New textbook introduces students to the foundations, applications of nanotechnology
...ed together some 60 active researchers across many disciplines to write a broad-based textbook specifically for students. Introduction to Nanoscale Science and Technology, has just been released by Kluwer Academic Publishers ( www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-7720-3 ). The book was created by James R. Heflin Jr. of the...National Academies Advisory: Sept. 18-19 Nanotechnology Conference
... on nanotechnology is under way in a wide range of disciplines from cell biology to computer engineering to optics but scientists are often unaware of developments in fields other than their own. At this conference, 100 leading researchers will gather to explore the future of nanoscience in medical imaging, ma...EURYI Award given for the first time to 25 young European researchers
... Young researchers from all countries and disciplines apply for the EURYI Award in the participating country in which they wish to carry out their research. This requires an invitation from the host research institutions indicating their willingness to facilitate the young researchers and their working ...Common call for action on European Research Council (ERC)
...stitutes representing the full range of scientific disciplines including the social sciences and humanities. With the ERC debate having gained considerable momentum in 2004, the appeal warns of the danger of complacency and calls for acceleration of the work being done to establish an ERC. The petition also stre...Emory researchers map structure of anti-cancer molecule
...a highly collaborative project that crossed formal disciplines and brought together researchers with strong backgrounds in chemistry, biology, physics and pharmacology, which was essential for putting the pieces of this puzzle together." He says that in addition to this basic research, it is hoped that the model...Gene duplication allowed pigs to have more babies
...arried out the study. They used a diverse array of disciplines to investigate why the pig, Sus scrofa, has three different genes that encode the enzyme aromatase an enzyme that catalyses the transformation of androgens, such as testosterone, into estrogens - whereas other hooved animals have only one. The evi...Better living through urban ecology
..."The first phase of BES taught us how to work with disciplines that ecology has rarely engaged effectively. The results gained through these unique collaborations will help meet the challenge of understanding cities, suburbs and the surrounding open lands as an integrated ecosystem," Dr. Pickett comments. Future...Rensselaer marks the opening of the center for biotechnology and interdisciplinary studies
... place where scientists and engineers from various disciplines will explore at the intersection of the life scien...aboration among many diverse academic and research disciplines to enhance discovery and encourage innovation. The Center is designed to foster the multidisciplina...Second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator Award
...ogramme is open to researchers from all scientific disciplines and is directed towards researchers from anywhere in the world. Each award will last for a five-year period and will include the salary of the award holder and funding for an independent junior research group (including two or three staff positions f...Complex cells likely arose from combination of bacterial and extreme-microbe genomes
...cy that supports research and education across all disciplines of science and engineering--to re-examine historical schemes for classifying Earth's living creatures, a process that was once based on easily observable traits. Microbes, plants or animals were said to be related if they shared certain, mostly phys...Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits
...oped that the broad scope of the presentations and disciplines covered will stimulate fruitful discussion and yield fresh new insights into the evolution of vertebrates, including ourselves. Attendance to the CDB Symposium will be limited to approximately 120 general attendees. All those interested in participat...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...egrative approach to studying biology, linking the disciplines of systems and computer science bioinformatics -- with genetics and molecular biology genomics. The FIBR program is removing the limits biologists have found increasingly frustrating in recent years when seeking funding and finding they can't cont...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...nnovators and peers from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines and institutions at the Emerging Technologies conference Sept. 29-30 at MIT in Cambridge. A native of Marseilles, France, Delmau received her engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supriuere de Physique et Chimie de Paris, France, and master...AIBS tapped to coordinate design of ecological observatories
...ities across the country, researchers from various disciplines will work together to improve scientific understanding of several "grand challenge" research areas, including the ecological implications of climate change; the relationships between biodiversity, species composition, and ecosystem function; the impa...Environmental issues center of Inland Northwest Research Alliance 4th Annual Symposium
...ducation and the importance of various courses and disciplines within environmental and subsurface science and what students should focus on to meet tomorrow's business needs was the focus of Evan Nyer's presentation entitled, Five Small Steps for Hydrogeologists to Take Over the World (of Remediation). Nyer, a ...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
... teams of basic and clinical researchers from many disciplines to find cures for blinding eye diseases such as ma... the Future Working Group. "Integrating different disciplines in entirely new ways holds the promise of opening up currently unimagined avenues of scientific inqu...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...hanism for investigators from different scientific disciplines to come together under one umbrella to focus their...3 other UT Southwestern investigators from various disciplines will examine the behavioral, metabolic and molecular mechanisms that cause obesity and metabolic syn...