Harvard Medical School launches new department to study human biology at the level of whole systems
... helped HMS decide on priority initiatives for the coming years. "Science often takes a giant leap forward when the right people are brought together to work on improving the methodologies and redefining the education and training needed in a promising new field. With the guidance provided by Marc Kirschner...Long-term natural gas supplies should meet growing demand in coming decades, study finds
... gas supplies are likely to meet growing demand in coming decades, if policy-makers are able to strike a balance between environmental protection and the need for new energy sources. "Recent volatile natural gas prices do not foreshadow a pending, long-term crisis in future natural gas supplies," said Hilla...University of Chicago scientist wins prestigious Balzan Prize
...geophysics from National Central University before coming to the United States to study at Brown University,...tion was set up in 1956 by Angela Lina Balzan who, coming into a considerable inheritance on the death of her father, Eugenio Balzan, decided to use the money...National lab trains U. S. customs agents against WMD
...eed to protect against weapons of mass destruction coming into our country," said Bill Cliff, PNNL program manager. "Our goal is to ensure that the inspectors, who represent the first line of defense along our borders, have the knowledge and familiarity with weapons of mass destruction needed to be success...Potent toxin reveals new antibiotic resistance mechanism
... sometimes deadly bacteria. "Many of our drugs are coming from soil bacteria like these," Thorson says referring to the enediyne-producing bacteria with which he works. "This is the first known example of this kind of self-sacrifice mechanism for resistance. It points to the fact that bacteria continue to f...New study of Europa may explain mysterious ice domes, places to search for evidence of life
... reaffirmed a spacecraft should be launched in the coming decade with the goal of orbiting Europa. He currently is part of a NASA team developing goals for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission. The scientific objectives of the mission probably will include confirming the presence of an ocean at Europa, re...Study provides new insights into emerging theory of gene regulation
...amatically influence gene expression. Proteins are coming on and off the DNA at specific times and locations to trigger the activation of genes." The so-called "histone code" theory of gene regulation, advanced by C. David Allis, Ph.D., at the University of Virginia, and others, suggests that complex, inter...Tipping the balance of prion infectivity
...rain of the misfolded form as on what animal it is coming from. "Our studies of yeast prions argue in a very concrete and definitive way -- together with the extensive animal studies of mammalian prions -- that this mutational effect on conformation is a major mechanism driving the origin of species barrie...Threatened juvenile salmon get scientific assistance
...thousands of retrofits expected to be completed in coming years, the Washington State Department of Transpor...n, from WSDOT's Environmental Services Office. In coming years, tens of millions of dollars will be spent improving culvert fish passageways in Washington St...Microbes' 'blueprints' promise insights into oceans, more
...rom the MIT-Woods Hole Joint Program in 1989). "By coming at it from different perspectives, we were able to see common themes in how these organisms adapted to the open ocean." Another paper, written by a team led by Frederick Partensky of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique's Station Biologiq...Study shows enzyme helps guard against Alzheimer's disease
...mber that is expected to increase significantly in coming years as the baby boomer generation ages. Ever since autopsies of Alzheimer's patients first uncovered bunches of "tangles" in the brain's neurons, investigators have studied the possibility that the overexpression of a gene was responsible for this ...Belmonte Science Center trains high school teachers in latest scientific methods
...Students after all, are the ones from which up-and coming scientists will be recruited." The workshop is financed by the European Commission as part of the initiative 'Continuing Education for European Biology Teachers (CeeBT)' a project coordinated by EMBO. The goal is to provide a new layer of professio...Nation on the verge of 'new era in modern river management'
...moved. It's a trend that is bound to accelerate in coming years." Lowry is not out to dismantle every lock and dam in America. He admits that many dams offer benefits that outweigh their adverse environmental impacts. At the same time, he argues that some of the nation's largest and most expensive dam proj...New opportunities for accelerating the conquest of human cancer
...ing a glimpse of how cancer will be tackled in the coming years, based on these new advances. This work includes: Identification of genes which, when mutated, predispose individuals for certain cancers. The British Cancer Genome Project, for example, recently identified an oncogene for malignant melanoma...Geoscience community outlines cooperative activities
...t of action items to pursue collaboratively in the coming months. More information about the AGI Leadership Forum 2003, including the program agenda and selected presentations, is posted on the AGI Events web page, http://www.agiweb.org/events/leadershipconf/index.html ....Wildlife markets and disease transmission
...th animals and consumers from different ecosystems coming into contact. The lack of resistance to new pathogens makes humans and animals fertile, uncontrolled laboratories for viruses and bacteria to adapt and rapidly mutate. Further, the staggering numbers of animals and people in contact change one-in-a-m...Drug improves the sense of touch, Science study says
...neurons involved in processing tactile information coming from the area of stimulated skin. By this method, external stimulation to finger tips temporarily reorganized part of the cortex and modified the sensory body maps of the participants. After 24 hours, the enhanced ability to detect pin points dropped...UCR graduate student wins best poster at Environmental Mutagen Society Meeting
...stitute for Mexico and the United States). Before coming to UC Riverside, he attended Penn State University and majored in biology, with a focus on ecology, with a minor in Spanish. The University of California, Riverside offers undergraduate and graduate education to nearly 16,000 students and has a pro...Finished Y-chromosome sequence reveals a genomic 'crystal palace'
...ring a hall of mirrors, spinning around, and after coming outside, being asked to draw the hall's floor plan. You're disoriented." To overcome the disorienting duplications in DNA sequence, Page and his colleagues employed an iterative method to get an overall picture of the Y map. They later refined the te...U of Minnesota leads effort to break impasse over GMO safety
...the controversy over genetically modified food are coming together to set industrywide safety standards. Led by researchers at the University of Minnesota, the Safety First Initiative brings together representatives of business, science, public interest, environmental and consumer organizations. In a commen...