Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
...uce W. Turnbull and Elizabeth Slate, professor and assistant professor, respectively, in the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, and David S. Alberts, M.D., of the College of Medicine, Arizona Cancer Center. In 1983, the researchers recruited 1,312 randomized patients with histories of sk...Moving DNA Molecules With Magnetic Tweezers
...to steer it carefullythrough a solution. Wirtz, an assistant professor of <ahref="http://www.jhu.edu/~cheme/ChemE.html">chemicalengineering at The Johns Hopkins University, is not playinganelectronic game. He is manipulating molecules in ground-breakingresearch that could lead to new surgical tools an...Penn State Wetlands Project Seeks Scientific Evaluation Criteria
...oject, led by Brooks and C. Andrew Cole, affiliate assistant professor of landscape architecture, designed to discover how wetlands function, including how wetlands change over time and how human disturbances affect their natural progression. "You always need more information to improve on the designs of...Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
...rse came to the rescue. The new course, taught by assistant biomedical engineering research professorLaurence Bohs, challenges biomedical engineering seniors and graduate studentsto apply their knowledge and innovation to a "real world" projectaddressing unmet needs of the handicapped. In this case, it put s...Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...odest solution to the problem. Pamela Ronald ,an assistant professor of plant pathology, has initiated a novel mechanismthat pools university and industry resources to compensate nations for valuablegenetic material. It is the first known attempt by a major research universityto formally redress perceived in...New Study Shows Steps Leading To Colon Cancer
...both insects and ourselves," said Dr. Mark Peifer, assistant professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "We have found that this protein, called 'armadillo' in insects and 'beta-catenin' in humans, goes into the cell nucleus and helps regulate gene expression or, in other words, t...New Vaccine Blocks Viral Entry In Cattle, May Have Implications For Human Vaccines
...t of the immune system." Letchworth and research assistant Xiaoping Zhu tested the vaccine on 20 cattle from a herpes-free herd. After vaccinating the animals, the scientists challenged each cow with ten million units of BHV-1. "That's an extraordinarily large dose. That one dose contains enough virus to i...Biosensor Is A Model For Widespread Testing Of Chemicals, Molecules
...a three-year Whitaker Fellow grant. Hellinga is an assistant professor ofbiochemistry at the medical center. Working with him on the study were graduatestudents Jonathan Marvin and Ethan Corcoran, undergraduate student NeilHattangadi, and technical assistants Jian Zhang and Sheryl Gere. The idea of expl...Children With AD/HD Have Significant Functional Disabilities Related to Attention Deficit
...., who presented the results. Lock is UB clinical assistant professor of pediatrics and associate medical director of the Robert Warner Rehabilitation Center at Children's Hospital of Buffalo. Lock said the results could have significant impact now because, as of this month, children diagnosed with atte...Duke researchers find existing drugs can stop fungus that attacks AIDS patients
...mperature. In addition to Heitman, who is an assistant professor of genetics andpharmacology, and Perfect, the research team included Audrey Odom, ScottMuir, Eric Lim and Dena Toffaletti. Their findings build on an earlier paper, published in the January 1997issue of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemot...Munching Microbes Make A Meal Out Of Toxic Substances
...ls such as petroleum compounds," says Loring Nies, assistant professor of environmental engineering at Purdue. "But using them for that purpose has not been widely implemented because few on-site engineers have the knowledge or experience." One of Nies' projects involves studying microbes that eat pentachlorop...Everyday Technology Underlies First DNA Computer Logic Gates
...f biologists use every day in their labs." Ray, an assistant professor of biology, and Ogihara, an assistant professor of computer science, took fellow researchers by surprise with their announcement at the ...Genetic Trickery Offers New Way to Target HIV
...ferent spotis a new idea," says Vicente Planelles, assistant professor atthe Cancer Center, who participated in the research. "No one haspreviously attempted to genetically interfere with the primingprocess in retroviruses." In the test tube, cells equipped with the engineered primerwere infected by HIV ...Evolutionary Advantage Found For Sex
...pulation's genetic fitness. Clifford Zeyl, assistant professor of biology at Wake Forest University,said that his studies of sexual reproduction in brewer's yeast, Saccharomycescerevisiae, have found that sexual populations are better at removingundesirable genetic mutations than single-sexed yeast. ...Study Focuses On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
...anicpollutants. Keri C. Hornbuckle, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering atUB, has received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation tostudy the effects of temperature, humidity and ultraviolet light on thetransport through the atmosphere of persistent organic pollutants. ...Scientists Discover How Genes Work Together To Control Neural Development
...e samediscovery. One team is led by Zhi-ChunLai , assistant professor of biology, biochemistry, and molecular biologyat Penn State, and Richard W. Carthew, assistant professor of biology atthe University of Pittsburgh. The leader of the other research team isGerald ...Penn State Researchers Study Used Mushroom Compost
...ate professor of plant pathology;Dr. Jon Chorover, assistant professor of environmental soil chemistry; and Dr.Richard H. Fox, professor of soil science, will analyze and characterize theweathering compost over a three-year time span. This joint College of Agricultural Sciences and College of Earth an...Evolution Re-Sculpted Animal Limbs By Genetic Switches Once Thought Too Drastic For Survival
...end leading to novel body structures. Nipam Patel, assistant professor of organismal biology and anatomy in theUniversity of Chicago's Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Michalis Averof,currently at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, showedthat changes in the pattern of activity of two ...Wild Plant Genes Increase Food Production
... crop performance," said Susan R. McCouch, Cornell assistant professor of plant breeding. "However, most of the advances in molecular genetics have been directed toward traits other than yield, largely because of the complexity of this trait." McCouch and Steven D. Tanksley, Cornell's Liberty Hyde Bailey Prof...Experts: Public Will Accept Irradiation In Wake Of Meat Recall
...n, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service assistant director and a foods and nutrition specialist. "Irradiation is one more safety precaution. It's not in lieu of other safety precautions, such as proper cooking, but irradiation destroys the organism before it reaches the consumer." Richard Linton, ...