Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...l world of biotechnology through projects of their own design. Each student (or team) works with a mentor for advice and access to equipment and supplies. Cash prizes (plus, in some cities, university scholarships or summer jobs) are awarded at regional competitions, which are support...EMBO Gold Medal 2004 goes to Spanish scientist
...e on cancer and aging. In 1997, Blasco started her own research group in mammalian telomeres and telomerase at the National Centre of Biotechnology in Madrid. Most recently, the scientist moved her group to the Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO), where she now heads up the Molecular Oncology Programme...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
..., but meanwhile encourages people to develop their own interests and approaches. In this way, students and post docs can explore their maximum potential. So Jiang allowed herself to get a little sentimental. The first Pack-MULE she found in a piece of rice sequence was lugging around the gene that trigge...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...ens is that that cancer cells look like the body's own cells, and so the immune system doesn't attack them. Listeria breaks that "self tolerance" and mobilizes the T cells to recognize and attack cancer cells expressing these antigens. It is not yet completely clear what makes listeria such a good induce...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...n by the immune system--that it's using the body's own cellular proteins as camouflage. Before this study, a comprehensive analysis of the proteins that constitute the HCMV virion had not been possible without the development of new proteomics technologies in the PNNL lab of Richard D. Smith, a B...Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
... Additionally, regenerative cells from a patient's own adipose tissue (autologous-use) present no risk of rejection or disease transmission and avoid ethical concerns. The methods used in the pre-clinical study are as follows: Infarcts were induced in 13 juvenile swine by balloon occlusion of the mid ...Punching the timeclock of life
...ide nutrients for 'mutants' generated within their own population. Thus, billions of organisms die early so that a few better-adapted individuals can grow." What is even more striking, he said, is that the findings raise the possibility that the same process happens in humans, with many of us dying...Pollutant causes delayed flowering in plants
...entists discovered that while plants produce their own internal nitric oxide to regulate flowering, they are also influenced by external concentrations of the chemical. The scientists said that although their findings are basic in nature, they suggest that the massive amounts of nitric oxide emitted as a...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
...ould have initially looked like another animal its own size, but by the time the fish was able to see Dinocephalosaurus' body, it would already have been lunch," Dr. LaBarbera said. "Dinocephalosaurus sheds new light on the evolution of protorosaurs and the functional morphology of these long-necked mari...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...iving in super-hot temperatures--likely have their own remarkable biochemical pathways and capabilities that we are only beginning to appreciate." "The Lau Basin is a candy store of scientific problems, and this is the first time there's been a regional-scale perspective of hydrothermal activity in an en...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...lunged forward though the water. By swallowing its own pressure wake that would otherwise signal its approach, the predator may have executed almost undetectable strikes at unsuspecting fish. While it's difficult to add muscles to a fossil when there is little or no evidence for muscles in the fossil re...A novel, safer strategy for regulating gene expression
... inserting a special DNA sequence into a patient's own genes, or into a gene introduced by gene therapy. ...gest that bacteria use ribozymes to regulate their own gene activity, by "sensing" and reacting to changing levels of natural compounds in their environmen...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
... longer a true virus as it cannot replicate on its own and must be in the presence of another virus to be active. The vector will transfer the gene for NGF only to the area of the brain where it is placed. The virus is common; most people have already been exposed to it and so have developed antibodies t...Wastewater could treat itself, power city
... plants could produce enough electricity for their own operation," says civil engineering professor David Bagley, who conducted the research with lead author and PhD candidate Ioannis Shizas. "Any recovery of potential energy above that can be returned to the grid." Bagley and Shizas used bomb calorim...22nd amino acid synthesized and added to genetic code of e. coli bacteria
... as that amino acid. But selenocysteine lacked its own translator protein and is put into the protein through a more circuitous route. That left open the question of whether future amino acids would follow the traditional path of the first 20 amino acids or the unusual route taken by 21st. In the end, tr...Genetic modification of linseed produces healthier omega 3 and 6 fatty acids
... depleted, and fish farming is associated with its own set of environmental issues. Therefore, engineering the production of very long chain PUFAs into oilseed crops could confer significant advantages in terms of both human nutrition and the environment. Oilseed crops, such as canola, safflower, and li...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...After the split, mammals and birds developed their own methods of creating males and females. One duplicated region on chromosome 5 could eventually help explain how spinal muscular dystrophy is inherited. Researchers had known that deletions in the gene for survival of motor neurons, (SMN) caused the di......w details about why immune cells attack the body's own healthy tissues in response to a harmless substance that the immune system mistakenly perceives as a threat. The results are likely to further research efforts designed to combat and hopefully prevent autoimmune disorders like celiac disease. Celiac...ConocoPhillips & Conservation International launch 'Biodiversity Action Plan' in Venezuela
...ies like ConocoPhillips to not only minimize their own environmental footprint, but to engage them and others to make a positive contribution to sustainable development and conservation in the region." Some key recommendations in the Biodiversity Action Plan include: Petroleum companies operating in ...Columbia research to examine gene influence on severity of peridontal disease, therapy response
...ogic therapies targeted specifically to a person's own genetic predisposition for response. A new three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research will support research to determine whether different forms of periodontitis can be classified based on gene expre...