Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...ven among the 26% who said the ABC program did not directly help them select a field of study or career, 84% said it provided a positive understanding of the biotech industry; Many of the 26% who said ABC participation was not helpful in choosing a study or career path reported their plans had been set prior...Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...arch contributes significantly to discoveries that directly improve animal health. It also contributes to huma...d the state with college researchers in a way that directly serves animals and their owners, Schurig noted. When a companion animal passes away, financia...Chemical derived from vitamin-E shows early promise as cancer drug
...tes. "We have clear evidence that this chemical is directly causing cancer cells to die," said Kimberly Kline, a nutrition professor in the Department of Human Ecology who directed the research in collaboration with Bob G. Sanders, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences. The findings will be pub...Alzheimer's disease is not accelerated aging
...nt predictor of white-matter damage. Other studies directly implicate dopamine as an important neurotransmitter that participates in frontal executive function and declines with age. Researchers are still unclear as to how anatomical deterioration and neurotransmitter depletion relate to each other and to exe...Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
...ation is the first and most developed organization directly promoting the development of human "Projuvenation" technology." Said the Methuselah Foundation's Chief Science Officer Dr. Aubrey de Grey. "The focus of the Methuselah Foundation is not simply extending human life; it is discovering ways to limit an...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...o do with its cell biology, the fact that it grows directly in the cell cytosol. There it stimulates the one pathway that produces cytotoxic T cells -- often called CD8+ cells -- that can attack and destroy tumors. Portnoy recently showed that live, but not killed, listeria induce the production of beta-inter...Trial shows which brain cancer patients benefit from temozolomide
...important because temozolomide is a drug that acts directly against DNA to slow down the replication of cancer cells. So, it is bad news if the patient has non-methylated status because the DNA in these rogue cancer cells is being repaired as fast as the drug causes damage. This means the cancer cells are abl...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...earned where the platform was and could swim to it directly regardless of where the mouse was placed in the tank. All of the mice were reintroduced to the maze about a week after surgery. The researchers left the platform in the same place as it had been prior to the surgeries because they wanted to kno...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...zens of laboratories and hundreds of students have directly benefited from the resources he has developed and made available to the scientific community," says Walter. "He is an outstanding researcher, a talented and dedicated teacher, an active participant in university and public servic...Newly identified master gene key in baby's first breath
...teins and genes involved in lipid metabolism, were directly influenced by the absence of Foxa2. Researchers found that when the Foxa2 gene was deleted, the Foxa1 gene was expressed more strongly, perhaps in an effort to compensate for the absence of the parent gene, Dr. Whitsett said. Still, the Foxa1 w...USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
...under increasing threats according to CI. CI works directly with farmers to promote environmentally responsible growing practices such as water and soil conservation, crop diversification, and chemical fertilizer and pesticide reduction that help protect the surrounding forest, streams and wildlife. Starbuck...Punching the timeclock of life
...ike as he explored a new way to look at aging that directly opposes principles set forth by Darwin in his theory of natural selection. It has long been accepted that natural selection happens on the individual level the better suited an organism is to its environment, the more likely it is to reproduce, ...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
...sides of the brain, including "planning areas" not directly connected with motor execution. The difference held up even when careful controls made sure that the amount of actual activity the number of up and down flexes, and their velocity was the same. "We believe that these results provide strong evidenc...'Gene chips' research in cotton could lead to superior variety
...hips." In his laboratory, by spotting DNA elements directly onto 1X3-inch glass slides, one chip can potentially contain all annotated genes (approximately 30,000) of an animal or plant genome. "DNA microarrays have broad applications in studying changes in gene expression and genomic structure in many b...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
... objective of the study is to deliver the CERE-110 directly to the part of the brain that is almost universally affected by Alzheimer's disease, the basal forebrain, and not to other parts of the brain where it may cause side effects. The new drug, CERE-110, is being used by researchers at Rush as part of ...The book opens on the first tree genome
...rogram exceeds $10 million, $3 million of which is directly connected to the genome sequencing effort. Stanford University served as an integral part of JGI's sequence finishing and quality control operation. Ghent University (Belgium) played an increasing role in annotating the sequence that has been genera...Health of world's sea lions the focus of Wakefield Symposium
...shing activities through food dependencies or more directly through control or conservation measures. A better understanding of the biology of sea lions is urgently needed. This symposium will significantly contribute to understanding why sea lion populations fluctuate, including populations of Alaska's Stel...Protein is key for digestive function of the pancreas
...r research is needed to establish whether VAMP8 is directly linked to pancreatitis.......to introduce cDNA along with a fluorescent protein directly into a living embryo's cells by momentarily and re...s. The development of a system for introducing DNA directly into somite-forming cells and the demonstration of the central role played by cytoskeleton-regulator......s for the first time that novel biosensor dyes can directly reveal activation of proteins in individual living...her protein visualization methods, "you're looking directly at the fluorescence from this dye, which means it's much brighter and more sensitive," Hahn said. Al...