In new papers appearing this month in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Illinois biochemistry professor Raven H. Huang and his colleagues describe the first RNA repair system to be discovered in bacteria. This is only the second RNA repair system discovered to date (with two proteins from T4 phage, a virus that attacks bacteria, as the first).
“It's going to be hard work whether you think it's fun or not, so you might as well have fun while you're doing the hard work.” - Carol Greider, PhD, 2009 Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine Her application package was a bit unusual, Greider says. “I had great research experience, great letters of recommendation, and outstanding grades, but I had poor GREs.” Although she did not...
( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) In new papers appearing this month in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Illinois biochemistry professor Raven H. Huang and his colleagues describe the first RNA repair system to be discovered in bacteria.
This alarmist article in the Telegraph got a lot of attention from the warmmongers: " Arctic Ocean acid 'will dissolve shells of sea creatures within 10 years' ". Rebuttal from IceCap , October 4: "Alan [Siddons] calls attention to the following chart (enlarged here ): Alan continues: “Cold water absorbs CO2, right? And warm water releases it. So, on the premise that CO2 forms...
Three women won science Nobel Prizes this week - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Ada Yonath . All three are married mothers. After the dust-up over Lawrence Summers' entirely correct comments about the several factors that limit the proportion of women at the top of math and sciences professions, I have been particularly interested in women who combine biochemistry and family life. I think...
When his former colleagues at the University of Utah came to know early on Wednesday that Venkatraman Ramakrishnan had won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, they celebrated by dancing on the streets."We were dancing in the streets," said Jeannine Marlow, wife of Dana Carroll, professor and former chair of biochemistry at the University of Utah, where Ramakrishnan's prize-winning work began between...
On the Nobel Prize front, 2009 is turning into a banner year for both nucleic acid chemistry and women scientists. As I posted earlier this week , two of the three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine ("for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase") are women. And today it was announced that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Ada...
Barking Dogs and Moving Caravans Remember this post? Buj the Arab blogger brings glad tidings to his readers: Israel will not survive beyond the next five years The same Buj delights in antisemitic cartoons And encourages others to follow his inclination to publish the emetic cartoons produced by the feverish imagination of a Holocaust-denying cartoonist Holocaust denial and a yearning for the destruction...
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel drugs for the treatment of multi-antibiotic resistant infections, today announced that Rib-X Co-Founder and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and a Howard Hughes Medical...
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Abodes - Using large space-based telescopes (> 10-meter) Astronomers could search for terrestrial planets with atmospheres suitable for life as we know it. Spectroscopy could be used to detect the presence of Ozone, an indicator of oxygen in the...
venkatraman ramakrishnan nobel, thomas a. steitz, venkatraman ramakrishnan wiki, nobel prize chemistry 2009, The Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners 2009 have been announced. The winners are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for their studies of the structure of the ribosome . Their research is one which tries to understand one of life most important process that is the ribosome’s...
Carol Greider, Ph.D., for 10 years a CSHL Fellow and Faculty Investigator, made major discoveries in telomere biochemistry and regulation (PRWeb Oct 6, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/CSHL/Nobel_Prize/prweb2996664.htm
It was announced today that Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostack won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their "discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase." While the winners' biochemical studies have been extremely important in our understanding of how cells divide, what has caught the attention of science fiction writers is...
The tweet came just about an hour ago announcing the well-deserved and much-predicted award of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Elizabeth Blackburn , Carol Greider , and Jack Szostak for their work on "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase." I wrote about this team and their accomplishments three years ago when the won the Albert Lasker Award...
Richard Feinman, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and of family medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, will speak at the annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes on Oct. 2, 2009. EASD is holding its annual conference Sept. 28-Oct. 2 in Vienna, Austria.Dr. Feinman will be one of four speakers covering the topic, "Controversies in Dietary...
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