Archive for the ‘Biology / Biochemistry’ Category
Monday, February 25th, 2008
This conference, taking place June 22-26, 2008 at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada will use a cross-disciplinary approach to explore the present and future status of natural products and their prospects for continued commercialization. It will focus on a comprehensive view of recent developments impacting the discovery and production of natural ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
The view into the inner world of living cells just got a little brighter and more colorful. A powerful new research tool, when used with other labeling technologies, allows simultaneous visualization of two or more different proteins as well as the ability to distinguish young and old copies of a ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Sodium, Calcium, Potassium and Skin Color
Skin color is one of the most visible indicators that helps distinguish human appearance, and a new study provides more detail as to how one protein helps produce this wide palette.
In 2005 researchers identified a gene called SLC24A5 as a key determinant of skin color. ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The focus of two recent Nobel prizes, a species of roundworm has made possible another advance in the understanding of how cells talk to one another, according to a study published online Feb. 21 in the journal Current Biology.
In 2002, researchers won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Biological and medical research is on the threshold of a new era based on better understanding of how large organic molecules bind together and recognise each other. There is great potential for exploiting the molecular docking processes that are commonplace in all organisms to develop new drugs that act more ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Growth hormone boosts immune cell numbers
Individuals who are infected with HIV-1 are often highly susceptible to life-threatening infections because they are depleted of a subset of immune cells known as CD4+ T cells. A new study of individuals infected with HIV-1 by Laura Napolitano and colleagues at the Institute of ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Biochemists in Japan are reporting development of a long-sought direct test for identifying the presence E. coli bacteria that get into water and food as a result of fecal contamination. That contamination causes millions of cases of food poisoning and other gastrointestinal illness around the world each year. Their study ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, and the Honourable John Baird, Minister of the Environment, announced further action under the Chemicals Management Plan. Announced by the Prime Minister on December 8, 2006, the plan will accelerate risk assessment and subsequent management actions for priority chemicals.
"We are taking the issue ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
The editors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have selected six outstanding PNAS papers for the 2007 Cozzarelli Prize, an award for papers that reflect the highest standards of scientific excellence and originality.
The award was established in 2005 as the PNAS Paper of the Year Prize ...
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