Collecting research data on computer wave of future, UT Southwestern researchers report in JAMA
...the vast Internet resources and a standard graphic interface in place of older, rather archaic methods. It's too powerful a tool to ignore." The article carefully outlines steps in the process of creating such a secure system for collecting sensitive medical research data. The data collection must be continu...NYU announces establishment of a center for comparative functional genomics
...lant specimens in the world. The Center will also interface with NYU's School of Medicine and NYU's affiliate, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, to integrate genomics programs across the university's campuses....Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program expands to become national
... promote undergraduate research experiences at the interface of chemistry and biology. The program emphasizes student engagement in research across disciplinary boundaries, which is a reality in the pharmaceutical industry. The program also recognizes that partnerships in education between industry and acad...Medicine and biology take a lesson in physics
...cience impacts on the general public who regularly interface with the produce of medical research in hospitals or when visiting their doctor or pharmacist. Jean Hoffman-Anuta, herself a clinical pharmacist, will discuss the issue of accessing research information in the light of her own experience as a member...McGill launches Centre for Bioinformatics
... is directed at developing novel approaches to the interface of computation and molecular biology. 5. Genetic analysis: The genetic dissection of disease, particularly the complex human disorders such as asthma, heart disease, diabetes, cancer etc. requires the development of a firm theoretical and practi...Give it a thought -- and make it so
... caps should not be far behind. "One place such an interface may be very useful is in wearable computers," Ballard says. "With the roving eye as a mouse and the P300 wave as a mouse-click, small computers that you wear as glasses may be more promising than ever." BCIs are divided into two categories: biofeedba....... "All of us in the biomechanics group are at the interface between biology and engineering," she said. "While engineers need to design structures to perform specific functions, we are studying organisms that already have a structure, and our job is to figure out how they function." Kram concentrates on much ...Science in the news: public choices, science & salmon
...s are intertwined. Restoration of estuaries, as an interface between freshwater and saltwater environments, maybe as critical to salmon survival as free flowing rivers. Charles "Si" Simenstad, Washington Sea Grant Research Scientist, Senior Biologist, University of Washington's School of Fisheries. ...Why muscle strength seeps away: a new cause for muscular dystrophy
...bilization factor in longitudinal direction at the interface (Z-disc) between the smallest contractile units of a muscle fibre. The current discovery of a causal relationship between mutations in the telethonin gene and a new form (LGMD2G) of limb girdle muscular dystrophy provides new diagnostic and therape...Bacteria may thrive in Antarctic lake
...e surface -- about 120 meters (393 feet) above the interface of ice and suspected water. Both teams found bacteria in "accreted" ice, or ice believed to be refrozen lake water. The teams conclude that a potentially large and diverse population of bacteria may be present in the lake. If so, this ba...UCSC researchers obtain first detailed images of a complete ribosome
... the three binding sites, which are located at the interface between thetwo subunits of the ribosome. "The transfer RNAs come through as if on a conveyor belt, and we can see how theribosome holds the transfer RNA differently in each of the binding sites," Catesaid. Another major finding is the recognition of...Computers have had dramatic impact on chemistry
...tists didn't know how to use PCs, let alone how to interface with labequipment." Between 1972 and 1992, Virginia Tech and the American ChemicalSociety provided week-long courses for 5,000 scientists, giving them hands-onexperience, letting them hook up lab equipment themselves, showing them how tocollect data....Astrobiologist to hunt small game in Siberia
...bial content of permafrost andthe structure of the interface between the soil and ice. This research is important to astrobiology for the development of techniquesthat could be used in exploring Mars, Europa, Callisto, Io, comets, asteroids,and other icy worlds of our solar system. Astrobiology is the study of...Scientists identify molecular source of friction
...thepresence of 'third body' hydrocarbons along the interface of a variety ofcontact surfaces. Interestingly, they discovered that varying the length of themolecular chain produced little change in the coefficient of friction.Increasing the number of hydrocarbon layers had no real effect either. "Friction is ...Vanderbilt Researcher: Human Brain Has Great Sense Of Timing
...ects andevents." Blake conducts his research - an interface of psychology and neuroscience - atthe Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, founded in 1989 with a grant from theNational Eye Institute. "I'm investigating human visual perception," heexplained. "Vision - and in fact all of perception - happens quickly...Stanford Chemical Engineer Chaitan Khosla Receives Alan T. Waterman Award From NSF
...s field and opening a whole new opportunity at the interface ofchemistry, biology and chemical engineering," Schultz added. Khosla earned a Bachelor's in Technology in 1985 from the IndianInstitute of Technology in Bombay and a Ph.D. from the California Institute ofTechnology. Both degrees are in chem...Better Binding Through Chemistry
...utations that improved proteinaffinity were at the interface between the two proteins. No mutations were foundin regions of either protein that directly bound to rapamycin. In thinking moreabout this unexpected result, Crabtree and his colleagues realized that theirobservation was related to the molecular mech...September/October 1998 Table Of Contents
...ristine Oliver, Bruce W. Shackleton At the interface of clinical medicine, toxicology, psychology, andengineering lie the understanding and remedies for this growing problem. SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS Nutrition 1% Or Less: A Community-Based Nutrition Campaign Bill Reger, Margo G. Wootan, et al. ...New Device Brightens Recycling Efforts
...There is a lot here that I have learned about the interface between science and business and how they support each other. This should give me an edge in the job market when I leave Purdue." SpectraCode also has served as a laboratory for students from Purdue's Krannert Graduate School of Management. ...University Of Georgia Researchers Help Design Decision Support System For Forest Managers And Owners
...er managers to consider. The UGAteam also wrote an interface to a so-called "legacy code"--a module that couldhelp FMAS interact with programs already available in other programminglanguages. While FMAS was designed to manage a single-species, single-age treestand, NED is taking the process to a new le...