Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...ing in Aventis Biotech Challenge. Currently in her second year in the University of Ottawa's Biopharmaceutical program, she is the 2004 award under the Women in Engineering and Science Program of the National Research Council of Canada. And this September, Nguyen won the prestigious Killam scholarshi...Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
...occurred before apparent signs of human contact. A second pulse of climate-caused extinctions began in Europe and Asia about 12,000 years ago as cold-adapted animals - the wooly rhino and the mammoth - died out with warming temperatures. But it's possible, Barnosky said, that the rise of modern humans - Hom...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...s estimated at between 285,000 and 325,000 people, second only to tobacco smoking as a cause of preventable death. "Obesity is a deceptively simple problem, as it is essentially energy input vs. energy output," Dr. Malloy said. "However, it's not obvious yet why obesity should necessarily accompany developm...Rare childhood genetic syndrome identified
...overed genetic syndrome that is often fatal by the second year of life, but which may be treatable 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 ...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...mation, poor wound healing, and infections. In the second year pilot projects will test the hypotheses, and in the third year results will be evaluated. (See detailed abstract on Schepens website at http://www.theschepens.org/nih_roadmap.htm ) In addition to solving some of the major biomedical dilemmas i...AAAS US Presidential Candidates' Forum
...arch!America, will moderate the event. This is the second presidential candidates' forum on Science & Techno...ber 2004. Light refreshments will be served in the second floor lobby of the AAAS Building beginning at 12 noon. Please use the entrance at the intersection o...Award winning researchers reveal potential new role for Glivec
...rans (DFSP) a malignant tumour that occurs in the second layer of the skin (the dermis)[1]. He said that complete control of the disease was achieved in eight out of 10 patients in a Phase II trial either through imatinib alone or imatinib plus surgery. The research team are preparing to present their find...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
...ferent genes next to each other," said Wessler. "A second is the duplication of an existing genes followed by mutation of one of the pair until it evolves into another function, though this is not the usual fate because the duplicate copy usually mutate into oblivion." The discovery of thousands of Pa...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
... Central and South America. DeRisi is the second member of the UCSF Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics to be named a MacArthur fellow. In 1987, the late Ira Herskowitz, PhD, a UCSF geneticist, received the honor. His studies on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae yielded major insights into t...US Presidential Candidates' Forum
...EDIA NOTE: Light refreshments will be servedin the second floor lobby of the AAASBuilding beginning at 12 noon. Please use theentrance at the intersection of 12th and HStreets and proceed to the 2nd floor.......ons ever found in the Monument. This is only the second airlift of a dinosaur from within GSENM and one of only a handful ever conducted with assistance from the BLM. The site was first discovered in 2001 by Utah Museum of Natural History volunteer Jodi Vincent, while on a survey looking for new fossil lo...Bronfenbrenner book sums up human development
...t the development of his bioecological theory. The second part details specific ways that Bronfenbrenner's ideas have framed programs and policies promoting positive human development. The chapters cover, for example, how children are raised in contemporary society and the role of peers in influencing chil...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...in 1988, and "Capturing the Commons" in 2003. The second focuses on the management of the lobster industry. ...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...versity of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois proposed a second hunting strategy that would have required participation from the pliable ribs that ran along the sides of the neck. Contraction of Dinocephalosaurus' proposed neck muscles could have rapidly straightened the neck and splayed the neck ribs outward. Th...Microbes eat their way to better concrete
...e Foundation to continue their work. This is the second of a three-year project. During the current funding cycle, Bang and Ramakrishnan plan to develop genetically engineered microorganisms that can produce excess amounts of organic and inorganic biosealant. "This microbial sealant is a smart material th...16th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics
...: Successful results of Phase I trial of the first second generation antisense cancer drug - phase II getting under way * Dr Grant McArthur: Award winning researcher reveals potential new role for Glivec in a soft tissue cancer Chairman: Professor Jaap Verweij (EORTC chairman of conference scientific commi...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...d in plants, such as the development of seeds. The second center, led by Yale University in collaboration with the University of California, Davis, will focus on using experimental approaches to define every gene -- perhaps as many as 60,000 -- in the recently completed rice genome....UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
... further testing are needed to confirm whether the second species is indeed new. Scientists believe rhodoliths have been present in the world's oceans since at least the Eocene epoch, some 55 million years ago. Because rhodoliths probably grow very slowly in Alaska's cold waters, Riosmena-Rodrigu...Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
...and far points on various parts of the torso. In a second task, they used a gauge figure (a circle with a needle sticking out) that had to be placed on the torso so it looked to be flat against the surface (The needle had to appear like it was perpendicular to the surface of the torso). This allowed the res......e colon and rectum. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of death due to cancer for men and women in the United States It has been known for some time that NSAIDS and other cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors reduce the risk of CRC. However, the exact mechanisms of this protective action are ...