Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...sh Hospital and ended up working in the hospital's lab the following two summers. "It was my first real lab experience and I just loved it," Desbiens said. The Montreal student took first place in ...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...weren't too many of them. Except Jiang was in the lab of Susan Wessler at the University of Georgia, a distinguished research professor who studies transposable elements. Jiang said Wessler directs the research of the lab, but meanwhile encourages people to develop their own interests and approaches. In...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...lness and hunger signals. Research in the McKnight lab has recently shown mutations in a class of genes related to these "clock" functions have a broad range of outcomes, from abnormal eating and sleeping patterns to signs of depression. Studies of the genetic link to sleep patterns may help researche...Safety of isoflavones in dietary supplements targeted by Illinois initiative
...en in reducing estrogen-induced tumor growth. His lab will focus on low-level chronic exposure to soy isoflavones and their influence on the progression of breast cancer from estrogen dependent to estrogen independent tumors. Paul S. Cooke will lead a project focusing on adipose development and t...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
... Professor of plant biology at UGA. The Wessler lab studies TEs, which are pieces of DNA that make cop...oyu Zhang, two postdoctoral fellows in the Wessler lab along with Zhirong Bao, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Sean Eddy of Washington University in S...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...lopment of new proteomics technologies in the PNNL lab of Richard D. Smith, a Battelle Fellow and study co-author. To conduct this research, scientists used proteomics instruments and approaches unavailable elsewhere that combine the high resolution separations of proteins with their identification at t...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
...ular malformations. "Previous work in our lab has shown that a certain form of berry extract significantly regulates MCP-1 function," said Sen, who served as a mentor to Gordillo on this research. The trick will be regulating MCP-1 levels safely, because the protein also is called to ac...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...new and wonderful things happening not just in his lab but in the whole community." "If the McArthur Award is for geniuses, then they have found the right person," says UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop. Also named a 2004 MacArthur Fellow was Julie Theriot, PhD, formerly a UCSF Program in Bio...Wisconsin scientists develop quick botox test
...cording to Chapman, can be conducted with ordinary lab equipment. It works by introducing into cells bioluminescent proteins whose glow is extinguished in the presence of the toxin. The tests are capable of detecting all seven variants of the poison. Currently, the most sensitive and common test for tox...Master of antimalarial resistance
...n of malaria from Southeast Asia, suggesting their lab data have a parallel in the real world. The other members of the research team include Stephen Ward,Mathirut Mungthin and Patrick Bray of the Liverpool School of TropicalMedicine and Viswanathan Lakshmanan, David Johnson, and Amar Bir Singh Sidhuof A...NSF and AIBS sign cooperative agreement for NEON project office
... its implementation. NEON, envisioned as field and lab instrumentation deployed across the United States and integrated via cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure into a continent-wide research platform, will be the first national ecological observation system designed to answer scientific questions at regiona...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...community met at the NIH and assigned to the Cheng lab the task of creating a virtual atlas of normal microanatomy for the growing research community. Cheng has envisioned the field using the atlas infrastructure as the foundation for development of a new approach to understanding biology that will addre...New anti-inflammatory strategy for cancer therapy identified by UCSD researchers
... The study builds upon previous work in the Karin lab recently featured as the cover article in the August 6, 2004 issue of the journal Cell*. In that study, the researchers provided the first evidence of the molecular link between inflammation and cancer. They determined that an enzyme called I-kappa-......vel experimental system developed in the Takahashi lab that takes advantage of the ability to introduce cDNA along with a fluorescent protein directly into a living embryo's cells by momentarily and reversibly disrupting their outer membranes by the application of a tiny electrical current, a process cal...Case for IBD combination therapy comes from research at Baylor, MIT and Hebrew University
...richment has been proposed for treatment. Yedgar's lab has designed and synthesized multi-functional anti-inflammatory drugs (MFAIDs) that address both these needs, by linking PLA2-inhibiting lipids to GAG. They report that MFAIDs, given IP, IV or orally, have been effective in treating animal inflammati...Cell's gatekeeper for ammonia revealed in unprecedented detail
... in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF. Stroud's lab is part of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, or QB3, headquartered at UCSF's Mission Bay campus....The search for a kinder, gentler chemotherapy
... see how they behave with a toxic payload. "In the lab right now we're loading particles with anticancer agents and understanding the fundamentals of how the particles can encapsulate them, how tightly they can hold onto them and how closely we can regulate the uptake and release," said Lyon....Researchers discover why mutant gene causes colon cancer
...al for normal colon cell development." Jones' lab had recently demonstrated that lack of retinoic acid, induced by mutating the APC gene, led to cancerous tumors in human colon cell lines. The new study blocked APC function in zebrafish and demonstrated that when the APC gene was blocked, the fish e...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...ecurity lab. Sandia is interested because, says lab researcher Ron Pate, "Disputes over water are poss...al nutrition at New Mexico State University, whose lab will compare results of feed testing with the animals' actual requirements. "This is defin...Viral suspect for amphibian decline traced to human spread through bait
...gion in North America, and in Australia. Collins's lab was particularly focused on the iridovirus, which was responsible for observed mass die-offs of tiger salamanders in isolated stock ponds in southern Arizona. The team was initially mystified about how the virus was being introduced to the ponds, whi...