High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
...eurobiology and neurogenetics, and theoretical and experimental evolutionary biology will be continually strengthened and expanded to the point where their spheres begin to overlap....Experimental smallpox DNA vaccine protects primates from lethal monkeypox
...c health." As smallpox no longer occurs naturally, experimental vaccines cannot be tested for their ability to prevent the disease in humans. Thus, licensing of future vaccine candidates will include studies of immune response and protection in nonhuman primates. Monkeypox currently provides the best nonhuman p...... sites across the country for immunization with an experimental vaccine that they hoped would stop, once and for all, the raging polio epidemic that was leaving young Americans paralyzed and sometimes dead. Organized and funded by the March of Dimes, this was the largest clinical field trial ever undertaken...Measurement clarifies role between protein structure and cell adhesion
...s have reconciled several apparently contradictory experimental results, and validated two of the current models as contributing to spatially and molecularly distinct NCAM bonds. "The different bonding configurations may serve as scaffolds that hold the membranes apart and regulate the intercellular space," Leckb...DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS
...rst day on the ISS cover a majority of the various experimental fields. He will transfer biological samples betwee...stry and research institutions. In addition to the experimental programme of the DELTA mission, time has been set aside for Kuipers to take part in public affairs a...Stretching DNA on a tiny scale, researchers probe the basis for its compaction
...asure the length of individual DNA molecules under experimental conditions, researchers have demonstrated that Condensin, a complex of proteins widely conserved in evolution, physically compacts DNA in a manner dependent on energy from ATP. The finding is significant because the Condensin complex, which is essent...Gulf marine reserves given new life
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--Two experimental marine reserves in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico, begun in June 2000 to study their potential for protecting spawning populations of grouper and other bottom-dwelling fish, will be extended to June 2010, federal fishery managers have announced. Bo...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
... in cell signaling. This will complement ongoing experimental work in his laboratory. Cells react to a wide var...ification methods combined with a unique automated experimental system capable of accurately controlling and measuring nutrients in cultured systems over time. This...Researchers identify unifying code among diverse classes of natural antibiotics
...sses. Illustrating the promise of their findings, experimental data validating the multidimensional signature model enabled the identification of previously unrecognized antimicrobial peptides and peptide classes. "Our work builds upon the efforts of many excellent researchers in the field. We believe this dis...Glowing microspheres improve fluorescence measurements
... depending on the instrument used and a variety of experimental conditions. The new reference material, combined with previously developed NIST standards and measurement procedures, now will provide an authoritative national fluorescence measurement scale. Each kit contains six vials of microspheres that emit flu...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
... nests often fought when placed side by side in an experimental vial. But in California, the scientists found that ants rarely engaged in combat, even if they were collected from nests hundreds of miles apart. Why would workers in Argentina exhibit intercolony aggression but their California cousins behave...Reporters from Science Magazine to receive ASM Public Communications Award
...trends within the scientific community and current experimental results throughout Asia. Normile also has contributed to various other publications, including Popular Science, The Christian Science Monitor, and New Scientist. Enserink joined the staff at Science in 1999. He specializes in covering emerging inf...USC awarded $3.5 million to study DNA enzyme
...eoreticaltools, and they can't be answered without experimental andstructural work," said Arieh Warshel, professor of chemistry, whowill lead the theoretical part of the project and guide the modelingof the enzyme's activity using sophisticated computer softwarehe's developed. When a cell divides, DNA polymerase ...Water molecules clump more loosely than previously thought
...arth of real data. ''There has not really been new experimental information about water in the last 20 years, except for data from neutron studies,'' Nilsson says. ''The amazing thing is that hardly anything is known about the unique properties of liquid water.'' The new result now reopens the hunt for the struct......earth of real data. "There has not really been new experimental information about water in the last 20 years, except for data from neutron studies," says Nilsson. "The amazing thing," he says, "is that hardly anything is known about the unique properties of liquid water." The new result now reopens the hunt for t...The APCs of autoimmune disease
... School used autoreactive transgenic T cells in an experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE)resistant mouse strain and now present data showing that the activation state of APCs plays a role in the development of autoimmune diseases (pages 990997). T cell number and response were the same in both the transg...JCI table of contents, 2 April 2004
... School used autoreactive transgenic T cells in an experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE)resistant mouse strain and now present data showing that the activation state of APCs plays a role in the development of autoimmune diseases (pages 990997). T cell number and response were the same in both the transg...Best way to clean up toxic plumes? Give 'em a pill
..., which are about the size of a tapered candle, to experimental tanks of wet soil tainted with the solvents trichloroethene (TCE) and perchloroethene (PCE) two compounds used in commercial dry-cleaning as well as to clean grease off of metal. The tanks ranged in size from a 10-gallon fish aquarium to a refrigera...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes 2004
...ently seeks to work closely with groups conducting experimental work. He has attracted much international attention for his innovative and groundbreaking research in the area of time-dependent density functional theory. Filipp Furche studied chemistry at the Universities of Freiburg and Karlsruhe and completed hi......s because population statistics usually meet their experimental needs. But averaging eliminates much of the information scientists need to understand individual variability. Like biologists, physicists also encounter widely fluctuating data in some of their experiments. This "noise" actually helps physicists dete...