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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 ...

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 ...

Dec

04

2006

Plant Biology's Shauna Somerville elected a 2006 Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

By Carnegie HQ

Plant Biology's Shauna Somerville has been elected a 2006 Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Sep

08

2006

Carnegie’s Christopher Somerville awarded 2006 Balzan Prize

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. – Christopher Somerville, Director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Plant Biology, has been awarded the 2006 Balzan Prize in Plant Molecular Genetics, which he will share with his longtime collaborator, Elliot Meyerowitz ...

Apr

20

2006

Cellulose fiber formation tracked for the first time

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA – Cellulose—a fibrous molecule found in all plants—is the most abundant biological material on Earth. It is also a favored target of renewable, plant-based biofuels research. Despite overwhelming interest, scientists know relatively ...

Jan

30

2006

Hot-Spring Bacteria Flip a Metabolic Switch

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA – Scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Plant Biology have found that photosynthetic bacteria living in scalding Yellowstone hot springs have two radically different metabolic identities. As the sun goes down, these ...

Nov

16

2005

Genetic defenders protect crops from fungal disease

By Carnegie HQ

Carnegie Contact: Dr. Shauna Somerville; ssomerville@stanford.edu or (650) 325-1521 ext. 257 Or Mónica Stein; msteinc@stanford.edu or (650) 325-1521 ext. 406 For a copy of the paper contact Science at scipak@aaas.org , or 202-326-6440 For image see ...

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