Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...ject that found an innovative way to deal with the problem of hog waste. They went on to win the Manning Inno...exciting" opportunity to find a solution to a real problem in tackling the hog waste. Their solution generated interest from a number of companies but unfortun...Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
...etty dramatic changes in the ecosystem." One major problem today is that, because of human encroachment, there are no refuges for animals that might want to relocate because of climate change. "One thing we can do, as conservationists, is to create and connect natural areas" to allow animals to move around, ...New study shows hope for treating inhalant abuse
...eating inhalant abuse as it continues to grow as a problem among adolescents." There are currently no pharmaceutical treatments for inhalant abuse. The study was conducted by putting rats through a series of conditioning tests. The tests were intended to condition the animals to learn which chambers of a...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...e the metabolic interactions represent an emerging problem that is going to bring on significant premature cardiovascular disease and diabetes over the next few decades," said Dr. Grundy, chairman of human nutrition. "We're trying to get a handle on that issue from every aspect." Obesity is associated with m...AAAS US Presidential Candidates' Forum
... levels of global warming pollution are making the problem worse." He proposed that the solution lies in negotiating with and working with other nations. Although Bush's article in Science noted "key uncertainties remain concerning the underlying causes and nature of climate change," it stated that his agend...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...r has responded. Despite these attributes, the one problem with listeria has been toxicity. Though a relatively rare disease, listeriosis has a high fatality rate of between 20 and 30 percent. It made headlines two years ago when 20 people, including several children, died of listeriosis from tainted hamburg...Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
...are no elephants left here,'" he said. "That's the problem in the forest you don't notice the change in population until it's so dramatic that it's almost too late to do anything about it." Wasser is lead author of a paper describing the new means of determining ivory origins, being published the week of S...Master of antimalarial resistance
...sistant malaria has become an increasingly serious problem in the developing world, with death rates rising as a consequence. The experiments conducted by Fidock and colleagues suggest that previously unknown mutations in the pfrct gene are associated with Plasmodium falciparum's resistance to halofantrine a...Anthrax enzyme images reveal secrets of antibiotic resistance, suggest new drug design
.... Jude study holds promise for solving the growing problem of antibiotic resistance among microorganisms causing tuberculosis, pneumonia and a variety of other diseases, according to Kerim Babaoglu, the paper's first author. "The pharmaceutical industry is reducing its investment in developing new antibiotic......esearch is focused on the St. Lawrence River, this problem may be more wide-spread, affecting other freshwater systems. "We found mussel shells and whole mussels in the stomachs of nearly 60 percent of the examined fish," says McGill University biologist and lead author Anthony Ricciardi. "This is a concern...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...riophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. "A problem with antibiotics is that bacteria can mutate and become resistant to a particular antibiotic, while the antibiotic is static and cannot change," said Jeffery F. Miller, professor and chair of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at UCLA, w...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...ach to understanding biology that will address the problem of information overload. "We're calling this new approach Systems Morphogenetics," Cheng said. "This new, more integrated view of biology will focus on understanding how genes determine form and function during organisms' life spans, across the spec......scientists knew these diseases were triggered by a problem with mitochondrial fusion, but didn't understand fusion itself, says Jodi Nunnari, a UC Davis professor of molecular and cellular biology. Mitochondrial fusion was tricky to understand because mitochondria are structurally complex, Nunnari said. A m...Researchers develop fast track way to discover how cells are regulated
...t, worm, fly or human, scientists are faced with a problem -- the incredible number of genes," explains Susan...ng one gene at a time -- is too slow. It becomes a problem of scale, with high throughput the only answer." Mango's team used a unique process that combines ...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...nce. "We will take a fresh look at the fundamental problem of the mechanism of behavior, whether behavior is caused by nature or nurture," said Schatz, who also directs the Community Architectures for Network Information Systems (CANIS) Laboratory, a campus resource for new information systems. "Worries abou...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...tality rate and is therefore regarded as a serious problem worldwide. In the study a combination of oregano and cranberry extracts (75% oregano and 25% cranberry) was applied to meat and fish and refrigerated at 39 degrees Fahrenheit. Antimicrobial activity in meat and fish increased...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...e the topic and provide a seminar to delineate the problem and develop a plan. In 2004, they then drew up a proposal to NSF, one of 100 proposals the FIBR program considered. Washington University is one of six institutions to receive FIBR funding this year. Team members of "A Systems Approach to Study Re...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...atory chain/oxidative phosphorylation system. The problem is that there are about 120 genes involved in this system, some that are found in the mitochondria, and thus inherited through the mother, and some that are found in the nucleus and are inherited from both the mother and the father. Between the numb...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...charge (EOD) to both communicate and navigate. The problem is that if neighbors use the same signal, it creates a serious "who's who" problem. The fish deal with this by shifting the frequency of their EOD, the "jamming avoidance response."......atory chain/oxidative phosphorylation system. The problem is that there are about 120 genes involved in this system, some that are found in the mitochondria, and thus inherited through the mother, and some that are found in the nucleus and are inherited from both the mother and the father. Between the numb...