Environmental issues center of Inland Northwest Research Alliance 4th Annual Symposium
...ter and surface water. The fourth annual symposium highlighted natural resource issues that are part of every day debates in the Pacific Northwest. Other topics included national and international research conducted in the areas of environmental science and subsurface science as they relate to the areas of energ...Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
...ave received little attention to date will also be highlighted with new research findings. These include, for example, diet in early childhood, light pollution, melatonin and circadian rhythms, placental transfer to the foetus of damaging agents, medicines in pregnancy and delayed transgenerational susceptibilit...Gold quantum dots have applications in biological labeling, nanoscale optics
...ust 13 in the journal Physical Review Letters, and highlighted on the journal cover. Additional information on the work will be presented August 23rd at the 228th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, PA. The work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, National Institute...New technique helps scientists reveal interactions between genes and drugs
...aths in response to low drug doses. The robot also highlighted cell lines with high resistance to the drugs where few or no cells were killed. In the future, patients whose cells are particularly sensitive to chemotherapy may be able to be treated with relatively low doses, reducing side effects. Patients wh...American Society of Mammalogists honors CI president Russell Mittermeier with Aldo Leopold award
...ient, the ASM's president, Dr. Bruce D. Patterson, highlighted Mittermeier's "productivity as a scientist and [his] effective leadership of several conservation organizations, especially CI." The Aldo Leopold Award honors the memory of the early 20th Century conservationist Aldo Leopold, a former ASM member who ......onmental and health concerns. "These problems have highlighted the need for new strategies for mosquito larval control," says Peter Shang-Tzen Chang, a professor in the School of Forestry and Resource Conservation at National Taiwan University and lead author of the paper. Scientists are increasingly turning to ...Comparing primate genomes offers insight into human evolution
... humans and great apes, Sikela and colleagues have highlighted genomic regions likely to have influenced primate, and in particular human, evolution....... plant after herbivore attack and in doing so have highlighted the value of genetically modifying plants for the study of complex ecological interactions in nature. They produced transgenic Nicotiana attenuata (wild tobacco) plants which were silenced in the expression of an lipoxygenase-encoding gene that media......n Arizona. A few of the papers being presented are highlighted below. (View all the meeting details and abstracts online at http://www.aps.org/meet/DAMOP04/ ) i) Slow Light, Fast Information Information encoded on a light pulse has been believed to travel at the same speed as the peak of the pulse (known as t...Gene maps of simpler life forms point the way to human disease gene
...results. "For example, we found the comparison had highlighted 92 percent of the 62 genes that we already knew we...contained nearly 230 genes. Dutcher's analysis had highlighted two genes in that region, and when Katsanis' group sequenced the genes in families of patients with ...UCLA scientists decipher how the brain retrieves and stores our oldest memories
...e cage 36 days after training, however, the images highlighted a part of the cortex called the anterior cingulate. "We were fascinated to see the anterior cingulate switch on when we tested the normal mice for distant memory, but not when we tested them for recent memory," said Silva. "In contrast, the mutant m...Analysis uncovers critical stretches of human genome
...e because we didn't have the comparative data that highlighted these regions," said Haussler. "The real credit goes to the prodigious efforts in sequencing these multiple genomes, which have given us this tremendous opportunity, opening our eyes to these very unusual genomic elements," he said. According to Haus...Sodium channel gene mutation identified in case of familial epilepsy
...t track." The GEFS+ mutation presentation will be highlighted in two other scientific sessions during the American Academy of Neurology Conference....Genome-wide screen reveals new tricks of old genes
...etic material during cell division. Fifteen of the highlighted genes were already known to help ensure the accuracy of copied DNA and two help move chromosomes to opposite ends of the dividing cell. But the researchers' results give these "old" genes new jobs, associating them with cohesion, the little-understo...Brown earns prestigious geography award
...nd in the private sector. Many of the technologies highlighted in this report are under development in the program Brown manages at ORNL, including optical control coatings for roofs, clean diesel engines, combined heat and power systems, and advanced industrial materials that resist degradation at high temperat...'Meeting of the minds' leads new era in fight against cancer
...creasingly important area of genomics also will be highlighted by researchers who will discuss the identification of undiscovered gene functions as potential targets for the development of anti-cancer drugs. The session will close with a discussion of the evolving practice of targeted cancer therapy approaches....Support needed for elderly breast cancer patients and for independent academic research
...nk on care after breast cancer were the four areas highlighted by participants at the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-4) in Hamburg today (20 March 2004). Delegates used an electronic voting system to select these issues for special attention in the next two years. Clinicians, scientists and patien...St. Jude shows how disorderliness in some proteins lets them interact with a diversity of molecules
...tance of p27's role in regulating cell division is highlighted by findings showing that loss of p27 function is a key contributing factor in several types of cancer. The researchers demonstrated that the p27 protein resembles a relatively rigid helical (twisted) rod with a wobbly piece of spaghetti hanging off e...Preoperative treatment with Arimidex(TM) allows patients to undergo less extensive surgery
...preference to mastectomy. Furthermore, the survey highlighted the immense psychological impact of breast cancer - the fear of losing a breast was among the most common concerns voiced by these women. Summarising the significance of these results, Professor L Cataliotti, one of the lead investigators for the PR...Genetic profile, not clinical appearance, to determine tumor treatment
...A new generation of ultrasensitive diagnostics has highlighted the problem of subcutaneous foci of residual tumors that may remain at the operative site, or be disseminated throughout the body. These approaches have also revealed that the extent of spread of a precancerous patch is often much greater than previo...