Altadena chemist wins national award for studying life molecules
...hemical processes," said Roberts, who is professor emeritus of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. One of his projects has been studying the action of a class of protein enzymes called proteases, the body's scissors. Despite their role in diseases such as AIDS, proteases also snip u...Household ant invasions are determined by weather, not pesticide use, new study finds
...land Naturalist study are Lincoln Moses, professor emeritus of statistics; Meira Falkovitz-Halpern, social sciences research assistant in the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases; and Emilia H. Wong, who graduated last year with a B.S. degree from the Department of Biological Sciences....Male and female songbirds show big learning differences
...three times -- in birds, whales and humans -- said emeritus professor Peter Marler, who heads the Animal Communication Laboratory at UC Davis. Yamaguchi's research has opened up the whole area of gender-specific song learning, he said.......da Atlantic University. Nick Chaparos, professor emeritus of design, DAAP. Melissa McVay, graduate student in planning, DAAP. Kate Fischer, graduate student in planning, DAAP. Katerina Janeteas, doctoral student in classics (archaeology), Arts and Sciences. Recently declared one of the European Union'...Software to make testing of new generic drugs more thorough
...plained Jean Powers, professor emeritus of statistics and veterinary clinical sciences at Ohio State. Powers and her colleagues formulated a new, improved statistical method for comparing drugs, and Edward Herderick, manager of ...Webcast will ensure broad public access to the UC Santa Cruz Public Forum on Human Genome Research
...Washington; and Robert Sinsheimer, UCSC chancellor emeritus and professor of biology emeritus. National Public Radio science reporter Richard Harris, a UCSC graduate, will serve as moderator. The public forum is being held in conjunction with a scientific workshop, which will be closed to all but the invited ...Statement by Stanford President John Hennessy on Jim Clark`s stem cell announcement
...lar imaging,`` he reports. Paul Berg, a professor emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry and winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his pioneering work with recombinant DNA, observed that ``Stanford`s efforts in human embryonic stem cell research will proceed with vigor in spite of President Bus...Biological oceanographer and URI professor emeritus Saul B. Saila has been given the Award of Excellence by the American Fisheries Society (AFS). The award is the oldest major AFS award and the most prestigious presented to an individual. Presented annually since 1969, it is given in recognition of ou...Two Hopkins faculty members receive 'genius' awards
...onal Studies, in 1982; Philip D. Curtin, professor emeritus of history at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in 1983; and Allen Grossman, professor of english at The Johns Hopkins University, in 1989....Researchers zero in on date of early hominids
...ue of the journal Geology. Shaul Levi, a professor emeritus of oceanic and atmospheric sciences at OSU, and Hagai Ron, an Israeli geophysicist, were able to narrow down the range of ages for the formation by studying the reversals of the Earth's magnetic field recorded in the sedimentary formation. "The Eart...Stanford researchers uncover possible approach to attack HIV-infected cells
...in vitro," said Leonard Herzenberg, PhD, professor emeritus of genetics and senior author of the study reported in the Feb. 18 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "It selectively killed the HIV-infected cells when they were in a mixture with healthy white blood cells. And to our sur...'Vigilant vector' could insert genes that sense, prevent heart attacks
...rincipal investigator and a professor and chairman emeritus of the UF College of Medicines department of physiology. It just waits there until the right moment arrives to help the person. Other researchers have used so-called antisense genes to prevent high blood pressure. The UF team applied the same con...Ocean ecosystems only altered following two great mass extinctions
...n the Marine Realm," by Richard Bambach, professor emeritus of geological sciences from Virginia Tech; Andrew H. Knoll of Harvard, and the late J. John Sepkoski Jr. of the University of Chicago, reports and analyzes evidence that only two of these mass extinctions led to major change in global ecosystem struc...Potential therapy reported for children, adults with end-stage liver disease
...brain swelling. In their animal studies, Brusilow, emeritus professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, and his colleagues Richard Traystman, Ph.D., and Raymond Koehler, Ph.D., both in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, pretreated rats with MSO, then induced hyperammonemia. Compared to...Genetic engineering could salvage once-promising anti-cancer agents
...effects." UW researchers headed by Heinz Floss, an emeritus chemistry professor,teamed with researchers from Rheinische Wilhems-Universitt in Bonn,Germany, to develop ways of modifying genes that create maytansinoids andthen produce cancer treatments that are more effective against tumors andbetter tolerated ...Report considers role of science in a world made vulnerable by terrorism
...gene B. Skolnikoff, professor of political science emeritus at MIT. "It is imperative that the universities understand what the issues are, how they believe they should respond to the issues, how far they should go in accepting certain restrictions, and how they should work with the government in working that...Japanese shore crabs invade Penobscot Bay, Maine
... John J. McDermott, the B.F. Fackenthal professor emeritus of marine zoology at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., has been studying the crab since its 1988 discovery. Japanese scientists determined that the adult female can live as many as three years and can carry as many as 52,000 eggs, but Mc...Ecologist's book on introduced species' destructiveness
... throughout the world," says Pimentel, a professor emeritus in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "In the United States, invasions of non-native plants, animals and microbes are thought to be responsible for 42 percent of the decline of native species now listed as endangered or threatened." ...Twenty years of monkey research boosts AIDS knowledge
...g toward vaccines," said Murray Gardner, professor emeritus of medical pathology at the UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine. About 300 researchers from around the world will reflect on those past achievements and discuss new data when they gather Sept. 8-11 in Monterey, Calif., for the 20th Annual Sympos......e of Technology Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., president emeritus of UMDNJ Stephen A. Livesey, executive vice presi...s will recognize Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., president emeritus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He had the vision to create the Center a...