Search Results for 'Biology'

F. Hoffmann - La Roche: Exploring Opportunities in Chemical ...

rug discovery scientists need to broaden their approaches to pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) and Medicinal Chemistry, to take advantage of untapped opportunities, says Torsten Hoffmann, Head Discovery Chemistry at F. Ho [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Synthetic biology

Earlier this year, scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute reported in the journal Science that they had designed and created a synthetic chromosome which they transplanted into a living cell. The living cell created new cells which [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Cell biology: Raiding the sweet shop

Sweetening nectar, maintaining blood sugar levels and producing milk — these are just some of the many processes that require living cells to export sugar. It comes as a surprise, therefore, that until now the identity of the prote [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Cell biology: Import and nuclear size

It is rare to come across a basic question in cell biology that is almost entirely unresolved, but what determines the size of a cell or of an organelle is one such question1. Does the cell use a 'molecular ruler' to directly ass [...]

Posted On : Nov, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Calls to adopt biology textbooks in Louisiana

In the wake of a recommendation to approve new high school biology textbooks despite the ongoing complaints about their presentation of evolution, columnists and editorialists in Louisiana are both rejoicing and calling on the state Boar [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Biology in Film: Using Animation to Study Cell Structure

Overview | How can animations help convey the dynamic nature of cellular processes? What can we learn from animation that cannot be learned as easily from still images? In this lesson, students watch high-definition animations that depic [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Where Cinema and Biology Meet

“Luke’s initial dive into the Death Star, I’ve always thought, is a very interesting way how one would explore the surface of a cell,” he said. That particular scene has not yet been tried, but Dr. Lue, a professo [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Optimization at the Intersection of Biology and Physics

Optimization at the Intersection of Biology and Physics Scientists have identified and mathematically anatomized an array of processes that reveal the superb efficiency of natural systems. Eden Rock Communications Promotes Dynamic [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

BIOLOGY: Cell aging mechanism discovered, Salk scientists sa...

Salk Institute scientists say they have discovered a major key to how human and other animal cells age. They have also partly reversed the process in the laboratory, they write in a new study. Damage to vital proteins called histones pla [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Education, preservation: Biology in action

They clustered around the table watching, occasionally sticking out a hand and asking to touch the bird being banded by Ethan Duke. The bird was a thrush, relatively common and a familiar sight for Duke, but for the 5th grade students fr [...]

Posted On : Oct, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Ian Owens on the new Section of Integrative Cell Biology

Drawing on the existing research strengths of these sections together with expertise from Biophysics, a new Section of Integrative Cell Biology will be created. Professor Ian Owens, Head of the Department of Life Sciences, talked to Repo [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Biology rides to computers’ aid

Photonic crystals are exotic materials with the ability to guide light beams through confined spaces and could be vital components of low-power computer chips that use light instead of electricity. Cost-effective ways of producing them h [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Teaching biology with technology

Eric Klopfer, director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a four-year collaboration with the University of P [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

UCSD awarded $15.4 million for systems biology research

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded $15.4 million to UCSD to establish a center for the study of systems biology, a relatively new branch of science that maps interactions between regulatory molecules in order [...]