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Police arrested University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry researcher Christopher Schwartz Monday days after discovering he was growing between 200 and 1,000 grams of marijuana in the university Biochemistry building.

The UW-Madison Police Department has charged Schwartz with the felony of Manufacturing and Delivering THC, the active chemical in marijuana, according to UWPD Sgt. Aaron Chapin. The charge applies to anyone who is either growing or selling an illegal substance, Chapin said.

UWPD also found additional evidence of marijuana production and use at his residence of the West side of the City of Madison, according to a UWPD sergeant.

University spokesperson Dennis Chaptman said Schwartz, now booked into the Dane County Jail, is currently on administrative leave from the university. The university is now working through the personnel process in Schwartzs case.

The consequences Schwartz will face will depend on the charges and could be as severe as dismissal from the university, according to Chaptman.

UWPD is continuing the investigation and will release more details in the future.

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Contact: Angela Hopp ahopp@asbmb.org 240-283-6614 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Scientists at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto have established that a drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat a rare form of cystic fibrosis works in an unconventional way. Their results reveal new possibilities for treating various forms of cystic fibrosis.

Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease afflicting about 70,000 people around the world. Cystic fibrosis patients carry a defective gene that disables or destroys its protein product, which normally regulates the transport of ions across cell borders. When that transport is disrupted, the viscosity of the mucus coating certain organs becomes too thick. A characteristic feature of the disease is thick mucus buildup in the air passages, which causes difficulty breathing and recurring infections.

While the FDA approved the drug VX-770 (also known by the trade names Kalydeco and Ivacaftor) to ease breathing in people with cystic fibrosis caused by a particular mutation in the CFTR protein (the acronym is short for cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator), exactly how VX-770 worked in those patients was unknown.

Scientists have understood for some time that normal CFTR regulation requires modification of the protein and binding of a small, energy-providing molecule adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. But, in their recent Journal of Biological Chemistry "Paper of the Week," Christine Bear and colleagues report that the drug opens both normal and mutant CFTR channels without ATP. Their results indicate that the compound binds to a different site on CTFR than ATP. Significantly, this finding may be useful in developing therapies for cystic fibrosis caused by various CFTR mutations that, like the G551D mutation that was studied, impair ATP-mediated channel regulation.

Bear's group determined how VX-770 works after developing a new experimental system that may have potential for discovering drugs that target the basic defects caused by CFTR mutations, Bear says. The system is useful for identifying compounds that interact with rare mutations such as G551D as well as the major CFTR mutant F508del, she said.

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From the article: "CFTR potentiator VX-770 (Ivacaftor) opens the defective channel gate of mutant CFTR in a phosphorylation-dependent but ATP-independent manner" by Paul D.W. Eckford, Canhui Li, Mohabir Ramjeesingh and Christine E. Bear.

Corresponding author: Christine E. Bear, Programme of Molecular Structure & Function, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; email: bear@sickkids.ca.

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A UW-Madison plant researcher was arrested last week for allegedly growing marijuana in the Biochemistry Building on campus.

Christopher J. Schwartz, 45, was arrested and booked into the Dane County Jail on Thursday, tentatively charged with one felony count of manufacturing and delivering marijuana.

The arrest was made on Wednesday, a day after police received a tip about the plants being grown in a lab in the building, UW-Madison Police Sgt. Aaron Chapin said.

Schwartz is an assistant scientist who works in the Biochemistry Building, 420 Henry Mall, according to UW-Madison Police Sgt. Aaron Chapin.

Schwartz was released from jail on Thursday, according to jail records.

A short description of the work done by Schwartz, written for an agriculture-genomics meeting in San Diego in January, shows he works on bio-energy crop research, including switchgrass.

UW-Madison spokesman Dennis Chaptman said Schwartz was placed on paid administrative leave after his arrest. His case will now work its way through UW's personnel process and could lead to a variety of consequences, Chaptman said, up to and including dismissal.

Chapin said he did not know how many plants were being grown or where in the building they were, only that it was in a portion of the lab that was under Schwartz's control. He said that Schwartz consented to a search of his West Side home, where police found more evidence of marijuana production and use. Chapin said he did not know what sort of evidence that was.

Chapin said the investigation into the marijuana growing in the Biochemistry Building is continuing, and it isn't known at this time if anybody else is involved.

"Additional charges may be forthcoming," Chapin said.

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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) It's a Tuesday morning, and Kevin Ahern is entertaining a room full of college students in an introductory class to biochemistry and biophysics with a voice that carries and a lesson that is positively lyrical.

The class is full of young students, many of them in the second week of their first year of college. They have many reasons to be nervous; their course work is among the most difficult at the university. But Ahern, a senior instructor of biophysics and biochemistry at Oregon State University, has found a way to calm jittery nerves.

Music.

After brief announcements and roll call during which Ahern proves that he knows his class of about 50 students by name and face he projects song lyrics on an overhead screen that contain words like "ribosome" and "DNA."

Then, without hesitation, he begins to sing the scientific lyrics to the melody of "America, the Beautiful" and the class follows his lead.

This is Metabolic Melodies, one of Ahern's unconventional teaching methods to cut through the anxiety that new students often feel when first entering his class.

Ahern, who jokingly claims the title of "frustrated musician," began writing the melodies in 1990.

"I originally conceived of the melodies because biochemistry itself is a pretty scary subject for students," he said.

Metabolic Melodies have made a big enough impression on the student population that Ahern often has students enrolling in his courses because of the songs.

But while they are entertaining and make the professor less intimidating, the melodies, like his other unusual teaching methods, serve a practical purpose as well.

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ggm7r7/deterministic) has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Deterministic Versus Stochastic Modelling in Biochemistry and Systems Biology" to their offering.

Stochastic kinetic methods are currently considered to be the most realistic and elegant means of representing and simulating the dynamics of biochemical and biological networks.

Deterministic Versus Stochastic Modelling in Biochemistry and Systems Biology introduces and critically reviews the deterministic and stochastic foundations of biochemical kinetics, covering applied stochastic process theory for application in the field of modelling and simulation of biological processes at the molecular scale.

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