Nominations sought for professorship by the American Association for Cancer Research
... is currently engaged in an active research career anywhere in the world and who has demonstrated extraordinary achievement in basic cancer research. It is awarded to an individual who shows promise for continued substantive contributions to basic cancer research and is intended to foster the recipient's rese...Funding opportunities for junior faculty offered by the American Association for Cancer Research
... of Assistant Professor at an academic institution anywhere in the world. The one-year award carries a grant o...ack faculty appointment at an academic institution anywhere in the world....Applications accepted for research fellowships by the American Association for Cancer Research
...ards are open to investigators conducting research anywhere in the world. Employees, subcontractors, or trainees of a national government or private industry are not eligible for these awards. Candidates for the following three Research Fellowships must, at the start of the award term on July 1, 2004, have be...High-tech institute to hold Cal-(IT)Day@UCSD
...projects, including technologies that do not exist anywhere else." Those technologies include the CyberShuttle. Visitors will be able to ride the world's first regular bus service to offer broadband Web access -- even with the bus traveling at 65 miles per hour. Attendees will also be able to tour the Cal-(IT...Laboratory 'theme park' re-creates RNA world for study
...est tube. Workers in Bartel's lab fill tubes with anywhere from 1 trillion to 1 quadrillion RNA molecules, selecting for those that can expand by forming chemical bonds with other RNAs. The molecules that can do this are isolated; the rest are discarded. These new, bigger RNAs are multiplied, returned to the......the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), is anywhere close to exerting control over transmissible GMOs. Earlier this year, a report from its Working Group on Wildlife Diseases again raised concerns about these organisms. The OIE has yet to establish an official position on the issue, but if it does, me...Smallest whirlpools can pack stunningly strong force
...resee a time when microfluidic systems can be used anywhere for quick analysis of biological samples. Some envision that a credit card-sized device with a microscopic needle could be applied painlessly to the body to obtain a particular sample, such as blood, and then microfluidic systems embedded in the card...Researchers develop system to detect biowarfare agents on navy ships
...W agents. According to Boehm, the plan can be used anywhere there's a suspected BW incident. Boehm shared his experience in designing the protocol on September 9 at the meeting of the American Chemical Society in New York City. Co-presenters, all with the Naval Medical Research Center's Biological Defense Res...The DFG announces EURYI Awards for Germany
...sciplines and is directed towards researchers from anywhere in the world. Each award will last for a five-year period and will include the salary of the award holder and funding for an independent junior research group (including two or three staff positions for doctoral students or postdoctoral students), as...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...rrently in the database are known to interact with anywhere from tens to hundreds of other proteins. Online, a user can pull up a visual web of protein-protein interactions with just the click of a mouse. "The entries have been critically reviewed, making the information in the database as accurate and com...Public Library of Science launches PLoS Biology
...s are freely available via the Internet to anyone, anywhere to read, download, print, distribute and reuse, so...on the sharing of knowledge--ensuring that anyone, anywhere can access the latest research findings--PLoS Biology will speed the pace of scientific discovery". ...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...nable tracking of tagged salmon and marine animals anywhere on the continental shelf. Attached to the dorsal fins of three species of Pacific sharks are electronic tags that regularly communicate with satellites, enabling documentation of migration patterns. Similar technology has recorded trans-Pacific m...Wolves are rebalancing Yellowstone ecosystem
...pacts. With no fear of wolves, the elk could graze anywhere they liked and for decades have been able to kill, by browsing, nearly all the young cottonwoods. Other streamside species such as willows and berry-producing shrubs also suffered. That in turn began to play havoc with an entire streamside ecosystem ...GenSAT (Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas) project announced
...es with the accoutrements necessary for scientists anywhere to further improve our knowledge of the brain and its diseases. Gensat is a fully public, searchable database of gene expression in all central nervous system cell types for individual genes. What's more, Gensat provides the tools (BAC vectors and t...Scientists unraveling lice genome to halt blood-sucking pest
... refugee camps and in areas of natural disasters - anywhere that lacks sanitary conditions and is crowded. These areas also are where outbreaks of lice-borne diseases, such as typhus, relapsing fever and trench fever, are most likely to occur. Head lice are still a problem throughout the world and are usually...Study predicts loss of monarch winter refuges
...d to survive the winter are not predicted to exist anywhere near the present overwintering sites," said Oberhauser. "The temperatures won't change much, but the combination of coolness and increased rain will hurt." The plight of the monarchs is worsened by human activity in the area, she said. Logging, cle...'Smart bomb' delivery destroys tumors in mice
...ombination should chase them down and destroy them anywhere in the body."...Rare ant may help solve some mysteries of social evolution
... Indiana and on Long Island. And these colonies of anywhere from 50 to 100 ants thrive in the tiniest places old acorns, hickory nuts, hollow twigs and grasses. "They're like gold when you find them," said Herbers, who is also dean of Ohio State's College of Biological Sciences. These tiny ants that grow to ...Integrated animal model answers questions about environment
...ld predict how animals, living on a real landscape anywhere on Earth, would respond to specific changes in the environment. The model could answer questions, such as how warmer temperatures would alter the activity patterns of squirrels in southern California or how removing the forest canopy in Yellowstone N...Researchers discover that a virus can naturally target and kill tumors
...to be effective, and it can apparently be injected anywhere into mice but still find its way through the bloodstream unscathed to the target area. "Nature gave us a gift in Sindbis," says Dr Meruelo. "It has a natural ability to infect tumor cells almost exclusively, and naturally induces cell death in these ...