Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...s he is employing a novel synthetic process, which enables both polymers, and metals and their oxides, to be ...ned expressions, and has developed a process which enables phonetically incomplete statements to be acquired and processed. Prof. Dr. Ilme Schlichting (39)...Millenium bug found by CSIRO scientists
...an interesting adaptation of the tarsi (feet) that enables them to 'glide' across the surface of the water without breaking the surface tension." "The study of the Millennium Bug and its relatives is part of a much larger project that involves the study and identification of thousands of specimens from the ...New link uncovered in nerve cell mechanism thought to power learning and memory
... of AMPA receptors on the cell surface at synapses enables neurons to respond more strongly to the key neurot...ose proteins are localized within cells. The motif enables those membrane proteins to bind to a class of so-called PDZ proteins which act to target the membran...Drosophila genome sequence completed
...nome project really comes into play," he says. "It enables us to know all the genes so we can look at all of them at once and see what they1re doing. " Tak Mak, for instance, director of the Amgen Institute at the University of Toronto, says he has been working to understand the signal transduction pathwa...First awards made in NIH effort to understand how genes affect people's responses to medicines
...and molecular biology, and genetics. This support enables scientists at universities, medical schools, and research institutions throughout the country to expand knowledge about the fundamental life processes that underlie human health and disease....Researchers find key to growing, differentiating human cells
... Ma said the reason why clumping enables cells to differentiate is still a biological mystery. He thinks other factors, such as chemical communication between cells, may prompt the cells to differentiate. Kniss...UNC-CH bus brings mobile lab, high-tech science focus to underserved N.C. schools
...of a protein and a remotely controlled camera that enables students to see a teacher's demonstration on video monitors throughout the bus. Program activities include a cutting-edge biomolecular science curriculum and inquiry-based, hands-on experiments developed by the Boston University School of Medicine's......tor on and off in the course of the dive, and that enables them to reduce oxygen consumption by 10 to 50 perc...yancy due to increasing pressure with depth, which enables them to sink effortlessly through the water. The researchers describe their findings in the April 7 ...Nearly identical controls of immune genes in mice and humans hint at new asthma treatment
...ory elements near the cytokine cluster itself that enables the activation and/or stable expression of the type 2 cytokine genes in a cell- and lineage-specific manner." The resulting transgenic mouse strains showed normal lymph system development, the researchers reported. However, the mice did develop fewe...DoubleTwist completes the first annotation of the human genome
...enes and their function. This is a foundation that enables further discovery." DoubleTwist will also li...y. In addition, DoubleTwist provides software that enables scientists to perform text-based queries to retrieve data of interest....DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
...a complete development of an organism, and it also enables nerve cells to transmit signals correctly. The mechanisms and components that are needed to maintained the polarised organisation of the cell are examined in the new priority programme Cell Polarity. For around 20 years, biologists have divided the ...Genetic method has promise for assessing environmental cleanup
...n method known as polymerase chain reaction, which enables scientists to make billions of copies of a single strand of DNA. "Our detection technique requires several thousand or even millions of pieces of DNA before we can see them," Nies says. Catechol 2,3-dioxygenase is present in several types of bacteria...One-two punch knocks out fly genes
...or other features, such as coat color. The method enables researchers to see what happens when the gene is missing. But Dr. Golic's technique can go either way--his method can also be used to fix faulty genes, or "knock them in," by replacing a defective gene with one that is spelled correctly. This is...Study seems to show why French suffer less heart disease, cancer
... UNC-CH researchers first reported that NF-kappa B enables many cultured tumor cells to escape death when subjected to cancer-killing chemicals. After developing resistance to chemotherapy, cancer cells they studied continued reproducing and showed no ill effects from the treatment. Last year, the scientist......inical supply markets." The auction site enables buyers such as scientists and educators, who typic...d status. Online Product Locator: Request It! enables buyers to request specific lab supplies and equipment. Service Bench: Warranty available for al...The ultimate pocket protector--radiation detection made easy
...d the availability of comprehensive real-time data enables the quick responses needed to apprehend potential smugglers. "The mathematics are simple," insists Aryaeinejad, "but no one has made a detector combining two sensors like this before." Competing instruments are outclassed because the INEEL dosimet...Farmers and GM crops should both impact farmland birds, Science study predicts
...tage of the methodology we have adopted is that it enables us to make predictions now rather than having to wait for the results of a three year trial," Watkinson said. Several decades of intensified agriculture in Europe have had a particularly serious effect on birds, whose populations in the United Kingdo...An alternative form of chemotherapy? A means for reusable spacecraft?
...tion rate that leads to ultrashort penetration and enables precise surgery with minimal damage. Environmentally, his invention can be used to measure ambient air quality and aids in monitoring hazardous gas. Daniel Hartmann -- University of California at San Diego Daniel Hartmann designed a microlens fabr...Blooming health thanks to a frog
...cancer. The gene defective in Bloom's Syndrome enables additional mutations to occur. This gene belongs to the helicases, a class of proteins known to unwind double stranded DNA during replication and repair. In order to identify the exact role of this protein, Dr. Yan and colleagues turned to the specie...New species arise more quickly than previously believed, UMass researcher finds
...dry points out that the river female's larger size enables her to bury her eggs deeper in gravel, decreasing the chances that the eggs will be disturbed or destroyed by high water flows. "Rapid evolution has also been documented for other organisms," Hendry points out. "The unique twist to our study is...