Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...upplies; and Having each student project judged by fellow students (peer review) and by judges representing government, business, academia and the education community. Profiles of ABC participants Adele Nguyen "The Aventis Biotech Challenge started me on this road to a career in sci...Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
...UC Berkeley Ph.D. Bob Feranec, now a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. "There's been a lot of talk about people causing the extinction of the megafauna by killing everything they saw, like a blitzkrieg," said Barnosky. "But if you look at all the evidence, it's clear that while humans had a major...Researchers find color sensitive atomic switch in bacteria
...n the UT Center for Membrane Biology; and research fellow Vishwa Trivedi, Ph.D., and Jun Sasaki, Ph.D., assistant professor, both of the UT Center for Membrane Biology. "One of the key frontiers of biomedical science in the genomic era is the crucial role of cell membranes in normal cell function and diseas...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...ses. In January 2003, he and his then-postdoctoral fellow David Wang used a microarray designed to detect all known viruses -- and even those never seen before -- to provide the confirming evidence that SARS was a novel form of a coronavirus. At the time, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prev...Wisconsin scientists develop quick botox test
... according to Min Dong, a UW-Madison post-doctoral fellow and the lead author of the PNAS report. "The primary application is to conduct cell-based, large-scale screening for toxin inhibitors," Dong says. "A cell-based assay has the potential to reveal molecules that may inhibit various toxin action pathway...Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
...eliminate them," Hites said. IU SPEA post-doctoral fellow Daniel Carlson and graduate students William Hafner and Eunha Hoh will also participate in this next phase of the IADN project....Tracing genes, biologists show lizard migration is traced to Florida
... for Anolis sagrei developed in collaboration with fellow Washington University graduate student Richard Glor, he then analyzed the introduced samples in comparison to the Cuban ones, not only in Florida but also in Hawaii, Taiwan, Jamaica, Grenada and Grand Cayman. The researchers were able to ide...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
..." said Chun Li, lead author and assistant research fellow at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. "When Tanystropheus, the first long-necked protorosaur to be found, was discovered in Europe in the 1850s it raised so many questions th...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
... creature to the famous long-necked reptiles and a fellow protorosaur from Europe and the Middle East called Tanystropheus offers new insights into protorosaur hunting strategies as well as their evolution and diversity during the Triassic Period. The new creature's specialized neck ribs may have helped th...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...y the phenomenon. Liu is now an infectious disease fellow at Stanford University. "This was serendipitous, nothing we ever looked for," Miller said. "Serendipity is emblematic of many discoveries in science." The research team includes Sergei Doulatov, former UCLA undergraduate and former ...Genes expose secrets of sex on the side
...ldren than men," said Jason Wilder, a postdoctoral fellow in UA's Arizona Research Laboratories and lead author on the research articles. "There are men around who aren't able to have children, because they are being outcompeted by more successful males." Co-author Michael Hammer, a research scientist in...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...sh researcher David R. Vieites, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In high-altitude ponds in the Pyrenees, on the border between Spain and France, so many males are vying for fatherhood that they pirate the egg clutches after they're laid. Grasping them as they would a fema...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...tes," said Robert Wind, a physicist and laboratory fellow at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and slow-spin technique inventor. "We think this new technique can be used to diagnose diseases and assess the body's response to drugs and even to observe the working physiology of...Images of 'tail' of protein needed for cell multiplication suggest anticancer drug targets
...aid Danny T. Huang, Ph.D., a St. Jude postdoctoral fellow and first author of the paper. "Although most of the E2 that binds with E1 and NEDD8 looks like any other E2, its tail makes this enzyme unique." The tail of the E2 that binds to NEDD8 and the way the tail holds E2 onto E1 give this workshop a differ...Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...nal Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991, became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994 and was elected to both the National Academy of Science and the Institute of Medicine in 1999. He is scheduled to receive the Bristol-Myers Squibb Metabolic Research Award for his pi...Adaptive changes in the genome may provide insight into the genetics of complex disease
... performed the research as a postdoctoral research fellow in thelaboratory of Dr. Leonid Kruglyak at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer ResearchCenter's Human Biology Division. The project is part of the programs forgenomic application funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute(NHLBI). The authors ...Extreme stretch-growth of axons
...them," explains Bryan Pfister, PhD a post-doctoral fellow in Smith's lab and coauthor of the study. "If we ramp up the stretch rate too fast, the axons will snap." From this the team surmises that in nature animals must grow at a metered pace, which allows for constant feedback and conditioning. It has be...Imitative parrots just might tell you it's all in the tongue
...a former IUB postdoctoral fellow,is now a research fellow at Leiden University. The syrinx operates similarly in all parrots. For this study thescientists used five monk parakeets, small parrots native to SouthAmerica. While a speaker swept through a series of tones, from 500 to11,000 Hz (from the B above a...Study reveals first genetic step necessary for prostate cancer growth
...e student of Greenberg's who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon Health and Science University. Other coa...thors were Brent Sutherland, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Greenberg's lab; and Roberto Barrios, a pathologist at Baylor College of Medicine.......en is specific to our species, so U-M postdoctoral fellow Hongmin Sun had to develop a genetically engineering humanized mouse that made significant amounts of human plasminogen to test the researchers' ideas about group A streptococci. Ginsburg adds that making this mouse susceptible to human-type streptoc...