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Feldberg Prize for Anne Ephrussi
The Head of the Developmental Biology Unit and Director of EMBL’s International Centre for Advanced Training receives the German Feldberg Prize 2022 Prize winner Anne Ephrusi.
Anne Ephrussi has been awarded the German Feldberg Prize 2022 in recognition of her outstanding research. Anne’s scientific work focuses on understanding how RNA molecules are transported and their translation regulated in animal development. In 2007 she was appointed Head of the Developmental Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, and in 2019 she became Director of EMBL’s International Centre for Advanced Training (EICAT). She is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the Academia Europaea, and the French Academy of Sciences.
Singapore discovers brain enzyme that activates dormant neural stem cells
Singapore discovers brain enzyme that activates dormant neural stem cells 12 February 2021 | News
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Singapore s Duke-NUS Medical School researchers studying an enzyme in fruit fly larvae have found that it plays an important role in waking up brain stem cells from their dormant ‘quiescent’ state, enabling them to proliferate and generate new neurons. Published in the journal
EMBO Reports, the study could help clarify how some neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and microcephaly occur.
Pr-set7 is an enzyme involved in maintaining genome stability, DNA repair and cell cycle regulation, as well as turning various genes on or off. This protein, which goes by a few different names, has remained largely unchanged as species have evolved. Professor Wang Hongyan, a professor and deputy director at Duke-NUS’ Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders Programme, and her colleague
10 February 2021
Professor Molly Stevens has won the FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award in recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements.
Professor Stevens, of Imperial College London’s Departments of Materials and Bioengineering, receives the award for her innovative bioengineering approach that addresses key problems in regenerative medicine and biosensing.
I am humbled by this award, which is a fantastic recognition of all the work that my team of brilliant researchers does. Professor Molly Stevens Department of Materials
She leads the multidisciplinary Stevens Group, whose research has advanced the understanding of biomaterial surfaces. Their results have led to the invention of new biosensing approaches and enabled the development of point-of-care tests for tumours and viruses such as coronavirus, HIV and ebolavirus.
This image of Saturn s icy, geologically active moon Enceladus was acquired by NASA s Cassini spacecraft during its October 2015 flyby. Enceladus hides a global ocean of liquid salty water beneath its crust and might also have hydrothermal vents not unlike the hydrothermal vents that dot the ocean floor here on Earth.
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New research led by the American Museum of Natural History and funded by NASA identifies a process that might have been key in producing the first organic molecules on Earth about 4 billion years ago, before the origin of life. The process, which is similar to what might have occurred in some ancient underwater hydrothermal vents, may also have relevance to the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Details of the study are published this week in the journal