CURRENT NEWS, ARTICLES & EVENTS:

• Dr. George Palade, 1974 Nobel Laureate and Father of Cell Biology 1912 to 2008 (go to article)

• Congratulations to Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. (go to article)

•Congratulations to new Nobel Prize Laureates Harald zur Hausen of Germany; and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France for their respective discoveries of HPV and HIV. (go to article)

RECENT IIC PUBLICATIONS:

•Claypool, S.M., et al. 2008. The carddiolipin transcyclase, tafazzin..Mol. Biol. Cell (go to article).

• Tan, F.J., Husain, M., Manlandro, C.M., Koppenol, M., Fire, A.Z. and Hill, R.B. 2008. CED-9 and mitochondrial homeostasis in C. elegans muscle. J. Cell Sci. (in press).

• Dalo, D.T., J.M. McCaffery, and J.P. Evans. 2008. Ultrastructural analysis of egg membrane abnormalities...Int. J. Dev. Biol. (go to article)