Chemical engineering grad students will take notable national awards
...tion in Austin, Texas. Dimitrios Zarkadas, who is expected to graduate in the next few months, was selected as the winner of the 2004 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award in Crystallization and Evaporation. Zarkadas is a resident of Kearny. Meredith Feins, of River Vale, who received ...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...o jumpstart this project." The exploratory work is expected to eventually lead to another NIH clinical research center grant which will further support basic and clinical research in obesity and its associated complications, Dr. Horton said. "Metabolic diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, are going to be a...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...n individuals in the United States. This number is expected to increase to almost 3 million by 2020.Each year 1.3 million Americans over age 20 are diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy. The financial impact and effect on quality of life for people diagnosed with one of these disorders is devastating, says Dart...Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
... vying for the prize, and this new contribution is expected to swell that number. "By encouraging the development of technologies that enable sustainable human rejuvenation, the Methuselah Foundation is the first and most developed organization directly promoting the development of human "Projuvenation" techn...Genetic differences might help distinguish thyroid cancers
...n estimated 23,600 new cases of thyroid cancer are expected this year, nearly two-thirds of which will occur in women, and 1,460 Americans are expected to die from the disease. PTC represents about 80 percent of all thyroid cancers, with FTC representi......rofessor Duncan said that nanomedicine research is expected to bring significant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. She said: "This is still just the beginning. In the longer term, nanomedicines research will certainly embrace the opportunities arising from stem cell research, tissue enginee...Newly identified master gene key in baby's first breath
...ntification of Foxa2's role in lung development is expected to lead to new treatments for premature babies, children and adults with lung disease or lung injury. ...Agronomy, crop, and soil science societies to meet Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 in Seattle
.... More than 4,000 delegates from 100 countries are expected to be in attendance. These include scientists, researchers, academia, extension agents and students. Featured scientific topics include: Farming for More Nutritious Foods Genomics and Plant Breeding Plant Diversity Fertilizing Crops Precision...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...n's Robotics Institute. During the mission, Zoe is expected to travel about two kilometers (1.24 miles) daily and provide panoramic and close-up images. Zoe will employ a variety of other scientific instruments to explore the remote desert. The instruments include a visible-to-near-infrared spectrometer...Alaska scientists find Arctic tundra yields surprising carbon loss
...ht to simulate the increased nutrient availability expected as a result of a warmer climate. The plots are par...o stimulate plant growth and store more carbon. We expected that fertilization by itself would lead to increased carbon storage." "Instead, nitrogen seems to s...Pollutant causes delayed flowering in plants
...d internal nitric oxide production. But it was not expected that external nitric oxide affected the flowering pathway." To explore how the molecular machinery of the plant was affected by nitric oxide, the researchers identified mutant plants that produced high levels of nitric oxide and were hypersensitive t...No role for simian virus 40 in human pleural mesotheliomas
...umor samples allowed us to search for SV40 RNA (an expected product of functional SV40 DNA), which has never been studied in a large series of mesotheliomas, and to show that it is completely absent." Their study presents multiple lines of evidence against the proposed link between SV40 and human mesothel...New signs of life found at the Poles
...ecause enough light gets through, we wouldn't have expected this type of colonization in the polar regions where most of the rocks are opaque. Also, the harsh UV- radiation and violent winds make for a hostile environment. We found that in fact the opaque rocks protect the micro-organisms and, the movement ...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...ause rates of folic acid use were also higher than expected for women not dieting (39 percent). She also said the March of Dimes urges all women to eat a varied, healthy diet before and during pregnancy. Of women who were not pregnant at the time of the 2004 survey, 37 percent reported taking a vitamin con...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
... "Given the mature age of these dogs and their expected lifespan, the few deaths that did occur were not statistically significant," Otto said. "We can't say that these findings preclude illness later in life, but it is clear that we don't see any trends in the current physical or behavioral wellbeing of...Molecule awakens and maintains neural connections
... that depends on dendrite development. "While we expected that Dasm1 would contribute to dendrite arborization, the finding that reducing its activity caused a dysfunction in synaptic maturation was quite surprising," Yuh Nung Jan said. According to Lily Yeh Jan, the finding of a single control molecule fo...DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
...ring the suit. The new suits for the military are expected to be up to 50 percent lighter than existing protective gear, are impermeable to aerosols and biological agents and will fit compactly in a small duffel bag. "In this post-9/11 environment, first responders and firefighters throughout the country ar...Spontaneous mutation produces new MAO A/B knockout mouse
...eurotransmitters broken down by MAO B, as would be expected in mice lacking MAO B, but also had high levels of neurotransmitters broken down by MAO A. This indicated that somehow the MAO B knockout mouse had also lost its ability to produce MAO A. "Both MAO A and MAO B are critically important," says Dr. Sh...Charting the future in prostate cancer care: A call to action
...ostate cancer in the United States, and 30,000 are expected to die from the disease. Today, about two million...number of new prostate cancer cases in the U.S. is expected to increase by 50 percent to more than 300,000 new cases per year. Unfortunately, even today, prosta......n from the University of Tennessee, calculated the expected levels of co-extinction across a diverse selection of host and associate systems. Their research is published in the current edition of the prestigious journal, "Science." The team first compiled a list of 12,200 plants and animals currently listed a...