Houston minority graduation rises in sciences, engineering as result of UH-led alliance
...ities for university study in STEM fields, heavily recruiting eligible students to attend institutions in the al...nd undergraduate programs, GRE classes, exhibitors recruiting students and poster and oral presentations for prizes. ...AAAS US Presidential Candidates' Forum
...bandwidth, research toward a hydrogen economy, and recruiting science and technology to fight terrorism. Candidate Kerry looked for a balanced research support portfolio, put changing stem cell policy near the top, and promised to elevate the Science Adviser position to its former status as Assistant to the Pre...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
...n Sen and Sashwati Roy, determined MCP-1's role in recruiting macrophages by observing tumor responses to an MCP-1 neutralizing antibody in mice when varying levels of macrophages were present. "Our observations specifically link MCP-1 and macrophages as key contributors to the development of these tumor...Conference at UH opens doors for new scientists, engineers
... with Houston Independent School District, heavily recruiting eligible students to attend institutions in the al...nd undergraduate programs, GRE classes, exhibitors recruiting students and poster and oral presentations for prizes. Student presenters at this year's confer...Scientists discover proteins involved in spread of HIV-1 infection
...e human ESCRT-I complex, and that it is capable of recruiting the ESCRT-I complex to support HIV budding in vivo. Sundquist and colleagues also managed to identify regions of TSG101 that bind to VPS28 and VPS37, and showed that theVPS28 binding region is essential for HIV-1 budding. This information could pote...Better living through urban ecology
...grams geared at increasing ecological literacy and recruiting future scientists from under-represented groups. Research findings will continue to be shared with the public and government agencies through the BES website, http://www.beslter.org ....Researchers uncover secrets of immune system's munitions factory
...eve that RPA is sitting there on the DNA, and it's recruiting DNA repair factors, which is a great link to the repair machinery needed for the next step in the hypermutation pathway," said Alt. Thus, in retrospect, RPA's involvement makes biological sense. The other major discovery, said Alt, was that for AID t...Ants protect plants better when jacked up on nectar
...although all four ant species were equally good at recruiting their kindred to attack caterpillars, the species differed in their effectiveness at killing. Ant species that had shown greater preferences for meat in the previous experiment were also better protectors. Even so, all four species did kill so......er control proteins. These control proteins act as recruiting officers, rallying other proteins to set up the in...invader in the same way by boosting blood flow and recruiting specialized cells to attack and destroy the invading organisms. In some diseases, however, the immun...Protective mechanism exploited by tumors may provide new cancer treatment
...oiting its host, some tumors protect themselves by recruiting non-tumor cells that normally help keep the immune system in check, say researchers at the Medical College of Georgia. When the researchers looked into the lymph nodes where tumors drain typically the first place tumors spread they found a subset o...... will engage a larger portion of our membership in recruiting and mentoring underrepresented students."Specifically, this new phase of SEEDS will expand existing activities designed to reach out to African American, Latino, and Native American students. The program areas that will be continuing include: studen...Hope Clinic of Emory Vaccine Center receives CDC contract
...e phase I and II clinical trials, which will begin recruiting patients later this year, will be the first of their kind in Atlanta to evaluate the safety and acceptability of vaginal use of topical microbicides in both healthy women and women infected with HIV. The Emory Vaccine Center's Hope Clinic, located i...$5 million grant funds partnership, studies of minority-based issues in reproductive health
... studies that are part of this grant are currently recruiting participants. One study aims to determine whether female hormone levels are higher in African-American compared to Caucasian females. The study will measure both the differences in hormone levels in the normal menstrual cycle, as well as determine re...Scientists discover molecular target for treatment of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
...o showed that TAL1/SCL silences gene expression by recruiting a histone deacetylase (HDAC) repressor complex, and in fact, HDAC inhibitors were very effective at inhibiting the growth of TAL1/SCL tumor cells. "Our work demonstrates that TAL1/SCL induces leukemia by repressing E47/HEB activity, and suggests that...K-State business researchers to help with major study on food supply veterinary medicine
...s officials and faculty of veterinary colleges for recruiting and training the type of students likely to pursue a career in food supply veterinary medicine," said Dr. John Thompson of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. Andrus' areas of research include marketing professional services, mar...What it Takes: Design principles to broaden participation in SET
... their limited resources on providing services and recruiting participants rather than on rigorous and costly impact studies. The BEST Panel developed a protocol that defined a rigorous study as one that provides meaningful research evidence comparing the outcomes of students who experience a given intervention...High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
...ievement is attributed to the department's faculty recruiting strategies in the past decade and the synergy it creates. "By recruiting faculty in our areas of strength, our department has built up a critical mass in specific areas, enh...Grant from GE Foundation to University of Houston to strengthen math, tech 'pipeline'
...tion in the Houston metropolitan area and enhanced recruiting of promising students into related college programs. The program also will nurture the "teacher pipeline." Mentors will support teachers' efforts through workshops and trainings to develop an increased capacity to handle advanced material in thoroug...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...searchers to start developing a line of inquiry by recruiting students and postdoctoral fellows, purchasing equipment, and acquiring preliminary data all of which can position the researchers to compete for larger awards from other public and private sources. The National Academies Keck FUTURES INITIATIVE w......world class researchers," he added. The process of recruiting top-quality international experts to run the centre is already under way. The award of some 8 million by the DTI, provides for the purchase and installation of the equipment and some of the associated estates work. The remaining costs, of building...