Obscure Enzyme May Play Major Role In Heart Disease
...gineers are Technion graduates, as are most of the founders and managers ofits high-tech industries. The university's 11,000 students and 700 faculty studyand work in the Technion's 19 faculties and 30 research centers and institutesin Haifa. The American Technion Society (ATS) is the university's support or...Priestly Gene Shared By Widely Dispersed Jews
...gineers are Technion graduates, as are most of the founders and managers ofits high-tech industries. The university's 11,000 students and 700 faculty studyand work in the Technion's 19 faculties and 30 research centers and institutesin Haifa. The American Technion Society (ATS) is the university's support org...Aspirin Decreases Genetic Mutations Associated With Inherited Colon Cancer
...Henry Lynch of Creighton University and one of the founders of HNPCC (alsocalled Lynch's Syndrome). "Drs. Fishel and Rschoff's work provides a basicresearch foundation to helping individuals with this devastating disease." One next step already underway is a clinical trial in Europe to studythe effec...Scientists, research advocates honored as Albert B. Sabin Heroes of Science
...eroes of Science are: Dave and Lynn Frohnmayer, founders of the Fanconi Anemia ResearchFund, which supports path-breaking genetic research and fostersdialog among the scientists who are studying the disease. All threeof the Frohnmayers' daughters were born with Fanconi anemia, aninherited, usually fatal il...University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist is named ESA president
...with E.A. Birge and Chauncey Juday, considered the founders of the limnology field. In addition to extensive research on Madison-area lakes, the center runs a research outpost in northern Wisconsin called Trout Lake Station. Both Madison and northern Wisconsin lakes are part of the National Science Foundatio...Clinton names a diverse group of researchers to receive the 2000 National Medals Of Science
... simple groups. Uhlenbeck stands out as one of the founders of geometry based on analytical methods and is a leader in her field as a mentor for women and minorities in mathematics education. In physics, Jeremiah P. Ostriker of Princeton University is receiving a medal for contributions that advanced the u...Baylor College of Medicine garners research grants to sequence rat genome
...ylor College of Medicine, particularly because our founders were so interested in science and the field of genetics. We are very pleased to help further the Foundation's work in this exciting area. It is gratifying to see that Baylor is at the forefront of discovery - in this case, taking on a critical lead...UC San Francisco patents method for delivering normal genes in a pill
..., PhD, professor of chemistry at UC Davis, are the founders of Genteric. The research team began studying the technique at UCSF five years ago with funding from the UCSF Foundation and formed Genteric three years ago to pursue practical applications. Oral delivery of genes differs from many of the highly publ...Standing tall: Plains indians enjoyed height, health advantage
...ted by Franz Boas, one of the founders of American anthropology. Boas collected and analyzed data from several thousand Native Americans during the late 1800s as part of research he was doing for the Columbian Exposition, a fa...'Gene pill' patent extended to include all proteins secreted into blood
..., PhD, professor of chemistry at UC Davis, are the founders of Genteric. The research team began studying the technique at UCSF five years ago with funding from the UCSF Foundation and formed Genteric three years ago to pursue practical applications. Oral delivery of genes differs from many of the highly publ......y developed at Aegen Biosciences, by the company's founders Richard Kuo and Gregory Baxter, could handle hundreds or even thousands of eggs at once. Kuo says they can routinely denucleate 30 to 50 sea urchin eggs at a time. They plan to start testing cow eggs in the next few weeks. The prototype is a thin s...Twenty years of monkey research boosts AIDS knowledge
...entified in 1983 and SIV in 1985. Gardner said the founders of the primate centers could never have imagined that monkeys, specifically the Asian rhesus macaque, would play such a critical role in fighting the global AIDS pandemic. Over the past 20 years, AIDS has sickened or killed nearly 40 million people. ...Genentech tops Science survey of best biopharma employers
...values, and quality research. "The values that our founders Herb Boyer and Bob Swanson imparted remain today: valuing employees' creativity and allowing freedom for individual scientists to innovate and be creative," said Richard Scheller, vice president of research at Genentech. "It's not enough just to be ...Scientists decode mosquito/malaria parasite genomes
...atos, the Director-General of EMBL, was one of the founders of the international mosquito genome consortium and helped steer its work. A study led by an EMBL senior scientist, Peer Bork compared the mosquito genome with that of the fruitfly Drosophila. They discovered that almost half of the more than 13,000 ...Fish profiling to stop ANS; dye test for fish disease; reauthorization
..., NOAA administrator from 1989-1993 and one of the founders of the National Sea Grant College Program; and John T. Woeste, dean and professor emeritus, University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service. They were swore in by retired Navy Vice. Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., Undersecretary of Commerce f...Tropical Science for the 21st Century
...of Costa Rica, April 3Edward O. Wilson, one of the founders of OTS and a preeminent biological theorist, will be the symposium keynote speaker. Wilson's accomplishments include pioneering work on chemical communication, he also edited Biodiversity, which introduced the term and launched worldwide attention t...World's smallest seahorse discovered
...r of the Project Seahorse team. Along with Project founders Dr. Amanda Vincent and Dr. Heather Hall, she is the lead author of Seahorses: An identification guide to the world's species and their conservation. Dr. John E. Randall is the world's preeminent authority on tropical marine fishes. He has written eig...First company founded on UCF biotechnology formed
... based in St. Louis. Henry Daniell, one of the founders of Chlorogen and professor of Molecular and Microbiology and Trustee chair at UCF ( http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~daniell ), will lead the research efforts, building on his groundbreaking methods of growing drugs such as interferon in tobacco leaves. "...Nomadic outposts of transplanted stem cells tracked in Stanford study
...m Cell Biology and Medicine. Contag is one of the founders of Xenogen, which makes the sensitive video camera used in this study....