Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...realized how big the field of biotechnology is. It really opened my eyes to the scope and wide range of new ...ts became to busy with their university studies to really pursue commercial application. "We started the patent process but it became too costly and ...Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...be essential to verify the compound's potential to really prevent the development of cancer in a mouse model. "However, our data fit in with the general picture that lycopene and vitamin E may have chemopreventative effects on prostate cancer. Therefore we would certainly recommend that all men regularly e...Researchers determine genetic cause of Timothy syndrome
...appreciated," he said. "More broadly, this finding really highlights in a way that I haven't seen before the fundamental importance of calcium metabolism in development and physiology in humans." While Keating emphasized that autism remains a deeply mysterious and complex disorder, "it certainl...Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
...nlight even to overwinter and then start growing really rapidly once they return to sunlight," she says. Three or four microns in width as many as 70 could fit in the width of a human hair Thalassiosira pseudonana is among the smallest diatoms. Like its brethren, it is encased by a frustule, a rigid c...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...some ways isolated from other disciplines. This is really the first federal program to formalize collaboration," says Dartt. The three-year, nearly $2,200,000 "Planning Grant for Research on Blinding Eye Diseases" will fund the planning and piloting phase of what will ultimately be an interdisciplinary r...Study: Emission of smog ingredients from trees is increasing rapidly
...ves. "It's a big enough part of the puzzle that it really needs to go in there with the rest." The study may help explain why ozone levels have not improved in some parts of the country as much as was anticipated with the enactment of clean-air laws, Purves said. Environmental technologies such as catalytic...Hidden diversity: DNA 'barcoding' reveals a common butterfly is actually 10 different species
...called DNA barcoding shown that this "species" is really an amalgam of a number of genetically distinct lin... questions of how many other species out there are really multiple species like this one and what that might mean to wildlife conservation," said Daniel Janze...Tracing genes, biologists show lizard migration is traced to Florida
...wn lizard out-competes it," Kolbe said. "It's not really causing any problems for people, except for those who are partial to the green lizards and miss seeing them so much." The genetic changes occurring in the Florida populations are happening at a much quicker pace than that of typical Darwinia...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
...ent system." "What our results indicate is that we really deal with two very separate systems in movement," says Schaal. "There is an automatic system that, literally, functions without any thought; and a separate cognitive system that orchestrates more complex movement. And music? "Computational neuroscie...Alaska scientists find Arctic tundra yields surprising carbon loss
...t terrestrial ecosystems, said Bret-Harte" "What's really surprising about this result is that we didn't expect that this big loss of carbon from the soils would be stimulated by nitrogen alone. Everyone had assumed increased decomposition would be caused by increased temperatures, and the main effect of in...Bronfenbrenner book sums up human development
...publishing articles and books for 60 years on what really matters in the development of human beings. Now he has pulled his ideas together and published a new book that traces the historical development of his groundbreaking bioecological model of human development and detailing how it can be applied via pr...Research suggests new avenue for stopping, preventing colon cancer
...hich inhibit COX-2," DuBois explained. "Now we can really focus on key components of the downstream pathway." The research could lead to more specific and safer -- ways to prevent colorectal cancer. In addition to generating PGE2, the COX-2 enzyme produces another prostaglandin that blocks clot formation a...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...n follow the octopus for short periods, but what's really needed is an undersea robot that will wait patiently outside the creature's den, ready to shadow its every move. UA engineering undergrads, in collaboration with students from two other universities, are building a mini-sub to answer this need. In Ju...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
... the language. And that tells me there's something really core about that drive," Senghas said. Even without being taught, children automatically seek out rules of language such as discreteness to communicate, according to Senghas. "Everything surrounding the children is telling them that manner and path be...Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...pear before it rains? Why do we catch cold? What's really wrong with her car? Most of the time she's frustrated, but she takes comfort in the abstract realm of mathematics, where all facts stem from provable universal laws. Her single-mindedness helped prove the perfect-graph conjecture, a hypothesis that s...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
...adowed by science and technology. If the genome really is the book of life, then we have only just opened to the first of its many pages. Those who triumphantly claim DNA is destiny may have spoken too soon; it is far more likely that we cannot even imagine the full ends of the discoveries we have start...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...ortance of the male-female ratio. "This could be a really good model to help us understand how sexual selection arose in vertebrates, such as amphibians, that developed external fertilization," he said. Vieites recently joined the AmphiaWeb project, based at UC Berkeley, to sequence four genes from each of ...Genetic analysis rewrites salamander's evolutionary history
...rial genes and adding particular nuclear genes, we really are teasing apart issues related to our understanding of the tree of life," Wake said. Mueller obtained DNA samples from frozen salamander tissue in the collection of UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and over a two-year period worked with ...Laboratory grows world record length carbon nanotube
...nology Division, said, "although this discovery is really only a beginning, the continued development of longer length carbon nanotubes could result in nearly endless applications. Actually, the potential uses for long carbon nanotubes are probably limited only by our imagination." Long metallic carbon nan......ow it's all coordinated," Hahn said. "So there's a really good reason to look at this in live cells. You can't understand spatio-temporal control if you look at this in a test tube." Another reason to study Rho proteins is that their activation is necessary to induce essentially opposite behaviors. "They're...