Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
...huselah Foundation is the first and most developed organization directly promoting the development of human "Projuvenation" technology." Said the Methuselah Foundation's Chief Science Officer Dr. Aubrey de Grey. "The focus of the Methuselah Foundation is not simply extending human life; it is discovering ways to...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...al of this program is to understand the structure, organization and function of genomes of plants of economic importance and plant processes of potential economic value. The 2004 awards focus in three main areas: detailed analysis of the genomes of key plants and families of plants; functional genomics -- the stu...Pioneering AIDS researcher to speak at UH
...-100) member. Brought to UH by C-100, a national organization composed of more than 100 of the most influential Chinese Americans in the United States, Hos lecture is also sponsored by UHs Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, the Office of Houston City Council Member Gordon Quan and Leader...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
...nt and thus silk protein solubility and structural organization in their glands. This finding published in the journal Nature could lead to the development of new processing methods resulting in new high-strength and high-performance materials used for biomedical applications. In 2002, Kaplan and his c......elium and mesenchyme represent two extremes in the organization of groups of cells. Epithelial cells array themsel... is known to play an important role in the dynamic organization of the cytoskeleton, the framework of elements that determines many aspects of a cell's morphology a...Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...65 by Dr. Joseph Hoet, the Founding President. The organization has a membership of more than 5,500 physicians, scientists, nurses and students from over 100 countries who work in the field of diabetes research. The association works to find innovative research concepts that will both encourage and support new id...$18 million bioinformatics center to become weapon against deadly diseases
...owship for Interpretation of Genomes, a non-profit organization specializing in bioinformatics tool development and comparative genomics research. They will use the funds to set up a National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource Center to help scientists to accelerate their research into the biology and evolution of...Convulsions in worms mimic epileptic seizures
...bing their heads. Since the number, placement, and organization of the GABA neurons in the mutant worms appeared normal, the team decided to look at the GABA neurons' ability to release neurotransmitters. By attaching a green fluorescent tag to a protein associated with the synaptic vesicles, the sacs that transp...Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
... the cause of death. WCS is the only conservation organization that studies tigers in every country where these cats occur....Disease-resistant papaya saves Hawaiian papaya industry
...ety (APS) is a non-profit, professional scientific organization dedicated to the study and management of plant disease with 5,000 members worldwide....Livermore research in accelerator mass spectrometry highlighted at ACS meeting
...l Society is a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of more than 159,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry. The organization provides a broad range of opportunities for peer interaction and career development, regardless of p...New model can aid in understanding immune system diseases
...emory response. As a result, you have a particular organization of cells and tissue -- called germinal centers -- ...nal centers in the mouse, we could see this tissue organization was disrupted," Bishop said. By studying this dysfunction in mice, the team hopes to learn why the ...Institute for OneWorld Health nominated for the 2004 World Technology Awards
...World Technology Network is a London-headquartered organization that was created to "encourage serendipity" - happy accidents - amongst those individuals and companies deemed by their peers to be the most innovative in the science and technology world. WTN also publishes "World Technology Intelligence, a collect...NHGRI adds 18 organisms to sequencing pipeline
...NA sequences, as well as to gain new insights into organization of genomes. In addition, two of the organisms are also of direct interest to researchers investigating human disease. Trichinella is a parasitic roundworm that is transmitted by eating raw or undercooked pork, and Biomphalaria is a tropical freshwate...Study shows how consensus is attained in a noisy world
...cial or biological in nature, is that they display organization without any external organizing principle being applied. "How did a consensus come about? Our computer model shows how social networks can substitute for central mechanisms in decision making," said Lus A. N. Amaral, associate professor of chemical ......egon, will examine the varied structures of social organization and the conditions, from genetics to habitat, that...ession with an overview of the theories for family organization and implications of family structure on populations in his talk, "Family Dynamics: An introduction t...8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...ural, the largest non-profit wildlife conservation organization in southern Argentina, as well as Southern Cone Regional Coordinator for the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society. Harris has worked to relocate tanker lanes away from the northeastern coast of Argentina, where oil from their ballast tanks wa...Plant pathologists meeting in Anaheim, CA to discuss agricultural security, food safety, and more
...ety (APS) is a non-profit, professional scientific organization dedicated to the study and management of plant diseases, with 5,000 members worldwide....Ecologist calls for creation of an international panel to assess human behavior
...ergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - an organization of scientists that has issued several highly regar...nthropology. ''The absurdity of this disciplinary organization has not gone unrecognized by social scientists,'' Ehrlich asserted, ''but there seems to be no real ...Study reveals surprising 'remodeling' property of gene regulation process
...as traditionally thought that there was amonotonic organization of chromatin that did not vary throughout the genome," said senior author Dr. Jason Lieb, assistant professor of biology in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences. "But chromatin is a dynamic thing ...