Jul 24 2008 Plant Steroids Offer New Paradigm for How Hormones Work By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA —Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the playbook of molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. A new study by ...
Jun 19 2008 New web resource to improve crop engineering By Carnegie HQ Stanford , CA . The Carnegie Institution’s Department of Plant Biology today announced the launch of a new web-based resource that promises to help researchers around the world meet increasing demands for food production, animal feed, biofuels, ...
Mar 17 2008 Controlling a sea of information By Carnegie HQ Stanford , CA — Curators at one of the world’s most widely used biological databases, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, or TAIR, have joined forces with the journal Plant Physiology , to solve the “flood of information” dilemma. It is a first-of ...
Mar 11 2008 New Twist on Life’s Power Source By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — A startling discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution puts a new twist on photosynthesis, arguably the most important biological process on Earth. Photosynthesis by plants, algae, and some bacteria supports nearly all living ...
Oct 11 2007 Green algae—the nexus of plant/animal ancestry By Carnegie HQ Genes of a tiny, single-celled green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii may contain scores more data about the common ancestry of plants and animals than the richest paleontological dig. This work is described in an article in the October 12, ...
Sep 23 2007 Scientists discover how cancer may take hold By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA-- A team, led by researchers at the Carnegie Institution,* has found a key biochemical cycle that suppresses the immune response, thereby allowing cancer cells to multiply unabated. The research shows how the biomolecules responsible ...
Sep 07 2007 Plant Biology's Winslow R. Briggs awarded the 2007 Adolph E. Gude, Jr., Award By Carnegie HQ Plant Biology's Winslow R. Briggs, was awarded the 2007 Adolph E. Gude, Jr., Award . The award was established by the American Society of Plant Biologists and first given in 1983. It is made triennially to a scientist or lay person in recognition of ...
Sep 07 2007 Plant Biology's Winslow R. Briggs awarded the 2007 Adolph E. Gude, Jr., Award By Carnegie HQ Plant Biology's Winslow R. Briggs, was awarded the 2007 Adolph E. Gude, Jr., Award . The award was established by the American Society of Plant Biologists and first given in 1983. It is made triennially to a scientist or lay person in recognition of ...
Aug 23 2007 Nasty Bacteria Need Sunlight to Do Their Worst By Carnegie HQ Carnegie Contact: Dr. Winslow Briggs; (650) 325-1521 x207 or briggs@stanford.edu For a copy of the paper, please contact: AAAS Office of Public Programs; (202) 326-6440 or scipak@aaas.org Stanford, CA - Certain types of bacteria have sunlight- ...
Feb 10 2007 New mechanism for nutrient uptake discovered By Carnegie HQ Contact: Dominique Loqué at 650/325-1521, x 249, dloque@stanford.edu ; or Wolf Frommer at 650/325-1521, x 208, wfrommer@stanford.edu For a copy of the paper contact Nature magazine h.jamison@nature.com Stanford, CA— Biologists at the Carnegie ...