UD Education News: HHMI Award Supports Undergraduate Discovery
...Development and Use of Active Learning Tools. Some five facultymembers annually will be selected for the next four years to receive $1,000 andto participate in the University's Institute for Transforming UndergraduateEducation. The funds may be used for equipment such as a laptop computer, tosupport under...University Of Texas Southwestern Researchers Develop New Test For Kidney Function
...ars old. "The old test required me to spend five hours in the clinic, which made memiss a whole day of school," said the outgoing eighth grader, who attends ReedElementary School in Duncanville. "Now the test is completed in an hour." Dr. Mouin Seikaly, associate professor of pediatrics at UT ...Anti-Microbial Agent Kills Influenza Virus
...Myc incubated MDCK cells with influenzaA virus and five different formulations of Novavax lipid structures...number of cells infected withthe virus. While all five formulations slowed the spread of the virus, BCTP wasthe most potent, reducing viral antigen levels ...New Anti-Microbial Agent Destroys Anthrax
...al state. During thisprocess, which takes four to five hours, the spore's tough outer membranechanges allowing BCTP's solvent to strip away the exterior membrane. BCTP'sdetergent then degrades the spore's interior contents. In scanning electronmicroscope images, the spores appear to explode." In his co...Children need their own dietary guidelines, say experts
...ential for growth and development." Revised every five years to reflect current nutrition knowledge, the ... Survey by Gallup found that more than four out of five (81 percent) children between the ages of 9 and 15 thought eating healthy meant avoiding all high fa......ys a key role in the prevention and development of five of the ten current leading causes of death in the United States and that diet-disease connections are increasingly catalogued in medical literature. So, why is nutrition so often largely absent, even missing, in young physicians' medical educat...NASA Using Space Incubator To Understand Breast Cancer
...imens to grow enough to fill the dish. None of the five could then be expanded further when passed to new ... In contrast, however, tumor samples from another five breast cancer patients grew successfully for long periods of time as three-dimensional cocultures in...Study Documents Attitudes About Assisted Suicide Among Patients With Lou Gehrig's Disease
...iratory failure and death, usually within three to five yearsafter diagnosis. The research also explored caregiver attitudes about assistedsuicide. The majority (56 percent) of the patients interviewed said they would considerassisted suicide. Forty-four of the 56 agreed with the statement, "Ifphysician-...Study Finds First Genetic Clues To Brain Tumor Treatment
...loss havean excellent chance of surviving at least five years after diagnosis becausevirtually 100 percent of these tumors respond to chemotherapy," says Louis. "This observation currently applies to a fairly small percentage of brain tumorpatients," says Cairncross. "But we know that a small percentage...Vaccine Technology Takes Center Stage In Rochester
... newdevelopments, because the University is one of five sitesdesignated by the National Institutes of Health to evaluate newvaccines. Thus the research community relies on physicians fromthe University and the Rochester community - and their patients -to evaluate new vaccines. "Most of these studies are o...Ribozymes To The Rescue: New UF Gene Therapy Shows Promise For Treatment Of Inherited Blindness
...reparation for human clinical trials, an estimated five years away. About 1 in 3,000 Americans has retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease whose symptoms generally first appear during adolescence. As the disorder progresses, night vision, peripheral vision and ultimately all sight can be lost. Curre...Four More Lemurs To Be Released Into Madagascar Jungle This Fall
...o ruffed lemurs live. The first release of five animals in November 1997 has not been withoutincident, said project leader Charles Welch. In March, Letitia was killed by a"fossa," a panther-like animal that is itself endangered. And in July, Janusdied from a broken neck, apparently from a fall. ...NSF teams with DOE to fund Environmental Molecular Science Institutes
...gy (DOE) has awarded a total of $21.4 million over five years to establishthree Environmental Molecular Sc...ch EMSI site willaverage $1.4 million per year for five years with the NSF contributing a totalof $15.4 million and the DOE contributing $6 million. ...Lake George Water Is Death On Zebra Mussel Larvae
...erzwicki-Bauer. Theseadults could survive and live five to eight years. Over time, these maturemussels could produce offspring that adapt to the lake's low-calcium conditions,Nierzwicki-Bauer said. "One of the amazing wonders of the natural world is that creatures can adapt.Nature can produce offspring th...Bat Sonar Sharper Than Thought; Much Better Than Man-Made Gear
...ipment can only process echo delays arriving five to 10 microseconds apart," saidstudy leader James Simmons, professor of neuroscience in the Brown University School of Medicine. "The experiments showed that a bat's sonar resolved echoes that arrived two microseconds apart as easil...USGS Finds Sea Otters At Risk From Killer Whales In A Changing Ocean
... sea otters in Kuluk Bay (65 percent) was morethan five times as great as at Clam Lagoon (12 percent). The researchersattributed this significant difference to predation by the killer whales. Killer whales and sea otters have existed together for thousands of years, butkiller whales are offshore dwellers,...University Of Chicago Researcher Receives Packard Fellowship
...lowship, whichprovides $650,000 over the course of five years, is awarded to young professorsin the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, astronomy andcomputer science to support basic research. "I'm very excited about the award," he says. Long studies how genes evolve. He us...North America Absorbing Carbon Dioxide At Surprisingly High Rate, Team Reports
...e show that globalsinks vary by almost a factor of five from year to year and may also vary inlocation. The results in this paper may not be representative of periodsoutside 1988 to 1992, they added. Nonetheless, the identification of the location and timing of a majorecosystem that absorbs carb...Sequencing Milestone Reached By DOE Joint Genome Institute
...s") that comprise the human genome within the next five years -- anachievement that promises untold opportunities to improve health and advances indisease treatment and cure. In addition to celebrating the technological successes of the JGI, DOE andlaboratory officials will be available to discuss the new...Mice Lacking Gene Show Reduced Alcohol Preference And Sensitivity
...at OHSU three years ago. The D2 receptor is one of five in the brain connectedwith a substance called dopamine, which is thought to regulate reward and somebehaviors. Previous research suggests that alcohol and other drugs of abuseactivate the brain's dopamine system. The release of dopamine in the brainc...