Leader in cancer treatment and prevention research honored
...cer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. The two past winners of the AACR-Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation Award were, in 2003, Waun Ki Hong, M.D., of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; and, in 2002, Michael B. Sporn, M.D., of Dartmouth Medical School. The AACR is pleased to c...Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...eek in Canada. Almost three-quarters (74%) of 350 past contestants said the Aventis Biotech Challenge (AB... prize pool of $16,000 in 2004), conducted for the past two years from Ottawa by teleconference with eminent national scientists serving as judges. ...Highlights of the October 2004 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...to soft drinks in school vending machines over the past two decades are contributing factors to excess weight among kids. To gauge parents' thoughts on school vending machines, researchers at the University of Minnesota conducted focus groups, from which five major themes emerged (in...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
...e summer low temperatures almost 10 degrees in the past 50 years." "Our team of scientists from geography, anthropology, sociology, management, psychology, math, computer science and public affairs will work with our community partners (City of Phoenix, SRP, Arizona Department of Water Resources...Conference at UH opens doors for new scientists, engineers
... presenters at this year's conference will include past H-LSAMP scholars who have gone on to become medical students, practicing engineers, high school science teachers, computer programmers and middle school counselors, as well as those embarking on the pursuit of graduate degrees that range from applied...Marijuana use could cause tubal pregnancies
...ed 18 to 25 said they had used the drug within the past month. The federal survey interviews approximately 67,500 people each year. Marijuana exerts its effects in the brain and peripheral organs through two cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2. Lipid molecules made by the body, called "endocannabinoids," a...Bronfenbrenner book sums up human development
...oremost theoretician of human development over the past half-century," says Richard M. Lerner, the director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University, in his foreword to Making Human Beings Human . "Urie Bronfenbrenner stands as first among his peers. His ideas have ...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...science aspects of fisheries management. "In the past few years, my primary contribution has been to use 'rational choice theory' to show under what conditions groups of people will and will not develop rules to conserve the resources on which their livelihood depends," Acheson says. "This has led me in...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
... particles in a liquid, and then run this solution past the nanowire array. Lieber's co-authors are Fernando Patolsky, Gengfeng Zheng, Oliver Hayden, Melike Lakadamyali, and Xiaowei Zhuang, all of Harvard's departments of chemistry and chemical biology, physics, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sc...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
... Academy of Neurology meeting in Philadelphia this past April. The study being conducted at Rush uses a more sophisticated means of delivering NGF to the brain and does not require a skin biopsy or the use of skin cells. Alzheimer's disease is caused by brain degeneration and is marked by the death of ce...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
...technology, both of which have been created in the past two years alone....UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
... specializes in identifying rhodoliths. During the past several months, Riosmena-Rodriguez conducted a number of tests aimed at identifying the rhodoliths at his laboratory at the Marine Botany Program at Autonomous University of Baja California Sur in La Paz, Mexico. Some of the tests involved slicing th...Yale digital diagnostic technology is basis of new company, HistoRx Inc.
...an three million tissue samples collected over the past 70 years. Robert Curtis, president, CEO and co-founder of HistoRx, said, "The company is grounded in the firm belief that the power of AQUA TM , coupled with the extensive clinical data of the Yale tissue archive, provides an extraordina...Scientists decipher genetic code of biothreat pathogen
...hly evolved pathogen that has been deployed in the past as a biological weapon, has an extremely regulated set of virulence genes and an unstable genome that may explain the bacterium's ability to thwart the immune responses of its host animals mainly horses, mules and donkeys. "The combination of vir...Algal contact as a trigger for coral disease
... for the elevated incidence of coral diseases over past decades. Moreover, measures to reduce seaweed abundance may be essential if significant coral populations are to survive on coralreefs....Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...s fodder for numerical models he uses to interpret past climate changes and predict future ones. His research reveals an Earth where ice sheets can melt more--raising sea levels faster--than anyone previously imagined. Brian Enquist , 35, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) for his work in the field of ...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
... our lives. This fascinating book delves into the past discoveries that led to the sequencing of the human genome, presents genomics challenges facing today's scientists as well as society in general, and outlines future possibilities of the developing genome era. Social issues, particularly questions o...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...nt of women who have been on low-carb diets in the past six months said they actually took a daily multivitamin containing folic acid. So perhaps these women are taking their vitamins because they realize they're missing out on important food groups." However, Dr. Howse said, low-carb and other diets...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
... enrolled in the study, only one died. During the past three years, 15 deployed dogs have died, of which eight had cancer. At the current time, neither the death rate nor the cancer rate is different from that of the control group. "Given the mature age of these dogs and their expected lifespan, ...... diseases emerging in humans and animals."Over the past 20 years, unprecedented rates of change in non human biodiversity have coincided with the emergence and re emergence of numerous infectious diseases around the world," said Sam Scheiner, EID program director at NSF. "The coincidence of broad-scale e...