Sep 10 2013 Carnegie’s Rubén Rellán-Álvarez Receives Young Scientist Award By Carnegie HQ Washington, D.C.— Postdoctoral fellow, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez at the Department of Plant Biology has been awarded the prestigious Marschner Young Scientist Award by the International Plant Nutrition Colloquium. The award was established for “ ...
Sep 05 2013 Clues in Coral Bleaching Mystery By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — Coral reefs are tremendously important for ocean biodiversity, as well as for the economic and aesthetic value they provide to their surrounding communities. Unfortunately they have been in great decline in recent years, much of it ...
Sep 03 2013 Leading Plant Database Goes Subscription By Carnegie HQ Washington, D.C. --The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), a database of genetic and molecular biology data for the laboratory plant Arabidopsis thaliana, is one of the most widely used plant databases in the world. Some 60,000 scientists visit ...
Jul 02 2013 Breakthrough: sensors monitor cells at work By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA —Transport proteins are responsible for moving materials such as nutrients and metabolic products through a cell’s outer membrane, which seals and protects all living cells, to the cell’s interior. These transported molecules include ...
Jun 19 2013 Have you had your cereal today? By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA —Cereals are grasses that produce grains, the bulk of our food supply. Carnegie’s Plant Biology Department is releasing genome-wide metabolic complements of several cereals including rice, barley, sorghum, and millet. Along with corn, ...
May 01 2013 How can plant science ease global good and fuel demands? By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — An international team of 12 leading plant biologists, including Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer, say their discoveries could have profound implications for increasing the supply of food and energy for our rapidly growing global population. ...
Mar 14 2013 Plant science helps cancer diagnositcs? By Carnegie HQ Valdivia, Chile, and Washington, D.C .—Cancer cells break down sugars and produce the metabolic acid lactate at a much higher rate than normal cells. This phenomenon provides a telltale sign that cancer is present, via diagnostics such as PET scans ...
Jan 23 2013 Breakthrough: How salt stops plant growth By Carnegie HQ Washington, D.C. —Until now it has not been clear how salt, a scourge to agriculture, halts the growth of the plant-root system. A team of researchers, led by the Carnegie Institution’s José Dinneny and Lina Duan, found that not all types of roots ...