Why lung cancer in women is different from men
...LC also mentors women health care professionals to pursue careers in lung cancer research. The WALC board is composed of leading women oncology health care professionals in the United States and Canada, along with members of women's advocacy groups and the lay public. For more information on Loyola Unive...K-State business researchers to help with major study on food supply veterinary medicine
...uiting and training the type of students likely to pursue a career in food supply veterinary medicine," said Dr. John Thompson of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. Andrus' areas of research include marketing professional services, marketing education and international marketing. He ha...Yale professor receives Johnson & Johnson Focused Giving award
... With this grant Altman's group will pursue the basis of their observation that directly inhibiting expression of one of the protein subunits (Rpp38) in human nuclear RNase P turned off the expression of some, but not all, subunits without further cell manipulation. The research ...UK small firms pay lip service to green issues
...did not feel there was enough time in their day to pursue environmental measures that were not a natural bi-product of their core management activities. At the top of the supply chain in the building sector, architects claimed that whilst lip service was paid to sustainability issues within the industry, th...New public policy & aging report highlights facts and fiction about anti-aging medicine
...ost of Case Western Reserve University urges us to pursue anti-aging agendas in order to "invent a long-lived society in which we can retain our capacities more fully until death." This publication is the first in a series of summer events designed to confront the hope and hype of anti-aging medicine. On Ju...Hopkins to found first center for comprehensive study of epigenetics
...plan" to encourage racial and ethnic minorities to pursue education and careers in genetics and genomics. Th... hopefully increasing the number of minorities who pursue education and careers in genome sciences," says Feinberg. Others closely involved with the center's...Innovative efforts target epigenetics, molecular imaging
...n plan to encourage underrepresented minorities to pursue education and careers in the field of genomics. Dr. Feinberg and his colleagues will offer select, Baltimore-area high school students the chance to conduct genetic research during their summer breaks, and will also work to add a genomics component t...Germans must research the history of reproductive medicine during the Nazi era
...ized on the opportunities offered by the regime to pursue their research. "Not all who used this opportunity did so from unscrupulous motives; however, for many scientists, the scientific impetus triumphed over ethical scruples. This definitely goes for the anatomist Hermann Stieve, who undertook a fundam...Design competition for new Antarctic Research Station
...work. Both BAS and RIBA share a common mission to pursue excellence. This project will be a fusion of science, architecture, technology and engineering that lends itself perfectly to an international design competition.' The competition begins with a call for Expressions of Interest from multi-disciplina...Plant pathologists look to forensics to aid in biosecurity
...o be designed to allow legitimate investigators to pursue research without unnecessary intrusion," Fletcher said. More on how forensics can be applied to plant health and crop security will be presented during the Microbial Forensics: Plant Pathogen Models symposium at the APS Annual Meeting in Anaheim, C...$1.6 million grant to Williams College
...llaborations, and encouraging minority students to pursue careers in science, in this year alone, HHMI pledged $49.5 million in four-year grants, ranging from $500,000 to $1.6 million, to 42 baccalaureate and master's degree institutions in the United States and Puerto Rico. "It is an honor to receive this...Human periodontal ligament stem cells isolated for the first time
...indings, Shi said he and his colleagues decided to pursue the next big question: Could these stem cells actually form periodontal ligament and cementum when transplanted into mice? Of the 13 transplants - each of which was derived from a distinct colony of stem cells cultured in the laboratory and loaded...OHSU scientists find gene influencing drug withdrawal
...t not all, drugs. "There are a lot of questions to pursue with this gene, a lot of questions we can now begin to answer," Shirley said. As Mpdz's protein interactions, neural circuits, withdrawal-regulating mechanisms, and contribution to continued drug abuse and relapse are uncovered, new pharmaceutical th...Study reveals evolution on the (butterfly) wing
... to determine wing patterns. And as the scientists pursue the mystery, they hope to gain new insights into the intricacies of evolution at the molecular level and how natural selection drives evolution....Leading scientists design new framework for biodiversity conservation
...'perfect world' planning scenarios to aggressively pursue opportunities to safeguard habitat for species that are most in need." Creating networks of parks and protected areas is a cornerstone of global conservation strategies. Yet 40% of highly threatened vertebrates mammals, birds, amphibians and reptile...New framework for biodiversity conservation
...'perfect world' planning scenarios to aggressively pursue opportunities to safeguard habitat for species that are most in need." Creating networks of parks and protected areas is a cornerstone of global conservation strategies. Yet 40% of highly threatened vertebrates mammals, birds, amphibians and reptile...Convulsions in worms mimic epileptic seizures
...redits Caldwell's enthusiasm for motivating him to pursue research as an undergraduate....Pioneering AIDS researcher to speak at UH
...ed in AIDS research for 20 years. He continues to pursue therapeutic studies that attempt to eradicate HIV, in addition to efforts to develop a vaccine to halt the spread of the AIDS epidemic. The lecture will be Web cast live at http://www.uh.edu/streaming/live.htm and archived at http://www.uh.edu/a...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...d expert on designing microarray experiments, will pursue technologies to analyze the gene expressions. The experimental users of BeeSpace will be an international community of biologists who study honey bees and related organisms. The education and outreach will be supervised by Bertram Bruce, professor o...Groundbreaking research could ignite new solutions to heat transfer in nano-devices
...portunity to see what my future would be like if I pursue a research track," said Mr. Sechler, a junior who now plans to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry. The research used vibrational spectroscopy with picosecond time resolution to ...