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The University of New England handed off over 3,000 teddy bears and other stuffed animals to the United Way of York County on Friday, Feb. 28, in a ceremony commemorating the Universitys fourth annual Teddy Bear Toss.

The toss is organized by the student building managers of the Harold Alfond Forum (HAF) on the Universitys Biddeford Campus.

Each year, during both a mens and womens hockey game, fans throw teddy bears onto the ice when the Noreasters score their first goal. The bears collected in advance through community donations are then handed to the United Way, which further distributes them to community organizations across southern Maine.

This years Teddy Bear Toss, held on Jan. 31, collected a record 3,268 stuffed animals to go to children in the region. To date, UNE has donated 10,168 stuffed animals to the United Way.

The United Ways mission is to improve lives by mobilizing people and resources. That is the goal of the Teddy Bear Toss, said D.J. Whitten, manager of the HAF. We believe deeply that the planning of this event each year provides our student building managers an experience that complements their overall experience at UNE and gives them skills they can take with them their entire lives.

Marine biology student Conor Wiley (21) echoed Whittens sentiment. This was Wileys second time organizing the Teddy Bear Toss, and he said the collaborative and charitable nature of the event keeps him coming back.

Being a part of the Teddy Bear Toss and coming to this handoff last year really showed me that there is a bigger world out there and that there are people who would love to be in my position here, worrying about my biochemistry test instead of worrying about things that are much more serious, Wiley said.

During the ceremony, held at the forum, students and other attendees heard from nearly a dozen community partners about where the bears will go and whom they will benefit.

Kim LaChance, administration coordinator and volunteer manager for Southern Maine Health Care, spoke of the fear children experience when they are faced with a hospital visit and how the teddy bears can ease the suffering.

The most important thing that people have when they come to our hospital is care, and the care isnt just clinical care; the care is emotional care, LaChance told the crowd of about three dozen. When one of our staff members has the capability to go in a closet and get a stuffed animal for a person, it takes that fear away and gives a little piece of hope that changes the whole scope of their experience there.

Mike Ouellette, food pantry coordinator at York County Shelter Programs, also spoke about easing fear the fear and stigma families often face when they enter the pantry.

Sometimes it is hard to make that step into an organization like ours and admit that you need help, Ouellette said. I put all these bears into a room, and when I see a new family that comes in, I invite the child and parents to the room. As soon as that door opens up and they see all these bears, their eyes light up. That fear of being there seems to go away.

Barb Wentworth, president and chief executive officer of the United Way of York County, thanked UNE and the HAF student building managers for coordinating the toss and subsequent handoff.

This is such a win-win, Wentworth said. That bear or dog, cat, or whatever it might be is going to bring a smile to someones face. This is like a stone in a pond rippling out: you never know who these will touch.

UNE President James D. Herbert, Ph.D., welcomed the crowd. He spoke about the Universitys partnership with the United Way.

The partnership between the United Way is strong, and it is growing, he said. The Teddy Bear Toss is one of the most fun events for me every year, and this year was an especially poignant and special year.

Herberts comment referred to the fact that this years handoff included a donation of teddy bears and other stuffed animals from a memorial to basketball legend Kobe Bryant by officials at Lower Merion High School outside Philadelphia, which Bryant attended and whose gymnasium bears his name.

Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, were tragically killed along with seven others on Jan. 26, in a helicopter crash outside Los Angeles.

The high school is the same one Herbert and UNE First Lady Lynn Brandsmas three children attended. Brandsma, who also spoke at the event, said the bears were offered to UNE after she reached out to those she knew at the school to express her condolences.

While the bears were received after the actual Teddy Bear Toss, they were displayed in the lobby of the HAF, along with a letter written by Brandsma and cards for UNE students and visitors to write messages of support for those at the school.

Although I never met Kobe face to face, he was such a large part of Lower Merion High School that its hard to imagine that school without him, Brandsma said. I am very honored that a very small piece of Kobes legacy will be passed on to the United Way of York County and, most importantly, to the children of southern Maine.

Following the event, HAF student building managers distributed the bears to receiving agencies, including:

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Dr. Ronald Henry Hillock of Las Vegas, who worked at Loma Linda University for 40 years as a clinical chemist and a professor of biochemistry, died with his family by his side on Feb. 2, 2020. He was 85.

Born on July 5, 1934, in Paris, Ontario, Canada, he lived in Loma Linda 41 years prior to moving to Las Vegas.

He was a U.S. Air Force veteran.

During his service, he became a clinical laboratory technician, leading to a distinguished career in academia and clinical medicine.

He is survived by his wife Thelma of 65 years; daughter Janet Hillock Barone of Longboat Key, Florida; son Ronald W. Hillock, M.D. of Las Vegas; daughter Dawn L. Hillock of Las Vegas; four grandchildren, Chris Johnson of Whittier, California, Andrea Barone of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Michael Barone of Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and Zoe Hillock of Las Vegas.

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In an effort to trace a pathway from non-evolving organic chemistry to the first truly living cells, scientists from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts have proposed those early building blocks contained little-known nucleic acids that aren't part of any modern genome.

The question of how we evolved genomic libraries encoded in DNA that are managed by protein-based enzymes and transcribed into notes of short-lived lengths of RNA is fundamental to understanding how life arose on Earth.

The building blocks for both of these ubiquitous chemicals could easily have been present under the hostile conditions on our newborn planet.

But based on what we know of the chemistry giving rise to the well-known nucleic acids RNA and DNA, there's plenty of room for the possibility that other variations could also have formed in the mix.

To understand how this mixture might have behaved, researchers produced nucleotide recipes based on hybrid mixes of not just the familiar ribonucleic (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA), but a sprinkle of something called arabinonucleic acid, or ANA.

The difference between the three different nucleic acids is as subtle as an absent oxygen or a flipped hydroxyl group on the sugar forming the molecule's core.

As small as these contrasts might be, they can make all the difference when it comes to the stability of the polymers they each form under various conditions. Different types of nucleic acids can also mix to form hybrid codes, some of which are more prone to breaking apart than others.

The researchers found when it came to self-replicating, strings of pure RNA did a much better job than other forms of pure nucleic acid, outcompeting them in terms of not just speed, but precision and efficiency.

Surprisingly, by having certain combinations of DNA/ANA hybrids in the environment, RNA did an even better job at replicating, a finding that addresses a long-standing criticism of what's referred to as the RNA World Hypothesis.

Back in the 1960s biologists Carl Woese, Francis Crick, and Leslie Orgel pointed out that RNA had a knack for doing two jobs in one. Even today, it's seen acting as both a means of encoding and performing physical tasks in a cell.

This meant RNA could serve as a convenient prologue for life, forming the basis of an 'RNA world' of competing nucleic acid sequences by playing the role of instruction guide and photocopier.

Unfortunately, 'convenient' is the key word here. Just how did RNA come to be king when surrounded by look-a-likes that could clutter up its machinery?

"Years ago, the naive idea that pools of pure concentrated ribonucleotides might be present on the primitive Earth was mocked by Leslie Orgel as 'the Molecular Biologist's Dream'," says Harvard chemical biologist and Nobel Prize Laureate Jack Szostak.

"But how relatively modern homogeneous RNA could emerge from a heterogeneous mixture of different starting materials was unknown."

Several years ago, Szostak and his team found evidence that hybrid strings of RNA and DNA could help to explain why DNA eventually came to dominate our genomes, in spite of RNA's dual talents.

This newest research complements the discovery by again showing we don't need to explain how RNA or DNA arose separately in their own wet pockets of chemistry.

"No primordial pool of pure building blocks was needed," says Szostak.

What's more, having other types of nucleic acid around including ones no longer being employed by living machines could have actually helped strands of pure RNA dominate, allowing them to take on the most basic tasks of biology and represent a primitive form of life.

"The intrinsic chemistry of RNA copying chemistry would result, over time, in the synthesis of increasingly homogeneous bits of RNA," says Szostak.

Future work could show how other nucleic acids interacted with the burgeoning biochemistry, filling in potential details on life's origins as a chimera of DNA, RNA, ANA, and possibly even other variants we can currently only dream up in a lab.

While we can only speculate on how life arose on Earth several billion years ago, finding evidence of our origins could help us to understand how life might arise elsewhere in the cosmos, not to mention how we might go about creating synthetic alternatives to biology back hereon our home planet.

At this rate, we might need to consider the RNA World Hypothesis as NA.

This research was published in the Journal of American Chemical Society.

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Life exists in extreme environments on Earth, from arid deserts and frozen tundras to thermal, toxic vents in the deepest reaches of the ocean floor. But it cant exist on every inch of the planet and scientists have discovered a place in Ethiopia where life cant find a way, according to a new study.

In contrast with previous research, scientists conducted multiple tests and found that there is no life, not even microorganisms, in Dallol. One of Earths most extreme environments, Dallol is incredibly hot, salty and acidic. Its ponds extend across a volcanic crater, in the Ethiopian Danakil depression, filled with salt, toxic gases and boiling water in response to extreme hydrothermal activity.

Even in winter, daytime temperatures can exceed 113 degrees Fahrenheit. Some of the hyper acidic and saline pools have negative pH values.

The findings published Friday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

After analysing many more samples than in previous works, with adequate controls so as not to contaminate them and a well-calibrated methodology, we have verified that theres no microbial life in these salty, hot and hyperacid pools or in the adjacent magnesium-rich brine lakes, said Purificacin Lpez Garca, study author and biologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

However, outside of the ponds, its a different story.

What does exist is a great diversity of halophilic archaea (a type of primitive salt-loving microorganisms) in the desert and the saline canyons around the hydrothermal site, but neither in the hyperacid and hypersaline pools themselves, nor in the so-called Black and Yellow lakes of Dallol, where magnesium abounds, said Lpez Garca. And all this despite the fact that microbial dispersion in this area, due to the wind and to human visitors, is intense.

The researchers performed mass sequencing of genetic markers meant to find and classify any microorganisms that may be present, as well as cultures to find microbes, cytometry for detecting individual cells, brine chemical analysis and electron microscopy combined with X-ray spectroscopy.

At first glance, minerals rich in silica may mimic microbial cells, the researchers said. But their analysis revealed the difference.

In other studies, apart from the possible contamination of samples with archaea from adjacent lands, these mineral particles may have been interpreted as fossilized cells, when in reality they form spontaneously in the brines, even though there is no life, Lpez Garca said.

Scientists have used evidence of life in extreme environments on Earth as an analog for the conditions where life may exist on other planets in our solar system or beyond it. The researchers warned that in this case, just because there is liquid water present or because something resembles cells or other biological aspects beneath a microscope, does not mean there is life present.

Our study presents evidence that there are places on the Earths surface, such as the Dallol pools, which are sterile even though they contain liquid water, Lpez Garca said.

The Dallol ponds actually prevent life from forming because they contain chemical barriers like chaotropic magnesium salts that help break down hydrogen. Combined with the salty, acidic and hot environment, life receives no encouragement in the pools.

We would not expect to find life forms in similar environments on other planets, at least not based on a biochemistry similar to terrestrial biochemistry, said Lpez Garca.

The researchers will continue studying the pools to determine more about the limits of life.

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This is the fifth of six posts written by students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math as part of an elective about science communication with Dean Amy Sheck.

Research is a journey full of uncertainty in which scientists have to construct their own path, even if theyre unsure of what the end of the journey actually is. Despite this unpredictability, researchers continue their journey because they believe their work will one day drive their fields forward. At least, thats why Kate Meyer Ph.D. says she has investigated something called m6A for several years.

Virtually every study that I have ever been part of hadsome frustrations involved because everything can fall apart in just onenight, Meyer said. Despite all the frustrations you might have, you are stillin the research because you know that at the end of the day, you will get newknowledge that is worthy to your field, or perhaps to the world.

N6-methyladenosine (or m6A) is a modification to one of the four main bases of RNA adenosine. Because RNA plays a significant role as a bridge between genetic information and functional gene products, modifications in RNA can alter how much of a certain product will be produced, which then controls how our cells and eventually our whole body functions.

The idea of this tiny but powerful modification was first proposed in the 1970s. But scientists struggled to find where m6A was located in the cell before research Meyer made a major contribution to as a trainee was published in 2012. Combining a newly developed antibody that could recognize m6A and gene sequencing techniques that became more accessible to the researchers, Meyers work led to the first method that can detect and sequence all of the m6A regions in a cell.

Meyers work was transformative research. Her method allowedlaboratories around the world to investigate what regulates m6A and what itsconsequences are. Meyer said this first study which ignited m6A field is one ofher most prideful moments as a researcher.

Significant progress has been made since 2012, but there are still lots of questions that need to be answered. Currently, Meyers research team is investigating the relationships between m6A and various neurological issues. She believes that regulation of m6A controls the expression, or activity level, of various genes in the brain. As such, m6A may play an important role in neurodegenerative diseases and memory.

As an assistant professor of both biochemistry and neurobiology at Duke, Meyer is definitely one of the most important figures in the m6A field. Despite her many accomplishments, she said she had experienced and overcome many frustrations and failures on her way to the results.

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Newswise Nebraska food scientists are at the forefront in some of the hottest food and nutrition issues in the country the microbiome, which some predict to be one of the top nutrition issues in 2020; obesity, which continues to be a major health issue for the nation; food allergens, with the CDC reporting rising prevalence of food alelrgies in children; and food choice behavior.

On Jan. 29, a dozen researchers and scientists will be at the Food Innovation Center (1901 N. 21stSt., Lincoln, Nebraska) at Nebraska Innovation Campus to discuss their groundbreaking work with the media. The event begins at 11 a.m. with a brief overview of each research program. After a provided box lunch, media in attendance will have six 15-minute sessions to interview researchers. At 2 p.m., optional laboratory tours will be available for photos and b-roll. The event will be live-streamed for media who cannot attend in person.

Participating laboratories:

Nebraska Food for Health Center,Andy Benson, director, professor of food science and technology; Amanda Ramer-Tait, associate professor of food science and technology; and Robert Hutkins, Khem Shahani Professor of Food Science and Technology. The center is located in the Food Innovation Center, 1901 N. 21stSt., on the Nebraska Innovation Campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.https://foodforhealth.unl.edu

Nebraska Center for Prevention of Obesity Diseases,Janos Zempleni, director, Cather Professor of Nutrition and Health Sciences; Jiujiu Yu, assistant professor of nutrition and health sciences; Xinghui Sun, assistant professor of biochemistry; Yongjun Wang, research assistant professor of nutrition and health sciences; Edward Harris, associate professor of biochemistry; Alice Ngu, graduate research assistant in nutrition and health sciences. The center is located at 316C Leverton Hall, 1700 N. 35thSt., on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus.https://cehs.unl.edu/npod

Food Allergy Research and Resource Program,Joseph Baumert, director, associate professor of food science and technology; Melanie Downs, assistant professor of food science and technology; Philip Johnson, assistant professor of food science and technology; and Richard E. Rick Goodman, research professor of food science and technology. The program is located in the Food Innovation Center, 1901 N. 21stSt. on the Nebraska Innovation Campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.https://farrp.unl.edu

Food Choice Economics,Christopher Gustafson, associate professor of agricultural economics, 314A Filley Hall, 1625 Arbor Drive on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus.

The Food for Health Center, a $40.3 million collaboration among academics, food and drug manufacturers and philanthropists, was established in 2017 to use microbiome research to link agriculture and food production to wellness and disease prevention.

Launched in 2014, the Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases has received nearly $23 million from the National Institutes of Health to determine the molecular mechanisms that lead to obesity and to identify consumer friendly remedies.

For nearly 25 years, the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program has worked in partnership with the food industry to detect and eliminate allergens in the food supply.

Behavioral economist Christopher Gustafson is identifying the hidden factors that cause people to add an extra dollop of mayo to their sandwich or select an apple, not a brownie for a post-workout snack.

Please contact Leslie Reed at 402-472-2059 orlreed5@unl.eduto reserve your space, including lunch, parking and optional lab tours.

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There is an opportunity for non-welsh speaking students to enroll on our Welsh for Medicine 1 + 2 courses, that have been uniquely developed alongside Swansea Bay-Learn Welsh, to introduce basic welsh lessons for a healthcare setting. here will be support for any student wishing to learn more about Welsh language and culture as they live and study here in Wales.

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This section of the report gives the breakup of the market share of all the key players operating in the global biochemistry analyzers market and observes that the market is highly fragmented owing to the presence of various companies, especially domestic players, in the global biochemistry analyzers market.

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Recent study shows that walnuts increase the diversity of gut bacteriaand appear to act in much the same manner as prebiotcs.

Research Associate Professor of Physiology at LSU, Lauri Byerley, has determined the consumption of walnuts alters the composition of bacteria within the gut. This finding suggests a new manner in which walnuts might improve human health. The details of the finding were recently published online in The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.

About the Study

Dr. Byerley keyed in on walnuts as they are generally revered as a superfood. Walnuts are loaded with the omega-3 fatty acid known as alpha-linoleic acid. They also contain fiber and an abundance of antioxidants. Dr. Byerley's finding shows this superfood provides yet another benefit by promoting beneficial alterations to microbiota within the gut.

Dr. Byerley made use of a rodent model for the study. Her research team provided one group of mice with walnuts in addition to their regular food consumption. The other group continued consuming its normal diet without walnuts.

A Closer Look at the Finding

The researchteam measured the number and type of gut bacteria within the descending colon and compared the results. They determined there were two unique bacteria communities within the groups. The type and number of walnuts altered in the group of mice that consumed walnuts. Even the functional capacity of the bacteria changed in this group. As an example, the research team pinpointed a meaningful boost in Lactobacillus, a beneficial bacteria. The consumption of walnuts resulted in a significant increase in the diversity of bacteria within the gut. Other unrelated studies have tied low levels of bacterial diversity with a wide range of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and even obesity.

Walnuts as a Prebiotic?

Dr. Byerley suggests walnuts might function as a prebiotic as they heightenthe level of numerous bacteria such as Lactobacillus that is usually associated with probiotics. Prebiotics are best defined as substances that catalyze the activity and number of helpful bacteria.

Why the Study Matters

The health of the human gut is one of the hottest areas of contemporary research. Scientists are finding that improved bacterial diversity might be tied to improved health outcomes. The research team determined that altering the gut microbe community through the incorporation of walnuts to one's diet provides a new means of enhancing health. It is also worth noting that the consumption of walnuts is also tied to decreased cardiovascular disease risk, better brain health and a slowing of tumor growth in animals.

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One of the best days for transfer students is when they find out where they will be going to finish the last two years of their degree. Normally, these decisions are released late in the summer, but its definitely a breath of relief when a transfer student finally has confirmation that theyll be moving on to another university. Unfortunately, more issues tend to rise during the transition period into the new institution.

I transferred into the University of Washington in fall 2016. UWs acceptance arrived in the last week of June, a month or two after I received a handful of rejection letters and the panic began to engulf any hope that I had for the future. Luckily, things worked out and I quickly wrapped up my classes at BC and began to prepare for the UW.

Acclimating to UW was a struggle for me. Frankly, I was surprised with the amount of shock I was experiencing in my first quarter. UWs campus is obviously huge, but it feels even bigger when I tried to navigate to my first class. I pulled out Google Maps just so I can find directions. Class sizes are also gigantic. My biochemistry class had around 500 students and on my first day, I had to choose between sitting on the dusty steps or on a squeaky table, I chose the table. This information is well-known by almost every student, whether they go to UW or not but its something that one truly understands until they actually experience it.

Adjusting to the physical characteristics of UWs campus took about a week. The most challenging experience was trying to acclimate to the academic difficult at UW. For some audacious reason, I decided to enroll in two high-level STEM courses, biochemistry and immunology, as well as an economics course, because I was deciding if a double major was a good idea. In complete honesty, I dropped out of immunology and got a W for withdrawal tattooed on my very first UW transcript, failed economics and just barely passed biochemistry, thanks to the incredible grading curve. Coupled with other issues happening outside academics, my first quarter at UW was also my worst.

Numbers and grades should not mean much, but it still hurts when one fails. At this point in my life, I was highly confused with what I should do. I decided to speak with my major adviser to create a plan B. My biochemistry adviser gave some logical advice and helped create a new academic plan for the 2016-2017 school year that would keep me on track for graduation. Although my senior year at UW will be quite difficult trying to complete my science electives, she assured me it was feasible.

My transfer adviser also shared some motivating wisdom. My first quarter at UW as a transfer student is common and other transfer students encounter the same issues. After experiencing this low point in my academic career, Ive found some useful advice for anyone beginning their first year at a new institution.

The first thing anyone should do is register for a light load of classes for their first quarter or semester. Keep in mind to sign up for classes that help complete graduation credits. These courses dont necessarily have to be in line with ones major, but it wouldnt be a bad idea to include a major-related class.

Find some kind of support. Coming from BC, I had somewhat of a lone-wolf mentality when it came to schoolwork, and at BC, it worked. At a larger university with crazy grading curves and a class average of 60 percent, this mindset is not conducive to success. Take some time to find clubs around campus that might be interesting. Talk to classmates and create a relationship. Create a network of people that can act as academic support. Going through university is not an individual burden and it requires ample support from people who understand the situation. Dont be afraid to reach out to advisers and professors when one experiences failure. The hefty tuition covers it and it would be a waste to ignore these opportunities.

Lastly, if one does fail like me, the best thing to do is plan with an adviser and start the new quarter with better knowledge. Although past failures may have scarred ones outlook at life, it shouldnt completely impede ones progress. By being accepted into a university and into a major, the admissions team must have seen some kind of potential in their applicants. Its important for all transfer students to understand that they can succeed in a fast-paced, arduous academic environment.

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UTSW researchers helped solve this structure showing how two Ebola proteins interact, VP35 (black) and NP (rainbow). Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center

After a decade of work, the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID) a consortium of 10 scientific institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Canada announced that it has determined the 3-D atomic structures of more than 1,000 proteins.

Determining these structures is an important step in identifying and understanding where a pathogen might be vulnerable to assault by drugs or vaccines. Such vulnerabilities are frequently found at the points where molecules bind to one another, said Dr. Zbyszek Otwinowski, Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, who leads the UT Southwestern group participating in the project. Dr. Dominika Borek, Assistant Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, who works in Dr. Otwinowskis laboratory, contributed crucial expertise for the successful completion of these studies.

To make a 3-D structure, a protein must be cloned, expressed, and crystallized, and then X-ray diffraction data are collected at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. These data define the location of each of the hundreds or even thousands of atoms to generate 3-D models of the structures that can be analyzed with graphics software. Each institution in the Center has an area of expertise it contributes to the project, working in parallel on many requests at once.

The UT Southwestern team manages the salvage pathway, meaning scientists design custom methods for determining structures of molecules that resist standard approaches and for which the high potential for drug or vaccine development justifies applying advanced efforts.

Structures solved with help from the UT Southwestern team include proteins involved in the replication of the Ebola virus a pathogen notorious for its ability to evade the bodys immune system. Their X-ray crystallography work formed the basis for preclinical studies currently underway in university and industry laboratories.

When other scientists run into trouble determining crystal structures, Drs. Otwinowski and Borek are among the top people in the world who can develop these advanced approaches because they understand the theory so deeply and they have created such powerful methods to deal with difficult problems, said Dr. Michael Rosen, Chair of Biophysics at UT Southwestern and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Dr. Rosen has secondary appointments as a Professor of Biochemistry and in the Cecil H. and Ida Green Comprehensive Center for Molecular, Computational, and Systems Biology. Dr. Rosen also holds the Mar Nell and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry.

UT Southwesterns contribution to the Ebola project began when a scientist at the Washington University School of Medicine requested the consortiums help in structural studies of the Ebola protein VP35. UTSW researchers conducted detailed structural studies of a VP35 protein fragment that interacts with the Ebola nuclear protein (NP) to form a complex that protects Ebolas genetic material from digestion by the hosts enzymes.

The structure revealing the interactions between the VP35 fragment and the NP protein provided the first glimpse into the protein complexs role in viral replication. That work, part of a multicenter study to better understand the complexs function, was reported as a Cell Reports cover story in 2015.

This 3-D structure is among the 1,000 now deposited by the consortium into the World-Wide Protein Data Bank, an archive supported by the National Institutes of Health that is freely available to the scientific community. The CSGIDs breakthrough research is funded by two five-year contracts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with a total budget of $57.7 million.

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Some of the most water-efficient plants do an unexpected thing at night. They take up carbon dioxide at night instead of during the warmer daytime, which improves efficiency of water use and adaption to semi-arid and arid climates.

John Cushman is one of the world's leading researchers on the molecular genetics of this specialized type of photosynthesis, which is known as crassulacean acid metabolism or CAM photosynthesis. His research and plant molecular-genetics program at the University of Nevada, Reno are nationally and internationally recognized, and have made important contributions to understanding and developing more water-efficient plants. In recognition of this, the foundation professor of biochemistry and molecular biology within the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources will receive the 2017 Nevada Regents' Researcher Award.

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"CAM used to be thought of as a curiosity: a weird, esoteric thing that a few desert plants do," Cushman said. "It was a biological curiosity, but wouldn't you want to have this biological application apply to more plants to improve water-use efficiency?

"There was no inkling early on that this would have the impact it is having. Now, people are realizing the importance of this," he said.

After completing his master's and doctoral degrees in microbiology at Rutgers University, Cushman was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in plant biology by the National Science Foundation. Through that fellowship, 30 years ago he began working at the University of Arizona, Tucson on what would become the focus of his career - plant stress and CAM plants such as agave and cactus.

Cushman has served as principal or co-principal investigator on research projects totaling more than $28 million in grant funding, has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and non-peer reviewed book chapters and lay publications. He currently serves as principal investigator on a multi-institutional, $14.3 million grant-funded project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy to explore the genetic mechanisms of CAM. The five-year project, now in its final year, is innovating understanding of drought tolerance in desert-adapted plants and application of this knowledge to biofuel crops. The project includes a $7.6 million grant award to the University of Nevada, Reno, with sub-awards to researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Newcastle, and the University of Liverpool.

Through this and other grant-supported projects, the Cushman laboratory team is sequencing the genomes of several CAM plants and applying genome-editing technology to further improve their water-use efficiency. In one discovery through the DOE project, the leaf anatomy of the plant was changed, which increased its drought and salt tolerance.

In their nomination of Cushman for the award, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Chair Claus Tittiger and Professor Gary Blomquist note the increasing relevance of Cushman's research program for sustainable agriculture and water use, especially in the face of global climate change.

"Currently, approximately 40 percent of the world's land area is considered arid, semi-arid or dry sub-humid, with precipitation amounts that are inadequate for most conventional agriculturally important C3 or C4 (photosynthesis) crops," they wrote. "Prolonged drought and over-reliance on groundwater for crop irrigation has led to the depletion of aquifers in the US and across the globe. The development of more drought tolerant or water-use efficient crops should positively impact the future of agriculture in the state while promoting the wise use of limited water resources in Nevada and in arid states throughout the western U.S."

For the past dozen years, Cushman has served as director of the University's biochemistry graduate program, which is an interdisciplinary collaboration in the Molecular Biosciences among the Cell and Molecular Biology Program and the Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology Program within the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources, the College of Science and the School of Medicine. The directorship exemplifies two aspects of higher education that Cushman values: the overlap between research and education and the increasing importance of multidisciplinary collaboration.

Cushman has witnessed and appreciates the evolution of research from single-investigator programs to larger, comprehensive programs.

"Large genome sequencing and bioinformatics projects need large teams," he said. "The technology is such that you can't be an expert in all of the research methodologies involved. We need and rely upon good collaborators."

As for his commitment to education and students, Tittiger and Blomquist wrote, "Dr. Cushman has made significant contributions to graduate education. He has not only mentored an impressive number of doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars over his career, many of whom have gone on to realize successful careers as independent scientists, but also he has been integral to maintaining the high quality of the biochemistry graduate program throughout his tenure as Graduate Program Director."

Cushman remains excited about the future and sees the field of synthetic biology as the next frontier. He also is enthusiastic about contributing to the University's expanding research and teaching presence in dryland, sustainable agriculture.

"With Nevada being the driest state, we'd like to become known for our growing expertise," Cushman said.

The Nevada Regents' Research Award is presented annually to one faculty member across the institutions of the Nevada System of Higher Education. An NSHE selection committee reviews nominations from the institutions and recommends an honoree to the Nevada Board of Regents' Academic and Student Affairs Committee for approval. The recipient receives an award amount of $5,000.

So, what does this honor mean to Cushman? Always humble, he said, "The more we can show we are having impact, the better for our students, college, University, state, country and science."

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The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry offers Bachelor of Science degrees in chemistry and biochemistry, a Master of Science degree in chemistry and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in chemistry or biochemistry.

The BS chemistry and biochemistry majors both meet the certification requirements of the American Chemical Society. Both majors are excellent preparation for medical, dental, veterinary, or chiropractic school admission. They provide training for students planning to attend graduate school or work in the chemical or biochemical industries. Students in both majors have the option of developing a specialization in secondary (high school) teaching, and students pursuing the chemistry major have the option of developing an emphasis in environmental chemistry or materials science.

The graduate programs in the department lead to the M.S. or Ph.D. degrees in chemistry or a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry. Research programs exist in analytical, biochemistry, chemical education, environmental, organic, and physical chemistry. All students admitted to the graduate program receive a full assistantship to support them during their studies.

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Underlying cause of a form of macular degeneration characterized Science Daily Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry in Penn's School of Dental Medicine, also contributed her expertise in lipid biochemistry and spectral analysis of lipid debris to the study, which was published in the journal ...

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Forget what you know about bile because thats about to change, thanks to a discovery made by Michigan State University and published in the current issue of Nature.

Much of our knowledge about bile hasnt changed in many decades. Its produced in the liver, stored in our gall bladder and injected into our intestine when we eat, where it breaks down fats in our gut. In fact, the first bile acid was discovered in 1848, and the scientists who revealed the structure of bile acids in 1928 won the Nobel Prize. Thats a long time ago.

Since then, our understanding of the chemistry of bile production in the liver was that the cholesterol backbone of the bile acid structure is linked to the amino acids glycine or taurine to produce our primary bile acids, said Robert Quinn, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and Global Impact researcher, and lead author of the study. It begs the question of how the new bile acids weve discovered have remained hidden during the last 170 years of bile acid chemical research.

These new bile acids are not produced by our enzymes; theyre made by microbes in our gut. This discovery will change how medical textbooks address digestion, and it contributes to an ever-growing body of knowledge supporting the importance of the microbiome, the collective community of bacteria and other microorganisms living in our guts.

Quinns team, comprised of scientists from MSU, the University of California San Diego and a number of collaborating institutions, showed that microbes in the gut, members of the microbiome, produce unique bile acids by conjugating the cholesterol backbone with myriad other amino acids.

This represents a fifth mechanism of bile acid metabolism by the microbiome that greatly expands our understanding of mammalian bile.

While much of the study was conducted in mice, these novel bile acids were also found in humans. And heres the kicker that will guide future research: Theyre particularly abundant in the guts of people suffering with gastrointestinal diseases, such as Crohns disease and cystic fibrosis.

These molecules can alter signaling pathways in the human gut that result in a reduction of overall bile acid production, representing a new mechanism where our gut bacteria can manipulate our own physiology, Quinn said.

While the disease connection is an intriguing line of research, this is merely one aspect being pursued by Quinns lab.

Clearly, our understanding of these compounds is in its infancy, Quinn said. This exciting new discovery opens more questions than answers about these compounds and their role in our health.

(Note for media: Please include a link to the original paper in online coverage: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2047-9)

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Xiaoyan Zhang,* Xingliang Zhang,* Yunxia Zhu, Jun Tao, Zhen Zhang, Yue Zhang, Yanyan Wang, YingYing Ke, ChenXi Ren, Jun Xu

Department of Geriatrics, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth Peoples Hospital, Shanghai 200233, Peoples Republic of China

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence: Xiaoyan Zhang Email zhangxy971088@hotmail.com

Background and Aim: The presence of malnutrition in hospitalized geriatric patients is associated with an increased risk of mortality. This study aimed to examine the performance of Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002) and Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF) in predicting mortality for hospitalized geriatric patients in China.Methods: A prospective analysis was performed in 536 hospitalized geriatric patients aged 65 years. Nutrition status was assessed using the MNA-SF and NRS2002 scales within 24hrs of admission. Anthropometric measures and biochemical parameters were carried out for each patient. Patients were follow-up for up to 2.5 years.Results: At baseline, 161 (30.04%) patients had malnutrition/nutritional risk according to NRS2002 assessment. According to MNA-SF, 284 (52.99%) patients had malnutrition/nutritional risk. Malnutrition/nutritional risk patients had lower anthropometric and biochemical parameters (P< 0.05). NRS2002 and MNA-SF had a strong correlation with classical nutritional markers (P< 0.05). NRS2002 versus MNA-SF showed moderate agreement (kappa=0.493, P< 0.001). During a median follow-up time of 795 days (range 10 947 days), 118 (22%) participants died. The KaplanMeier curve demonstrated that malnutrition/nutritional risk patients according to NRS2002 or MNA-SF assessment had a higher risk of mortality than the normal nutrition patients (2=17.67, P< 0.001; 2=28.999, P< 0.001, respectively). From the components of the Cox regression multivariate models, only the NRS2002 score was an independent risk factor inuencing the mortality.Conclusion: Both NRS2002 and MNA-SF scores could predict mortality in Chinese hospitalized geriatric patients. But only NRS2002 score was the independent predictor for mortality.

Keywords: NRS2002, MNA-SF, elderly, nutritional screening, malnutrition

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