Where The Rubber Meets The Air
...stam-Abadi, Ph.D., with the Geological Survey, and graduate student ChristLehmann. There are 2 to 3 billion waste tires in this country, either stockpiled or inlandfills, and at least 240 million more are being added each year, according toa 1993 estimate by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Tire ru...UNC-CH 'Groucho' Research Offers Insights Into How Embryo, Cancer Cells Communicate
...LinebergerComprehensive Cancer Center, authors are graduate students Robert A. Cavallo,Rachel T. Cox and Gordon A. Polevoy, all in UNC-CH's Curriculum in Genetics andMolecular Biology. Other authors are Melissa M. Moline and Dr. Amy Bejsovec ofNorthwestern University and Jeroen Roose and Dr. Hans Clevers of U...Monkeys Have Numerical Abilities, Two Columbia Psychologists Report
...atric Institute, and Elizabeth Brannon, a Columbia graduate student inpsychology. Their work appears in the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Science. The research challenges the prevailing view, which dates to Descartes,that non-human primates cannot think because they cannot use language. It alsochalle...Plant-Based Fat Inhibits Cancer-Cell Growth By Enhancing Cells Signaling System, UB Researchers Show
...o contributing to the research were Yongmei Gan, a graduate studentin nutrition, and Carol S. Fink Ph.D., UB clinical assistant professor ofnutrition. The study was supported by a grant from the Allen Foundation....Inherited Depression Linked To Shortage Of Cells In Brain Region
...tonUniversity School of Medicine in St. Louis. His graduate student Dost Öngür islead author of a paper in the Oct. 27 issue of Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences. The second author, Wayne C. Drevets, M.D., reported in 1997 thatpositron emission tomography images of people with fa...UNC Researchers Reduce Arthritis Severity By Turning Off Molecular Switch
...lexei Miagkov, the first author on the paper, is a graduate studentin Makarov's lab. Other UNC-CH collaborators include Dmitry V. Kovalenko, also agraduate student from Makarov's lab, and Dr. Albert S. Baldwin, associateprofessor of biology and associate director of basic research at theuniversity's Lineberge...By Revving Up Key Gene, Researchers Discover They Can Manipulate The Size Of Cells In Plants
... Ming-Jing Wu,postdoctoral fellows in biology, and graduate student Gregory DeWitt. Others areDrs. Andrew Binns and Michael Savka of the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr.Raymond Shillito, of AgrEvo, a Pikeville, N.C., agricultural developmentcompany. In research completed in 1989, Jones identified a...Researcher Finds World's Most Diverse Home Of Slime Molds
...logiaand was co-authored by Eduardo Vadell, a 1993 graduate of Ohio University'sDepartment of Environmental and Plant Biology. The research was funded in partby the Ohio University Research Committee. Cavender holds an appointment in theCollege of Arts and Sciences....Williams Syndrome: UD Research Pinpoints Language And Learning Traits Of Those With The Disorder
...ety's 39th annual meeting, Hoffman andLandau, with graduate student Barney (Jerome) Pagani, will discuss theirinvestigations of eye movement among those with Williams Syndrome, a projectfunded by the March of Dimes and the National Science Foundation. Using a special, eye-tracking device that uses a tiny cam...Genetic Uniqueness Threatens Florida Manatee's Future
...r populationstructures, said Angelica Garcia, a UF graduate researcher working with theSirenia Project, a federal agency that studies manatees. Because the manatees living in Florida make up a closely related, separatepopulation, it means their numbers will rise and fall on their own. "If the population crash...When One Gene Has Two Roles, Its Second Function May Be Missed
...s. Other authors on the EMBO Journal paper include graduate student Yinghui Zhouand postdoctoral fellows Kim-Chew Lim and Ko Onodera, all of Northwestern;Stuart H. Orkin, Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatric Medicine, and postdoctoralresearcher Fong-Ying Tsai of Harvard Medical School; and Masayuki Yamamoto,pr...Scientists Find First Protein In Central Nervous System Junctions
...ellows, Guoping Feng, Ph.D.,and Hartmut Tintrup, a graduate student from Heinrich Betz's lab at theMax-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, are first authorsof the paper, which appears in the Nov. 13 issue of Science. Betz and colleagues discovered the protein, gephyrin, in 1982,...Virginia Tech Research Group Presents Improved Dental Materials
(Blacksburg, Va., Nov. 22, 1998) -- Virginia Tech graduate student Nazan Gunduzand her fellow researchers in chemistry have developed improved dental materialsthat require one less step to process, to get you out of the dentist's chairfaster. Your fillings will last longer, too. A process called photopolymer...Discovery Of Mutation May Lead To Help For Male Fertility Problems
...nd Dr. ClarkDuchene, a Southwestern Medical School graduate who is now an orthopaedicsurgery resident at Parkland Health & Hospital System. Funding from the UT Southwestern Program for Excellence in Research andthe National Institutes of Health supported the research....New Phylloxera Strain Poses Threat Primarily To Grape Nurseries
...oxera from Europe and the eastern U.S. One of his graduate students iscomparing DNA fingerprints of 150 populations from across Europe to foliar typesfrom the Southwest and New York. They've also tried to force feed the leaf gallphylloxera on roots. So far, the pest won't feed on mature roots but will --s...Chinese And US Scientists Identify The World's Oldest Flowering Plant
...d's oldest flowering plant," said David Dilcher, a graduate research professor at the University of Florida. In a paper to be published Friday (11/27) as the cover story of the journal Science, Dilcher and Sun Ge, vice director of the Institute of Geology and Paleontology at the Academia Sinica in Nanjing, ...LSU Ag Center Program Focuses On Helping Animals Reproduce; Graduates Assist Humans, As Well
... a dish under a microscope. Godke and his graduate students have played a major role in bringingabout...ore difficult." Cochran is one of a dozen graduate students studying under Godke. Hisprogram has produced 51 master's degree theses or doctoral degree ...Software Helps Decipher Genomes Of Higher Organisms
...ers expressed interest to one of Borodovsky's graduate students, John Besemer, who gave a poster presenta...rsion of GeneMark, which Borodovsky developed with graduate student William Hayes, was used to find genes in genomes of the bacteria Methanoccocus jannasch...Researchers Externally Regulate Gene Implanted In Brain
...mulski says. Rebecca P. Haberman, a UNC-CH graduate student in neurobiology, is thestudy's lead author. She is training in the laboratories of Samulski and Dr.Thomas J. McCown, research associate professor of psychiatry. For the study, the UNC-CH team altered the AAV virus to serve as avector......kband, biophysics professor ShankarSubramaniam and graduate research assistantSanjeevi Sivasankar first prepared homogeneously oriented monolayers ofstreptavidin by anchoring the protein to asupported lipid bilayer. Using a surface-force apparatus, they then measured directly the electrostaticsurface potentia...