Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...was not helpful in choosing a study or career path reported their plans had been set prior to being involved. How ABC works Some 1,200 students across Canada have taken part in the challenge since 1994, a competitive process designed to introduce hundreds of students each year to the real world of bio...Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...er way. The findings of the animal study are being reported by Dutch research scientist Dr. Jacqueline Limpens at the EORTC-NCI-AACR[1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva. The study involved testing one low and one high dose of synthetic lycopene alone, one low and one high dose ...Researchers determine genetic cause of Timothy syndrome
...te investigator Mark T. Keating and his colleagues reported in the October 1, 2004, issue of the journal Cell, that a pinpoint mutation in the CaV1.2 calcium channel was the sole cause of Timothy syndrome. Keating collaborated on the studies with researchers from Children's Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical S...Cigarette smoke causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, Pitt study finds
...y of Pittsburgh researchers. Their findings, to be reported Tuesday, Oct. 5 at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society, are the first to show that cigarette smoke causes chromosome instability. The meeting, "Genes, Mutations and Disease: The Environmental Connection," will be held Oct. 2...Rare childhood genetic syndrome identified
...with calcium channel-blocking drugs. Findings are reported in the October 1 issue of the journal Cell . The disease, named Timothy syndrome after one of the paper's authors, is characterized by a variety of problems including heart arrhythmias, congenital heart abnormalities, webbed hands and feet, a weaken...'Dead zone' area shrinking, Texas A&M prof says
...nt on our research cruise, other teams in the area reported seeing few if any fishing boats in the dead zone area," DiMarco says. "But we were surprised to see a lot of fishing boats, especially shrimp boats, there. That means marine life has returned to the area where just three weeks before, the oxygen leve...Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
...sts to tell the species apart. Another new finding reported in Science concerns the unusual way the diatom metabolizes silicon to form its characteristically ornate silica frustule. "Diatoms can manipulate silica in ways that nanotechnologists can only dream about. If we understood how they can design and...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
... Tehran University, today (Wednesday 29 September) reported at the EORTC-NCI-AACR[1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva that two courses of the drug achieved complete remission in over 90% of the 63 patients in a Phase II study being carried out at the city's Hematology, Oncology...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...iang explained, although Pack-MULEs were initially reported about 20 years ago, they didn't seem too significant. It just seemed like in a given chunk, there weren't too many of them. Except Jiang was in the lab of Susan Wessler at the University of Georgia, a distinguished research professor who studies tra...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...ve spread into the lungs of mice. The mouse study, reported in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Cerus Corp. in Concord, Calif., employs a genetically engineered listeria bacteria based on a strain created by coauthor and University of Califor...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
... Laboratory and Oregon Health & Science University reported today in the October Journal of Virology. Human cytomegalovirus, or HCMV, is a member of the herpesvirus family. HCMV infects and persists for life in 50 to 85 percent of Americans 40 years and older. Few know they are infected and show no ill effect...Study: Emission of smog ingredients from trees is increasing rapidly
... vegetation."), the authors conclude: "The results reported here call for a wider recognition that an understanding of recent, current and anticipated changes in biogenic VOC emissions is necessary to guide future air-quality policy decisions; they do not provide any evidence that responsibility for air pollu...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
... four. In August 2003, he and his team reported that they had identified the full breadth of genetic activity at a key stage of development in the parasite, revealing that an unusually high percentage of genes ? at least 60 percent -- were "turned on," or expressed, at the third and critical stage...Veterans with Gulf War syndrome have damage in specific, primitive portion of nervous system
...The high rate of gallbladder disease in these men, reported in a previous study, is particularly disturbing because typically women over 40 get this. It's singularly rare in young men," said Dr. Robert Haley, chief of epidemiology at UT Southwestern and lead author of the new study. The parasympathetic s...DNA barcode finds four new bird species
... species of North American birds. The findings are reported in the September 28 issue of Public Library of Sci...A DNA Barcode for Birds The new research reported in PLoS Biology puts the COI barcode to a more discriminating test by measuring whether the techniqu...Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
...very far away." A previous study by Hites and Basu reported increased lake PCB levels at Sturgeon Point, N. Y., when winds blew southward from Buffalo, about 12 miles away. A broader study of other locations around the Great Lakes has corroborated this "urban effect" in PCB levels. For example, PCB concentrat...Marijuana use could cause tubal pregnancies
...esearchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center reported this week. The researchers studied CB1, a "cannabinoid" receptor that binds the main active chemical for marijuana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). In pregnant mice that lacked the gene for the receptor, or in which the receptor was bloc...UCI scientists successfully target key HIV protein; breakthrough may lead to new drug therapies
...e fight against AIDS," said Weiss. The researchers reported their findings last week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The print version of the research paper will appear in the Sept. 28 issue of the journal. Human immunodeficiency virus, commonly known as HIV, is kn......fting has remained elusive. Today, scientists have reported the first direct observation of how this protein, amelogenin, interacts with crystals like those in bone to form the hard, protective enamel of teeth. The study, published by a team from the Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...sing thousands of different viruses. The work was reported in the most recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . "Viruses are among the most important causes of human disease and are of increasing concern as possible agents of biowarfare and bioterrorism," says author Charles M. ...