Founder of UCSD bioengineering program honored with lifetime achievement award
...ulty at UCSD) and the late Benjamin Zweifach, Fung moved to San Diego to start and build UCSD's bioengineering program, which has remained among the top three in the nation to this day. And UCSD's Chien says Fung's influence extends well beyond the university's confines: "His impact is not only on fundamen...Using soils as filters to prevent 'crypto' from moving to the groundwater
...he soil. We found that for sandy soil, where water moved rapidly through, there was indeed very little filtering initially. Surprisingly, the undisturbed, structured columns with large macropores had only a very limited breakthrough," said Tammo Steenhuis, Cornell University, who was one of the researchers...Plant pathologists: Rust disease impacting ornamental plant production
...for shipping purposes. Symptomless plants are then moved long distances through international or interstate trade, dispersing the pathogen and introducing it into areas that were previously pathogen-free. While quarantine restrictions and eradication efforts are used to manage rust outbreaks and minimize...Lake restrictions make lakeshore property more valuable
...nd quickly catch fish. But, as more residents have moved into the area, fish abundance has declined, threatening many qualities of the lakes that attract people to the area. Development tends to have a homogenizing effect across an area, giving lakes similar water qualities and similar fish and plant comm...Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish
...and ecologically important species in New England moved great distances during their life cycles and would therefore receive little benefit from reserves. But new tracking data from two major off-shore areas show that cod tend to congregate in habitats with lots of places to hide, such as piled boulder r...New hereditary cancer mutation found -- arrived with a German immigrant almost three centuries ago
... from the founder couple. The couple's descendents moved out across the United States, some going first to North Carolina, while others headed west to Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Utah and California. Today, some members of almost all nine families reside somewhere along this route...Kidney injury's harmful effects on bones blocked in mice
...cientists have identified in both mice and humans, moved it to the top of his list of suspects. "Among the factors involved in the development of the skeleton and the kidney, BMP-7 stands out because it continues to be produced even after development is complete," Hruska explains. For the experiment, Hrusk...Reverse-direction movement of a molecular motor
...e joints between them," explains Dr. Manstein, who moved his laboratory from the MPI in Heidelberg to the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Hannover while the work was in progress. "Our work shows beautifully how far protein design and engineering approaches have evolved. The generation of an artifici...Could memory performance and spatial learning be genetically based?
...d inter-trial interval, as above. The platform was moved in a random fashion between each trial. Genotyping (the "blueprint" or set of instructions for building and maintaining a live creature) was done with six chromosome X markers. Quantitative trait locus (QTL; the combined influences of numerous genes)...University of Colorado archaeologist, colleagues hot on the trail of ancient Persian warships
... As soon as it was determined to be metal, the ROV moved into position and a mechanical arm equipped with a claw grasped onto it and the vehicle began a slow descent to the surface, Hohlfelder said. The sauroter and the helmets found in the same area probably mark a warship in distress. "It may well hav...New 'bumpy' jelly found in deep sea
...on the jelly's bell and stuck there. The prey then moved slowly down to the edge if the bell. At that point... the prey to one of its oral arms, where it slowly moved up the arm and into the mouth. Unlike other jellies who capture food with their bells, S. ventana s...New antioxidants are 100 times more effective than vitamin E
... E. In December, Pratt received his doctorate and moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to begin a post doctoral fellowship. He is continuing to work with Porter's group on the new antioxidants. By attaching a chemical group that makes pyridinols "greasy" gives them a chemical affinity ...NASA learning to monitor coral reef health from the sky
...d remote-sensing airplanes and satellites. "We moved up from the coral, little by little, to the surface to learn how light intensity decreases in the water column, which affects our coral reflected-light readings," Guild said. "There also will be a layer of atmosphere between the coral, the wat...Scientists identify molecular step that causes intoxication
...reened thousands of different mutants for how they moved when exposed to alcohol, and thousands of others for their ability to lay eggs in the presence of ethanol. From this process, they identified eight genetic variants that showed varying degrees of resistance to the effects of alcohol on locomotion. On......the University of Basel four years later. She then moved from there to the Institute for Theatre Studies at the Free University Berlin. Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell (37), Organic Chemistry, University of Munich (1.55 million euros) Thomas Carell is the youngest recipient of the 2004 Leibniz Prize. Trained as...Mustard-root map breaks new ground tracking gene expression
...albraith at the University of Arizona, researchers moved quickly to sort, isolate and identify the fluorescence-activated genes, which glow under ultraviolet light when the gene they've marked is being expressed. They conducted the process during three successive stages synchronously across five zones of ...Little-studied waves in the heart may be cause of defibrillation failure
... team initiated a wave with a strong stimulus that moved smoothly across the heart. They then created a damped wave with a weaker stimulus and sent it in the wake of the first. "If you timed it just right you could find that the second wave would hesitate and then split in two," Wikswo continued. "One half...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...t met in 1930 after Steinbeck and his wife, Carol, moved to the Monterey Peninsula. Ricketts was living and working in a small commercial laboratory that he owned and operated on Monterey's Cannery Row, just a few blocks from Hopkins Marine Station. Born in Chicago in 1897, Ricketts came to California in 1...Scientists discover how brain draws and re-draws picture of world
... In initial trials without resistance, subjects moved the robot arm in a straight line toward the target from each of the starting positions. In the next set of trials, subjects had to overcome resistance when beginning from the left and right starting positions, but not from the center. At first, the....... When Ione made no move to take the baby, Alberta moved closer pushing the newborn into his mother's face until she took him. Variations on this sequence occurred several times in the first two days (Primates, DOI: 10.1007/s10329-003-0061-9). By the third and fourth day, Ione was holding the baby. Someti...