CandleInTheWindow.org Announces $1000 Scholarship Prize Winners
Campaign Officially Launches
WASHINGTON, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After 4 months of college students and others wrestling with the creative challenge and providing more than 230 submissions, CandleInTheWindow.org has picked two winners for its nationwide sign design co...
March of Dimes Awards $250,000 Prize to Scientists Unraveling the Causes of Muscular Dystrophy
BALTIMORE, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two scientists whose work has led to new and better ways to diagnose and potentially treat muscular dystrophy have been chosen to receive the 2009 March of Dimes
Prize in Developmental Biology.
Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D. and Louis M. Kunkel, Ph.D., sh...
2009 Pizzigati Prize for Public Interest Computing Awarded to Darius Jazayeri
Developer Receives $10,000
Prize for Creation of Free Medical Record System Used by Health Clinics around the World
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The $10,000 Antonio Pizzigati
Prize for Software in the Public Interest has been awarded to Darius Jazayeri, a 31-year-old sof...
Nobel Prize Winner Professor Muhammad Yunus Leading Delegation From Bangladesh to World Health Care Congress to Advance Affordable Health Care Innovations
Health Care innovations and opportunities attract attendees from more than 35 countries and delegations from over 12 to the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress April 14-16, 2009, Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank and a deleg...
Three Prize Winners Awarded in Elsevier's Article 2.0 Contest
AMSTERDAM, March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
- "Thinking Outside the Box" Yields web 3.0, Nonlinear and Smartphone
Applications
Elsevier, a leading global healthcare and scientific publisher, has
announced the winners in the Elsevier Article 2.0 Contest (
http://www.article20.e...
2009 Prix Galien USA Now Accepting Nominations for Top Prize in Biopharmaceutical Research and Development
NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The committee responsible for awarding the most prestigious
prize in biopharmaceutical research and development -- Prix Galien USA -- announced it is accepting 2009 nominations. For the first time, the committee will include a new recognition categor...
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Nobel Prize Awarded to Foundation for Biomedical Research Board Member
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Foundation for
Biomedical Research (FBR) congratulates Mario R. Capecchi today for the
richly deserved honor of the 2007 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Capecchi, who sits on FBR's Board of Governors, is currently a
Distinguished Profes...
Injection Reverses Heart-Attack Damage
...mic injection - a very promising result that suggests it may be feasible to use this in the clinic to treat heart failure," says Kuhn, who won a first
prize Young Investigator Award, from the American College of Cardiology in 2007.
The study was funded by the Department of Cardiology at Children'...
Lack of Food Variety Puts Kids With Autism at Risk for Poor Nutrition
...g healthcare, Cincinnati Children's is one of six U.S. hospitals since 2002 to be awarded the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality
prize (R) for leadership and innovation in quality, safety and commitment to patient care. The hospital is a national and international referral center for ...
Hospital Care Varies Greatly for Children with Urinary Tract Infections
...g healthcare, Cincinnati Children's is one of six U.S. hospitals since 2002 to be awarded the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality
prize for leadership and innovation in quality, safety and commitment to patient care. The hospital is a national and international referral center for comp...
Key Protein May Lead to Faster Acting Anti-Depression Drugs
...ng in hours or days rather than weeks or months, more people would seek treatment.
Previous research by Greengard, who was awarded the 2000 Nobel
prize in Medicine or Physiology, helped establish p11 as an important protein that regulates signaling in the brain by the neurotransmitter serotonin, which...
Intra-Cellular Therapies Announces Successful Outcome of a Phase II Clinical Trial with ITI-007 in Patients with Sleep Maintenance Insomnia
...eloping novel drugs for the treatment of diseases and disorders of the Central Nervous System (CNS). Building on the science generated from the Nobel
prize winning laboratory of Dr. Paul Greengard at The Rockefeller University , the Company develops compounds that have the potential to treat a wide range...
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Wolf Prize in Medicine
...s | Chemistry
Mathematics | Medicine | Physics
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Past winners of the Wolf
prize in Medicine :
1978 George D. Snell , Jean Dausset , Jon J. van Rood
1979 Roger W. Sperry , Arvid Carlsson , Oleh Hornykiewicz
1980 C...
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Time out
...Opens: 19 Aug. Round number 16 showcases the sounds of ... Tons of cool
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Physiology
...OLISM. RECEPTORS AND SIGNALING PATHWAYS ... COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY . SLEEP AND BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS ... In October 2002, The Nobel
prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to H. Robert Horvitz, Sydney Brenner and John El Sulston ...
Parkinson
... is supported. Fact sheet about the untreatable motor system disorder. From the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Nobel
prize Winning Parkinson's Disease Research and Parkinson's Symptoms Information. ... Parkinson's Video ... Michael Stern Parkinson's Research Founda...
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NYC science symposium marks Gruber Prize program 10th anniversary
New York, NY, June 26 The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation International
Prize Program will celebrate its tenth anniversary on July 1, 2009, with an event to be held at Rockefeller University in New York City. The 2009 Gruber Genetics
Prize and Neuroscience
Prize recipients will be announce...
Vitamin D expert receives Linus Pauling Prize for Health Research
PORTLAND, Ore. Dr. Michael Holick, a professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at the Boston University School of Medicine who has revolutionized the understanding of vitamin D and its role in disease prevention, today received the $50,000 Linus Pauling Institute
Prize for Health Research....
George M. Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize in the chemical sciences
NEW YORK, May 6 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced today that George M. Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has won the inaugural Dreyfus
Prize in the Chemical Sciences. The prize, to be given biennially by the Ca...
March of Dimes awards $250,000 prize to scientists unraveling the causes of muscular dystrophy
BALTIMORE, MAY 3, 2009 Two scientists whose work has led to new and better ways to diagnose and potentially treat muscular dystrophy have been chosen to receive the 2009 March of Dimes
Prize in Developmental Biology.
Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D. and Louis M. Kunkel, Ph.D., will share the 2009 Mar...
MIT: Jeremy Nathans to deliver Scolnick Prize lecture
April 23, 2009, Cambridge, MA --- The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT will present the sixth annual Edward M. Scolnick
Prize in Neuroscience to Jeremy Nathans, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience, and opthalmolog...
International prize for Nottingham spine research
A study aimed at overcoming problems with treatments for a common cause of back pain has picked up one of the most prestigious prizes in spinal research.
The research paper produced by the team of surgeons, engineers and physicists at The University of Nottingham has scooped two out of three ca...
Prize in Biological Technology
2 Springer authors receive NWO/Spinoza Prize in the Netherlands
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has announced the winners of the NWO/Spinoza
Prize for 2009. Two of the three laureates of this year's
Prize are Springer authors, Marten Scheffer and Albert van den Berg. The prize, also viewed as the 'Dutch Nobel Prize,' is the highest D...
Big prize for 'small science' physicist
CSIRO scientist, Dr Amanda Barnard, has been awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 2009 Young Scientist
Prize in Computational Physics.
The award acknowledges Dr Barnard as a world leader on 'nanomorphology' the study of the structures, shapes and crystal structur...
2009 Prix Galien USA Now Accepting Nominations for Top Prize in Biopharmaceutical Research and Development
NEW YORK, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Online nominations for the 2009 Prix Galien USA, the highest industry accolade for pharmaceutical research and development, are now being accepted at http://submission.prix-galien-usa.com through Monday, June 15, 2009.
For the first time, t...
Zayed Future Energy Prize Recognizes Dipal C. Barua
Inaugural
prize awarded to Barua for bringing renewable energy to rural communities
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The first annual Zayed Future Energy
Prize was awarded on January 19 by His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dh...
Oberon FMR Wins Top Prize at BioWest 2008 Venture Showcase Competition
Oberon FMR, Inc. was selected as the most promising biotech start-up company at the recent BioWest 2008 Venture Showcase Competition. Oberon, which uses a proprietary process to convert wastewater from food and beverage companies into a protein-rich ingredient for animal feed, was given top hono...
2010 Japan Prize to Honor Scientists and Researchers in Industrial Production/Production Technology and Biological Production/Environment Fields
-Calling for nomination of candidates worldwide -
TOKYO, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan today announced the two fields eligible for the next Japan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious awards in science and technology. The 2010 Japan
Prize will ...
Prize in Biological Definition
Alexander Fleming
... penicillin to a form that was useful for medical treatment of infection.
For his achievements, Fleming was knighted in 1944 and shared the Nobel
prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. Florey was later given the higher honour of a peerage for his monumental wor...
Andrew Huxley
...is a British physiologist and biophysicist , who won the 1963 Nobel
prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the ba...be coordinated by a central nervous system . Hodgkin and Huxley shared the
prize that year with John Carew Eccles , who was cited for research on synapses...
Antibody
...ed in 1976, portions of the genome in B lymphocytes can recombine to form all the variation seen in the antibodies and more. Tonegawa won the Nobel
prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery.
IgG
IgG is a monomeric immunoglobulin, built of two heavy chains γ and two light ...
Apoptosis
...rt in a research article that won him an Amersham Biosciences & Science
prize for Young Scientists in Molecular Biology, and published in Science Online... 1974, where he collaborated with Sulston. Both would share the 2002 Nobel
prize in Physiology or Medicine with Brenner, and Horvitz would go back to the U...
ATP synthase
...formational change in the F 1 particle, eventually leading to the synthesis of ATP. For elucidating this Boyer and Walker shared in the 1997 Nobel
prize in Chemistry .
Physiological role
The F 1 F O ATP synthase is a reversible enzyme. Large enough quantities of ATP cause it to create a transme...
Axon
...y 1952 they had obtained a full quantitative description of the ionic basis of the action potential.
Hodgkin and Huxley were awarded jointly the Nobel
prize for this work in 1963.
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Transposase
...cific recombination ) ...to another, as first discovered in corn (maize) during the 1940s and ’50s by Barbara McClintock, whose work won her a Nobel
prize in 1983. Most, if not... HyperMu™ MuA Transposase is a hyperactive. enzyme that is at least 50 times more active ... MuA Transposase can also...
Reporter Gene
... ... Hi. I know how the reporter gene works in a transfected cell. ... of one of the most famous reporter genes , GFP, was awarded the Nobel
prize last year. ... PET-based reporter gene imaging was developed approximately 12 years ago, and the technology is beginning to be translated into ...
Parthenogenesis
...eproduce by parthenogenesis . ... Political Blog, Progressive political commentary by Morgaine Swann. ... Subject: Parthenogenesis Part 1. Peace
prize winner 'could kill' Bush ... Fraudulent cloned cells were likely the first example of a ... Investigators raised parthenogenesis as the most li...
Origin of life
...fundamental basis of all life ... The origin of life is a perfect subject to reveal that ongoing adventure that is ... Origin of Life
prize Life Origin Chemical Evolution Astrobiology Exobiology RNA World Self-Organization Artificial Life Abiogenesis Prebiotic Biopoesis Proto ...
Krebs cycle
...ebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: ... in cells, is also known as the Krebs cycle and earned him a Nobel
prize in 1953. ... Krebs Cycle ... 1. Prior to entering the Krebs Cycle , pyruvate must be converted into ... What happens to the NADH2+ and FADH2...
Introns
... Introns are common in eukaryotic pre-mRNA, but in prokaryotes they are only ... The discovery of introns led to the Nobel
prize in Physiology or Medicine in ... Introns is an album by LCD Soundsystem released in March 2006 as a digital download. It is a compilation of b-si...