16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
BETHESDA, Md. (Sept. 28, 2004) Bengt Saltin, keynote speaker at the 2004 APS Intersociety exercise meeting in Austin, Texas Oct. 6-9, weaves together a lifetime of learning and research experience that bridges the 1920 Nobel Prize for Physiology, the 1935 High Altitude Expedition to Chile, and the latest in international exercise physiology. ...... Dr. Saltin, director of the Copenhagen Muscle R...APS Foundation names student travel award recipients
St. Paul, Minn. (September 10, 2004) - The American Phytopathological Society (APS) Foundation recently presented 18 student members with the 2004 student travel awards. Each award recipient received $400 from the APS Foundation to help them attend the APS Annual Meeting, August 2004, in Anaheim, Calif. ... ...The travel awards are designed to help students studying in the field of plant patholog...IBD (Crohn's/ulcerative colitis) conference adds 18 speakers; APS meeting starts Thursday
Snowmass, CO (Sept. 9, 2004) Based on the quality of the volunteered abstracts submitted for presentation, organizers of the American Physiological Society (APS) conference on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) have added 18 speakers to the program Sept. 9-11.... ...The IBD conference, which kicks off in Snowmass, Colorado Sept. 8 with a keynote address by Dr. Daniel Podolsky of the Massachusetts...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...Rare deficit maps thinking circuitry
Using brain imaging, neuroscientists at the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have pinpointed the site of a defect in a brain circuit associated with a specific thinking deficit. Their study demonstrates how a rare genetic disorder, Williams Syndrome, can offer clues as to how genetic flaws may translate into cognitive symptoms in more common and complex major mental disorders. And...APS awards more than $140,000 to minority students of physiology
August 30, 2004 BETHESDA, Md. Since 1966, the American Physiological Society (APS) has awarded its Porter Physiology Fellowship to historically underrepresented minorities in science to encourage diversity among students pursuing full-time studies toward a Ph.D. in the discipline of physiology. This year, eight outstanding students have been awarded the one-year fellowship that provides each w...APS showcases 46 historic breakthrough research articles
Bethesda, Md. August 25, 2004 The American Physiological Society (APS) recently embarked on a mission to share more than 100 years of physiological research through its Legacy Project. The arduous project that included scanning hundreds of original journal volumes the equivalent of more than 200 linear feet of shelf space dating back to 1898 has "truly been a labor of love." To celebrate th...Integrative biology of exercise APS Intersociety meeting October 6-9, 2004 in Austin
BETHESDA, MD (August 26) The American Physiological Society, Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology and American College of Sports Medicine announced the headline speaker as well as the complete schedule for their Intersociety Meeting on the "Integrative Biology of Exercise" to be held October 6-9, 2004 in Austin, Texas.... ...The three-day meeting features six pair of concurrent symposia, rep...APS announces the winners of its 2004 postdoctoral fellowship in physiological genomics
August 11, 2004 - Bethesda, Md. - The American Physiological Society (APS) has announced the winners of its 2004 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Physiological Genomics. The two-year award will provide funds totaling $73,000 to each of the two winning scientists including stipend and a mini research grant for each year. Winners of the 2004 APS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiological Genomics are:.....APS awards more than $36,000 to its 2004 undergraduate research fellows
August 9, 2004 BETHESDA, Md. The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce its 2004 Undergraduate Research Fellows. Fellowship winners spend the summer in the laboratory of an established scientist and APS member. Now in its fifth year, this program aims to excite and encourage students about careers in biomedical research. In 2004, 29 applicants vied for the 12 research po...UC Riverside researcher takes snapshots of the movement of molecules in a billionth of a second
A team of researchers including University of California, Riverside Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ludwig Bartels has developed a technique to take extremely fast snapshots of molecular and atomic movement. The development is considered a significant advance in surface science, the study of chemical reactions taking place on the surface of solids.... ...The results are reported in the curren...APS/IUPS launch PHYSIOLOGY bimonthly
BETHESDA, MD (July 30, 2004) The American Physiological Society and the...International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) in August are launching Physiology, a bimonthly journal of invited articles that identify, review and critically discuss the most important research and developments in the broad, integrative science of physiology. ... ...The editor is Dr. Walter Boron, MD, PhD, profess...Scientists pinpoint molecules that generate synapses
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 23, 2004 - Researchers have found a family of molecules that play a key role in the formation of synapses, the junctions that link brain cells, called neurons, to each other. The molecules initiate the development of these connections, forming the circuitry of the mammalian nervous system.... ...Scientists from Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis descr...Abnormal chromosomes forecast leukemia relapse
COLUMBUS, Ohio Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who enter remission with abnormal chromosomes in bone marrow cells are twice as vulnerable to recurrence of their disease as are AML patients with normal bone marrow cells at remission, according to a new study. ... ...The findings by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and...APS recognizes Intel high school finalists for experiments in physiology
Portland, Oregon The American Physiological Society presented special awards for outstanding projects in physiology, including cellular physiology, animal physiology, and neurophysiology, to four finalists at the 55th Annual International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), sponsored by Intel Corp. ... ...Allison Jaye Landstrom, a senior from Southridge High School, Beaverton, Oregon, was a una...APS awards more than $200,000 to middle and high school science teachers
June 24, 2004 BETHESDA, Md. As a part of its continuing efforts to promote excellence in K-12 science education, the American Physiological Society (APS) has awarded its Frontiers in Physiology 2004 Professional Development Fellowships to 24 middle- and high-school science teachers in 11 states. Twenty-two APS members working in a laboratory setting volunteer to host and mentor winning teacher...APS Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Translational Research Conference, Sept. 8-11
Bethesda, MD (June 22, 2004) The American Physiological Society (APS) announces it is sponsoring a translational research conference entitled "Immunological and Pathophysiological Mechanisms in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases" from Sept. 8-11, 2004 in Snowmass, Colorado.... ...The keynote lecture, "IBD: Light at the End of the Tunnel?" will be delivered by Daniel Podolsky, M.D., professor of medicin...Laos camera traps capture tigers
NEW YORK (June 22, 2004)-- A recent camera trap survey launched by the Wildlife Conservation Society in collaboration with the Department of Forestry in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) to determine the abundance of tigers has uncovered a surprisingly varied gallery of mammals in one of the country's last remaining wild areas. In addition to finding tigers, the survey's cameras rec...Continents played key role in collapse and regeneration of Earth's early greenhouse, geologists say
If a time machine could take us back 4.6 billion years to the Earth's birth, we'd see our sun shining 20 to 25 percent less brightly than today. Without an earthly greenhouse to trap the sun's energy and warm the atmosphere, our world would be a spinning ball of ice. Life may never have evolved.... ...But life did evolve, so greenhouse gases must have been around to warm the Earth. Evidence fro...Gene maps of simpler life forms point the way to human disease gene
St. Louis, May 13, 2004 -- In an experiment that demonstrates how maps of the genetic codes of simpler organisms can shed light on human disease, a computerized comparison of the complete genetic codes of a type of algae, a weed and humans has led medical researchers to a gene linked to a human illness.... ...The comparison allowed researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Lo...Researchers find evidence that sea turtles navigate with magnetic maps
(Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL -- Among the most accomplished navigators in the animal kingdom, sea turtles often migrate across thousands of miles of open ocean to arrive at specific feeding and nesting sites. How they do so, however, has mystified biologists for over a century.... ...Now, new findings by a research team headed by Drs. Kenneth and Catherine Lohmann, marine biologists at the University...Chromosome 'caps' predict bone marrow disease
For the first time, Imperial College London researchers at the...Hammersmith Hospital studying a rare bone marrow disease have found an association between 'telomere shortening' - changes in the lengths of...DNA repeats at the end of chromosomes - and the time of development and severity of disease symptoms in patients....... Reporting in Nature Genetics today (18 April 2004), the Hammersmith tea...APS announces four 2004 Young Investigators awards
BETHESDA, Md. The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2004 Young Investigators Awards. The awardees, who hold academic standing up to the assistant professor level, are APS members who have demonstrated outstanding promise in the field of physiology. More than $62,000 in monetary prizes is presented to the recipients and their research programs. Winn...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...APS announces 2004 Distinguished Lecturer Awards
Bethesda, Md. The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce its Award Lectures and Distinguished Lectureships for 2004. Presentations by award winners will be given at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington, D.C. on April 17-20, 2004. Members of the press are welcome to attend. ...... ... ...Physiology in Perspective: The Walter B. Cannon Award Lecture ...This is the...Field Museum maps 'social assets' of Chicago's industrialized Lake Calumet region
CHICAGO--Is the community half full or half empty? Is the Lake Calumet region the wasteland or jewel of the city? ...While many social scientists have studied the problems of the Lake Calumet region, a team of anthropologists from The Field Museum has identified and described the region's "social assets," or community strengths, and its strong potential for revitalization. ... Two years in the ma...Device detects, traps and deactivates airborne viruses and bacteria
An environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis with his doctoral student has patented a device for trapping and deactivating microbial particles. The work is promising in the war on terrorism for deactivating airborne bioagents and bioweapons such as the smallpox virus, anthrax and ricin, and also in routine indoor air ventilation applications such as in buildings and aircraft ca...Announcement of the chicken genome sequence and genome variation maps
... ...Beijing, China, March 1, 2004 Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced today the construction of a chicken genome variation map. This research project, which is complementary to the work of an international consortium that is working on a sequence map for the chicken genome, is conducted by an international team led by BGI. The variation map was der...Ultra-thin coating traps DNA on a leash
A coating that tethers DNA to a glass surface and allows the molecule to attach in three different places could make DNA microarrays denser and more affordable, according to Penn State material scientists. ... DNA is the basis of enormous efforts in research and development in pharmaceutical and chemical industries across the country. To assay large numbers of DNA fragments, researchers use DNA...Obesity, kidney genetics, erectile dysfunction among highlighted research at APS Meeting
September 22, 2003 (Bethesda, MD) Our heart, blood pressure and kidneys are essential for life, and the healthy interplay among them is key to good health. But high blood pressure (hypertension) can make the heart and blood vessels work harder and stresses the kidneys, which leads to a variety of cardiovascular and kidney diseases. ... ...African-Americans are known to have disproportionately h...Collapse of seals, sea lions & sea otters in North Pacific triggered by overfishing of great whales
A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hypothesizes that overfishing of whales in the North Pacific Ocean triggered one of the longest and most complex ecological chain reactions ever described, beginning in the open oceans 50 years ago, and leading to the decimation of Alaska's kelp forest ecosystems today. ... ...The paper, Sequential megafaunal collapse i...Neurons involved in drug addiction relapse identified
WASHINGTON, DC August 18 - Environmental cues associated with prior drug use can provoke a relapse. In a new study, scientists have linked the relapse behavior to specific nerve cells in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens. The findings may foster further research into what makes long-abstinent drug users prone to relapse and lead the way to new strategies for treating drug addicti...Gene helps regulate longevity in flies, and perhaps humans
Dopamine and serotonin, two neurotransmitters in the central nervous system, are intimately involved in muscle control, memory, sleep, and emotional behavior. They are also linked to illnesses such as Parkinson's disease and mood disorders. Now, regulation of longevity may be added to this list. ... ...Three natural variants in the gene for DOPA decarboxylase (DDC), an enzyme required for the pro...APS awards more than $33,000 to its 2003 undergraduate research fellows
BETHESDA, Md. The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce its 2003 Undergraduate Research Fellows. Fellowship winners spend the summer in the laboratory of an established scientist and APS member. Now in its fourth year, this program aims to excite and encourage students about careers in biomedical research. In 2003, 57 applicants vied for the 12 research positions. ... ....New imaging vehicle maps coral reefs to determine health of reef and fisheries
Deepwater coral reefs in the US Virgin Islands may occupy a much larger area and be in better health than previously thought, based on evidence gathered by a new autonomous underwater vehicle which flies through the sea like a helicopter.... ... ...Scientists and engineers used an autonomous underwater vehicle and imaging platform called SeaBED during a first-of-its-kind study to determine the h...Edible food wraps can keep kids' sandwiches fresh and the environment cleaner
With a new school year upon us, kids may soon have the chance to eat healthier and also help the environment, using something unique wrapped around their tuna, turkey or PB&J sandwiches. Edible vegetable and fruit wraps, among the latest developments from modern chemistry, could keep lunches fresher longer and be substituted for some non-biodegradable wraps, says the creator, food chemist Tara Mc...Plant pathologists to discuss strategies for global crop protection at the APS Annual Meeting
St. Paul, MN (July 11, 2003) - Current international crop protection programs and the opportunities for additional strategic alliances in international research and development programs will be the focus of a symposium at the APS Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC on August 9-13, 2003. ...... This symposium will provide an overview of highly successful, large-scale integrated crop protection program...Relapse or remission? Pharmacogenomics draws the fine line
DENVER, CO Shortly after chemotherapy treatment, how does a doctor know if a cancer has responded favorably or not to the treatment, or if a patient is destined to develop drug toxicity--before it is too late? ... ...Recent work in the field of pharmacogenomics is working toward reducing that perplexity and making treatments more individualized for patients. Researchers present their latest adva...APS announces its 2003 Distinguished Lectureships
Bethesda, Md. The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce its Award Lectures and Distinguished Lectureships for 2003. Presentations by award winners will be given at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, Ca., on April 11-15, 2003. ...... ...Shu Chien University of California, San Diego ...Physiology in Perspective: The Walter B. Cannon Award Lecture ...This is the...Scientists find geochemical fingerprint of World Trade Center collapse
Dust and debris deposits associated with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center have left a distinct fingerprint on the sedimentary record in New York Harbor, scientists have found. Their results appear in the January 21, 2003, issue of the journal EOS, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. This geochemical fingerprint, the researchers believe, may facilit...