Groundbreaking research could ignite new solutions to heat transfer in nano-devices
...ogy, researchers design materials whose properties originate in clusters of molecules on the nanometer level. This research can be used to help us better understand how molecules interact on these dimensions." The faculty and students involved were Dr. Deak and his undergraduate student Timothy Sechler; and Un...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...gical community together? And does social behavior originate in nature, nurture or both? To tackle these and other major questions in biology, the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced six new awards totaling nearly $30 million over five years from its Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (...Illustrated guidebook published for Chinese biomedical scientists and students
...dying in the United States, the largest proportion originate from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China is among the top six countries of origin of foreign-born scientists and engineers employed in the U.S. Like many similar institutions, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the world-renowned center for canc...Scientists build on case connecting inflammatory disease and depression
...hallenge this view and suggest that depression may originate in the immune system. Immunotherapy is used to treat patients who suffer either from kidney cancer or melanoma with metastasis, or from viral infections such as hepatitis C and AIDS. "A few thousand cancer patients and several hundreds of thousands ...Songbirds escaped from Australasia, conquered rest of world
...count for almost half of all bird species, did not originate in Eurasia, as previously thought. Instead, their ancestors escaped from a relatively small area--Australasia (Australia, New Zealand and nearby islands) and New Guinea--about 45 million years ago and went on to populate every other continent save An...'Anti-plume' found off Pacific Coast
...arthquakes, most having a magnitude of 2.0 to 4.0, originate along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a submarine mountain range 300 miles west of the Oregon coast that was formed by seafloor spreading or the movement of oceanic plates away from one another. "It is the only real-time hydrophone system in the world avail...A genetic model for hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) disease
...e microtubules, the tiny hollow protein tubes that originate near the nucleus and extend into the long processes of neurons. Through their interactions with other proteins, microtubules essentially represent the dynamic scaffolding of the nerve cell. In neurons, microtubules' responsibilities include carryin...New insight into cancer metastasis
...04) Scientists know a great deal about how tumors originate and develop, but relatively little about how cancer manages to metastasize and invade distant tissues and organs. Now, a team of researchers led by Whitehead Member Robert Weinberg has discovered that tumors spread by reactivating and commandeering a...Conflicting views on embryonic and adult stem cells complicate research in stem cell therapeutics
...s, the latter face political barriers because they originate from discarded human embryos or aborted fetuses stored at in vitro fertilization clinics. Another method that has raised political hackles is 'therapeutic cloning,' which involves the creation of a cloned embryo using the patient's DNA. Fuelling such...Cell growth and death controlled by single pathway in lymphoma cancer model
...ed lymphoid tissue), which consists of tumors that originate from cancerous growth of immune cells. MALT lymphoma most often occurs in the stomach and usually arises when B lymphocytes respond to inflammation provoked by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Infection by this bacterium is one of the m...New screening method turns up potential compound for treating anthrax
...application to university research programs, which originate many drug targets, Mrksich said. "By having the screening facility on campus, it's possible to see basic research take one important step further toward a drug discovery development program," Mrksich said. It was Min, the Ph.D. student, who r...Setting the gene expression base-line for breast cancer research
...ormal breast cells. The majority of breast cancers originate in an internal structure of the breast, the terminal duct-lobular unit, which is comprised of two different types of cell; the inner 'luminal' cells, potential milk-secreting cells, in which cancerous genetic changes occur; and the surrounding basal ...Researchers report definitive evidence that HIV-AIDS is not from oral polio vaccine
...himpanzees near Kisangani shows that HIV-1 did not originate from polio vaccines that were tested in that area in the 1950s. The team's research article will be published in the April 22 issue of the journal Nature. Worobey's coauthors are Beatrice H. Hahn, George M. Shaw, Mario L. Santiago, and Brandon F. Kee...'Protein-only' prions confirmed in FSU yeast study
...rains of yeast prions, each of which were found to originate from the same protein molecule that, for reasons yet unknown, turned into infectious prions. The team found that these all-protein particles act like genes in transferring life-changing information in yeast cells without relying on DNA or RNA as the ...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...n several areas, indicating the blooms do not only originate locally but may be influenced by meso-scale phenomena. The blooms are already affecting some of the main aquaculture companies and losses of fish have started." Salmon were found starved of oxygen within their cages off the big island of Chilo. In a...UCSF finding advances insight into adult stem cells in human brain
...sts, say the UCSF researchers, that the tumors may originate around the lining of the ventricles. "On occasion, we do have the opportunity to see brain images of patients with tumors at an early stage of development, and in these cases I have noticed that the tumors are often associated with the ventricular...Scientists surprised at persistence of nitrate from dated experiment
...ired." In order to confirm the deep nitrate could originate from the old experiment, ground water flow rates and ages were investigated. The movement of the nitrate pulse to depth was also compared to stream flow records. The results provided three independent lines of evidence; all suggesting that water carr...With optical 'tweezers,' researchers pinpoint the rhythmic rigidity of cell skeletons
...n to observe the rhythmic behaviors that appear to originate from endothelial cytoskeletons. And Laura Morkowchuk, a sophomore bioengineering major, is studying the effect of the cytoskeletal rhythm on the transport of proteins from the blood stream to a cell's interior substrate tissues. The overall goal of ...Pathways of emotion from cortex to peripheral organs
...e pathway then connects to autonomic nerves, which originate in the spinal cord, to regulate organ function. Helen Barbas, the research team leader, says: "The existence of these pathways has implications for several psychological conditions. For example, these pathways may be excessively active in anxiety, p......iseases affecting domestic animals and people that originate in the wild grows longer, we begin to realize that a more holistic approach is needed to manage the interface between wildlife, livestock and humans," said Dr. William Karesh, head of WCS's Field Veterinary Program and co-chair of the Veterinary Spec...