Leader in cancer treatment and prevention research honored
...ngoing programs of the AACR and therefore has been named a "Champion of the AACR."...Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...loss of his beloved 11-year-old Labrador retriever named Buck to a brain tumor. "What an incredible thing," he recalled, shortly after he learned that his pet had been memorialized by a caring practitioner. "When we got the letter, my wife and I both sat at the kitchen table and cried and we're not s...Chemical engineering grad students will take notable national awards
...r Vale, who received her Ph.D. in May of 2004, was named one of two winners of the 2004 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award in Membrane-Based Separations. Both awards are highly competitive with a global request for nominations, said Basil Baltzis, PhD, chairman of the chemical e...Rare childhood genetic syndrome identified
...ctober 1 issue of the journal Cell . The disease, named Timothy syndrome after one of the paper's authors, is characterized by a variety of problems including heart arrhythmias, congenital heart abnormalities, webbed hands and feet, a weakened immune system, cognitive abnormalities, and, surprisingly, aut...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...ity of California, San Francisco (UCSF), was today named a recipient of the first-ever NIH Director's Pioneer Award. McCune is among nine researchers across the country chosen to receive the prestigious award, established last year and awarded for the first time this year. The NIH Director's Pioneer Award ...Bush nominates NJIT space explorer Louis Lanzerotti to NSF governing board
...e Foundation (NSF). Eight prominent nominees were named on the basis of their distinguished service in science and engineering research. They will fill six-year-terms. The Senate will confirm the nominations. Lanzerotti, a consulting physicist to Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill and a...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
Joseph DeRisi, PhD, of UCSF, has been named a 2004 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors...re." DeRisi, the only molecular biologist to be named in 2004, is one of 23 new fellows, who include such talents as a ragtime pianist, a novelist and an ...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
... project began in 2003, when a solar-powered robot named Hyperion, also developed at Carnegie Mellon, was taken to the Atacama. Scientists conducted experiments with Hyperion to determine the optimum design, software and instrumentation for a robot for extensive investigations during 2004-05 of desert lif...New sequence involved in DNA replication timing may aid in cancer detection
...ic acid component, guanine. Yompakdee and Huberman named these repeats "Late Consensus Sequences" (LCS). They found that one copy of an LCS produced no detectable effect on replication timing, two copies produced a partial effect, and three copies caused replication to occur in late S phase. The researcher...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...d marine sciences professor James Acheson has been named the 2004 winner of the American Anthropological Association's Kimball award for effecting change in public policy. Acheson, a cultural anthropologist, author and professor at UMaine since 1968, will receive the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and ...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...ng, China discovered the reptile in two phases. Li named the creature Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, meaning "terrible headed lizard from the Orient," after he discovered the 23.5-centimeter-long skull (about 9 inches) in autumn of 2002 in the Guanling Formation in China's Guizhou Province. Three fang teeth...March of Dimes statement on newborn screening report
...sults for an additional 25 "reportable" conditions named in the ACMG report for which there are reliable tests but not yet documented treatments. We also will revise our periodic evaluation of states to include this reporting. It must be noted that various organizations have alternate ways of classi...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham today named the seven winners of the 2004 E.O. Lawrence Award. Each winner will receive a gold medal, a citation and $50,000. The award is given in seven categories for outstanding contributions in the broadly defined field of atomic energy. "We are all enri...DuPont scientist named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's 'Technology Review' Magazine
...uPont scientist Dr. Maria Petrucci-Samija has been named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Magazine of Innovation. Dr. Petrucci-Samija, 33, represents a growing core of young scientists working on emerging tech...Health of world's sea lions the focus of Wakefield Symposium
...m has been held annually since 1982. The series is named in honor of Lowell Wakefield, a long-time Alaska fisherman, who is credited with modernizing Alaska's red king crab fishing industry. Changes in the abundance of sea lions is a growing concern to fisheries and conservation groups, either because fis...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named by Technology Review magazine as one of the world's top young innovators. Delmau joins the "TR100" group of 100 selected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's science publication. Delmau, a researcher in ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division, s...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...k a prototype to Alaska for testing. Appropriately named Shadow III -- and painted a bright yellow that belies its sleuthy assignment -- the mini-sub includes a video camera and hydrophones (sonar mikes) to track its prey. Marine biologists, directed by Professor David Scheel at Alaska Pacific University, ...US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
...del Fuego (which translates to "land of fire") was named by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520 when he spotted bonfires made by indigenous Ona people to ward off the cold. More than 300 years later, Charles Darwin wrote about Tierra del Fuego's native people and unique wildlife he encountered on stopovers while on...The American Phytopathological Society announces 2004 awards
... plant pathology or to the Society. The 10 members named Fellows in the Society were: Michael A. Ellis, Ohio State University-Wooster; Bryce W. Falk, University of California-Davis; Thomas C. Harrington, Iowa State University, Barry J. Jacobsen, Montana State University-Bozeman; Harold Corby Kistler, Unive...Berkeley - A cockroach-like robot named RHex is the starting point for a major project to understand animals' most distinguishing trait - how they move without falling over. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today (Thursday, Sept. 16) a $5 million, five-year grant to the Uni...