of India Revealed  Sep 24, 2009
    The study, which has medical implications for people of Indian descent, was led by scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad, India together with US researchers at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.. "This work is an outstanding example of the power of international collaboration," said Lalji Singh, senior author of the Nature paper, who is a Bhatnagar Fellow and the former director of... (Science Daily)

    To Regenerate Muscle, Cellular Garbage Men Must Become Builders  Sep 24, 2009
    23, 2009) For scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo, Italy, what seemed like a disappointing result turned out to be an important discovery ... (Credit: Image courtesy of European Molecular Biology Laboratory). (Science Daily)

    Read more...  Sep 23, 2009
    an ornithologist drawing from molecular biology, ecology, and paleontology to explore the development and evolution of birds (Richard Prum). a papermaker reinvigorating the art of hand-papermaking and the preservation of traditional Western and Japanese techniques and practices (Timothy Barrett); and. (PNN Online)

    Basic Cytoskeletal Proteins  Sep 22, 2009
    Alberts et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th Ed. 2002. The copyright of the article Basic Cytoskeletal Proteins in is owned by. (Suite101.com)

    Photos: 24 New MacArthur Fellows Announced  Sep 22, 2009
    an ornithologist drawing from molecular biology, material science, and behavioral analyses to explore the development and evolution of birds (Richard Prum). a papermaker reinvigorating the art of hand-papermaking and the preservation of traditional Western and Japanese techniques and practices (Timothy Barrett); and. (PR Newswire)

    Import may be killing off Isle birds  Sep 22, 2009
    University of Hawai'i zoologist Leonard Freed, the lead author of the paper published last week in Current Biology, says the research done by him and his wife, Rebecca Cann, UH professor of cell and molecular biology, indicates that the population of all but one species of native birds in the midlevel elevations of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge began declining as the numbers of white-eye birds started swelling around 2000. The two scientists concluded that the white-eyes' hearty... (Honolulu Advertiser)

    Protein Helps Distinguish Chromosome Ends From DNA Breaks  Sep 21, 2009
    The work, published in The EMBO Journal, a publication of the European Molecular Biology Organization, follows the team's 2007 in vitro demonstration of the role of the hRAP1 protein in preventing chromosome ends from being fused to new DNA breaks. See also. (Science Daily)

    Mechanism Related To Onset Of Various Genetic Diseases Revealed  Sep 21, 2009
    20, 2009) Researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Universitat Aut;noma de Barcelona (UAB) have revealed the process by which proteins with a tendency to cause conformational diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, familial amyloidotic cardiomyopathy, etc ... Through computational analysis, researchers Salvador Ventura and Virg;nia Castillo, from the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, have discovered... (Science Daily)

    Discovery Of Regulatory Role Of Key Molecule: Step Towards Future Gene Therapy To Control Disease  Sep 19, 2009
    This research was performed by doctoral students Nurit Yannay-Cohen and Irit Carmi-Levy within the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Institute for Medical Research - Israel-Canada, at the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine. The research was done under the guidance of Prof. (Science Daily)

    Spotted®: The focus is on you!  Sep 19, 2009
    D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and Institute of Bioinformatics; Mandi Murph, Ph. D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, College of Pharmacy; and Jia-Sheng Wang, M.D., Ph. (Athens Banner-Herald)

    Baumann Lab demonstrates role of protein in distinguishing chromosome ends from DNA breaks  Sep 18, 2009
    The work, published in The EMBO Journal, a publication of the European Molecular Biology Organization, follows the team's 2007 in vitro demonstration of the role of the hRAP1 protein in preventing chromosome ends from being fused to new DNA breaks. Chromosomes are linear. (EurekAlert!)

    Penn State College of Medicine research isolates liver cancer stem cells prior to tumor formation  Sep 18, 2009
    Enrolling its first students in 1967, the College of Medicine at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center confers the doctor of medicine degree and, in conjunction with the University's Graduate School, offers doctor of philosophy degrees in anatomy, biochemistry and molecular biology, bioengineering, cell and molecular biology, genetics, immunology and infectious diseases, integrative biosciences (options in bioinformatics and genomics and chemical biology), microbiology and immunology,... (EurekAlert!)

    Link Between Protein And Lung Disease Found  Sep 17, 2009
    D., the study's senior author and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston ... Blackburn is director of the Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UT Medical School ... The study is titled "Adenosine and osteopontin contribute to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Other contributors from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology were graduate students Janci C.... (Science Daily)

    Guide on lung cancer in 'never-smokers': A different disease and different treatments  Sep 17, 2009
    The committee reviewed available evidence from several hundred studies published by experts in public health, epidemiology, molecular biology, pathology and oncology to identify distinctive characteristics of never-smokers with lung cancer. Among the guide's recommendations is one calling on organizers of lung cancer clinical trials to classify subjects by their smoking status and evaluate outcomes accordingly. (EurekAlert!)

    New Antituberculosis Compounds Discovered  Sep 17, 2009
    (May 30, 2006) Researchers from the Hamburg Outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB) in Berlin have now obtained a structural image. (Sep. (Science Daily)

    Blood Vessels Contribute To Their Own Growth And Oxygen Delivery To Tissues And Tumors  Sep 16, 2009
    Bautch, who is also a member of the Program in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, the UNC McAllister Heart Institute and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, notes that the more scientists understand about the sophistication and complexity of the mechanisms guiding the formation of blood vessel sprouts, the better equipped they will be to develop therapeutic interventions to produce or to halt new blood vessels. Funding for study came from the National Institutes of Health and the... (Science Daily)

    High-res View Of Zinc Transport Protein Reveals Shape-shifting Atomic Interactions; Suggests Mechanism And Possible Drug Targets  Sep 15, 2009
    The new findings, to be published online on September 13, 2009, by Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, also suggest targets for zinc-regulating drugs, and may even advance the understanding of similar zinc-regulating enzymes in plant chloroplasts with possible implications for biofuel production. "Our goal is to reveal atomic interactions in a protein structure to understand the chemistry that underlies the protein's biological function," said Brookhaven biologist Dax Fu, who led the... (Science Daily)

    SCIENCE All dogs may have origins in Chinese wolves  Sep 15, 2009
    It was published last week in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. In 2002, Savolainen wrote that dogs had been domesticated from wolves in East Asia, a conclusion that was challenged last month by a team at Cornell University. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    Sequenced BAC anchored reference genetic map that reconciles the ten individual chromosomes of Brassica rapa  Sep 15, 2009
    In view of the immense value of Brassica rapa in the fields of agriculture and molecular biology, the multinational Brassica rapa Genome Sequencing Project (BrGSP) was launched in 2003 by five countries. The developing BrGSP has valuable resources for the community, including a reference genetic map and seed BAC sequences. (BioMed Central)

    No comments posted.  Sep 15, 2009
    Then Bigley got his doctorate in molecular biology, Stapleton said, and went to work at a genetics company. Stapleton, a dentist, said Bigley worked with lasers and other high-tech equipment. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)

    Dandelion Rubber? Researchers Make Russian Dandelion Suitable For Large-scale Rubber Production  Sep 12, 2009
    Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Aachen have now come a step nearer to large-scale rubber production from dandelions. We have identified the enzyme responsible for the rapid polymerization and have switched it off, says Prof. (Science Daily)

    Indonesian scientist finds anti-cancer compound  Sep 12, 2009
    According to Indroyono Susilo, the former of the BRKP's head, the following research is possibly conducted in Indonesia by cooperating with related research agencies, like the Indonesian Science Institution (LIPI) and Eijkman Molecular Biology Institution. Researches by foreign researchers in Indonesian waters have managed to isolate 66 organisms that have medicine potential, with49 of them from sponge species. (Xinhuanet, China)

    • Events calendar  Sep 11, 2009
    Ricard is a Buddhist monk with a doctorate in molecular biology, as well as a best-selling author, photographer and French translator to the Dalai Lama ... Ricard is a Buddhist monk with a doctorate in molecular biology, as well as a best-selling author, photographer and French translator to the Dalai Lama. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)

    High Fruit And Vegetable Intake Linked To Antioxidant Status And Cognitive Performance In Healthy Subjects  Sep 11, 2009
    10, 2009) Researchers at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I of the Heinrich-Heine University, D. sseldorf, Germany, investigated the relationship between fruit and vegetable intake, plasma antioxidant micronutrient status and cognitive performance in healthy subjects aged 45 to 102 years. (Science Daily)

    Real learning lost in chase for test scores  Sep 10, 2009
    Jonathan King Cambridge The writer is a professor of molecular biology at MIT.. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)

    Plants on steroids: Key missing link discovered  Sep 9, 2009
    The research team unraveled the pathway in cells of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard often used as a model organism in plant molecular biology. "This is the first completely connected signaling pathway from a plant receptor-like kinase, which is one of the biggest gene families in plants," says Carnegie's Zhi-Yong Wang, leader of the research team. (EurekAlert!)

    Johnson & Johnson Honors 2009 Recipient of The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research  Sep 8, 2009
    Dr. Ullrich, director for the Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, was presented with the Award during a ceremony at The Dr. Paul Janssen Research Center in Beerse, Belgium, where he received the $100,000 prize. "Dr. Ullrich's pioneering research translated genomics-based discoveries into new treatments that improve the lives of millions of patients," said Harlan Weisman, M.D., chief science and technology officer, Medical Devices & Diagnostics,... (PR Newswire)

    Lipid Involved With Gene Regulation Uncovered; Findings May Lead To Development Of Drugs To Fight Cancer  Sep 7, 2009
    D., professor and chair in the VCU Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and co-leader of the VCU Massey Cancer Center's cancer cell biology program, reported that the cell nucleus, which contains the DNA that codes for all of our genes, also contains and produces S1P that is important for the regulation of certain genes. Researchers have known that the nucleus contains several kinds of lipids, but their functions have remained unknown until now. (Science Daily)

    Rogue protein 'spreads in brain'  Sep 7, 2009
    Dr Michel Goedert of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, worked on the study. He said: "This opens new avenues in dementia research that will aim to understand how abnormal tau can spread. "We can also investigate how diseases caused by tau aggregates and prions are similar. (BBC News -- Health)

    Salon fund-raiser to benefit cancer-stricken teenager  Sep 5, 2009
    Schuyler was headed for the University of Albany this autumn to major in molecular biology. He was planning on studying the causes of disease, O Brien noted. (Harwich Oracle, MA)

    New Switch That Causes The Body To Produce Cancerous Cells Discovered  Sep 5, 2009
    The paper was designated as the "Paper of the Week" in the September 4 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), published by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Only the top 1 percent of the more than 6,600 articles published each year in JBC receives this prestigious designation. (Science Daily)

    Dogs First Tamed in China -- To Be Food?  Sep 5, 2009
    The new work, published Wednesday in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, bolsters the long-held theory that first became "man's best friend" in East Asia. That based on a DNA analysis of so-called village dogs in Africa. (National Geographic)

    'Naming Nature,' by Carol Kaesuk Yoon  Sep 5, 2009
    The influx of molecular biology into the world of taxonomy started a battle that Yoon refers to as "molecules vs. morphology." ... Aparna Sreenivasan is an assistant professor of cell and molecular biology at California State University Monterey Bay. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    * Research team wins science prize  Sep 4, 2009
    The Taiwanese researchers, headed by Chien Cheng-ting (), a research fellow and professor at Academia Sinicas Institute of Molecular Biology, were responsible for the study on Gcm (glial cell missing) protein degradation, while the French researchers, headed by Angela Giangrande, focused on studying glial progenitors. Our research aims to study how to prevent abnormal proliferation of glial cells, a development that could lead to the growth of glioblastoma, a type of tumor cell, Chien... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)

    * World News Quick Take  Sep 4, 2009
    The findings were presented in the scientific journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. The team studied the genetic makeup of 1,500 dogs in Asia, Africa and Europe and were able to trace back the geographical origin to southern China. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)

    New Compound Shrinks Skin Cancers  Sep 4, 2009
    De Sauvage is vice president of research, molecular biology, at Genentech, which developed the molecule and funded the study ... D., vice president, research, molecular biology, Genentech; Charles M. Rudin, M.D., Ph. (MEDLINEplus)

    Baylor researchers find fat cell blocker  Sep 4, 2009
    Dubbed fatostatin, the molecule blocks a protein in the cell that starts the cascade of events that turns on the 63 genes in the nucleus responsible for the generation of fat cells, said Salih Wakil, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at BCM. ... Lutfi Abu-Elheiga, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at BCM was also a major contributor. (Houston Business Journal, TX)

    Solving the dilemma of gender imbalance  Sep 4, 2009
    According to a publication from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), A Persistent Problem - Traditional Gender Roles (EMBO reports, Vo. 8, No 11, 2007) fewer women than men apply for fellowships - and when they do, they are less likely to succeed than their male counterparts: from 1996 onwards the success rate of women who apply for EMBO Long-Term Fellowships has been 20 per cent lower than that of men. (FirstScience.com)

    The cradle of tamed canines? China  Sep 3, 2009
    "Researchers, writing in Molecular Biology and Evolution, also said that the time for the emergence of the dog conforms well with when the population in that part of the world went from being hunters and gatherers to being farmers, which was 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.PreviousNextTo report corrections and clarifications, contact Reader Editor . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections,... (USA Today -- Tech)

    The One Thing  Sep 3, 2009
    Bruce N. Ames, a world renowned biochemist and professor of molecular biology, and Thomas H. Jukes, professor of biophysics and a foremost expert on DDT, from the University of California at Berkeley yes, that "right-wing kook tank" U.C. Berkeley said of the attack on DDT: "This is nonsense.". Wayland Hayes, U.S. public health service scientist, for 18 months, fed to human volunteers, daily, three times the quantity of DDT that the average American was ingesting annually. (Fox News)

    Mice Living In Sandy Hills Quickly Evolved Lighter Coloration  Sep 3, 2009
    "It's an exciting time in biology, with the integration of field studies, genetic analysis, and developmental and molecular biology enabling us to connect genes and molecular mechanisms with species' traits in the wild. In the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and on the 150th anniversary of his publication of On the Origin of Species, this study vividly illustrates the power of natural selection.". The Sand Hills, rolling dunes occupying more than a quarter of Nebraska's area, were created... (Science Daily)

    Boron-based compounds trick a biomedical protein  Sep 3, 2009
    The "proof of concept" was completed in the Institute of Molecular Biology lab of the UO physicist Brian W. Matthews, where Liu's synthesized compound was treated with T4 lysozymes, crystallized and examined with high-resolution X-ray crystallography ... Links: Shih-Yuan Liu's faculty page: Brian Matthews' faculty page: Institute of Molecular Biology: Chemistry department. (EurekAlert!)

    Cell Metabolism Publishes Novel TGR5-Mediated Mechanism for the Treatment of Diabetes and Obesity  Sep 2, 2009
    The newly published results were generated through a longstanding exclusive Intercept research collaboration with Professor Pellicciari and his medicinal chemistry team at the University of Perugia (Italy), together with Professor Johan Auwerx and Dr. Kristina Schoonjans who lead a molecular biology and metabolic phenotyping group at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Highlights of the Cell Metabolism paper, titled "TGR5-Mediated Bile Acid Sensing Controls Glucose Homeostasis",... (PR Newswire)

    Cradle And Birthday Of The Dog Identified  Sep 2, 2009
    These discoveries are presented in an article in the scientific journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, where it is claimed that the dog appeared 16,000 years ago, in Asia, south of the Yangtze River in China ... Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2009. (Science Daily)

    ChIP and vector recombineering methods featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols  Sep 2, 2009
    Since 1933, it has furthered the advance and spread of scientific knowledge in all areas of genetics and molecular biology, including cancer biology, plant science, bioinformatics, and neurobiology. It is a division of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an innovator in life science research and the education of scientists, students, and the public. (EurekAlert!)

    Nuevolution Announces New Research Collaboration With Big Pharma  Aug 31, 2009
    The company has developed Chemetics(R), a unique, patent protected hybrid of proven wet chemistry and molecular biology which represents the ultimate fragment based lead discovery technology. Chemetics(R) enables rapid synthesis and DNA-tagging of hundreds of millions of chemically diverse drug-like small molecule compounds and the efficient screening of these, facilitating the identification of potent drug leads at unprecedented quantity, quality and speed compared to existing lead discovery... (PR Newswire)

    'Cancer hope' from WWII drug  Aug 31, 2009
    "It will probably only be relevant to a small proportion of patients who have bowel cancer, as HNPCC is only responsible for about 5% of bowel cancer cases. However, this is another positive step in using molecular biology and genetics to individualise a patient's treatment.". Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)

    Super-sized Tiny Proteins: Software Helps Biologists Visualize Molecules  Aug 28, 2009
    The Graz researchers are hoping this will give new drive to molecular biology and the development of medicines. At the moment they are working on extending and improving the user interface. (Science Daily)

    Misfolded Proteins: The Fundamental Problem Is Aging  Aug 28, 2009
    "Our data suggest that, in terms of therapeutics, you have to start early to prevent damage and keep cells healthy," said Morimoto, Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "When you see a loss of function, it's too late.". (Science Daily)

    When Is The Pineapple Ripe? New System Uses Metal Oxide Sensors To Detect Safety And Quality Of Foods  Aug 28, 2009
    The system has been developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Schmallenberg and for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg. It checks gas emissions on-line directly in the warehouse for instance. (Science Daily)

    Newly Discovered Mechanism In Cell Division Has Implications For Chromosome's Role In Cancer  Aug 27, 2009
    The biologist in question is University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Phong Tran, PhD. With physicist Francois Nedelec of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and Guilhem Velve-Casquillas, PhD, a postdoc in Tran's lab who helped develop a device requiring nano-scale technology used in the study, Tran uncovered the molecular players and mechanism underlying a little-studied stage of cellular division called... (Science Daily)

    Korle Bu to start DNA testing in December  Aug 27, 2009
    The 178,000 euro molecular biology laboratory for the DNA chromosomal analysis is expected to be operational in three weeks to be manned by one of only two Ghanaian qualified and licensed bio medical scientists,Mr. Augustine E. Sagoe. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Small peptide found to stop lung cancer tumor growth in mice  Aug 27, 2009
    D., director of the Molecular Biology Core Laboratory in the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at the School of Medicine. "Those other 85 people 85 percent they're not going to see their kids graduate. They're not going to see their children get married.". (EurekAlert!)

    Furloughs a worry at UGA  Aug 27, 2009
    Bill Lanzilotta, a professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology, questioned how fair it is to ask those people to take furlough days, which will not save any money for the state. Lanzilotta also asked if it is fair to require professors working on nine-month contracts to take six furlough days, the same as professors on 12-month contracts. (Athens Banner-Herald)

    Messenger RNA Are Lost In Translation: Study Challenges Current View  Aug 26, 2009
    25, 2009) Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine assistant professor in the Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Jeff Coller, Ph. D., and his team discovered that messenger RNA (mRNA) predominately degrade on ribosomes, fundamentally altering a common understanding of how gene expression is controlled within the cell. (Science Daily)

    Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment tours GAEC  Aug 26, 2009
    Research activities of the institute include the use of plant tissue culture for rapid multiplication, disease elimination and germplasm storage and exchange, molecular biology and analysis of mineral nutrients in staple food crops. 25 Aug. 09. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Grants welcomes new physician - Gina Perez-Baron, MD  Aug 25, 2009
    Dr. Perez-Baron received her medical degree from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Francisco State University. She completed her Family Practice residency at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, Calif. (Grants Cibola County Beacon, NM)

    Cell Reproduction Research May Point To 'Off Switch' For Cancer  Aug 25, 2009
    They undergo dramatic shifts in shape when they do so, said Aaron DeWard, an MSU cell and molecular biology doctoral candidate who published his research recently in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. He s trying to figure out how certain proteins trigger cell movement and division and how cancer hijacks the system to create genomic instability. (Science Daily)

    Case Western Reserve University researcher demonstrates that messenger RNA are lost in translation  Aug 24, 2009
    CLEVELAND August 23, 2009 Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine assistant professor in the Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Jeff Coller, Ph. D., and his team discovered that messenger RNA (mRNA) predominately degrade on ribosomes, fundamentally altering a common understanding of how gene expression is controlled within the cell. (EurekAlert!)

    New Images Capture Cell's Ribosomes At Work  Aug 24, 2009
    Ribosomes, which number in the millions in a single human cell, have long been considered the "black boxes" in molecular biology. "We know what goes in and what comes out of ribosomes, but we're only beginning to learn about what is going on in between," said the study's principal investigator, Jamie Cate, UC Berkeley associate professor in chemistry and molecular and cell biology, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (Science Daily)

    Freshmen make big jump  Aug 24, 2009
    Esteban Luna (sophomore-biochemistry and molecular biology), who is a resident assistant for the third floor of McKean Hall, echoed the sentiment. "This year is very smooth, and freshmen seem very social," he said. (Daily Collegian, PA)

    Cambridge biologist begins training as astronaut candidate  Aug 24, 2009
    At 30, she s a rising star of molecular biology, known for researching dangerous viruses in the Congo. Now, ready for her next adventure, she is circling back to her first choice, leaving the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research to begin training today as an astronaut candidate. (Boston Globe)

    Raising The Alarm When DNA Goes Bad: 'Rapid Response Team' Monitors And Quickly Responds To DNA Damage  Aug 23, 2009
    In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have identified a whole family of proteins capable of a direct response to the alarm signal ... In recent weeks, scientists have for the first time worked out how PAR is rapidly detected by the cell; in their Nature Structural and Molecular Biology paper, the group of Andreas Ladurner and their colleagues at EMBL have identified a whole family... (Science Daily)

    Key Feature Of Immune System Survived In Humans, Other Primates For 60 Million Years  Aug 23, 2009
    1, 2004) A team of biochemists from UC Riverside published a paper in the June 11 issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology that gives one explanation for why humans and primates are so closely related. (Sep. (Science Daily)

    Progesterone Leads To Inflammation, Scientists Find  Aug 22, 2009
    Progesterone previously has been identified as a risk factor for breast cancer, and in a study published in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MSU scientists examined the genes activated by progesterone and the effects of their activation in a mouse model system. Exposure to progesterone in normal amounts and in normal circumstances causes inflammation, which promotes breast development. (Science Daily)

    New Targets For Treatment Of Invasive Breast Cancer Discovered  Aug 21, 2009
    20, 2009) Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has shown for the first time that a tiny piece of RNA appears to play a major role in the development of invasive breast cancer and identified a gene that appears to inhibit invasive breast cancer. The research is published in the August 21, 2009 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. (Science Daily)

    Key Factor That Stimulates Brain Cancer Cells To Spread Identified  Aug 21, 2009
    The study's first author was Adam Burgoyne, a graduate student in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Case Western. Case Western faculty who contributed to the study included neurosurgeons Shenandoah Robinson, M.D. and Andrew E. Sloan, M.D., and Robert H Miller, Ph. (Science Daily)

    Princeton team learns why some drugs pack such a punch  Aug 21, 2009
    In a study appearing in the Aug. 7 edition of the journal Science, Thomas Silhavy, Princeton's Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, and Johna van Stelten, a graduate student, working with two Swiss researchers have uncovered how some antibiotics in common use for 50 years -- tetracycline and chloramphenicol -- can be so lethal against certain strains of bacteria. Simply put, these drugs plug things up. (EurekAlert!)

    Antibiotics Being Prescribed Less for Respiratory Infections  Aug 20, 2009
    Dr. Stuart B. Levy, president of the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics and a professor of medicine, molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine, said he thinks the trend toward less antibiotic use is encouraging ... Stuart B. Levy, M.D., president, Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, professor, medicine and molecular biology and microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston; Aug. 19, 2009, Journal of the American Medical Association. (MEDLINEplus)

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