Genetic mutations linked to the practice of burning coal in homes in China
...risk of developing lung cancer. The study is being presented Sunday, Oct. 3, at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society being held Oct. 2 to 6 at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers. "Lung cancer mortality rates in Xuan Wei are among the highest in China in both nonsmoking women and men who s...Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...cator from the National Tropical Botanical Garden, presented a Samoan-language PowerPoint presentation on genetic engineering in each village. A previous royalty agreement on Prostratin was signed in 2001 by the Prime Minister of Samoa and the AIDS ReSearch Alliance, which is sponsoring clinical trials of Pros...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...cator from the National Tropical Botanical Garden, presented a Samoan-language PowerPoint presentation on genetic engineering in each village. A previous royalty agreement on Prostratin was signed in 2001 by the Prime Minister of Samoa and the AIDS ReSearch Alliance, which is sponsoring clinical trials of Pros...Chemical engineering grad students will take notable national awards
... of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The awards will be presented in early November at the organization's annual con...ngineering department at NJIT. The awards will be presented on November 8 during AIChE's annual meeting in Texas. Both students worked under the direction o...Researchers determine genetic cause of Timothy syndrome
...e W. Timothy of the University of Utah. That child presented with cardiac arrhythmia and a webbing, or syndactyly, of the hands and feet characteristics of what has now come to be called Timothy syndrome in honor of Katherine Timothy's long and distinguished career as a scientist investigating the causes of c...EMBO Gold Medal 2004 goes to Spanish scientist
...d wide recognition in the field. The medal will be presented to the winner at the EMBO Members Meeting, "Frontiers of Molecular Biology", in Vienna on October 15, 2004. The EMBO Gold Medal highlights the high standards being reached in molecular biology in Europe. Awarded annually to a scientist under 40 years...Award winning researchers reveal potential new role for Glivec
... exhibits a particular genetic profile. The study, presented at the EORTC-NCI-AACR[2] Symposium on Molecular Ta...t individualising therapeutics. The award is being presented today to Dr. McArthur, the lead researcher, by Professor Esteban Cvitkovic, president of the foundat...Veterans with Gulf War syndrome have damage in specific, primitive portion of nervous system
... In previous studies, Dr. Haley and his colleagues presented evidence attributing the veterans' illness to low-level exposure to sarin gas a potent nerve toxin which drifted over thousands of soldiers when U.S. forces detonated Iraqi chemical stores during and after the Gulf War. A recent report from the Gov...Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
...circulation without cell culture. The results were presented in a poster presentation at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2004 meeting in Washington D.C. (Abstract # 550778). Intracoronary infusion of adipose tissue-derived regenerative cells 48 hours after infarction was found to be safe, with al...Posters highlight water, energy and other natural resource research
...ral different science and engineering disciplines, presented posters highlighting research being conducted in m...on-INRA university students and three winners were presented cash awards totaling $1,750. W. Robert Bolton of the University of Alaska Fairbanks was awarded firs...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...re, Calif., are named. The Lawrence Awards will be presented at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on November 8. Fisch, a physicist, will receive the award in the nuclear technology category for his discovery of ways to use plasma waves to produce currents in fusion tokamaks. These toroidal curre...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
...s to deliver the NGF. Results from that study were presented at the American 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 d...Environmental issues center of Inland Northwest Research Alliance 4th Annual Symposium
...unities. The level of research being conducted and presented at the symposium provides an excellent mix of science professionals and government agencies working toward furthering the environmental agenda relating to energy, nuclear and national security issues....Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
...ion of a walking person. When a walking figure was presented to each of the two eyes, perception alternated bet...re scrambled such that one half of each walker was presented to each eye, rivalry was all but abolished. Although our brain does not recognize walking figures...Martin Saunders to receive the James Flack Norris Award
...ntributions to physical organic chemistry, will be presented to Saunders at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego California in March 2005. Saunders will receive the award for his seminal contributions to the NMR spectroscopy, structures and rearrangements of carbocations, for a ne...Prion propagation: Avoiding the toxic oligomer
...ident in other amyloid-forming proteins, the model presented here may be shared as well. Future studies will have to explore this question, along with the issues of how oligomers figure into the process and how they cause disease. Weissman and colleagues raise the possibility that creating conditions that favo...The American Phytopathological Society announces 2004 awards
...ounce its 2004 award recipients. These awards were presented at the APS Annual Meeting, August 2004, in Anaheim...y. James W. Travis, Penn State University, was presented the Excellence in Extension Award. This award recognizes excellence in extension plant pathology. ...Brain has center for detecting sound motion
...nd coming toward [her] face." When the researchers presented moving sounds to the patient while they recorded from the electrodes, they also detected the strongest activity in the right posterior STG. After the operation, however, the patient showed what the researchers dubbed "cortical motion deafness." Durin...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...e disease, compared with apoE/ mice. apoE/TP/ mice presented with fewer markers of dis-ease. These data indicate that PGI2 protects against and TXA2 promotes atherosclerosis development. The use of TP antagonists and molecules with PG-like activity may therefore aid in atherosclerosis prevention. Furthermore ...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
...hool of Veterinary Medicine report. The findings, presented in the Sept. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, should help relieve fears about the after-effects of working at the 9/11 sites. For the last three years, the Penn researchers tracked the health of dogs and handl...