Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
... in Pacific Grove, Calif. The dedication will take place in the Monterey Boat Works Auditorium and is free and open to the public. For directions, visit www-marine.stanford.edu/HMSweb/map.html . The event will begin with the presentation of the 16th annual Van Niel Lecture, ''Tree of Life - Web of Life,...Grant from GE Foundation to University of Houston to strengthen math, tech 'pipeline'
... to host plant tours to showcase the technology in place in today's competitive energy environment....Genetic screening study at Stanford ID's most aggressive adult leukemia strains
...r some patients, those indicators aren't enough to place them in a high-risk or low-risk group, and doctors may be left guessing which treatments to try. "This intermediate-risk group poses the biggest problem for assigning treatment," said Jonathan Pollack, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, who l...Evolution's mirror in a fish's spines
...me locations in the freshwater fish, including the place where hindfins would normally develop. " Pitx1 is actually involved in a number of different processes, including pituitary development and craniofacial development," said Kingsley. "So, any changes in the protein itself would affect all of those st...Researchers identify unifying code among diverse classes of natural antibiotics
...ns between host and pathogen that have been taking place over profound spans of time. In addition to its potential for use in developing novel anti-infective strategies, this structural signature will facilitate the discovery of antimicrobial molecules as yet unknown, and offers a new understanding of how ...Researchers find no safe place to sit in California tick-infested forest
...are seeking hosts to feed upon may be going to the place where they'll have the greatest chance of finding a lizard. Humans or pets that happen to come along for a picnic lunch or a short rest on a log may be putting themselves in harm's way." DNA tests revealed that 3 to 4 percent of the ticks the researc...UF study: Barren Siberia, of all places, may be original home to animal life
...ear in the fossil record, may have originated in a place known today largely for its barren lifelessness: S...eria at the time -- it wasn't as cold and desolate place as it is today," Meert said. "It was in a better place (in the Southern hemisphere) but it's interes...Freeing Nemo: Aquarium owners releasing non-native fish could endanger marine ecosystems
...y. Most of the species were seen at more than one place meaning more than just a few aquariums have been dumped, Semmens says. It is not clear which, if any, of the non-natives have established breeding populations, he said. The more times a species is released, however, the greater the chance of establi...Loggerhead sea turtles nesting earlier due to warmer ocean temperatures
...Some of the management practices that have been in place -- such as lights out at certain times of the year and whether or not you're allowed to drive on the beach during certain times of the year -- could be affected," Weishampel said. The turtles' fertility and the ratios of male to female hatchlings als...Ancient Greeks help scientists build environmentally friendly nano devices
...ence CMMP 2004. This four-day conference will take place from Sunday 4th to Wednesday 7th April 2004 at the...for other useful Nano-particles, tethering them in place ("Contained Nano"). The nano-honeycomb structures can provide the equivalent of a scaffolding to ass...Can you tell the difference between Quarks and DNA?
...nvited lectures on cutting-edge research will take place throughout the three day conference include: M. Birse (Manchester), Chiral symmetry and nuclear forces; P. Campbell Manchester), Optical spectroscopy beyond the ground state; H. Geissel (GSI, Germany), Precision measurements with exotic atoms and nu...Comprehensive study: We know little about environmental effects on kids
...heir organs are developing." Many assumptions take place when trying to evaluate the impact of chemicals and drugs on children, says John Benitez, M.D., managing director of the Finger Lakes Regional Poison and Drug Control Center, based in Rochester, N.Y. "Historically, it was assumed by many that if a ce...Physics tip sheet #41 - April 5, 2004
...ion jams; otherwise it flows freely. Jamming takes place even though the tube is many times wider than the beads, an effect the author likens to "a traffic jam on a 500-lane highway." The system also displays a "self-filtering" effect-- the concentration of beads decreases after the suspension is sucked th...Water molecules clump more loosely than previously thought
...e that formally opened Jan. 29, would be the ideal place for that. ''We propose to build a new facility at SPEAR3 where the structure of water would be a large part of the scientific drive,'' he says. ''Water covers the majority of the Earth's surface, is present in all forms of life and is perhaps the mos......rce formally opened on Jan. 29, would be the ideal place for that. "We propose to build a new facility at SPEAR3 where the structure of water would be a large part of the scientific drive," he says. "Water covers the majority of the earth's surface, is present in all forms of life and is perhaps the most i...Bim notes in the neuronal executioner's song
...laude Wasterlain, of Epilepsy Research Laboratory, place this work in context with the complexity of cell-death pathways and highlight specific areas of future analysis that are still required to understand the molecular mechanisms at play in neuronal damage....JCI table of contents, 2 April 2004
...laude Wasterlain, of Epilepsy Research Laboratory, place this work in context with the complexity of cell-death pathways and highlight specific areas of future analysis that are still required to understand the molecular mechanisms at play in neuronal damage. TITLE: Bim regulation may determine hippocampa...Creating polymers that act like biomolecules
...e, forming a polymer gel. A similar reaction takes place as pH rises - the hydrophobicity of the cationic blocks increases which also helps in gel formation." As temperature and/or pH drops, the process reverses itself and the gels dissolve back into micelles and polymer strands. Using cryotransmi...Scientists seek cause for what makes good cell go bad
...bout the intracellular molecular mechanisms taking place within a cell." In addition to carrying out experiments on E. coli's transduction network, the researchers also reproduced its components in a computer simulation and obtained the same results. In future studies, the team will apply similar approache......seemed like an ideal target. Because of its unique place in the skull, its shape says a lot about a species." The complex shape of the temporal bone is influenced by many other anatomical features, including brain size, jaw size, hearing and posture. Using the method to compare data involving 22 "landmarks...