BioMed Central to launch at microbiology meeting
...icant development for disseminating the results of biomedical research in our lifetime," says Dr Paul Nurse, Director General of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Visitors to the ASM exhibition will be among the first to learn about BioMed Central and how on-line submission and peer-review play an important r...Potential gene therapy carriers created that mimic viruses, without the risk
... new direction in gene therapy and other potential biomedical applications. The "nano" particle (a nanometer is ...s, proteins and small molecule drugs, all sorts of biomedical possibilities, even scavenging other cells or molecules. Other researchers are doing similar things...HHMI announces selection of 48 new investigators
...alented group who have begun to make their mark on biomedical research," said Thomas R. Cech, who assumed HHMI's...ating the breadth of fields that now contribute to biomedical advances. The 48 new investigators must now be formally appointed. Assuming that all of them are a...Biomedical scientists from Russia to Rio to explore biology's frontiers at HHMI in June
...o the molecular bases of parasitic diseases. The biomedical scientists from 16 countries are all International...ive-year grants to support the work of outstanding biomedical scientists at their own institutions. In 1995, it awarded five-year grants totaling $15 million to s......is to train tomorrow's health care specialists and biomedical scientists, engage in groundbreaking research that will advance the understanding of the causes and treatments of disease and to participate in the delivery of care as a partner with the UPMC Health System. Among the many areas for which its faculty...Shedding light on luminescence: Scientists visualize structure of the photoprotein aequorin
...scovery led to the use of aequorin as an important biomedical tool for tracking the movement of calcium within cells. Calcium plays a crucial role in the regulation of a variety of biological processes including fertilization, muscle contraction, and the transmission of nerve impulses. Clinicians also recogni...Top biomedical researchers form Editorial Directorate for open-access publishing venture
...ishing house that will give free on-line access to biomedical research. BioMed Central will allow researchers a...icant development for disseminating the results of biomedical research in our lifetime", says Dr Paul Nurse. "BioMed Central and other on-line initiatives will ...UniStates, Tufts University collaborate on new technology
...ct, and structure to benefit other industries like biomedical devices and construction." Owens will also describe techniques for enhancing performance using RMT distributed porosity ™ to make lightweight materials, products, and structures. The RMT research and development will be carried out at Tufts U...$16.3M grant will fund program to develop mouse models for neurological research
...mouse mutations has already revolutionized the way biomedical research is done, together with the Genome Project providing the tools for gene discovery," says Dr. Frankel. "But spontaneous mutations arise infrequently and tend to hit the same genes over and over again, those that are easily mutated and whose un...McGill launches Centre for Bioinformatics
... across campus, including physiologist Leon Glass, biomedical engineering specialist Rob Kearney, and geneticist Tom Hudson, to spearhead the project. Dr. Therien declares enthusiastically, "The scientific problems are fascinating. The technological challenges are formidable. The industrial possibilities are...AIDS prevention researchers to gain premier online info-exchange forum
...to bring cutting-edge Internet technologies to the biomedical community." (See http://www.mednav.com .) Ellen Stover, director of AIDS research at the NIMH, applauded the new AAAS web site. "Using the web to share information is of vital importance for addressing the challenges faced by AIDS researchers," she ...Medicine and biology take a lesson in physics
...ysics research, will join leading players from the biomedical community at a conference in New York next month to discuss how free-access to biomedical research on the internet will change the way that biomedical science is used, communicated and done....UCSD researchers find genetic key to puzzling congenital disease
... molecular biologist, Karin is one of the "hottest biomedical researchers of the 1990s" as listed by Science Watch, a publication that tracks trends and performance in basic research. Since 1981, more than 70 of his papers have been cited well over 100 times each, and several have been cited more than 1,000 ti...MetaPhore reports general anti-inflammatory surface treatment for biomedical materials
... a general anti-inflammatory surface treatment for biomedical materials reported for the first time today in the... a general anti-inflammatory surface treatment for biomedical materials," said Kishore Udipi of Metaphore Pharmaceuticals. Other members of the research team inc...Putting medical research on-line to give patients the information they need
...ing on the internet and how it will change the way biomedical science is used, communicated and done. Speakers ...l for an archive of electronic publications in the biomedical sciences can be found at: http://www.nih.gov/about/director/pubmedcentral/ebiomedarch.htm PubMed ...NLM exhibit features Nobelist Joshua Lederberg
...ih.gov/ ), the Library's web site devoted to great biomedical scientists in the 20th century. There you will find some 3,000 documents, including notebooks, manuscripts, personal correspondence with other scientists, diary entries, newspaper clippings, video interviews, and photographs. New images are added reg...What happens when genetic information is not correctly edited in brain cells
...d human genome sequence will ring in a new era for biomedical research. For the first time the primary structure of all genes which determine human form and nature will be known. The sequences of the four nucleotides in all genes allow us to predict from the genetic code the exact amino acid sequence of all hum...Rosetta Inpharmatics approach enables identification of gene functions
..., and Diplomate, American Board of Toxicology. "In biomedical research, perturbations in gene regulation and subsequent effects on cell function are thought to be responsible for many diseases, including cancer and diabetes. The scientist engaged in new drug discovery generally views these perturbations as pote...Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program expands to become national
...tions. The mission of the foundation is to advance biomedical science training and education and to improve heal...have been contributed by the foundation to support biomedical education and health care as well as social service, arts and cultural, civic, environmental, and ot...Polymeric chains in 'Flatland' reveal surprises, researchers say
... issues as wide-ranging as adhesives, coatings and biomedical implants. "A polymer in 'Flatland' may sound like science fiction, but every bulk phase is connected to adjoining ones through its surface," said Steve Granick, a professor of materials science at the UI. Flatland refers to the title of an 1880 nove...