Bush nominates NJIT space explorer Louis Lanzerotti to NSF governing board
...ng research in basic sciences and engineering. It establishes NSF policies, identifies issues that are critical to NSF's future, approves NSF's strategic budget directions, approves annual budget submissions to the Office of Management and Budget, and approves new programs and major awards. In its role as polic...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
...nto a $1 trillion industry by 2015. The NSF grant establishes the Center for High Rate Nanomanufacturing, which will be headquartered at Northeastern under the leadership of Ahmed Busnaina, the William Lincoln Smith Professor and director of the Nanomanufacturing Research Institute and the NSF Center for Nano a...The telomere crisis: A crucial stage in breast cancer
...s managed to reactivate telomerase. "Our research establishes two things," Gray says. "First is that telomere crisis does appear to play an important role in the development of most breast cancers. Second is where it occurs: at the transition from hyperplasia to carcinoma in situ." These findings suggest that ...Oldest evidence for processing of wild cereals: starch grains from barley, wheat, on grinding stone
...were processing wild barley: starch grain analysis establishes a clear link between an intensive exploitation of wild cereals and the subsequent development of plant cultivation and domestication in the region " explains Dolores Piperno, lead author. "We were very surprised by the abundance of seed remains we fo...Firefly compound lights up 'protein dance' in living animals
...he specific portion of the protein where rapamycin establishes its bond. They attached the other luciferase fragment to a protein known through previous research to interact with rapamycin's target protein only in the presence of rapamycin. Using a commercially available instrument known as an in vivo biolumin...Research reveals role of gene in infertility
... repairing a damaged homologous one. The research establishes that this system for repairing broken chromosomes with the protein products of the RAD51 gene, which previously was known to occur in animals and fungi, occurs in meiotic cells of plants, as well. "Our research suggests that some defects in human r...European Commission approves Herceptin + Taxotere as 1st-line therapy in HER2-positive breast cancer
...es'. This trial with Herceptin and Taxotere firmly establishes Herceptin in combination with taxanes as the foundation of care for women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. The aggressive nature of HER2-positive breast cancer makes both the survival and response rates highly meaningful. In HER2-positiv...When blood can't get to brain, special CT scan helps
...ffner's work and her lectures at national meetings establishes her as one of the leading authorities on perfusion CT not only in the U.S., but worldwide," he says. "Her work will provide the framework for integrating perfusion CT into day-to-day practice." In addition to Hoeffner, Thompson and Mukherji, the auth...Drug that cuts off tumor's blood supply extends lives of colorectal cancer patients
... tumor cannot grow bigger than a pinhead unless it establishes an independent blood supply through a process called angiogenesis. This process provides the tumor with the oxygen and nutrients it needs to grow and spread. Researchers have theorized that by stopping or cutting off the new blood supply, they can st...Tufts researchers identify a novel target for cancer therapy
...ll penetrates through the extracellular matrix and establishes a secondary tumor site elsewhere. To date there are no effective and safe treatments against metastases due to the lack of reliable validated drug targets. Hsp90 recently has gained significant attention as an important target for cancer therapeutic...National Cancer Gene Therapy Foundation gives $4.0 million in research grants
... tumor cannot grow larger than a pinhead unless it establishes an independent blood supply through a process called angiogenesis. Cancer researchers are seeking new and better molecular targets to halt the growth of this independent blood supply that cancers need. A type of stem cell called an endothelial cell...Citizens asked to monitor impact of invasive bird species
...etition is the fact that once a male house sparrow establishes a territory, he remains there year-round and starts defending that territory early in the season, often preventing later-arriving species, such as bluebirds and swallows, from nesting. House sparrows also are prolific breeders, raising up to four bro...Experiments establish 'protein-only' nature of prion infections
...aid Weissman of his group's findings. "And it also establishes that prion strains can be accounted for solely by the ability of the protein to misfold into more than one conformation. There might be other factors that influence it in mammalian prions, but at this point people have to prove that there are; there ...Combination therapy drives cancer into remission
...y Dr. Scott Lowe of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, establishes a new paradigm for overcoming chemotherapy resistance in many forms of cancer. Rational Target Selection and an Off-the-Shelf Chemotherapeutic "One-Two Punch" for Lymphoma and Other Cancers Pre-cancerous cells can be eliminated from the body by a ...Stress hormones and heart failure
...ngs of the National Academy of Sciences, the study establishes a firm link between a family of stress hormones called urocortins and heart disease, and may lead to new treatments for heart failure. Congestive heart fa ilure is an increasingly common condition among Americans, currently contributing to the death...Scientists at Scripps Research Institute describe structure of receptor on surface of 1918 flu virus
...something known as the endosomal pathway, and this establishes an infection. Hemagglutinin is also the main antigenic determinant on the virus-- it is what the human immune system primarily recognizes and responds to by making antibodies and mounting an immune defense. How deadly an individual influenza infecti...Less is more: New technology captures gene-rich DNA segments
... gene-rich regions of the corn genome. "This study establishes that methylation filtration, combined with other simple techniques, can be used to successfully recover and properly assemble complete gene sequences from genomes that are otherwise extraordinarily difficult to decipher," says McCombie. "Moreover, bo...Study finds that fungus farming by snails causes marsh grasses to wither
...Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, establishes the mechanism by which the snail, among the most abundant grazers found in southern salt marshes, is able to affect its ecosystem. Silliman authored the study with Steven Newell of the University of Georgia Marine Institute. Southern salt marshes hav......onal collaborative agreement today. The agreement establishes the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) and, in doing so, ensures a single, uniform and enduring archive of 3-dimensional models of biological structures, proteins specifically. An announcement of the agreement appears in the December issue of Natur...Gene therapy establishes a TRAIL to arthritis treatment In the November 3 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, John Mountz and colleagues from the University of Alabama at Birmingham describe a gene-modified cell therapy utilizing the TRAIL molecule that successf...