The University of New Hampshire sent a letter Friday (September 7) to the banned chair of the biochemistry and molecular biology department, saying that he can be reinstated but no longer as the chair of the department, a faculty member in the department just informed The Scientist. As I linkurl:reported;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53383/ in July, John Collins, who has been chair of the department for two years, was banned from campus on June 29, a day after kicking a trash can, y

BioMed Central (a sister company of The Scientist) announced today that Microsoft will be sponsoring BMC's annual research awards -- funding two $5000 prizes for research of major significance published in any of BMC's linkurl:open access;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53366/ journals in 2007. Lee Dirks, the director of scholarly communication for Microsoft Research (a research branch of Microsoft that also collaborates with colleges and universities) said in the press release: "We a

Solving the Viral Spike Can structural biology find a chink in HIV's armor? By Andrea Gawrylewski Related Articles 5 HIV Treatment Strategies A piggyback attack: Using the common cold to deliver an HIV vaccine The best offense? CCR5 inhibitors, with one now on the market, suggest it may be a good defense Stem cells and gene therapy: Researchers take a second look at using stem cells to treat HIV Reconstructing early HIV: The search for immuno

Credit: © Eye of Science / Photo Researchers, Inc." /> Credit: © Eye of Science / Photo Researchers, Inc. The paper: S. Adl et al., "The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists," J Eukaryotic Microbiol, 52:399-451, 2005. (Cited in 79 papers) The need: "The last classification endorsed by the [International Society of Protozoologists] was published in 1980," says Dennis Lynn at University of

Credit: © SEAN MACLEOD PHOTOGRAPHY" /> Credit: © SEAN MACLEOD PHOTOGRAPHY Henrik Kaessmann is not a trained bioinformaticist. He acquired his computational skills after his PhD, on the road to uncovering the subtleties of gene origin and function, with many of his projects operating on a grand scale. Over the short evolution of his career, however, he has become one of the world's foremost bioinformatics researchers. Kaessmann's first large-scale project was during his

A graduate researcher at the linkurl:University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC);http://www.umc.edu/ in Jackson, Mississippi, was treated for exposure to anthrax on Saturday (August 11), according to a news release from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The researcher was working in the Biosafety Level 3 high containment lab on Saturday, August 11, where UMC conducts anthrax research. According to the UMC release, the student inoculated a flask of medium with anthrax cells and,

The wait is over for those eager to know who will be building the fastest computer in the world. Yesterday, August 8, the NSF linkurl:decided;http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109850&org=NSF&from=news to award $208 million to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for its "Track One" proposal to build a supercomputer with more than a petaflop of processing power -- a whopping 1000-trillion calculations per second. As I linkurl:reported;http://www.the-scientist.com/2007/8/1/4

To characterize transcriptional regulation in human embryonic stem cells Richard Young at the Whitehead Institute and colleagues used a genome-wide analysis with chromatin immunoprecipitation and DNA microarrays, finding that transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG target 353 genes, roughly half of which are not expressed. They also found that the three transcription factors co-occupy genes' promoter regions to regulate each others' activity.

The Bytes Behind Biology BigBen's 21 cabinets hold 4,136 processors Performing 21 trillion calculations per second, a supercomputer in Pittsburgh provided the first atomic-level look at the inner workings of the nuclear pore complex. That's just one of its accomplishments. By Andrea Gawrylewski ARTICLE EXTRAS 1 Preexisting models, based on electron microscopy and experimental work, had suggested four calcium binding sites to facilitate neurotransmission. Stiles

Video: Frog Neuromuscular Junction var FO = { movie:"http://images.the-scientist.com/supplementary/flash/53439/bio.swf", width:"400", height:"320", majorversion:"8", build:"0"}; UFO.create(FO, "ufoDemo"); Please download the Adobe Flash Player to view this content: Frog neuromuscular junction fly-through. Shown in red is a large muscle fiber (diameter 50 micrometers) that is innervated by a myelinated axon colored in white. The interface between muscle and a

Adding 'super' to 'computer' By Andrea Gawrylewski ARTICLE EXTRAS The bytes behind biology The visible human Video: Frog neuromuscular junction The International Headquarters of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Monroeville, Pa., is a black glass-paneled fortress dedicated to nuclear energy research. All except the basement, that is, where underneath the formidable security check-in desk, and the two towers of labs and offices and sunlit hallways, more than 4,000 Pit

The visible human By Andrea Gawrylewski ARTICLE EXTRAS The bytes behind biology Adding 'super' to 'computer' Video: Frog neuromuscular junction In 1991, Vic Spitzer and David Whitlock at the University of Colorado at Boulder went hunting for cadavers - one male, one female. It took two years to find bodies that were considered normal - meaning of feasible proportions (no more than six feet tall, 20 inches wide, and 14 inches deep), and no history of cancer, operatio