HHMI, NIBIB/NIH to invest up to $35 million in interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs
... strengths of each organization. "HHMI can provide flexible support to catalyze the development of new, interdisciplinary programs," said Thomas R. Cech, president of HHMI. "The NIBIB will sustain these young programs once they are developed, as NIH does so well with traditional training grants." Rode...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...his year's projects are two new "virtual centers," flexible collaborations of investigators at various institutions, all focusing on a common goal. One center, led by New York University in collaboration with the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History and Cold Spring Harbor Laborato...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
..."Honey bees are complex social animals with highly flexible behavior," he said. "They live in the equivalent of an urban environment where much of their social behavior is in response to environmental conditions." A BeeSpace team led by Robinson will generate a molecular signature of all the major roles perfo...Using statistics to decipher secrets of natural mutation
... these biases, Hwang and Green sought to develop a flexible approach to analyze the process of "neutral DNA evolution," in regions thought to lack genes and other functionally important sequences. "If you want to get an unvarnished picture of the mutation process itself, uncorrupted by natural selection, you ...LICR/UCSD team solves mystery of centromeres
...ne how a protein called CENP-A, turns the normally flexible center section of a rod-shaped chromosome into a s... to see something more like a movie that shows how flexible the regions of a protein are." Woods noted that "this work demonstrates the ability of ...Scientists discover new intricacies in how ulcer bugs stick to stomach
...host's blood type, so they maintain a form of babA flexible enough to bind to all the different Lewis b receptors," explains Berg, who is also a professor of genetics and of medicine. "In Amerindian populations in Latin America, though, almost everyone has blood type O." When Berg and colleagues took...New textbook introduces students to the foundations, applications of nanotechnology
...smaller and promise a future with highly efficient flexible solar cells and molecular machinery to augment hum...r cells, modulators for communication systems, and flexible flat panel displays. The final section provides an overview of nanoscale biological systems, includi...How DNA repair machinery is a 'Two-Way Street'
...ntral mystery is how the mismatch repair system is flexible enough to recognize such a triggering strand break on either side of the mismatch along the DNA strand, said Modrich. In the Molecular Cell paper, he and his colleagues have defined the protein components of the machinery that allows such bidirection...New designed paclitaxel analog kills more cancer cells than natural product
...axel consists of a rigid ring system attached to a flexible side chain, but the exact arrangement of the side chain in space is not known. "The issue has been, what is the shape or orientation of the side chain when paclitaxel is sitting on the microtubule? If we could figure that out, we could design a molec...Nerac delivers journal tracking solution through TOC Journal Watch
...-text document ordering to the next level. Through flexible programming capabilities, knowledge centers can choose to order documents from a combination of CrossRef, direct from publishers, in-house files and nearly any resource that delivers full-text," said Kevin Bouley, Nerac's President. "Because Nerac pr......ctuations, i.e. statistical noise. They found that flexible competitors who adjust their adaptation rate could improve their prosperity in noisy systems. The researchers suggest that their model may have important economic implications, potentially showing ways that competitors can increase their odds of succ...Study of Cape Cod Seashore finds off-road vehicles harmful to beach fauna
...e traffic is allowed," she said. "The species are flexible and move around a great deal, so by regularly opening and closing the beaches to traffic, the impact may not be as great. "This is an environment that few people study, so there are still lots of questions," she concluded. "Off-road vehicles are hav...Tufts University groundbreaking research on caterpillar locomotion
...limb, and is using that knowledge to one day build flexible robots that could explore internal organs, blood v...cations in the design and control of a new type of flexible robot that could be used to navigate through pipelines or intricate structures such as blood vessels...Butterflies & the hormonal basis of interactions between life histories & morphology
... It further shows that the developmental system is flexible enough to allow evolution in directions opposing the correlation: phenotypes can change by genetic variation in other, independent, pathways....2004 Max Planck Research Prize for Martin Vingron and Eugene W. Myers
...n scientists from Germany and abroad by creating a flexible framework to launch, consolidate or expand international cooperation. The Max Planck Research Prize plays a major role in promoting and shaping the disciplines for which the prize is awarded. The Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperatio...Spiders make best ever Post-it notes
... Force Microscopy (AFM) to measure this force. The flexible contact tips of the setules are triangular (pictures available see notes), and they have an amazingly high adhesive force on the underlying surface. Andrew Martin, from the Institute of Technical Zoology and Bionics in Germany, said, "We found out...New proteomics core at OHSU will speed discovery process
...rapidly," Bystrom said. "We in this lab have to be flexible in dealing with a wide range of samples, everything from bacteria to humans." The term proteomics was coined in 1994 as an easy way to describe the concept of all proteins expressed by a genome, according to Bystrom. The term is now generally accept...Ancient Greeks help scientists build environmentally friendly nano devices
...in miniaturised devices. The materials are robust, flexible films with perforations on the nano scale and have nano coatings. They are environmentally safe and will enable ultra-fast optoelectronic communication. They are produced by the self-assembly of an intricate 3D jigsaw which is then filled with solid ...New paclitaxel analog kills more cancer cells than natural product
...axel consists of a rigid ring system attached to a flexible side chain, but the exact arrangement of the side chain in space is not known. Kingston explains, "The issue has been, what is the shape or orientation of the side chain when paclitaxel is sitting on the microtubule? If we could figure that out, we c...New polyelectrolyte inks create fine-scale structures through direct writing
...intain its shape while spanning the structure, but flexible enough to adhere to other filaments.Dispensed from a syringe by a computer-controlled, three-axis micropositioner, the polyelectrolyte ink exits the nozzle as a continuous filament that is deposited into a reservoir on the substrate surface, yielding...