Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
A research team of biologists and engineers led by faculty at Washington University in St. Louis is seeking to find the Fountain of Youth not in Florida, but in photosynthetic cyanobacteria (ancient little blue-green algae). Looking at the cellular systems in cyanobacteria, and then in a model plant and a moss species, these researchers want to determine how these organisms protect themselves...Novel IBD therapeutic approaches reported from Washington Univ., Barcelona, LSU at APS meeting
Snowmass, Co. (September 9, 2004) Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, comprised of Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis, are for the most part incurable and their causes are still unknown. About 1 million Americans suffer from IBD and research around the world on new therapeutic strategies against IBD is being reported at a conference sponsored by the American Physiological Society. ......... ...Below...Washington University in St. Louis plays key role in sequencing moss genome
Washington University in St. Louis will be involved directly with sequencing the entire genome of the moss, Physcomitrella patens, at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in Walnut Creek, Calif. The Community Sequencing Program at the United States Department of Energy chose a proposal submitted by Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., Spencer T. Olin Professor and Washington University biology department chair...AACR reschedules annual meeting for July 11-14 in Washington, D.C.
The Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research has voted to reschedule the AACR 94th Annual Meeting -- cancelled in Toronto, Canada, earlier this month as a result of the SARS outbreak -- for July 11-14 in the new Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.... ...The decision to reschedule the meeting came after a large majority of registrants, abstract presenters and...APS awards 55 minority travel fellowships to EB 2004 (April 17-21) in Washington, DC
BETHESDA, Md. Since 1987, the American Physiological Society (APS) has awarded minority travel fellowships to its annual spring meeting, Experimental Biology. ...... This year 55 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico received these fellowships to facilitate their participation in EB 2004, which attracts more than 11,000 scientists annually from dozens of scientific disciplines. The pur...Experimental Biology 2004 meets in Washington, D.C. April 17-21
Experimental Biology 2004 will bring together more than 12,000 independent scientists, representing 32 different biological and biomedical societies from the United States and other nations. Now in its 14th year, Experimental Biology has become one of the world's largest and most significant interdisciplinary scientific meetings. Under the theme "Translating the Genome," this year's meeting...Innovative shuttle bus debuts in Washington, D.C.
A modernized version of the traditional Yellowstone National Park tour bus has been developed as a low-emission, cost-effective community/transit shuttle bus of the future. ... ...The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory is working with the departments of Interior and Transportation, as well as private industry, to roll out the "new" yellow bus. The...Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded crop protection patent
Washington University in St. Louis and Monsanto Co., Creve Coeur, Mo., have been issued patent 6,608, 241 by the United States Patent Office. The patent is for a technique that protects crops from devastating viral diseases that currently threaten or harm many important food crops. ... The inventors are Roger Beachy, Ph.D., president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and professor in...SARS pre-screening protocol developed for AACR Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
To provide an additional line of defense against the spread of SARS, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has entered into an agreement with International SOS to pre-screen registrants and exhibitors from SARS-affected areas attending its upcoming Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C....... International SOS, the world's largest medical and security assistance company, will be pre-scr...Washington-area chemist wins national award for free-radical research
Marilyn Jacox of Gaithersburg, Md., will be honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for broadening our understanding of free radicals, highly reactive molecules made both in nature and by humans. She will receive the 2003 E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in New Orleans.... ...In 1962, when Jacox joined what would...Washington university education department receives $10 million NSF grant
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 25, 2002- The Department of Education in Arts & Sciences has been awarded a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create the St. Louis Center for Inquiry in Science Teaching and Learning (CISTL) at the University. ... As one of only ten NSF funded Centers for Learning and Teaching, CISTL will serve as a national model, improving science education th...Washington University's Sarah C. R. Elgin is one of 20 'million dollar professors'
St. Louis, Sept. 18, 2002-- Sarah C. R. Elgin, Ph.D., professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of 20 professors nationwide to receive $1 million over the next four years to bring the creativity she has shown in the lab to the undergraduate classroom. ..."Research is advancing at a breathtaking pace, but many university students are still learning science the same old w...Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
St. Louis, July 9, 2002 Washington University in St. Louis is the recipient of a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) intended to enhance undergraduate biology education, graduate teaching skills and the incorporation of emerging scientific disciplines into undergraduate biology education....... Undergraduate biology education is in the midst of a revolution, and 44 research u...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in Spokane, Washington, June 20-22
More than 175 research papers are scheduled for presentation at the 57th Northwest regional meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society, in Spokane, Wash., June 20-22. Over 300 noted scientists as well as undergraduate and graduate students are expected to attend the meeting in the Schoenberg Conference Center on the campus of Gonzaga University. The conference...Researchers at the University of Washington and in China release genome sequence of rice
Two University of Washington researchers - Dr. Jun Yu, an American, and Dr. Gane Ka-Shu Wong, a Canadian - and a major new genome sequencing center in China have sequenced the genetic code for rice, one of the most important food staples in the world.... The Chinese center is making the complete genome sequence of rice available to the public. An analysis of the sequence will appear in the Apri...Scientists to examine DNA of George Washington trees
MOUNT VERNON, Va., The DNA collected from 13 trees at Mount Vernon, planted under George Washington's supervision, will be profiled and cataloged as the first step in the creation of a genetic database for specific ornamental trees....... While the human genome has been detailed in a worldwide effort by thousands of scientists, nothing similar has been done with trees, noted J. Dean Norton, dir...SEATTLE - The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in collaboration with the University of Washington, has been selected to participate in a federally funded, $37 million research consortium to study how individual genetic makeup affects one's response to various environmental agents, from asbestos to tobacco smoke. Such research will help answer puzzling questions such as why some people who...WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25 - A Louisiana researcher and companies in Washington, Pennsylvania and North Carolina were honored here today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for using creative chemistry to improve the environment.... ...The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge awards have been presented annually since 1996 to recognize businesses and individuals who have discovered innova...Washington state researchers receive award for making genetic analysis easier
.Chemists Michael W. Reed, Ph.D., Igor V. Kutyavin, Ph.D., Sergey Lokhov, Ph.D., and Eugeny A. Lukhtanov, Ph.D., of Epoch Biosciences Inc. in Bothell, Wash., will be honored June 15 by the worlds largest scientific society for creating better tools for genetic analysis. They will receive one of two 2001 Industrial Innovation Awards at the American Chemical Societys Northwest regional meeting in...University of Washington professor's new book seeks to rewrite understanding of cell biology
... Most of what you think you know about cells may be wrong.... Thats the central message of a new book by a University of Washington bioengineering professor who argues that a major premise central to modern cell biology is flawed. ... Gerald Pollacks latest work, "Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life: A New, Unifying Approach to Cell Function," published by Ebner and Sons of Seatt.... "We are pleased to support the University of Washington School of Medicine in exploring new healthcare frontiers. We anticipate a fruitful relationship that will benefit the entire Pacific Northwest region," said Jody Patton, executive director of the foundation.. The MST program, established in 1970, was designed to produce talented, creative and dedicated physician scientists capable o...Childhood obesity focus of Washington conference Sept. 13-14
. . . Who: American Obesity Association (AOA). . What: Obesity: The Public Health Conference. A national conference on obesity, the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. More than half of American adults are overweight. Some 25 percent of children and adolescents are overweight, twice as many as 30 years ago.. . Public health, policy leaders and physicians will....Bioengineering researchers at the University of Washington will lead a multi-million-dollar effort to grow functional human heart tissue, an undertaking that could lead to tissue-engineered replacement hearts and set in place the technology to grow other major organs in the laboratory.. .The project, funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health for $10 million over five years, will...University of Washington researchers map rice genome
.Researchers at the University of Washington, under the sponsorship of Monsanto Company, have produced a working draft of the rice plant genome. This will give scientists the potential to dramatically improve the production of rice, a vital food source for half of the world's population.. Rice is the largest genome and first plant to be mapped in a working draft form. Rice is important because i...... ... ... ... ... (Washington, DC) -- E-commerce, privacy and intellectual property issues associated with information technologies and European versus American public opinion of genetically modified foods and the impact on trade will be addressed by policymakers, scientists, academicians, and industry representatives at the 25th annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS.... Microwaves similar to those emitted by cell phones may affect long-term memory, according to a new.study by a University of Washington researcher.. . Henry Lai, a research professor in the UW's bioengineering department, has linked diminished.long-term memory and navigating skills in rats with exposure to microwaves like those from cellular.telephones.. . According to Lai, this is the first st...Whitaker Foundation funds Washington University biomedical engineering facility
... ...............St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 5, 1999 --In recognition of The Whitaker Foundation's long-term support of Washington University's scientific research and education, coupled with the recent receipt of two major grants for the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has announced plans to construct a building to house biomedical engineering research and teaching..... The National Toxicology Program will hold a public meeting Wednesday,.Sept.15 in Washington, D.C., to discuss suggestions for revising the.government's process of declaring substances as known or reasonably anticipated.to be causes of cancer. . . The all-day meeting will begin at 9 a.m in the Horizon Room of the.Ronald Reagan Building, International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylva...Amnesia After Sex: More Than A Washington Phenomenon
. If President Clinton had known what a pair of Johns Hopkins doctors.recently learned from two patients with a temporary form of amnesia, charges.that he lied about sex might be moot. . Chi Van Dang, M.D., Ph.D., and Lawrence B. Gardner, M.D., hematologists,.found that bearing down hard the way some people do when they move their bowels,.deliver a baby or have sexual intercourse c...University Of Washington Scientists Discover A Gene That Causes Deafness And Dizziness In Mice
. Culminating several years of work, scientists at the University of.Washington have identified a gene that, when mutant, causes mice to be deaf and.to suffer from motor imbalance. . Aptly named, these "deafwaddler" mice lack a protein that transports.calcium ions across the plasma membranes of the hair cells. The hair cells.transduce sound and control balance in the auditory and v...Washington University Professor Receives Young Investigator Award In Microbiology
...WASHINGTON, D.C. -April 10, 1998-- Scott J. Hultgren, Associate Professor,...Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine,...St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded the 1998 Eli Lilly and Company Award. ...This award, which recognizes young investigators of great accomplishment and...promise and who have stimulated fundamental research in microbiology and...imm...Novel Method Of Gene Replacement Reported By University Of Washington Researchers
. Dr. David W. Russell, assistant professor of medicine, and Roli Hirata,.research technician at the University of Washington, report the successful use.of a modified virus to perform a novel method of gene replacement that may be an.important step toward overcoming obstacles to efficient gene therapy. Their.findings are reported in the April issue of Nature Genetics.. Until now,...Washington University Licenses Its New Antibacterial Technology
......... St. Louis, Feb. 11, 1998 -- Washington University in St. Louis has...signed an agreement with SIGA Pharmaceuticals Inc. that gives the company...exclusive rights to new antibacterial technology. The agreement will allow SIGA...to develop an entirely new class of antibiotics that are less likely to be...sidelined by bacterial resistance than current therapies. It also provides th.... Researchers at the University of Washington report in the April 14, 1997 issue of Virology that they may have an explanation for why the currently approved drug treatment for hepatitis C is ineffective much of the time. The drug, recombinant alpha interferon, is ineffective in 60 to 80 percent of cases. . "This discovery explains the molecular mechanisms for interferon resistance, and p...