National Science Board selects leading chemists to establish new Science and Technology Center
...ative solvents,DeSimone said. It will build on the pioneering research already done by centerfaculty. "Our goal is to lead the environmental revolution in significantlyreducing the amount of organic and water wastes generated in the manufacture ofpolymers and chemicals, in painting, cleaning and coating...'Keys to cures' -- an online expedition to the frontier of biomedical research
...prospecting forpowerful new drugs and performing a pioneering submersible-based biodiversitysurvey of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The rest of us will onlyhave to travel as far as the nearest computer to join in this noble scientificadventure. @Sea, (http://www.at-sea.org) , a website sponsor...USGS studies wildfire ecology in the western United States
... Sierra Nevada Forests Since the 1960s, pioneering studies on the effects of both forest fires and decades of fire suppression have been carried out in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California in Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. As in the Southwest, fire suppression in the Sierra N...Better "bugs" lead to cheaper ethanol from biomass
...he Laboratory because they help us get some of our pioneering research in genetically engineered organisms into wider use," said Mark Finkelstein, director of NREL's Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals center. "The basic research done by NREL has significant economic value when deployed with Arkenol's su......nvited to Japan. He is to deliver a lecture on his pioneering work on anti-scale magnetic treatment devices at the International Workshop on Chemical, Physical and Biological Processes under Magnetic Fields later this week. The conference is a highly prestigious event with backing from the Japanese Science and ......romosome's genetic code. In recognition of earlier pioneering genetics research on chromosome 22 byDr. Emanuel and her colleagues, the National Institutes of Health designated The Children's Hospitalof Philadelphia, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, as a HumanGenome Center...Fertilizers linked to amphibian deaths
...s enough to kill amphibians." Blaustein has done pioneering research on the potential impact of UV-B radiation in sunlight as one of the possible causes of amphibian problems. He now says that exposure to nitrogen fertilizers - along with habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, pathogens and introduce...Mental health insurance illiteracy at serious high
....D. explore the positive and negative aspects of a pioneering 1952 model commitment law as well as the developments that followed. Dr. Talbott notes that the legal rights of seriously mentally ill citizens, which started off with some decisions still left in medical hands, deteriorated into an imbalanced system...... To analyze these complex datasets, Haussler is pioneering the use of a new statistical method based on the theory of support vector machines (SVMs). SVMs are able to handle high-dimensional datasets in which each data point has many features or attributes. "It's hard to visualize because we live in a thre...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
...der, University Professor, Rutgers University, for pioneering mathematical work in the creation of nonlinear fun...eering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for pioneering work in the area of speech science that led to the development of new technologies to synthesize and...NC State scientists confirm second toxic pfiesteria species
...she said. "She's done some of the most significant pioneering research on how toxic algal blooms impact wild and cultured shellfish populations."...A new way to engineer cells: The Staudinger ligation
...taudinger, who won the Nobel Prize in 1953 for his pioneering work in polymer chemistry, the Staudinger reaction occurs between an azide and a phosphine, a molecule containing a phosphorus atom. The azide sheds two nitrogen atoms, and a compound called an aza-ylide is formed. At first glance, this reaction s......D-Salk Institute Translational Medicine Award, for pioneering scientific and clinical work that leads to therapeutic advances, was given to Dr. Dennis Slamon and to Genentech, Inc., represented by Arthur Levinson, chairman and chief executive officer. Slamon, director of the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research ...New NASA web site features women's contributions to NASA's Microgravity Research Program
...r's myriad activities. She started her career with pioneering studies in modeling metals and exploring the best way to conduct a variety of experiments at the same time inside space-based laboratories. "When I was 15 years old, I witnessed John Glenn's first launch into space from my high school yard in Cocoa...Scientists, research advocates honored as Albert B. Sabin Heroes of Science
...f the 20th century. His majorcontributions include pioneering research in nuclear medicine,research and clinical...s health studies,services and programs for NIH and pioneering the NIH Office ofWomen's Health Research. Throughout her career, Dr. Kirschstein hassought to incre...Michael Czech to receive CIIT Founders' Award
...essment. Professor Czech is being honored for his pioneering work on the molecular action of insulin on glucose transport and itsimpact on the study of diabetes. He is also recognized for adding to the fundamental knowledge of the cell signaling process,which improves our understanding of potential actions of ...UF researchers develop tiny tool kit to study genes and unhealthy cell
...dual cells to test for disease. Additionally, he's pioneering microscopic "nanoparticles" that could carry drugs directly to sickly cells to treat or exterminate them. All the tools meld biotechnology with the fast emerging field of nanotechnology, which endeavors to create self-assembling molecular machines. ......eld of fisheries. Ney was cited for his long-term, pioneering research on reservoir fish communities.Since 1976, he and his students have studied energy flow and trophic relationships of reservoir fish assemblages because food supply is usually the prime factor limiting fisheries productivity in these sprawling...$16.3M grant will fund program to develop mouse models for neurological research
...on and behavior. Dr. Seburn and his colleagues are pioneering systems and techniques to automatically measure such phenotypes as muscular strength, balance and coordination, sensory function, learning, anxiety, seizure susceptibility, hearing defects, ingestive behavior, activity, and metabolic performance. The......ucts that improve human life. Today, thanks to the pioneering research of the 2000 Welch Award co-recipients, we are closer to understanding how nature makes these products and being able to re-create that work in the test tube. Sir Alan R. Battersby, Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Ca...