Warman named to Hughes Institute
...investigator. "I feel privileged to have received excellent mentoring throughout my career, to enjoy wonderful collaborations, to be able to learn from my patients and their families, to have the love and support of my own family, and to be surrounded by outstanding colleagues and students," said Warman. "I a...Spiders get better web sites by rising early
...lonial orb-weaver Metepeira incrassata provides an excellent alternative model system for understanding the benefits and costs of group living. "This study has allowed us to tease apart the mechanisms that structure colonies," he says. Female spiders with egg sacs have special needs, as they attach their egg...Building better engines through natural selection
...oused at the ERC. "We found that the agreement was excellent between what was measured in the lab engine and what the computer predicted," Senecal says. Senecal's research will be published in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Engine Research. He will also give an invited presentation Wednesd...Fruit fly model could explain how mosquitoes carry malaria: new drugs and vaccines on the horizon
... These characteristics have made the fruit fly an excellent model to study human diseases, but Schneider suspected that it would also make an ideal model mosquito. Schneider tested this hypothesis in collaboration with Mohammed Shahabuddin, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. Schneid...Purdue researcher solves sorghum mystery
...o are major sorghum producers. While sorghum is an excellent source of protein, its shortcomings are well documented. Studies have shown that humans digest only 46 percent of the sorghum they consume, compared with 81 percent of the protein in wheat and 73 percent in corn. Hamaker's research led him to an unco...Dairy scientist advances field of transgenics and knowledge of growth hormones
...nt factor in (Akers) success as a scientist is his excellent skills and ingenuity in applying and developing te... "Any success that I have had has depended on the excellent students and collaborators that I have had over the years," Akers says. "I have also been very lucky...Arctic temperatures warmest in past four centuries, study says
...ange, as many suspect, the Arctic is serving as an excellent testbed for observing and predicting environmental effects of global warming." Serreze currently serves on an NSF steering committee for a proposed program known as the Study of Environmental Arctic Change, or SEARCH, to try to better understand the ...Zirconate material will improve plutonium storage safety
...have shown that zirconate-based materials offer an excellent solution to the serious problem of this ever-increasing amount of plutonium. Taken together, these startling results confirm that there are radiation-resistant and chemically durable materials that can safely contain plutonium." This new material i...Scientists pinpoint mechanism for UV damage to rice plants
...rdinary light to repair UV damage. But Norin 1, an excellent breeding strain with good taste characteristics that was used to generate many commercially important strains in Japan, was shown by Jun Hidema of Japan's Tohoku University to be ultrasensitive to UV damage. This could become an even more serious pro...International research group led by UMass scientist sequences genome of ubiquitous microbe
... DasSarma, this particular genome will serve as an excellent model for all organisms in the archaeon. "Some aspects of the biology of Halobacterium resemble higher cells called eukaryotes, especially the means by which cells turn genes on or off. An understanding of this genome will help us learn how cells reg...Two distinguished scientists to share leadership of new Life Sciences Institute
...-directors of the Institute, maintaining their own excellent research efforts while jointly building the new institute from the ground up." Currently under construction and scheduled for completion in spring 2003, the Institute building will contain laboratories and offices for 30 science faculty---jointly...Sea Grant and CTDEP announce $3.5M for LI Sound lobster research
...y the CTDEP. "This effort promises to be an excellent example of federal-state collaboration," says New York Sea Grant Director Jack Mattice. "We hope that the research that results will provide evidence to select among the many potential causes of the 1999-2000 lobster mortalities." Connecti......ctively, a beneficial effect on albuminuria and an excellent safety profile. The use of combined treatment is worthy of further investigation." Professor Mogensen continued: "The international guidelines for blood pressure targets in diabetic subjects have emphasised the importance of aggressive blood pre......earch effort has identified a lead drug that is an excellent candidate for treating African sleeping sickness and we plan to begin advanced trials of this drug next year in Africa," said T. Stephen Thompson, president and chief executive officer of Immtech. Although DB 289 in its present form does not appear t...New research software to simulate biochemical processes
... a major tool in biology. This collaboration is an excellent way to continue my previous work." EML will be putting its biochemical database at the disposal of the COPASI project as well. The teams from Germany and the United States will meet twice a year, otherwise keeping a close eye on the progress of the...Scientists see early indications of lobster decline
... this trend could turn around. However, this is an excellent time for industry and managers to discuss the most appropriate actions so that the stocks and the fishermen both survive the fluctuations inherent in nature." This is the first scientific prediction ever made for the future population size of the Am...February media highlights: Geology and GSA today
...under fluctuating salinity conditions that allowed excellent preservation of both the hard and soft parts. The significance of the fauna is two-fold: (1) it documents that representatives of the major phyla, including the chordates, were present in the Early Cambrian; and (2) it suggests that Cambrian faunas, ...DOE funds commercialization program for new energy-saving sensing device
...ystal sapphire. According to Wang, "sapphire is an excellent material for the construction of harsh environment sensors due to its high melting point, excellent transparency, and well-documented resistance to corrosion." But the sapphire has been limited in its...Baylor College of Medicine garners research grants to sequence rat genome
...commitment from the Kleberg Foundation provides an excellent example of such leveraging. This private grant hel...nd behavioral processes. As a result, the rat is a excellent model for studying human ailments like heart and brain diseases. By focusing on disease-related gene......take complex tasks. "This particular protein is an excellent model of very early cooperation between bacteria," Sanders says. "And that cooperation continues through this very day." The determination of the structure of acetate kinase confirms the earlier prediction by Sanders and Hasson that the structure of ...