Growing Up On Their Own: Smart Plastics Organize Themselves Into Useful Optical Devices
...ntelligent and able toorchestrate their own growth marks the chemistry and polymer science of thefuture." Funding for the project came from the Office of Naval Research and theNational Science Foundation. The work was also supported by an Elon HuntingtonHooker graduate research fellowship to Chen, ...Human/Insect/Jellyfish Genes Team To Quiet "Hyper" Nerve Cells
...iginally was recruited fromfruit flies and its use marks the first time, the researchers say, such a systemhas been used in the context of gene therapy. To activate it, the researchersapplied muristerone, a lab version of the insect hormone, to the nerve cellculture. The muristerone turned on the insect s...UCSD And NIH Researchers Isolate Candidates For Genetic Basis Of Human Taste
...ay be able to mark the different cells and use the marks as a map of thepathway to the brain. Pharmacologically it could be used to identify-usingbiochemical and biological assays-high potency for agonists and antagonists oftaste function." Using biological screening techniques, millions of molecules could...Whitehead Receives $35 Million Grant From National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
...uence by 2003 atthe latest. "This joint initiative marks a major expansion of the collaborative spirit ofthe international sequencing effort, with the goal of completing the sequence ofthe 3 billion bases of human DNA as soon as possible," said Dr. Francis S.Collins, director of the NHGRI. The internation......e bones, the latter of which showed definitive cut marks fromstone tools. Scattered elsewhere throughout the same geological layer were otherantelope and horse bones with similar tell-tale signs of butchery--for example, alower jaw whose tongue presumably had been cut out and leg bones purposelyfractured a...Unprecedented View Of RNA Structure Captured
...terdisciplinary team of chemists and biophysicists marks thefirst actual atomic level resolution of a protein-RNA complex from the ribosomeever to be produced and only the third RNA ever to have its complex higher-orderconstruction revealed. "I've been traveling around the last few weeks giving talks abou...Germany needs a national genome initiative
...d in the US with a marketvalue of 2 billion German marks are being imported into Germany. By havingembarked...ented by an additional amount of one billionGerman marks within the next five. Apart from the DFG and the BMBF otherresearch institutions are also being aske......al studies to find out." In fact, this first study marks the beginning of what the researchers anticipateto be a methodical examination of the impact of man-made and naturally occurringcompounds that find their way into the amniotic fluid surrounding the developingfetus. The researchers expect to gradually...NYU scientists discover gene for a dementing brain disease
... have a stop codon in the BRI gene, a message that marks the end of the reading frame for a particular protein, at a specific location. When they analyzed the DNA of the patient further, they found that in the stop codon TGA, the T was substituted for A, a kind of alteration called a base substitution or p...Scientists target microbe with sleeker antisense agent
... stages of development, scientistsbelieve the work marks one step toward an era when tiny artificial RNA moleculesact as selective medications that knock out vital sections of molecules whichorganisms rely on to invade their human hosts. Led by Douglas H. Turner, a team of researchers at the University tes...Geologists at UNC-CH discover state's 'most spectacular' fossils
...s bones and that somethingleft fresh-looking tooth marks on its arms that had never healed," the geologistsaid. "It may have died because it was being attacked in or near the lake, or itwas wounded just before it died. The body probably got washed into the lake orriver and was then buried very quickly." ...Computers have had dramatic impact on chemistry
...ugo (Blacksburg, Va., Aug. 23, 1999) -- This year marks the 25th anniversary of theACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. The division will celebrate the event,during the 218th American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans, Aug.22-26, with a symposium that will look at the past and future of ...First gene defect identified for precursor to adult diabetes
...al insulin function, theydiscovered. This research marks the first time any gene for the common form of insulinresistance has been completely mapped. "By zeroing in on the protein coded by this newly discovered variant, along withthe more common form of PC-1, drug designers may be able to target a far hi...Scientists gather in Oregon to decide next steps of mid-ocean ridge exploration
... The globe-encircling mid-ocean ridge system marks the boundary alongwhich Earth's major plates form. The nearest examples to the U.S. are the Gordaand Juan de Fuca Ridges off Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The ridgesystem as a whole can be considered as a single 35,000 mile-long volcano ...USGS finds elevated levels of organochlorine pesticides in Aleutian bald eagles
... The Aleutian Archipelago in western Alaska marks the border between the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea and is made up of many islands that stretch between North America and Asia. It is also the westernmost nesting range of the bald eagle. In their study during the summers of...When sperm whales talk, UW researcher listens
...stinctions on the basis of such characteristics as marks and coloring or notches and irregularities on dorsal fins or tails. That method is less effective with sperm whales. "Whereas other species, such as orcas, will swim together, sperm whales tend to spread out," Dougherty explained. "They may be a kil...Giant plant-eating dinosaur found; two cast skeletons to be unveiled
...scovered in the same area by Sereno's team. Tooth marks are present on the ribs of one of the juvenile skeletons. Jobaria doesn't fit into any recognized family of long-necked dinosaurs, or sauropods. Rather Jobaria represents an ancient sauropod lineage that survived and flourished only in Africa durin...Lizard research bolsters theory that forest edges are hotbeds of speciation
... open dry forest. By looking for the telltale bite marks created by bird bills, the researchers identified how many models were attacked. According to Schneider, it was no contest between the two sites. Twenty-one models were targeted in the open, transitional forest, versus only four in the closed ra...New research proves fullerene can be cosmic carbon carriers
..., and highly shocked minerals. This sediment layer marks a period of abrupt change in Earth's biology and geology, characterized by mass extinction of the dinosaurs, now generally attributed to the impact of a carbonaceous asteroid that collided with Earth. Becker hopes to expand the research to other pe...Fruit fly's genome sequence finished in record time: Physical maps are the key to accuracy
...sents a discrete stretch of the genome, and themap marks each BAC with at least one unique "sequence-taggedsite" (STS) -- ideally with two or more such sites. Using probes tailored to each sequence-tagged site, an STS can befound wherever it occurs in a random collection of clones; 1,923of these markers, s...