Insulin study sheds light on physics of crystal growth
...nemia. Vekilov's hemoglobin crystals were recently featured on the cover of the journal Science. Step bunching can lead to defects in crystals that can cause adverse consequences if those crystals then make their way into lasers. As the step bunches pile higher, they also pile up faster because they are reac...UC Riverside's David Reznick receives 2003 E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award
...a classic in evolutionary biology and is regularly featured in both introductory biology textbooks and evolution textbooks." The E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award is given to an active investigator in mid-career who has made significant contributions to the knowledge of a particular ecosystem or group of organism...Engineering a solution to waste crisis
...and mainly sponsored by EB Nationwide. The work is featured in a major international television campaign this week. Research TV is a joint venture involving some of the UK's leading research-led universities. Cardiff University has joined Oxford, Warwick, Kings College London and Birmingham, as well as the Ec...Consumer education and development of bio-sensitive alternatives can revive the plastics industry
...st & Sullivan ( www.technicalinsights.frost.com ), featured in The Technical Insights Plastics Advisor, provides valuable insight into the impact of economic and environmental factors on plastics and the plastic recycling industry. It highlights emerging technologies, bio-sensitive alternatives, resource cons...Nitric oxide has important role in fever regulation, new study says
...ics series on Genetic Models in Applied Physiology featured in the journal's April, May and June issues. His work to better define the steps of inflammation and resulting fever has implications for finding better ways to treat a host of maladies, from major infections to chronic inflammation that can result i...Study shows ulcerative colitis patients achieve remission with probiotic composition VSL#3
.... Fedorak's abstract, other studies on VSL#3 being featured at this year's DDW meeting include: Production of Interleukin-10 by Human Intestinal Dendritic Cells Is Upregulated by Probiotic Bacteria (ABSTRACT #102706) Probiotic Bacteria Induce Maturation and Modulate Cytokine Production by Human Dend...Jane Goodall to receive 2003 Environmental Citizen Award
...ubject of numerous television documentaries and is featured in the large-screen format film, Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (2002), which will be shown prior to the award ceremony. In April 2002 Secretary-General Annan named Dr. Goodall a United Nations "Messenger of Peace." Messengers help mobilize the pub...Advances in prosthetic, orthopedic, and audiologic diagnostic tools
...r vehicle accident. Below are abstracts of studies featured in Volume 40, Issue 2, of the journal. Full-text manuscripts are available, free of charge, on-line at www.vard.org . MANUSCRIPTS FEATURED IN VOL. 40, NO. 2 Wheelchair design increases risk of injury in front-end collision, pg. 125Study used comp...Whale study links genetics and reproductive success
...hwestern Indian and South Atlantic Oceans, will be featured in the American Museum of Natural History's newly renovated Irma and Paul Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life, which reopens to the public on May 17, 2003....Scientists break down patterns in nature
...debating their plausibility. In an important paper featured in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), an international team of ecologists describes a fundamental theory that unites several patterns that previously had been viewed as unrelated. The theory simplifies v...Nick Smith (R-MI) honored by 2 science coalitions in D.C.
...oFARM breakfast event honoring Chairman Smith also featured a short session presented by Adrienne Froelich, Director of Public Policy at the American Institute of Biological Sciences and Co-Chair of BESC. Many of the agricultural and biological scientists at the event were heading off to meet with their cong...Achillion and UMBC collaboration identifies new class of agents with potential to treat HIV
...d Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, is featured on the cover of this week's Journal of Molecular Biology. "The greatest challenge in treating HIV today is drug resistance brought on when the virus mutates and renders existing drugs ineffective at stopping viral replication," said Dr. Summers. "Our......d research communities. All information and links featured on "The Bridge" is screened by scientists and educators. New material will be added regularly. "The Bridge" is supported by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, and is sponsored by the National Marine Educators Association and the national...NEI criticizes fear-mongering by authors of used fuel paper
...ors of a two-day national security simulation that featured former congressional and retired military leaders and other former government officials today called nuclear power plants "probably our best defended" industrial facilities against a terrorist attack on the nation's critical infrastructure. The nucle...UCSD brings powerful visualization to high school classroom
... using remote data sets within the science domains featured in the OptIPuter proposal geophysics and neuroscience....UT Southwestern researchers developing new procedures to make bone-marrow transplants safer
...ors and sequencing them. Their in-vitro research, featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article, has shown there are separate donor T cells that respond to the patient's normal cells and leukemia cells. "The goal is to get rid of the T cells that cause damage and save the beneficial...Prehistoric tusks point to earliest fossil evidence of differences between sexes
...s really quite startling." Reisz's study, which is featured on the cover of the January issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, was based on detailed studies of nearly a hundred skeletons unearthed in South Africa over the last two decades. Diictodon appeared during the Late Permian Period ...American Physical Society March Meeting 2003
... Cyrus Taylor (Case Western Reserve University), a featured speaker at session X6, about physics entrepreneurs. But with the collapse of the Internet and telecommunications sectors, the challenges facing new start-up firms have greatly increased. Taylor will describe his keys to survive and even thrive in thi...Prescott Prize to Diane and Mark Littler
...r, and marine botanists at work. The marine plants featured in the Littlers' identification guide are, along with corals, the major photosynthetic producers and builders of reef systems. Members of the award committee appreciated "the widespread need for a reference of this type and the fact that Caribbean R...Exercise and recreation for people with mobility impairments
... American pioneers. Below are abstracts of studies featured in Volume 39, Issue 6 of the journal. Full-text manuscripts are available, free of charge, on-line at www.vard.org/jour/02/39/6/Contents.html . Vacuum-assisted prosthetic sockets maintain fit during exercise Determines how a vacuum-assisted socke...