Clemson researcher places hope on pushy photons
...can direct only one cell at a time. The cells are held in a container, and a laser guides them out one by one. The beam leads them into another intersecting beam of higher intensity. The second beam then guides the cell to the target location. An understanding of cell communication can lead to new tr...Plant pathologists to discuss the future of organic farming
...lif., July 31- August 4, 2004. This session, to be held Tuesday, August 3, 2004 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center, will examine organic agriculture from a plant pathology perspective and address questions regarding funding sources for organic agricultural research, plant diseases and contr...The protection of human subjects in gene transfer research explored at conference in July
...y Medical Center, Chicago. The conference is being held in collaboration with the federal Food and Drug Administration, the Office of Human Research Protection, the University of Chicago, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the University of Illinois, Chicago, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Me...New multidisciplinary research tops chemists' meeting Aug. 22-26
...y in Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26. The meeting will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St., and surrounding hotels. More than 12,000 scientists are expected to attend. Approximately 7,000 presentations are slated for the meeting, including several symposia that highlight important resear...Fox Chase Cancer Center's Alfred Knudson Jr. named 2004 Kyoto Prize winner
...om California Institute of Technology in 1956. He held a Guggenheim fellowship from 1953 to 1954. Knudson came to Fox Chase Cancer Center in 1976 after serving as a member of its scientific advisory committee for seven years. Knudson was named a Fox Chase Distinguished Scientist and senior advisor to th...Hidden cost of Colorado River diversions is $2.4 billion annually
... his research at the Gulf of California conference held June 13-16 at the Westward Look Resort in Tucson, Ariz. His presentation, "$200 per acre-foot: Nature's services and the natural value of water in the Colorado delta and estuary," will be given at 2:20 p.m. on Monday, June 14, in the Colorado River D...All ecosystems are equally productive under drought conditions
...ffort to win the funding for a series of workshops held at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At the workshops, the scientists studied and analyzed the data. What they found surprised them. One hypothesis was that e...Earstones tell fishes' tale of early life in the Colorado River estuary
...am's research at the Gulf of California conference held June 13-16 at the Westward Look Resort in Tucson, Ariz. Her presentation, "Isotopic Logs from the Sea of Cortez: Environmental and Life History Records From Totoaba and Gulf Corvina Otoliths " will be given at 4 p.m. on Monday, June 14, in Colorado R...CSIRO research in greatest biotech show on earth
...he world's largest biotechnology conference, being held in San Francisco, USA, from 6-9 June. CSIRO research being featured includes: Drug Discovery and Development cutting edge structural biology, rational drug design, and protein engineering Therapeutic Delivery better, more efficient ways to ...Proteins transform DNA into 'molecular velcro'
...g one end of a DNA molecule to a tiny plastic bead held by suction onto a micropipette. They then caused the DNA molecule to extend by flowing liquid past it, and exposed it to a solution containing the bacterial condensin protein. The researchers next added the energy-containing molecule ATP to the solut...Junk DNA yields new kind of gene
...tual free-for-all, three models emerged. The first held that RNA transcripts produced from SRG1 were being recruited to SER3 and were somehow repressing transcription. The researchers assumed that if this were true, it would not matter where the RNA came from. As it turned out, SER3 was repressed only whe...International research conferences at the Villa Vigoni
...earchers from the participating countries, will be held in German, Italian and French. The first proposals to have been approved envision cooperation over the course of several years with three workshops each. The project "Historical, Artistic and Natural Dimensions of Cultural Landscapes" will focus on ...RNAi delivery system crosses blood-brain barrier to target brain cancer
... encourage cell proliferation, the tumor growth is held in check. The Pardridge group confirmed that the treatment strategy thwarted EGFR function in two ways. The EGFR is set into action when it binds a growth factor related to epidermal growth factor, a hormone growth factor that travels outside of cel...Addressing the Healthcare Needs of Our Aging Population with Technology
...its Geriatric Working Group, four sessions will be held to identify: needs, problems; technologies; public policy, regulatory and legislative issues, barriers and inhibitors; and perspectives, next steps. The symposium findings and recommendations will be compiled in a report for legislators, policy exper...Brain disease research, particle physics meet in the middle (ware)
...cross 28 sites in the United States and abroad and held together in part by NMI-supported software, such as the Globus Toolkit. With assembled resources that provide up to 2,000 processors worth of computational power, the Grid3 data grid runs seven different applicationsthree high-energy physics simulati...U-M scientists use 21st-century technology to probe secrets of M. tuberculosis
...American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting held here this week. "M. tuberculosis has been living with people for at least 4,000 years," says Kirschner. "Because the bug has had all those years to get to know us so well, it has evolved several effective ways to circumvent the immune system's abilit...Antibiotics alter GI tract microbes and increase lung sensitivity to allergens
... At the American Society for Microbiology meeting held here this week, scientists from the University of Michigan Medical School will present results of experiments with laboratory mice indicating that antibiotic-induced changes in microbes in the gastrointestinal tract can affect how the immune system r...Study shows that genes can protect kids against poverty
...eir parents were poorly educated, owned no car and held menial jobs or no job at all. "Living in the poorest neighborhoods, their homes were rated as being overcrowded, damp or in disrepair," she says. After determining the economic conditions of each family, the researchers conducted interviews and tests...Can we restore wetlands and leave the mosquitoes out?
...ends in Environmental Philosophy conference, to be held June 1-4 at the Highlands Center in Allanspark, Co...squitoes?" and the discussion that follows will be held on Tuesday, June 1, 7 - 9 p.m. Her work was supported in part by a fellowship from UA's Institute fo...Moving targets: when it comes to patterns, motion gets factored in
...er has made new findings that challenge a commonly held view of how we perceive patterns. The work is reported by Shin'ya Nishida of the NTT Communication Science Laboratories of Japan's NTT Corporation. It has been widely believed, based on a number of anatomical, physiological and psychophysical finding...