Bush nominates NJIT space explorer Louis Lanzerotti to NSF governing board
...sion of the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA has twice recognized Lanzerotti's contributions to science with the agency's Distinguished Scientific Achievement Medal. He has also received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and the William Nordberg Medal for space science from the Committee on Space Researc...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...rsity's Lobster Institute.He is an internationally recognized authority on economic anthropology and the social science aspects of fisheries management. "In the past few years, my primary contribution has been to use 'rational choice theory' to show under what conditions groups of people will and will not dev...No role for simian virus 40 in human pleural mesotheliomas
... future studies with SV40. "Because SV40 was a recognized contaminant of some polio and adenovirus vaccines in the 50's and early 60's, its potential to cause cancer in humans has been a source of intense debate since the apparent detection of SV40 DNA in some human tumors was first reported," explained Fer...DuPont scientist named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's 'Technology Review' Magazine
... impact on today's world. This year's nominees are recognized for their contributions in transforming the nature of technology and business in industries such as biotechnology and medicine, computing and nanotechnology. "In the five years since we began naming our annual selection of the world's top innovators ...UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
...m to Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, an internationally recognized marine taxonomist who specializes in identifying rhodoliths. During the past several months, Riosmena-Rodriguez conducted a number of tests aimed at identifying the rhodoliths at his laboratory at the Marine Botany Program at Autonomous University of...Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
...combined, these results show that once a walker is recognized it can cause dominance of signals from one eye and suppression of signals from the other. This is strong evidence that the brain's expectation that there should be a walking figure between the dots is somehow transmitted to the earliest level of the ...Genetic modification of linseed produces healthier omega 3 and 6 fatty acids
... two or more double bonds. PUFA are increasingly recognized as important components of a healthy human diet. Increased consumption, in particular of the very long chain PUFA such as those found in fish oils, has been linked to a decreased risk of heart disease, and also to a variety of other health benefits, ...Genetic analysis rewrites salamander's evolutionary history
... anticipated," he said. "Only one of the currently recognized four major groups is supported." The study, published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was conducted by Wake's graduate student, Rachel Mueller, to understand the evolution of the Plethodontid sa...IBD (Crohn's, Colitis) 'joins' cancer, inflammatory diseases in associated blood vessel growth
..., 2004) Over at least the last decade it has been recognized that the growth of new blood vessels is critical in the pathogenesis of cancer because it increases blood supply to malignant tissue. Relatively recently, a novel pathogenic role of angiogenesis has been established for such chronic inflammatory dise...DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
...e as one of the safest companies in the world with recognized excellence in science and technology and in-depth knowledge of key markets....Proteins show promise for mosquito control
...ntracted malaria when she was 13. A school teacher recognized her symptoms and encouraged her to see a physician. "I was drenched in sweat and pale as paper," Lan recalls. Interestingly, her father had malaria when he was a teenager. "That's 50 percent of my family," she says. "Control is urgent," Lan says. "...New treatment for fibromyalgia
...d norepinephrine--chemicals key to mood and widely recognized for their role in depression. Not all patients with fibromyalgia, however, have depression or respond to antidepressants. Treatment studies of the other types of antidepressant drugs, including selective serotonin uptake inhibitors and tricyclic agen...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
... group contributed to this award and deserve to be recognized as well. It was truly a group effort involving many different aspects of optics, electronics, and materials science to bring the technology to the state of commercialization." Six oil-field sensor technologies are now licensed to Tubel Technologies ...NJIT professor receives Presidential Award for breakthrough research with adult stem cells
...r at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) was recognized today by President Bush for research showing that adult stem cells could help patients suffering from spinal cord injuries, bone and cartilage damage and related diseases. Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...omelli complimented Labs researchers because "They recognized that when you apply technology to a biological system, you can't just plunk it in there without having biological expertise to apply the high tech in a practical way." The way it works The dense array of sensors in the 8m x 18...Single isolated mouse skin cell can generate into variety of epidermal tissues
... inhibits growth -- and that is why they have been recognized as slow cycling," says Lowry. After expanding an isolated stem cell clone several million times, the researchers grafted the cells on to the back of a mouse that had no hair, and demonstrated that the grafted cells, all derived from a single parent s...Analysis of gene expression in lymphoid cells can determine lymphoma cancer
...oid tissue," explains Giordano, an internationally recognized researcher in the genetics of cancer and gene therapy. "The change of levels of CDK9 and CYCLIN T1 in lymphoid cells shows a correlation with activity of the cancer. The higher the expression of the gene and the attached molecule in the blood sample...APS awards more than $140,000 to minority students of physiology
..., Science and Engineering Mentoring, which in part recognized APS for 40 years of extraordinary efforts to mentor underrepresented minorities in the physiological sciences. The fellowship is open to underrepresented ethnic minority applicants who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its ...Researchers improve detection of diverse anthrax strains
...hows that diverse strains of pathogens will not be recognized unless they are contained within the scope for the discovery process. "That the genetic relationships of anthrax have been defined to a new level of precision provides a critical step toward future detection of this potential public threat," added K......The significance of BES contributions was recently recognized through a $4,900,000 grant renewal from the National Science Foundation, which will fund the study for another 6 years. BES Director Dr. Steward T. A. Pickett, of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, comments, "By linking studies of human populations...