MIT Biologists Identify Aging Mechanism
...ation of thenucleolus would form the basis of more groundbreaking discoveries. A second article, published in Science magazine in August, reportedfurther refinement in the MIT biologists' study of aging. This research,reported by Dr. Sinclair and Professor Guarente, identified the crucial roleplayed by anot...Researchers Discover Existing Drugs May Prevent Enlarged Hearts
... enlarged heart, orcardiac hypertrophy. In groundbreaking research Dr. Eric Olson, chairman of molecularbiology and oncology, and his colleagues discovered a molecular pathwaythat leads to heart enlargement and have found a way to block thatpathway using an immunosuppressant drug already approved by the Foo...Ground-Breaking DNA Research Leads SFU Grad To The Top
...on Fraser Universitylast October, Li has made more groundbreaking research discoveries at YaleUniversity, won a prestigious doctoral prize, and earned his Canadiancitizenship. And now the 34-year-old scientist is being honored with the governorgeneral's gold medal -- as SFU's top graduate student in the 199...Pioneers Of Chemistry At Convention Center
...nference the technological andsocial impact of his groundbreaking work that led to the development of theworld's most powerful explosive device - the H-bomb. -- Mon., Aug., 24, 2:30-3:30p.m. William Garzke, lead chemist of the Titanic excavation team, will explain howthe tools of analytical chemistry are uncoverin...A Real Smart Asp: Snakes Show Surprising Ability To Learn
...r intelligence.Holtzman's peers regard his work as groundbreaking because unlikea maze, his arena confronts snakes with a situation that they'relikely to encounter in the natural world. "Early attempts to study snake navigation were awry becausethe studies used mazes as testing arenas -- as though snakesmight ...... the Young Scholars program was designed tosupport groundbreaking research into the fundamental mechanisms of human ...icted research funding that can enablethem to make groundbreaking discoveries. We are very proud of this program. Webelieve it applies the Foundation's resources in...Nearly half of Earth's land has been transformed by humans; 50 'dead zones' found in oceans
...a site for a toxicwaste dump," Lubchenco said. The groundbreaking 1997 work of Lubchenco and her colleagues documented that wenow live on a human-dominated planet, with the growth of the human populationand the amount of resources used are altering Earth in unprecedented ways. Hercurrent analysis updates these find...Experts take aim at Montezuma's revenge at conference organized by UM school of medicine
...ith antibiotics, but itwas many years before their groundbreaking work was taken seriously. About half of all the world's population is infected with Helicobacter pylori,making it one of the most common infections of humans. Researchers have alsorecently found a strong link between Helicobacter pylori and stomach ...Lizard research bolsters theory that forest edges are hotbeds of speciation
...rch compliments SFSU team member Thomas B. Smith's groundbreaking work with Robert Wayne (UCLA), et al, published in Science two years ago, which revealed that West African ecotones are hotbeds of evolution, functioning as engines of biodiversity in the region's tropical rainforests. The research presented in PNAS ...BioMed Central to free scientists and clinical researchers from copyright restrictions
...usually imposed by scientific journals thanks to a groundbreaking move announced by a new publishing house today. Authors publishing papers on BioMed Central will retain the copyright of their work, allowing them to freely distribute and archive their research findings however they see fit. All peer-reviewed rese...White House honors Hutchinson Center Scientist with Presidential Early Career Award
...ebrafish activity, a reputation established by the groundbreaking work of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Oregon, where she completed her postdoctoral work. Moens is the second researcher from the Hutchinson Center to receive the award. Last year, Effie Petersdorf, M.D., of the Cen...CWRU to host regional NAE biomedical conference
...rocesses on a molecular level. Meade is conducting groundbreaking studies of topics that include nerve growth and gene therapies in live animals. The National Academy of Engineering is an honorific organization of distinguished engineers who have made special contributions to the field. It advises the federal gove......e specialists and biomedical scientists, engage in groundbreaking research that will advance the understanding of the causes and treatments of disease and to participate in the delivery of care as a partner with the UPMC Health System. Among the many areas for which its faculty and programs are internationally rec...Valuable Arabidopsis data released through unique public-private partership
...mics, LLC, which has taken a groundbreaking step in making privately owned data available to the public sector. If followed by others, this will revolutionize the sharing of biological data in the post-genomic era. "The partnership between TAIR and Cereon could well set the standard for fut...Dairy scientist advances field of transgenics and knowledge of growth hormones
...research techniques "provided some of the earliest groundbreaking and most difficult work in the scientific development of transgenic animals. As a result of this pioneering work, transgenic animal technology holds tremendous promise for the large-scale production of life-saving human therapeutic drugs in quantitie...UNC awarded $5 million NIH grant to explore disease that inflames blood vessels
CHAPEL HILL - A groundbreaking $5 million federal grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine could help researchers find the cause of an often debilitating blood vessel inflammation of the kidneys, lungs, skin, heart, and other organs. The grant...Two distinguished Rutgers chemists named Biophysical Society Fellows
...ajor contributions to molecular biophysics through groundbreaking studies of nucleic acids, in which she has developed and applied novel computational tools. Her research is in computational and theoretical studies of the relationship of chemical architecture to the conformation, properties and interactions of......y expanding and the primer offers insight into the groundbreaking clinical work leading to the discovery of new cytokines. Research has shown that dysregulation of immune parameters in rheumatoid arthritis often correlates with cytokine abnormalities. Animal models have yielded vital preclinical information on th......the lecturers. Rosbash and Takahashi have done groundbreaking work in identifying the genes that encode the biological clocks of fruit flies and mice. Drawing on their research, they will demonstrate how their findings apply to humans. Rosbash will explain the common fruit fly's importance to genetic research......pt - known as distributed computing - has become a groundbreaking tool for astronomers, biochemists and other researchers seeking a fast and cheap alternative to expensive supercomputers. Distributed computing can be a valuable asset in virtually any computationally intensive experiment, according to Vijay S...