Presentation of Dr. Ingo Potrykus July 21 in Providence
...cience and society have been recognized in science journals and in the general media. As Time magazine noted in its cover story on Swiss Professor Potrykus and on Golden Rice, "this rice could save a million kids a yearbut protesters believe such genetically modified foods are bad for us and our planet" Gol...BioMed Central to deposit e-journals with the British Library
...ch the information published in the BioMed Central journals can be made available in the long term. Currently, all the research articles published are archived, without delay, at the PubMed Central site ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov ) and are also indexed in PubMed. In addition to the above online archiv...Paul Ehrlich named Eminent Ecologist for 2001
...olving environmental problems. ESA publishes three journals - Ecology, Ecological Applications and Ecological Monographs. "ESA has been increasingly active in bringing the ecological dimensions of the human predicament to the general public and decision makers," adds Ehrlich. "It also has been training enviro......ciate editor of various international hypertension journals and is presently deputy editor of the Journal of H...ir condition, is on the editorial board of several journals in the fields of hypertension and behavioral medicine. Dr. Izzo is on the Editorial Board of the Ame...For peppers, hot quite literally the spice of life, UF research shows
...erved in nature, and it gathered dust in scholarly journals until Tewksbury and Nabhan decided to see if it might hold true in chili peppers. The researchers did their investigation in a field in Southern Arizona about 35 miles south of Tucson, using the Chiltepine chili pepper, Capsicum annuum. The plant is......gard, several recent reports in leading scientific journals have implicated hepsin, another transmembrane serine protease related to matriptase, as a biological marker of, and potential drug target for, prostate cancer. Corvas is currently working to validate the role of matriptase and other serine prote...URI scientist receives research award from National Park Service
...erves on editorial boards for several professional journals and on several executive committees, including the New England Estuarine Research Society. He is the author of more than sixty articles and reports pertaining to his research on coastal ecosystems and has coedited a book on estuaries. He lives in Eas......ncerous cells. The review also can be found on the journals Web site....APS hosts the "Genome and Hormone" Conference
...d publishes 3,800 articles in its 14 peer-reviewed journals every year. When: October 17-20, 2001 Where: Pittsburgh, PA...American Society of Plant Biologists is new name for former American Society of Plant Physiologists
...logy will continue to be a core discipline for our journals and many of our members, but we find that a large ... science society. For others, the Society and its journals have addressed their needs for interdisciplinary study of plant science. "Throughout the Society, ...Rice center to study therapeutic and environmental imapct of nanotechnology
...c American, as well as highly regarded non-science journals such as The Economist continue to be full of news on nanoscale science and nanotechnology," said Malcolm Gillis, president of Rice University. "In recent weeks alone, numerous nanotechnology articles have appeared citing superconductivity of Buckyba...APS August/September journal hot picks
Highlights from peer-reviewed journals announced Children with burn injuries and exerc...e been selected from three of the l4 peer-reviewed journals the Society publishes each month. On an annual basis, APS publishes more than 3,800 articles. Highli......ademy of Sciences, and will appear tomorrow on the journals web site. The findings should enable the creation of transgenic individuals in a wide range of species, permitting scientists to develop research models for study of numerous human diseases. Led by Ralph L. Brinster of Penns Department of Animal Bio...Scientists at UCLAs Jonsson Cancer Center discover gene's role in regulating stem cells in the brain
...osted Nov. 1 in the journal Science as part of the journals Science Express Web site, http://www.sciencexpress.org . Led by Drs. Hong Wu and Xin Liu, scientists at UCLAs Jonsson Cancer Center and senior authors of the journal article, the research has demonstrated for the first time how the absence of the PT...Cyclin B1 identified as a new tumor antigen and candidate for the development of a cancer vaccine
...rnal of Experimental Medicine, and featured on the journals cover, demonstrate that the protein cyclin B1 is a newly identified tumor antigen that holds promise as a candidate for the development of a cancer vaccine. The new antigen will be used in future cancer vaccine trials for breast cancer, lung cancer a...... anti-cancer therapy. In the current issues of the journals Cell and Molecular Cell, the researchers have published papers that describe Mus81, a resolvase enzyme of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and its human analog. Resolvase is essential for a crucial step in DNA recombination, says Russell...Gene chips bring new order to lung cancer types, could yield sharper diagnoses, better drugs
...Academy of Sciences. The report will appear in the journals Nov. 20 print edition. The first author is Arindam Bhattacharjee, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Meyersons laboratory. Other authors include William G. Richards, PhD, Todd R. Golub, PhD, of Pediatric Oncology and also at the Whitehead Institute for B......nology and Metabolism, one of the 14 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Physiological Society (APS), spotlights recent research findings designed to improve and understand human well-being and health. The December edition includes a twin pair of crossover studies that find oral administration o...Testosterone dose-repsonse relationships in healthy young men
...nology and Metabolism, one of the 14 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Physiological Society (APS), spotlights recent research findings designed to improve and understand human well-being and health. A study in the December edition examines how different doses of testosterone affect body compo...