UMBI licenses HIV rat to Harlan
...e disease to humans. The HIV transgenic rat is an excellent model for tracking of the clinical, cellular, and immunologic course of HIV-1 in humans. According to Bryant, "It will be especially effective in testing potential therapeutic strategies against chronic AIDS-associated conditions or syndrome." By f...Use of vitamin A cream may prevent skin cancer
...f neglected or treated inadequately. Prognosis is excellent with proper therapy. An estimated cancer one million new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in United States and an estimated 9,600 cancer deaths (7,400 from melanoma, 2,200 from other forms of skin cancer) will occur in 2002, according the Ame...Asian dust storm causes plankton to bloom in the North Pacific
...using shipboard instruments. PAPA thus provides an excellent baseline for observing variations in the carbon products of photosynthesis at different depths. "The plants that fix carbon in the ocean typically live, reproduce, and die on day-to-week time scales," Bishop says. "The beauty of the Carbon Observer...Space Shuttle returns first soybeans grown on Space Station in commercial farming experiment
..."The first soybean crop grown in space returned in excellent condition, and a total of 83 seeds were harvested from 42 seed pods," said Dr. Weijia Zhou, director of the Wisconsin Space Center for Automation and Robotics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Since a plant's habitat plays a key role in determ...Firefly light illuminates course of herpes infection in mice
...Center and first author of the paper. "This is an excellent example of the unique information and new collaborations that are generated when we examine fundamental biological processes with molecular imaging tools," says David Piwnica-Worms, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiology and of molecular biology and pha...New tool for studying animal models of neurological and psychiatric diseases
...els. "The results clearly show that microPET is an excellent technique that can pick up the neurochemical difference between the two strains in a non-invasive way," Thanos said. "And because this technique can be used in living animals, we can now study how these neurochemical differences between genetic strai...EMBO supports researchers from emerging economies
...tly different focus. "These fellowships provide an excellent opportunity to scientists from non-European countries to gain training by visiting a laboratory in a European country. We prefer applicants from developing countries or emerging economies who wish to visit European (EMBC+) laboratories," says Mary Ga...EMBO supports restart of six female scientists at the bench
...riod. "The restart fellowships offer scientists an excellent opportunity to return to the laboratory. EMBO hope...have already had a lot of applications from really excellent scientists. This shows the need for initiatives like this in Europe." The first six awardees are: ...Aged Polish forest plots teach new ecosystem lessons
... plant the trees in monoculture stands gives us an excellent opportunity for this study." Additionally, one of the team members specializes in root systems, Tjoelker said, so thespecies stands will be observed underground using small cameras inserted in tubes to see how thetrees have grown underground. "The ...Nanoparticles could aid biohazard detection, computer industry
...l change takes place," Porter said. "As metals are excellent conductors of electricity, nanoparticles could be the bridge that we need to make computers interface with the biological world." Further refinement of their techniques has allowed the group to deposit nanoparticles of gold, platinum and other metal...Researchers discover gene that controls ability to learn fear
... in studies of fear learning we could well have an excellent beginning for animal models of a severe mental illness. We already knew quite a lot about the neural pathways in the brain that are involved in fear learning. And now, we have a way to understand the genetic and biochemical mechanisms underlying thos...Novel gene therapy approach shows promise
...atients, George said, but the disease serves as an excellent model for testing ribozymes as potential gene therapeutics. "We know a great deal about myotonia congenita," George said. "We know about the genetics and the physiology, and we have cell culture and animal models. We have many experimental armament...Antarctic ice seals life's fate
...ally, in an ice-sealed lake. Lake Vida gives us an excellent model of how long a lake ecosystem can survive before you snuff it out by turning down the temperature. How does the ecosystem respond, what does it look like and, more importantly, if we go back and collect samples, where do we look and what are we ...Honey bee genome being sequenced
...ities to maximize foraging success. Honey bees are excellent at associative learning, based on the need to associate a color, shape, scent or location with a food reward. In fact, honey bees are being studied by the U.S. Department of Defense as sentinel species that could detect and locate agents of ha...Researchers tie worldwide biodiversity threats to growth in households
...ion of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. "It's an excellent example of interdisciplinary inquiry that bridges the natural and social sciences." A systems ecologist, Liu received his NSF CAREER award in 1997. He already had acquired significant background on the impact of household dynamics on giant pandas in ...Prescott Prize to Diane and Mark Littler
...nt of the flora of the Caribbean, the abundance of excellent plates and line drawings, and the detail and editing of the text and keys". The book combines the features of a user-friendly, photographic field guide and a scholarly monograph, with morphological and anatomical information for 565 species of marin...Arthropods of Tropical Forests
...an at STRI in 1990. Two construction cranes yield excellent access to canopy and understory layers at a dry forest site on the Pacific slope and at a rainforest site near the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal. This program has inspired a worldwide network of eleven forest canopy cranes managed by a variet...Life Sciences in the European Research Council - The Scientists Opinion
...early in the process. This meeting will present an excellent forum for doing so," says Luc van Dyck, Executive Co-ordinator of ELSF. At the meeting, four Nobel Prize Laureates, Werner Arber, Christiane Nsslein-Volhard, John Sulston and Rolf Zinkernagel, will give their personal opinions on the subject. Further...High-density storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks
...rage. "It was a very good group of students and an excellent report," said von Hippel, who enlisted colleagues to conduct a more detailed analysis of the spent fuel issue. Among the co-authors of the new study are analysts from the Institute for Policy Studies and the Nuclear Control Institute in Washington, D...... cognition and memory, making the respective genes excellent candidate markers for cognitive abilities. Identification of a possible role of cholinergic receptor genes in humans has been hampered by the lack of reported polymorphisms. The authors identified a common AT 1890 polymorphism in the 3'UTR of the CHR...