New Cancer Switch Discovered By Duke Medical Center Pharmacologists
...of Health. Pendergast is a Whitehead Scholar and a scholar of the Leukemia Society of America. She is also a member of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, which is supported by the National Cancer Institute. Cortez is a graduate student in the department of molecular cancer biology. The researchers made th...Fat Is Back, Healthy Diets Need Fat
... researchers, including Dr. E.C. Chung, a visiting scholar from Korea, recently explored new ways to measure diet quality. They examined the overall diet of men and women in the United States based on diet diversity (consuming foods from the five major food groups), variety (total number of foods consumed p...UF Discovery Of Chicken Gene Mutation Aids Study Of Rare Inherited Eye Disease
...osium. Bill Hauswirth, theRybaczki-Bullard eminent scholar of ophthalmology and molecular geneticsand microbiology, and Al Lewin, a professor in the department of moleculargenetics and microbiology, will present information on AAV gene therapiesfor retinal diseases. Paul Hargrave, the Francis N. Bullard emin...Staring And Squirming Help Babies Explore
...t, James Reilly, human ecology '96, now aFulbright scholar studying clinical psychology at the University of Virgina,worked with Robertson for his senior honors thesis. An article reporting hiswork, with Reilly as the first author, was recently published in "BehavioralNeuroscience." "Working in the lab has ......ducation, launched the five-year, $25million young scholar program this year to support the research of the nation'sbest and brightest young biomedical investigators. Clurman, who earned his degrees from Cornell University 10 years ago isappreciative of the award that will provide five years of solid support...NY pilot study pushes Human Genome Project toward cures for disease
...or, Alfred P. Sloan research fellow and Sinsheimer scholar at The Rockefeller University. "The initiative is aimed at developing a comprehensive mechanistic understanding of human and microbial physiology at the molecular level. This strategy should lead us to medically relevant data more quickly." Sali will...Brain cell 'chorus' appears as attention increases
...lead author on the paper and a former postdoctoral scholar at the institute. "Firing synchronously like sing...esting the theory. Steinmetz, now a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech, combined currently available computer power with a cutting-edge statistical technique to...Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
... series of prominent scientists, supports a summer scholar program for high school students, and helps fund a biennial conference for chemistry and science teachers at the high school and junior high levels....Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish?
...ing at the future," says Naylor, a senior research scholar at Stanford's Institute for International Studies and lead author of the Nature study. She and Mooney write that "global production of farmed fish and shellfish has more than doubled during the past 15 years. While many people believe such growth re...Global warming: lessons taught by snails and crabs
...during low tide? To find out, Somero, postdoctoral scholar Lars Tomanek and former graduate student Jonathan Stillman (now at Occidental College) decided to investigate thermal tolerance limits in two groups of common Pacific invertebrates - porcelain crabs (genus Petrolisthes) and snails (genus Tegula). The...Scientists track phosphate to better understand global warming
...special session Dec. 15 with Stanford postdoctoral scholar Barbara Cade-Menun at this year's San Francisco me...d by the National Science Foundation. Postdoctoral scholar Kristina Faul will join Paytan's lab in the spring to further these studies. "From the chemistry of...How wild horses were tamed by humans is uncovered by biologists from UCLA, Swedish universities
...rses, said Carles Vila, a former UCLA postdoctoral scholar in Waynes laboratory who is an evolutionary geneticist at Swedens Uppsala University, and lead author of the study. Using molecular genetic techniques, the biologists studied DNA sequences from both modern and ancient horses, including more than 190 ...... reassortment." The author, Harvey Bialy, resident scholar in the Institute of Biotechnology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Cuernavaca, also endorsed Duesberg's theory that aneupolidy is the basis of cancer. "The best tests of any theory are its accuracy at making experimental predictions...UNC-CH study indicates special vaccines could prevent insulin-dependent diabetes
... J. Weaver, now a UNC-CH medical student; visiting scholar Dr. Bo Liu, Thi Bui, research assistant; Dr. James Arthos of the National Institutes of Health; and Dr. David V. Serreze, a researcher at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me. "Recently, a Canadian group in Edmonton showed for the first time that...Pauling Centenary to recognize scientist, humanitarian
...brate the life and accomplishments of the greatest scholar ever to emerge from its halls. The two-time Nobel laureate was born on Feb. 28, 1901, and later graduated in chemical engineering, class of 1923, from OSU (then called Oregon Agricultural College). Pauling died in 1994 at the age of 93, and OSU today...Hunger linked to poor health in low-income U.S. children
...at Cornell last year and is now a community health scholar at the University of Michigan. "The study underscores the urgency for achieving the objective set out in the federal government's Healthy People 2010 report that more families be food secure within the decade." The research is an analysis of a na...Biologists discover protein's impace on plant-water balance
...gy at Penn State, and Xi-Qing Wang, a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State, along with collaborators at the University of North Carolina, discovered that by altering a specific protein in the guard cells those cells had less control over the amount of water lost by the plants through their stomatal pores. The ...UCSF study finds two old drugs may help fight prion diseases
... study, Carsten Korth, MD. Korth is a postdoctoral scholar in the UCSF laboratory of senior author Stanley B. Prusiner(1.), MD, UCSF professor of neurology and biochemistry and director of the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases. UCSF neurologists, in collaboration with the researchers, are in the...Coenzyme Q shortens life span of worms substantially, UCLA chemists report
...st January (by Tanya Jonassen, a UCLA postdoctoral scholar in chemistry and biochemistry; Larsen; and Clarke) has established Coenzyme Qs importance in growth and development. The adult worms without Coenzyme Q in their diet did not start to look old until later than the other group of worms, Larsen said. Wh......rd Hughes Medical Institute international research scholar Neil M. Ferguson and colleagues at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London published the model and discussed their interpretation of the initial results in an online article in the January 10, 2002, Nature . According to...