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HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Olga Kuchment |
Rickety for a Reason Imagine walking inside a building so flimsy that it shakes with every step, making you wonder what keeps it standing. HHMI early career scientist Sin Urban has been asking the same question about an unusual class of enzymes, the rhomboid proteases.   |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Nicole Kresge |
Melody-Modifying Mice New research by HHMI investigator Erich Jarvis shows that a mouse can alter the pitch and sequence of its ultrasonic serenade to match those of its rivals, which may increase its chances of winning the affection of nearby females. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Megan Scudellari |
Tunneling Out A research team including HHMI investigator Melissa Moore at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has discovered an alternative passageway used by RNA -- protein complexes to exit the nucleus. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Amber Dance |
A Trick of Light When miniSOG protein takes in blue light, it converts ordinary oxygen into a short-lived, excited state called singlet oxygen, which reacts with and changes the molecules around it. The singlet oxygen destroys the mitochondria's delicate machinery. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Nicole Kresge |
A Time to Transcribe Circadian clocks control significant bodily functions: sleeping and feeding patterns, blood pressure, hormone production, body temperature, brain activity. Now, HHMI investigator Joseph Takahashi at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is adding genome-wide transcription to that list. |
Chemistry World
January 15, 2013
Josh Howgego |
Spectrometry to the rescue! The next time a major earthquake strikes it could be an ion mobility spectrometer, not a sniffer dog, searching for people trapped in the rubble. The instrument can detect a pattern of 12 chemicals that signal the presence of life. |
Chemistry World
January 14, 2013
Anthony King |
Sweetener in the clear once more The artificial sweetener aspartame has been given the all-clear by the European Food Safety Authority. After an evaluation of 'all available information' the authority concluded that aspartame poses no safety concerns for consumers. |
Information Today
January 14, 2013 |
F1000Research Launches Following Successful Beta-Testing Phase Launching on a new publishing platform, F1000Research is F1000's new Open Science publishing program for life scientists, offering researchers for the first time immediate publication, transparent and fast peer-review post-publication, and full data deposition and sharing. |
Food Processing
January 2013
Mark Anthony |
The World of Botanical Ingredients Still Largely Untapped The number of plant-derived chemicals that could yield health benefits is vast and largely undiscovered. |
National Defense
February 2013
Stew Magnuson |
New Way to Test Airborne Pathogens Slated for BioWatch Program The technology will be applied to the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program, which places sniffers in various U.S. cities in order to detect the release of biological weapons, as well as the Army's Next Generation Diagnostics System |
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