URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
... the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) was named a member of NASA's Astrobiology Institute. A 2002 article in Science described how D'Hondt, Spivack and former GSO student Scott Rutherford studied activity of bacterial life deep in the sediments at the bottom of the ocean by using the chemistr...Molecule awakens and maintains neural connections
...identified a similar homologue in mice, which they named Dasm1. Their initial studies revealed that the gene was highly expressed in the brains of embryonic mice. "A major reason we became interested in this molecule is that when we used antibody markers to look at the distribution of the protein, we saw ...Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...sor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was named full professor in 1984. Dr. Kahn was appointed President and Director of Joslin Diabetes Center in 2000. Dr. Kahn has been the recipient of numerous awards during his distinguished career, including the top research honors from the American Diabete......argeted for apoptosis. Smac's action is why it was named the "second mitochondria-derived activator of caspases." Specifically, Wang and his colleagues sought to make a small molecule to mimic the function of the Smac protein, since a smaller molecule is better able to pass through the cell membrane to re...Scientists discover proteins involved in spread of HIV-1 infection
... four different VPS37 proteins that the scientists named VPS37A-D. Says Sundquist, "We do not yet fully understand why humans have four different VPS37 proteins, but we assume that this provides greater potential for regulating the MVB pathway, which is responsible for targeting a number of important cellu...One-hundred-fifty year old lessons of John Snow still relevant today
...0 years ago this September that a London physician named John Snow urged officials in his city to shut down a well-used water pump in the heart of the Soho district, a move that may have helped to hasten the end of a deadly cholera epidemic that had killed hundreds of people. What Snow correctly suspected ...Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
...en by tracking a radio-collared 3-year-old tigress named Galia. Of course, finding the cubs required some c...the past decade. The mother of the cubs-an animal named Galia by Goodrich and his colleagues-was captured and radio-collared in the autumn of 2002. The cubs...Homeland security initiative takes Memphis' ORNL technologies to the nation
... other cities. As the third of four sites to be named under DHS' Regional Technology Integration Initiative, Memphis becomes a source of practical security "know-how," providing technology solutions to security concerns, lessons learned and other data to help local and regional sites improve preparednes...Genetic clues found for common congenital brain disorder
...e described the malformation that was subsequently named after him. "Finding these genes here at the University of Chicago is a kind of 'coming home' story," Millen said....Illustrated guidebook published for Chinese biomedical scientists and students
...nly used in laboratory life. Each tool and term is named in both simple and complex Chinese. The book also contains useful travel information for visitors to the U.S. And on an associated website ( http://chinese-english.cshl.org ), each of the English terms used in the book can be listened to, as an aid t......the ability to control transcription. These are so named because they are similar in amino acid sequence to the retinoic acid receptor genes, although they do not have the same function and do not bind to retinoic acid. (They are called orphan receptors because it is not known what activates them). The ...Stanford researcher's findings may shed light on common, deadly birth defect
...between the species. Cordero used a chemical aptly named cyclopamine to interfere with developmental signals sent by sonic hedgehog, a protein previously implicated in HPE. Although exposure early in development created cyclopic embryos, progressively later exposure mimicked the entire range of symptoms se...Carnegie Mellon researchers to demonstrate autonomous robotthat will seek life in Atacama Desert
...e project began in 2003 when a solar-powered robot named Hyperion, also developed at Carnegie Mellon, was taken to the Atacama as a research test bed. Scientists conducted experiments with Hyperion to determine the optimum design, software and instrumentation for a robot that would be used in more extensiv...Fundamental change to Immunology 101
...ch group found a cell in the bone marrow that they named the CLP, this is most likely a misnomer, say Bhandoola and Schwarz. The so-called CLP never physiologically gives rise to T cells, but remains in the bone marrow and develops into NK and B lineage cells. To further characterize the cell popula...8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...nmental advocates from around the world today were named winners of US$900,000 in Biodiversity Leadership Awards. The winners find, catalog, and defend diversity in species-rich and biologically endangered areas of the United States, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and Mada...Pocket gophers serve as 'ecosystem engineers'
...abloom of NCEAS is a co-author. Pocket gophers are named for their fur-lined pouches located on the outside of their mouths. They use the pouches to carry food, hence the name. The rodents vary in length from six to 13 inches. As with most burrowing mammals, pocket gophers have poor eyesight. However, they...Dr. Brenda Milner promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada
...ur within the Order and one of only two Companions named in this announcement. There can only be 165 living Companions at any given time. Dr. Milner is the Dorothy J. Killam Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), and a professor in the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medic...Ecologist calls for creation of an international panel to assess human behavior
...er of the Stanford faculty since 1959, Ehrlich was named ESA's Eminent Ecologist in 2001. He is the author of several popular books on humanity and the environment, including One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption and the Human Future,'' which he co-authored with his wife, Anne Ehrlich, a senior research ...American Society of Mammalogists honors CI president Russell Mittermeier with Aldo Leopold award
...great honor it is to receive only the second award named after the greatest conservationist of all time, Aldo Leopold," Mittermeier said. Mittermeier, who has a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from Harvard University, is a prominent primatologist, herpetologist and wildlife conservationist with more than ......e never been seen before. In addition to the newly named species, the researchers collected between four and six additional unidentified worm-like animals from the whale carcass. While not as extraordinary as Osedax, these previously unknown animals underline the previously unimagined biodiversity and uniq...