Christopher Walsh wins 2004 Promega Biotechnology Research Award
...honors Walsh for his landmark contributions to the field of microbial biochemistry, particularly for his findings on natural product biosynthesis and biotechnology. At the ASM General Meeting, Walsh will deliver the Promega Award Lecture, "Vancomycin: Action, Origin, Resistance; The Evolving Story of a Nat...Campbell to receive American Society for Microbiology lifetime achievement award
... his "exceptional insights and achievements in the field of molecular genetics - a career of groundbreaking research that has had a profound influence on several fields, including molecular cloning and gene therapy." One of his most celebrated accomplishments, ASM officials noted, was demonstrating the...AIUM to honor ultrasound pioneers at its 2004 Annual Convention
...ividuals who have significantly contributed to the field of medical diagnostic ultrasound at the 2004 AIUM ...ne, whose innovative research efforts advanced the field of diagnostic sonography. In 1969, the William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award, which recognizes an i...2004 AIUM ultrasound research grant recipients to be announced at the AIUM annual convention
... small percentage of federal grants awarded in the field of diagnostic ultrasound, outstanding issues still...d is proud to sponsor cutting edge research in the field of ultrasound. The winners of the 2004 AIUM ERF grants and Gilbert Baum Memorial Grant will be pos...Scientists identify six genes associated with survival in diffuse large B cell lymphoma
... other clinical researchers to further advance the field of disease research." About the Applied Biosystems TaqMan Products The Applied Biosystems TaqMan Genomic Products (formerly known as the Assays-on-Demand TM Products) are a comprehensive collection of pre-designedprimer and probe sets that compris...Researchers find evidence that sea turtles navigate with magnetic maps
... studies reveal that older turtles use the Earth's field in a different, far more sophisticated way: to hel...etic coil. "Half of the turtles swam in a magnetic field that exists at a location about 350 kilometers north of where they actually were, she said. "The oth...High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
...highest percent increase in total citations in the field of biology and biochemistry, with 360 papers cited... teamwork and collaboration, UH professors in this field treasure the fact that they will have good colleagues right next door and that they will be working ...ORNL's nanobiosensor technology gives new access to living cells molecular processes
...e tip are exposed to and excited by the evanescent field of a laser signal. "We detect only the molecules that we target, without all the other background 'noise' from the myriad other species inside the cell. Only nanoscale fiber-optics technology can provide this capability," said Vo-Dinh. ORNL's techn...... the March of Dimes, this was the largest clinical field trial ever undertaken. One year later, the Salk v... hundreds of historic photos from the Salk vaccine field trials to celebrities, such as Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe, and Lucille Ball, who...NCAR aircraft, ground instruments to track carbon dioxide uptake
...olling hills and mountain ranges. Results from the field program will also be used in testing computer models of forest ecosystem function. The models will help scientists understand the response of forests to drought, fire, insects, and climate change. Local researchers are especially interested in a side...Clemson dedicates biotech research complex
... University has built it, and they are coming. The field of dreams today is biotechnology for many researc...focal point for biotechnology research, a growing field that uses life sciences -- biology, genomics, biochemistry and bioengineering -- to create new pro...Yellowstone's long-distance travelers in trouble, study says
...author Dr. Joel Berger, a WCS biologist based at a field office in Moose, Wyoming. "Here in the U.S., pronghorn and other species are in jeopardy of losing what little migratory ability they have left." According to the authors, approximately 8,500 energy-extraction sites exist on public lands in southwes...How do animals exposed to 24-hour light retain their wake-sleep habits?
...t the case when the experiment was repeated in the field at the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory - with two species of Arctic rodents exposed to continuous daylight (nocturnal porcupines [Erethizon] N=4, and hibernators, the Arctic ground squirrel [Spermophilis] N=6). Under these circumstances, both specie...2004 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award winners announced
...e of epigenetics, an emerging and still mysterious field of genetic research. The judges were particularly impressed that on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, the writers looked to the future of genetics rather than dwelling on the historical importance of the earlier research....Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
...ing several who became leaders in establishing the field of molecular biology. Graduates included physicists Max Delbrueck and Leo Szilard and Stanford Nobel laureates Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg. ...APS announces four 2004 Young Investigators awards
...s who have demonstrated outstanding promise in the field of physiology. More than $62,000 in monetary priz...izes an individual with outstanding promise in the field of epithelial and renal physiology and will be given on Dr. Schultz's behalf to Kansas State Univers......e especially responsive to movement in an animal's field of view. In the last ten years, anatomical evidence and non-invasive brain scanning techniques have also located the MT region in humans. People who have suffered strokes in the area appear to have problems judging movement, but the evidence for thi...ESA consults European science community on candidate Earth Explorer missions
...to provide the best ever survey of the geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution. Swarm will offer new i...ite will carry a magnetometry package, an electric field instrument and an accelerometer....APS announces 2004 Distinguished Lecturer Awards
...or original and outstanding accomplishments in the field of physiology. Lecture Presentation: "Unraveling Cardiovascular Disease Through Physiological Genomics" on April 18, 2004. Kevin Fitzgerald, S.J., Ph.D. Walter C. Randall Lecture in Biomedical Ethics The Randall Lectureship, sponsored by the APS...Moss Landing researchers reveal iron as key to climate change
...e ages. They report the results of these important field experiments (known as SOFeX, for Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiments) in the April 16, 2004 issue of Science. Previous studies have suggested that during the last four ice ages, the Southern Ocean had large phytoplankton populations and receiv...