Major new initiative to resolve structure of protein families
...cluding robotic crystal mounting and alignment and expert computation systems. Data collected by Kim and his collaborators, along with that collected by the other NIGMS grant recipients is to form the foundation of a public resource linking sequence, structural, and functional information. NIGMS will make ...USGS scientists warn: West Nile Virus is on the move
...ll, USGS senior research physical scientist and an expert in the mapping of infectious diseases, Reston, Virginia. When: Friday, Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. EDT, conference will repeat at 2 p.m. EDT. How: Reporters must call Butch Kinerney at 703-648-4732 to register for a time slot by noon Friday. The conferen...New report says antimicrobial resistance an ecological issue
...ng consensus-building position papers that provide expert scientific opinion and advice on current and emerging issues in microbiology....University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist is named ESA president
...of ecology through reports, journals, research and expert testimony to Congress and other governments. ESA encourages members to responsibly apply their research and ecological expertise to public issues through teaching and public interaction. Members focus on environmental problems such as habitat alter......nd Health Initiatives and an internationally known expert in forensic DNA typing, and Samuel J. Watson, M.A.I.A., director of the University of Pittsburghs Public Health and Bioterrorism Response Program in Pitts Graduate School of Public Health, will co-direct the institute. Biomedical Security Institute...UMR research could pave way for discovery of life on Mars
...ciences at the University of Missouri-Rolla and an expert on microscopic organisms, thinks living bacteria might be trapped in the sulphate and chloride salts of Mars. Her work is partially funded by NASA, which announced Oct. 26 that it has officially scheduled six robotic missions over the next ten years ......n, professor of cell biology at Yale and a leading expert in the field. "Weve shown that it is an organelle within a cell that has its own autonomy and so must grow and divide to keep pace with the growth and division of the cell it inhabits." The Golgi apparatus sorts and modifies cell products such as ho...Amphibian declines and deformities: what is the latest?
...rd frogs. Dr. Steven Corn, USGS herpetologist, an expert in amphibian population monitoring work in the Nor...clining Amphibians Population Task Force who is an expert on amphibian declines world-wide. Dr. Susan Walls, USGS herpetologist, amphibian research and monit...Campaign to protect critically endangered beluga sturgeon
... ban on trade of beluga caviar at a meeting of an expert committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which convenes next week to review global trade in various sturgeon species. "Overfishing, habitat loss, pollution and poor regulations have collectively driven thi...How do I love whales? Let me count the ways
... out there. One thing we do know, says Wursig, an expert on the subject, is that there aren't as many as there used to be. "The Bowhead whale was hunted intensely by whalers worldwide in the 19th century and by Russian whalers in this century," Wursig explains. "In Alaska, the native Americans there respec......th their own telemetry," says Troy Nagle, a sensor expert at North Carolina State University who is also a group member. The sensors might send information to a computer system that would analyse the data and sound the alarm when problems arose. The computer system could also be programmed with information ...Can a vitamin a day help keep heart disease away?
... Among the authors is noted preventive medicine expert and U-M Health System head Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D., U-M executive vice president for medical affairs. "It will take years for current clinical trials to tell us how much we can reduce heart disease risk by reducing elevated homocysteine levels....Vanderbilt neuroscientists identify 'oops center' in the brain
...f psychiatry and pharmacology at Vanderbilt and an expert on the treatment of schizophrenia, on a series of parallel studies with monkeys and people to test the efficacy of anti-schizophrenia drugs like clozapine....Advisory panel on federal report on carcinogens makes recommendations to NIEHS/NTP for new listings
An expert advisory panel today recommended to the federal government that steroidal estrogens be listed as a "known" cause of cancer in humans in a future Report on Carcinogens. While panel members said these steroids have important medical uses and clear medi...Brain damage in autism: not what scientists once thought
...y colleague and co-author Rebecca Landa, Ph.D., an expert in child development and autism in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and director of the Kennedy Krieger Center for Autism. Autism is a developmental disorder that affects an estimated one in 500...... cell populations. Bioengineer Kwabena Boahen, an expert on electronic devices that mimic the neural designs found in living organisms, will spearhead the teams plans to design an innovative VLSI chip, similar in its workings to the human retina, that can capture detailed, submillisecond images of large nu...Study: sea salt seasons chemical brew that destroys Arctic ozone
... areas during the winter months," says Shepson, an expert in chlorine chemistry. "I wouldn't want to make predictions, but there could be a variety of chemical interactions that occur in urban, road-salted environments that we need to understand." Shepson's studies at Purdue are funded by the National S......ersity of Maryland School of Medicine and national expert on E. coli infections, says the paper will help in vaccine development and in creating new diagnostic tests. Preventive measures are extremely important with E coli O157:H7 because of its low infectious dosage and relative resistance to heat. "The sp...