APS recognizes Intel high school finalists for experiments in physiology
...$500. He performed much of his project outside the laboratory as he studied the effects of chlorine on the lung function of outdoor swimmers. The APS judges were led by P.K. Rangachari, professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Alberta, Canada, who said, "Mr. Finlayson's study was a neat ...Secret behind hard exoskeletons, spreading wings revealed
... sample of the hormone. They sent this sample to a laboratory at Harvard University that chemically sequenced it and sent back four short amino acid sequences of which the sample was composed. Using this sequence, Dewey, a post-doctoral researcher in Honegger's laboratory, ran searches on the genome of the fru...Chipmunks descended from ancestors that survived last ice age, scientists say
...oral student in the evolutionary/molecular biology laboratory at the U. of I. "It also is particularly surprising that while chipmunks in Illinois and Wisconsin are closely related, they are distantly related to chipmunks in Indiana and Michigan," he said. "There really is no clear geographical barrier at pres...UCSD biologists discover cell's defense mechanism against class of disease-causing bacterial toxins
... as necrotizing fasciitis. Researchers in Aroian's laboratory discovered several years ago that the roundworm C....an and Danielle Huffman, a graduate student in his laboratory and the first author of the research paper, set about to determine the biochemical and genetic mecha...New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
...a EasyCD4 and EasyCD8 do not require the dedicated laboratory infrastructure or large amounts of buffered water as sheath fluid that are required by conventional flow cytometers. The elimination of the use of sheath fluid also results in less bio-hazardous waste and further reduces the running costs of using th......tised, namely the scene of the crime, the forensic laboratory and the court. The second edition of this book will be published on 30th July 2004. The first edition was very well received, as can be seen from the following reviews: "A comprehensive, well written and well presented book ... compelling reading ....Triple-vaccine strategy stimulates strong HIV-specific immune response in monkeys
...noviruses are relatively easy to manipulate in the laboratory and readily enter a wide variety of cells, including important cells of the immune system, to stimulate a vigorous, long-lasting immune response. A number of these vaccines based on common strains of human adenoviruses, including some against HIV, ha...UCSD undergraduates participate in collaborative studies abroad on cyberinfrastructure
... Bell's research centers on Internet-based virtual laboratory testing for earthquake resistance of structures using the National Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) model. He is working for Keh-Chyuan Tsai, director of Taiwan's National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering; NCHC's Fang-Pang Lin; a...Human periodontal ligament stem cells isolated for the first time
...om a distinct colony of stem cells cultured in the laboratory and loaded into a hydroxyapetite carrier - eight produced a dense mixture of cementum and periodontal ligament. Interestingly, the cells even produced fibrous structures similar to the so-called Sharpey's fibers, which insert into both cementum and ...Researchers discover how worms' noses sense oxygen
...sh air as people thought. While nematodes grown in laboratory Petri dishes are kept at the same oxygen concentra... area of 6 percent oxygen, which they like. It's a laboratory phenomenon." Bordering and clumping is a peculiar behavior in which worms cluster around the border ...$1.6 million grant to Williams College
...resources at Williams College to develop their own laboratory exercises in biology, chemistry, and physics, and ...tunities for high school classes to participate in laboratory exercises at the college and local field sites. Two student summer research programs at Williams Col......a research institution, field station, or national laboratory and will ultimately present their research at the Society's Annual Meeting," explains ESA Education Director Jason Taylor. SEEDS student field trips will also continue into the next phase of the program. SEEDS offers two field trips a year to ecolog...Structure solved at Scripps shows how one human protein reduces potency of chemotherapy
... Structural & Molecular Biology, was solved in the laboratory of Scripps Research Professor John Tainer, Ph.D., by Research Associate Douglas Daniels, Ph.D. The fine details of this x-ray structure may help scientists find ways to fight certain cancers, such as brain tumors, which express high levels of AGT mak...Study identifies genetics of fat metabolism, red wine link
... of that we have a hard time even studying it in a laboratory setting. But we do know that red wine has fairly high levels of the compound, and this study would suggest at least one mechanism for possible health benefits of red wine. It may help prevent fat development and storage." Resveratrol is found in the ...Anti-cancer agent built from anti-inflammatory drug
...lls to self-destruct. The agent is now undergoing laboratory testing by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) R...ogrammed cell death in cancer cells growing in the laboratory tests. One of the derivatives, OSU 03012, is now undergoing toxicological and pharmacological testi...Mitochondria in spinal cords is ALS target according to UCSD medical researchers
...send a cell death signal to the motor neurons." In laboratory studies with tissue from animals and humans, the UCSD team determined that the mutant SOD1 ignores all other mitochondria in cells and tissue outside of the spinal cord, and binds only to the mitochondria in the large motor neurons that begin in the ...Macrophages, not stem cells, correct liver disease by fusion
... the latest in a series of discoveries by Grompe's laboratory since 2000, when it first showed blood-forming ste...g stem cells at all," Grompe said. To be sure, his laboratory used macrophages exclusively in the transplantation and "it worked." Macrophages also can more easil......, their defensive function has only been tested in laboratory studies. When planted into native habitats, LOX3-deficient plants were more vulnerable to N. attenuata's adapted herbivores but also attracted two novel herbivore species, which fed and reproduced successfully. These results demonstrate that jasmonat...Microscopy scans show how brain cells process energy
...r Biophysical Imaging and Opto-electronics (DRBIO) laboratory headed by Watt W. Webb. Webb, Cornell's S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering and a co-inventor of multiphoton microscopy who also is an author on the Science paper, explains: "Multiphoton microscopy imaging of intrinsic fluorescence in NADH shows t......ormes, director of CAMD. The center will provide laboratory space for researchers and students from the various institutions involved, as well as lab space for visiting scientists to conduct work and evaluate the technologies. In addition, there will be a major outreach component, primarily to middle schools ...