Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...ce at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Edmonton the following year. Barfett says it was a "tremendously...tal and ended up working in the hospital's lab the following two summers. "It was my first real lab experience and I just loved it," Desbiens said. ...Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
...g Africa. Over a period of, at most, 1,500 years, following the appearance of Clovis-style hunters, camels and horses, rhinos and peccaries, short-faced bears and saber-toothed tigers, as well as the armadillo-like glyptodonts and the giant ground sloths (Megatheriadae), all disappeared from the North America...Circulation of 'disaster myths' in Haiti could hinder appropriate disposal of bodies
...ive and inappropriate treatment of victims' bodies following the floods in Haiti, and need to be checked, accor...assess the infectious disease risks of dead bodies following natural disasters appeared in the Pan American Journal of Public Health recently. 'However, in the c...Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...y his experience with the Veterinary Memorial Fund following the loss of his beloved 11-year-old Labrador retriever named Buck to a brain tumor. "What an incredible thing," he recalled, shortly after he learned that his pet had been memorialized by a caring practitioner. "When we got the letter, my wife ...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...ther behavioral changes that patients often report following an attack." The study appears in a recent issue of the European Journal of Neuroscience. Mice were put into two groups one group underwent surgically induced heart attacks, while the other group, the control group, underwent the same surgical ...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...of Massachusetts, Amherst) Improved insulin action following short-term exercise training: effects of exercise ... COPD patients reveal attenuated muscle plasticity following isolated quadriceps training. Findings support the restoration of skeletal muscle power and metaboli...Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
...derived regenerative cells improved heart function following myocardial infarction in a large-animal preclinical safety study. This study, performed in swine, confirms previous preclinical work by MacroPore Biosurgery and others suggesting that the Company's proprietary, patented technology is safe and may be ...ICTP celebrates 40th anniversary, 'Legacy for the Future'
... promotion of science in the developing world. The following Nobel Laureates will be among the participants: Walter Kohn, University of California at Santa Barbara; Robert A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology; John Nash, Jr., Princeton University; and Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technolog...Bronfenbrenner book sums up human development
.... 7564. Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or availability. oUrie Bronfenbrenner http://www.human.cornell.edu/faculty/faculty...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...t into the Lau Basin action. "We are committed to following up with additional research expeditions in following years. Sharing the research costs internationally will enable us to better understand this complex ...March of Dimes statement on newborn screening report
...T. 22, 2004 -- The March of Dimes today issued the following statement on the report on newborn screening prepared for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration by the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG): The March of Dimes supports comprehensive new...DuPont scientist named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's 'Technology Review' Magazine
...anel of judges includes senior executives from the following organizations: Boston University, Caltech, Cambridge University, CombinatoRx, Concept2Company, Cornell University, General Electric, Geekcorps, Georgia Tech, Harvard Medical School, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft, MIT, Northw...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...s. Delmau joined ORNL's research staff in 2000 following a postdoctoral research appointment. She was instrumental in the development of a selected process for removing radioactive cesium from nuclear waste material. She has more than 40 open-literature publications, including 15 journal articles and a boo...New anti-inflammatory strategy for cancer therapy identified by UCSD researchers
... A post-mortum inspection of the mice showed that following inflammation, the control cells formed more numero...ing anti-TRAIL antibody was injected into the mice following the LPS challenge. The result was tumor growth. In their summary...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...mous mode, the submarine would operate on its own, following an octopus using its hydrophone sensors. It would ...uldn't run into a big rock or other obstacle while following the octopus," Vincent said. The advantage of fully autonomous tracking is that octopuses spend a lot...22nd amino acid synthesized and added to genetic code of e. coli bacteria
...hat many scientists had not predicted. For decades following the discovery of the structure of DNA, the dogma was that the genes in the DNA were decoded to produce proteins built from only 20 "canonical" amino acids. But in 1986, researchers discovered that a 21st amino acid selenocysteine was incorporated i...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...ons carved the gestures into simpler, basic words, following rules fundamental to all languages. The authors suggest that as subsequent groups of children have learned NSL, they have, all on their own, turned what was once more like gesture into a true language. Their study appears in the 17 September 2004 iss...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
... The FIBR projects announced today include the following (see separate profiles for more detail): "BeeSpace -- An Interactive Environment for Analyzing Nature and Nurture in Societal Roles," examining how much of social behavior is determined by genes and how much is influenced by the environment -...New way to protect brain from stroke damage
...links brain cell damage to a rise in brain acidity following the oxygen depletion, or ischemia, characteristic ...tifies a mechanism whereby acidic brain conditions following ischemia spur a portion of the damage. The normal brain requires complete oxidation of glucose to fu...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...eural tube defects (NTDs) occur in the early weeks following conception, often before a woman knows she is pregnant. The survey was conducted for the March of Dimes by The Gallup Organization under a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Howse said the March of Dimes s...