Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
... 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 of synthetic vitamin E alone...Researchers determine genetic cause of Timothy syndrome
...erine Timothy's long and distinguished career as a scientist investigating the causes of cardiac arrhythmias, said Keating. Timothy knew that Keating, who was at the University of Utah at the time, had a longstanding interest in arrhythmias, so she began collaborating with him to understand the disorder. T...EMBO Gold Medal 2004 goes to Spanish scientist
... Medal is awarded annually to an outstanding young scientist for exceptional research carried out within Europe...molecular biology in Europe. Awarded annually to a scientist under 40 years of age, the prize brings the very best young scientists in Europe to the attention of...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
... proud and pleased that this incredibly innovative scientist has won such a prestigious award." Dr. McKnight is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He sits on the editorial boards of mult...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...at the same time," said Susan Varnum, a PNNL staff scientist and the study's co-lead author, "but we believe we're seeing most that are expressed in the mature virus." The researchers were also surprised to find that when a cell is infected, the HCMV virus incorporates into itself a huge number of that hos...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
... graduate student in the laboratory of former UCSF scientist Tim Mitchison. Theriot, a microbiologist, cell biologist, and biophysicist, is focused on unraveling the secrets of bacterial infection. In 1997, Eva Harris, PhD, formerly of the UCSF laboratory of Nina Agabian, PhD, in the UCSF Department o...HHMI, NIBIB/NIH to invest up to $35 million in interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs
...ce with HHMI to support training of the biomedical scientist of the future, one skilled in interdisciplinary research. These scientists will be better equipped to meet the complex challenges of 21st century medicine." The new NIH Roadmap and recent reports from the National Academies Convocation on Facil...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...nce protocols to support a discovery of life. Ames scientist Chris McKay is conducting a long-term ecological study of the Atacama as a Mars analog environment. Scientists using EventScope, a remote experience browser developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry, will guide...Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
... chemicals can get into the Great Lakes," said EPA scientist and IADN Program Manager Melissa Hulting. "PCBs do...and co-authored by Hites and IU School of Medicine scientist Robert Bigsby, showed that polybrominated diphenyl ether levels are elevated in the blood of mothers......nd nano-building. Shaws co-authors are PNNL chief scientist Allison A. Campbell and Michael L. Paine and Malcolm L. Snead of USCs Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology in Los Angeles. Earlier studies showed that mutated mice without amelogenin produced defective enamel. Other experiments set out to pinpoi...Groundbreaking research could ignite new solutions to heat transfer in nano-devices
...nanometer size spaces. Included among the research scientist authors is Timothy D. Sechler, an undergraduate student at The University of Scranton's Dexter Hanley College for adult students. "This project gave me the opportunity to see what my future would be like if I pursue a research track," said Mr. Sechle...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...rd University, a marine geologist who is the chief scientist of the current cruise and a veteran of over 20 deep-sea expeditions in the last two decades. "If we're successful, it will also be the first time that a systematic exploration and discovery of hydrothermal vents over hundreds of kilometers has been a...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...the University of California, Berkeley, and senior scientist with the Chemical Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Schuller, a physicist, will be honored in the materials research category for creating the field of metallic superlattices and recognizing the impact ...DuPont scientist named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's 'Technology Review' Magazine
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 21, 2004 DuPont scientist Dr. Maria Petrucci-Samija has been named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Magazine of Innovation. Dr. Petrucci-Samija, 33, represents a growing core of ...UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
...iate professor of marine biology at SFOS and staff scientist with the West Coast and Polar Regions Undersea Research Center at UAF. Rhodoliths belong to a group known as coralline red algae that deposit calcium carbonate within their cell walls to form hard structures that closely resemble beds of coral. But ...Scientists explore genome of methane-breathing microbe
...cal applications." Johan Lillehaug, the Norwegian scientist who oversaw the University of Bergen's role in the project, says the genome analysis found that M. capsulatus has a novel strategy for scavenging copper, an essential element for regulating methane oxidation. "We found that M. capsulatus is a good mo...Genes expose secrets of sex on the side
...ul males." Co-author Michael Hammer, a research scientist in UA's Arizona Research Laboratories, said, "We may think of ourselves as a monogamous species, but we're coming from an evolutionary history that's probably slightly polygamous. If we're shifting toward monogamy, it's so recent it hasn't left an im...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...notably in the person of NMR expert and PNNL staff scientist Jian Z. Hu. Working with Hu, Wind found he could get detailed spectra in biological samples at record-slow MAS speeds by using pulsed radio waves to separate the obscuring spinning side bands from the main spectrum. With this technique they could lo...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
...ological oceanographer David Smith, and biomedical scientist David C. Rowley. The laboratory will be fully outfitted for microbiological and biogeochemical sampling of diverse subsurface environments. The facility will be used to sample subsurface life from diverse marine environments, including estuaries, c...Byproduct of water-disinfection process found to be highly toxic
...h chloramines is the most toxic ever found, says a scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who tested samples on mammalian cells. The discovery raises health-related questions regarding an Environmental Protection Agency plan to encourage all U.S. water-treatment facilities to adopt chlor...