Chemical industry research commitment spurs CIIT growth
...ology. The changes will begin this fiscal year and proceed in two phases. "This is a strong endorsement of our vision to become one of the elite environmental health science institutes," said CIIT President William F. Greenlee, who took over leadership of the Institute last August. "We are embarking on an e...June 'Geology' and 'GSA Today' highlights
...he tulip-shaped fault zone, deformation appears to proceed by aseismic creep. The paper documents a complex segmentation of the crust and an interplay between transform-parallel strike slip and extension in the tulip structure. It is not clear how slip on the buried transform propagates through the tul......together, so the folding process should be able to proceed more rapidly," says Flavio Seno of the University of Padova and a member of the research team. He adds, "Moreover, we found certain contacts that seem to appear again and again in these entryway structures, and those are precisely the ones that expe...New gene monitors cell division, cancer clinical applications seen
...letion of metaphase before allowing the process to proceed to anaphase. The newly identified chfr gene is the first identified that monitors prophase....... recommends that if a societal decision is made to proceed with IGM research, "comprehensive oversight mechanisms should be put in place to review and approve all IGM protocols for research and applications in both the public and private sectors." "The ethical and social issues," according to Frankel, "are ...Novel route to lupus-like disease in mice
... production of glycans in some tissues appeared to proceed via a pathway that did not require the a -mannosidase II enzyme. Exploring the differing pathways in the different tissues should give further insight into the role and machinery of glycosylation, he said. The clinical implications of the discovery...The future belongs to proteomics
...nately, new technologies are enabling this work to proceed rapidly. For example, identifying small networks of proteins that work together has been aided by powerful analytical techniques such as mass spectrometrywhich sorts and identifies molecules based on their mass. And sophisticated genetic analyses usi...Alcohol, sucrose and genetics influence cardiovascular risk
...h sucrose in a population with CVD. Both studies proceed from prior observations that carriers of the APOE E2 allele have lower serum LDL-cholesterol levels and higher triacylglycerol levels, whereas carriers of the APOE E4 allele have the highest LDL-cholesterol levels and the highest overall CVD risk. Co...Welch honors Kornberg for insights into DNA transcription
...e now in place to complete this work, so it should proceed much more easily than the previous structural studies, which required the development of new analysis methods, he says. Born in 1947, Dr. Kornberg earned a bachelors degree in chemistry from Harvard University and a doctorate in chemistry from Stanfo...ESA recommends cautious approach to releasing GMOs into the environment
... globe's future, scientists and governments should proceed with caution as they release these organisms into the environment, according to researchers at the Ecological Society of America. These cautionary words were issued as part of an official statement on GMOs which the Society released today in Washin...Biotechnology to protect soldiers of the future, report says
...ations for how the Army should proceed in developing biotechnology. Among its conclusions, the committee recommended that the Army should: collaborate with researchers in industry and academia who are already investig...Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
...to benefit from all the players agreeing on how to proceed from the outset." Prior to the founding of the Consortium, individual members, including the governments of Australia, Belgium, France, India, Mexico, and the United States were already investing an estimated US$1.2 million in banana genomics resear...Age at first drink: What does it really mean?
...ch as decreasing the proportion of adolescents who proceed to 'regular' drinking at an early age - might be more effective targets at which to aim efforts. "If drinking early is a cause of increased rates of alcoholism," concluded McGue, "then we could help to prevent adult alcoholism by getting kids to de...Ohio State chemist wins national award for study of reactive intermediates
...aining compounds, he explained. Chemical reactions proceed not by simply mutating from one form to another, but more often via intermediate molecules that may exist for only billionths of a second. Controlling the chemistry of these ephemeral species determines whether the reaction succeeds or fails, said Pl...Statement by Stanford President John Hennessy on Jim Clark`s stem cell announcement
...efforts in human embryonic stem cell research will proceed with vigor in spite of President Bush`s policy limiting the scope of that effort.`` Many scientists at Stanford and elsewhere, however, are justifiably concerned that the long-term impact of the restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research coul...2001 ICAAC postponed until December
...he ICAAC Scientific Program Committee had hoped to proceed with this major infectious disease meeting. However, as events continue to unfold following the horrible tragedy of September 11, uncertainties concerning the availability of safe, scheduled air travel force us to take this action in the best interes...Bizarre new protein blocks a real-life terminator
...iterminator then forms, allowing mRNA synthesis to proceed to completion and tryptophan synthesis to begin,`` she adds. Anti-TRAP In their Sept. 14 study, Yanofsky and Valbuzzi go one step further. They determined that, in addition to sensing the amount of tryptophan present B. subtilis also has a means ......ve samples."If the validation process continues to proceed well, the Livermore DNA-based detection system would likely be used by the California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory for future testing, Walker said. The Livermore-developed detection technology would need to be evaluated and approved as an a...New resources to assist with gene transfer clinical studies
...ting often limits the capacity of investigators to proceed with their research," said Dr. Judith Vaitukaitis, NCRR Director. "A cooperative national effort will help move this promising research forward." Frequently, physician scientists have had neither the ability to generate clinical grade vector in suffi...Discovery of dynamic sub-cellular processes could lead to medical applications
...n each layer causing modifications as the proteins proceed through the layers, finally to be shuttled into vesicles that take them to the cell's surface. Vesicles are bubble-like containers that bud from the Golgi apparatus and transport proteins to the cell's surface membrane. The vesicles themselves are ma...