Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...ce as a career to create a high-level, real world experience with access to first class equipment and mentors,"...s Biotech Challenge was the best, genuine learning experience that I've had."Joe Barfett is the first student to take University of Western Ontario's concurrent d...Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...lic Radio in Roanoke, found himself touched by his experience with the Veterinary Memorial Fund following the loss of his beloved 11-year-old Labrador retriever named Buck to a brain tumor. "What an incredible thing," he recalled, shortly after he learned that his pet had been memorialized by a caring pra...Alzheimer's disease is not accelerated aging
...distractions are present, for example, or they may experience difficulties in complex, novel situations. Buckner says the data suggest that changes in executive function are due to age-associated influences on frontal-striatal circuits of the brain, including an area called the corpus callosum a tract of ...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...eaves together a lifetime of learning and research experience that bridges the 1920 Nobel Prize for Physiology, the 1935 High Altitude Expedition to Chile, and the latest in international exercise physiology. Dr. Saltin, director of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, will draw on his early medical training...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...ent. Scientists using EventScope, a remote experience browser developed by researchers at Carnegie Mello..., will guide Zoe. EventScope enables scientists to experience the Atacama environment through the eyes and various sensors of the rover. The public can access the...Keep genome data freely accessible
...alth and security officials, pointed to the recent experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as an example of the power of an open system. In March, 2003, WHO issued a global health alert about an atypical pneumonia in Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Guangdong Province in China. Within 6 weeks, the SARS ...Enzyme maintaining chromosome ends is linked to bone cancer recurrence, decreased survival
...ith the bone tumor osteosarcoma are more likely to experience a recurrence of the cancer after treatment and less likely to survive if the cancer cells are expressing the telomerase gene. This finding, from investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, appears in the current issue of the Journal of Cl...Brown research reveals key insight into memory-making
...ant details about cellular changes that occur when experience becomes memory. This process is called long-term potentiation or LTP. When LTP occurs in the hippocampi, two curved regions that flank the center of the brain, changes occur in synapses. These connections between neurons the major site for informati...Grant advances biochemical engineering laboratory
...rovide undergraduates an intense level of hands-on experience normally reserved for training of graduate student...hat cover all those areas. They augment that with experience in the biochemical engineering laboratory. Biochemical engineering holds excellent promise to genera...Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
...ges are so different that they cannot be fused, we experience "binocular rivalry" a process in which one eye's image is perceived and the other's is suppressed. Every few seconds, perception switches spontaneously between the two images. While binocular rivalry is rarely encountered in the normal visual enviro...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...rs. "We've learned from before our planning grant experience that there are many talented people in engineering who want to know biology, and vice versa with biologists. It's a big challenge, but the novelty is a lot of fun."Pakrasi said the first move will be to model the system in cyanobacteria and then ext...Brain has center for detecting sound motion
...ity to pinpoint their location. That's exactly the experience of a patient reported by Christine Ducommun and her colleagues, who used studies of the patient to demonstrate conclusively for the first time that the brain has a specialized region for processing sound motion. While it was known that the visual sys...A liking for sweets, combined with novelty seeking, may predict alcoholism
...g, it is especially important to delay their first experience with alcohol, although the same advice is good for all children. Garbutt said there are multiple questions that can be addressed in future research. First, does sweet preference and personality profile truly predict increased rates of alcohol proble...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
... and her cohorts are put under and emerge from the experience no worse for the wear. This technique, in turn, called slow-magic-angle spinning magnetic resonance spectroscopy, or "slow MAS" for short, has provided researchers a new glimpse inside living tissue and cells that other biomedical imaging methods can...DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
...ks to leverage and expand over 200 years of DuPont experience as one of the safest companies in the world with recognized excellence in science and technology and in-depth knowledge of key markets....Columbia research to examine gene influence on severity of peridontal disease, therapy response
...e looking into the genetic reasons why individuals experience periodontal disease so differently, and why some respond to treatment more successfully than others. Even with treatment, some patients continue to see deterioration of gum condition and eventual loss of teeth. The research is part of an effort at ...Lecture on ecology of infectious diseases
...s in urban settings were no more or less likely to experience a plague outbreak than such colonies in more rural settings. Significantly, plague outbreaks tended not to occur in colonies that were surrounded by roads, streams or lakes, suggesting that these landscape features may alter the conditions necessary...Growth hormone and IBD: Reduction of intestinal inflammation, promotion of growth
... with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) frequently experience problems with poor and delayed growth and intestin...rohn's and 15% of children with ulcerative colitis experience growth failure, CCFA statistics indicate. In addition to weight loss and/or delayed growth, other I...New research shows air pollution can reduce children's lung function
...hey want to find out whether the participants will experience respiratory symptoms, and if those who moved away from a polluted environment will show some improvement in lung function. This research is part of the larger Children's Health Study, an ongoing study that was started in 1993. The study is the longes......ithmic and interface methods to enhance the user's experience and, at the same time, create a new preventive medicine paradigm. At a distance of up to several feet from the subject, a computer will be able to monitor the actual health of its user during computer use. "Most people often wait until becoming sy...