UCLA receives NSF award for plasma research
UCLA researchers have received a Major Research Instrumentation Program award from the National Science Foundation to build a 256-node, 512-processor computer cluster to advance research and education in broad and diverse areas of plasma science. This major award recognizes the significant role computation plays in scientific discovery and technological advances and especially highlights the stro...Moderate alcohol consumption increases plasma levels of a protective hormone
... Moderate alcohol consumption is believed to have protective cardiovascular health benefits, possibly through its effects on hormones.... Researchers examine alcohol's effect on three hormones: dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), testosterone and estradiol. ... Moderate alcohol consumption appears to increase plasma DHEAS levels for both men and women.... ...Moderate alcohol consumption...Campbell wins 2004 Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award
Allan M. Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Sciences and Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, will receive the 2004 Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, proudly supported by Abbott Laboratories, from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Campbell is honored for his exceptional insights and achievemen...Jorge Escalante-Semerena receives 2004 ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award
WASHINGTON, DC--APRIL 23, 2004--Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena, Ph.D., Ira Baldwin Professor of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, has won the 2004 ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). A deeply committed teacher and mentor, Escalante-Semerena is honored as an inspiring role model who has trained dozens of doctoral and undergraduate s...Betty Ann Forbes wins 2004 ASM Founders Award
WASHINGTON, DC--APRIL 23, 2004--Betty Ann Forbes, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, will receive the 2004 ASM Founders Distinguished Service Award. Recognizing outstanding professional contributions in a volunteer capacity at the national level, the award honors Forbes for her extraordinary commitment to the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) extending ove...Reporters from Science Magazine to receive ASM Public Communications Award
WASHINGTON, DC April 7, 2004 Two journalists from Science magazine have been named the recipients of the American Society for Microbiology 2004 Public Communications Award. The winning entry, written by Martin Enserink and Dennis Normile, is a two-part series, "SARS in China." It focuses on China's initial denial of the emerging epidemic and insistence that the cause was the Chlamydia bacteri...HUPO scientists tackle human blood plasma proteome
SEATTLE - Although the Human Genome Project made a remarkable contribution to scientific knowledge and biomedical research, it was merely the preamble to proteomics, according to Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.... ..."If we really want to understand what genes are doing in cells, we have to focus on proteins - the effector molecules of the cell," says Omenn, a professor of internal medicine and hum...Pacific Northwest National Lab unveils most complete human blood-plasma proteome map to date
SEATTLE-- Researchers have identified an astounding 4,000 distinctive proteins in human blood plasma, a critical step toward cataloguing biological markers for early diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.... ..."This is 10 times the number of proteins identified" and previously reported, said Richard D. Smith, a senior scientist and Battelle Fellow at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest...ASM Biodefense Research Meeting
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) will host its 2004 Biodefense Research Meeting from March 7-10, 2004 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. ... ...There is an increasing need for research that helps protect the public from biological attacks. This need has caused a major shift in priorities, in both the government and private research sectors, from a focus...MIT's plasmatron cuts diesel bus emissions, promises better gas engine efficiency
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A bus in Indiana is the latest laboratory for MIT's plasmatron reformer, a small device its developers believe could significantly cut the nation's oil consumption as well as noxious emissions from a variety of vehicles.... ...The work will be the subject of an invited talk next Thursday, October 30, at a meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Plasma Physics in A...2003 ASM Communications Award goes to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters
WASHINGTON, DCApril 25, 2003Two journalists from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have been named the recipients of the American Society for Microbiology 2003 Public Communication Award. The winning entry, written by John Fauber and Mark Johnson, was a two-part series on the arrival of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin that also explored the complex science of the abnormal proteins called prions...ASM biodefense meeting scheduled for March 2003
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) will host a scientific conference, Future Directions for Biodefense Research: Development of Countermeasures, March 9-12, 2003 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Over the past year research priorities of many government as well as private-sector scientists have shifted towards homeland security. In the biologic...Jonathon Knight receives ASM Communications Award
Washington, DCMay 6, 2001--Jonathan Knight, a contributing correspondent for Nature, has been named the recipient of the 2002 American Society for Microbiology Public Communications Award. His winning entry, Meet the Herod Bug, appeared in Nature on July 5, 2001.... Wohlbachia transmit themselves through the ovaries, so to them males are useless. Some force sex changes on the males they infect,...ASM receives awards for PR excellence
.The American Society for Microbiology's "Don't Get Caught Dirty-Handed"--Clean Hands Campaign has been honored with two awards for excellence from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). . The Campaign won the prestigious Silver Anvil Award from PRSA at a ceremony in New York City June 14. The Silver Anvil Awards, presented annua...Plasma DHA declines more rapidly postpartum in lactating than in nonlactating women
.Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 22:6n-3) phospholipids rise during pregnancy in order to supply the needs of the fetus, especially for the developing central nervous system. Otto et al. compared the postpartum normalization of maternal plasma phospholipids in lactating and nonlactating women. The 57 healthy subjects were all followed from week 36 of pregnancy to 64 weeks postpartum, during which 22...ASM journals tipsheet: May 2001
.EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT FOR EBOLA SHOWS PROMISE . An experimental treatment for Ebola virus infection using immune serum from survivors is effective in protecting mice from the disease, say researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University and the U.S. Army Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. They report their results in the May 2001 issue of the Journal.... .Montville, NJ, May 14, 2001 -- Berlex Laboratories, Inc., a U.S. affiliate of Schering AG, Germany (NYSE:SHR), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved YASMIN (R) (drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol). YASMIN is a new, low-dose, monophasic oral contraceptive and the first and only birth control pill to contain the unique progestin, drospirenone. .YASMIN is th...ASM and TIGR team up on microbial genomes conference
.The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) will cosponsor the Conference on Microbial Genomes, to be held January 28-31, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Monterey, California. . When scientists complete the sequencing of the human genome in the next year or so, their work will have just begun. They will be faced with an enormous database listing...Cytoplasmic FRAP must enter and exit nucleus to perform
.CHAMPAIGN, Ill. University of Illinois biologists have discovered that a protein that lives in the cytoplasmic world between a mammalian cell's membrane and nucleus undergoes a "nuclear experience" that is necessary for regulating cell growth and division..Coupled with a similar finding involving a different protein in yeast cells, announced in the journal Cell in 1999 by Harvard Medical Schoo.... DURHAM, N.C. -- The researchers who documented the extinction of the little-studied "Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey" say it may be the first obvious manifestation of an extinction spasm that will soon affect other large animals in West Africa unless more rigorous protection is applied immediately.. The extinction of Miss Waldron's red colobus is the first documented case of a primate extin...ASM statements on FY 2001 federal budget proposal: NIH, CDC, NSF
.WASHINGTON, DC -- The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is releasing the following statements on the Administration's proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 federal budget for biological research programs supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).. .The ASM is the largest single life science...Call for nominations: ASM public communications award
.The American Society for Microbiology is now accepting nominations for the 2000 ASM Public Communications Award. The award, now in its fifth year, recognizes outstanding achievement by journalists in the communication of the microbiological sciences to the general public through the print and broadcast media.. . The recipient will receive $2,500, a plaque and travel expenses to the 2000 ASM G...Statement by APA President Allan Tasman, M.D., on the Surgeon Generals Report on Mental Health
Statement by APA President Allan Tasman, M.D., on the... Surgeon Generals Report on Mental Health... ... The Surgeon Generals report is good news to millions of people with mental illnesses, and constitutes a national call to action. Based on an exhaustive review of scientific research spanning many years, Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., the nations top physician, has stated unequivocally...Smoking especially dangerous for individuals with gene that causes coronary artery spasm
. ATLANTA, Nov. 10 -- Scientists in Japan may have found a genetic cause of coronary artery spasm, a condition that reduces blood supply to the heart causing chest pain or, in severe cases, even a heart attack. They reported their finding today at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.. . A coronary artery spasm occurs when a coronary artery -- one of the blood vessels supplying b....Researchers at the Framingham Offspring Study report that the federal.government's requirement that bread and other grain food products be.supplemented with the vitamin folate. This government policy, which was.implemented in 1998 to reduce the number of infants born with spina bifada and.other neural tube defects, has resulted in substantial improvements in the blood.levels of folate of Americ...ASM Calls For Focus On Microbial Pollution Of Nation's Water Supply
. .ASM Calls For Focus On Microbial Pollution Of Nation's Water Supply. .<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF".ONLOAD="if(parent.frames.length!=0)top.location='http://www.eurekalert.org/news.pub.html';">. . .Contact: Jim Sliwa . .202-942-9297 . . . . . .ASM Calls For Focus...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
.Herbivore attack is widely known to reduce. food quality and to increase chemical defenses and other. traits responsible for herbivore resistance. Researchers at. the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena/Germany. demonstrated that inducible defenses allow plants to forgo. the costs of defense when not needed (PNAS, vol. 95, July 7,. 1998). . . All plants us...A research team from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt/Germany, and the. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/NC, has determined the structure of the plasma. membrane proton ATPase at a resolution of about 0.8 nm by electron cryomicroscopy of. two-dimensional crystals (Nature, vol. 392, 23 April 1998, 840). . The proto...We report on the location and skewness of the distribution of plasma total.homocysteine (tHcy) according to lifestyle indexes in 11,941 apparently.healthy participants of the Hordaland Homocysteine Study. Most subjects.were in two age groups: 9165 subjects were aged 40--42 y and 2351 subjects.were aged 65--67 y. The remaining 425 subjects were of intermediate ages..In multivariate analysis, sex...P>Editors: Gregory R. Bock (Organizer) and Jamie A. Goode ...... ... ............ ...... ...Evolution of vertebrate fibrin formation and the process of its dissolution ...Discussion ...... ...Evolution of plasminogen-related growth factors (HGF/SF and HGFl/MSP) ...Discussion ...... ...Evolution of plasmi...