A Berlin research team led by Professor Erich E. Wanker of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has been awarded this year’s Erwin Schrodinger Prize for creating a unique “connection scheme” showing for the first time how thousands of human proteins - the building blocks and machines of life - interact with each other.
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Over the past two decades, Michael Dickinson has been interviewed by reporters hundreds of times about his research on the biomechanics of insect flight. One question from the press has always dogged him: Why are flies so hard to swat? “Now I can finally answer,” says Dickinson, the Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
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By manipulating the machinery used by our cells for quality control, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have found a way to restore the function of cystic fibrosis (CF) airway cells. This could significantly reduce the sticky mucus that plugs the lungs of CF patients, which leads to antibiotic-resistant infections and untimely death. The study, appearing in the September 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal (
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The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: our ability to see through things.
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Starting in 2009, Springer will publish the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (IJBM). The quarterly peer-reviewed journal is the official organ of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM) and was previously published by Taylor & Francis.
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Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a unique technology that will allow scientists to look at microscopic activity within the body’s chemical messenger system for the very first time, live as it happens. The cutting edge laser technology has helped to attract .
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Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a UBC study published in Science Express. Measuring three to 10 centimetres long, stickleback fish originated in the ocean but began populating freshwater lakes and streams following the last ice age.
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Juergen Tautz from the University of Wuerzburg will receive a special discretionary prize, as part of the 2008 EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) awards the prize annually to a practicing scientist in Europe for outstanding communication with the public. The additional award was made in recognition of Tautz’s long-term public communication activity on a single organism using all available media.
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A New Mexico-based biomedical research organization will open an office at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis. (RHT)

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A Denmark court has ruled in Pfizer’s favor in challenges to two of its patents covering atorvastatin, the active ingredient in Lipitor. (PFE)

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