ESA's minature Earth observer put to many uses
...uvrable enough to perform controlled rolls. That remarkable combination of abilities has aroused the interests of researchers worldwide. Last week around 40 of them met up at ESA's European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) centre at Frascati, Italy. They discussed their current and future uses of the instrume...Betty Ann Forbes wins 2004 ASM Founders Award
... (ASM) extending over more than a decade. This remarkable level of service also accompanies great professional accomplishment. Well known for her expertise in directing large-volume clinical microbiology and diagnostic virology laboratories, Forbes maintains highly productive research and publication progra...Ferr-D'amar wins 2004 Eli Lilly and Company Research Award
...American Society for Microbiology (ASM). It honors remarkable originality, accomplishment, and promise in a microbiologist or immunologist at the beginning of his or her career. At the ASM General Meeting, Ferr-D'Amar will present the Eli Lilly Award Lecture, "Crystallographic Studies of Catalytic RNA Function....Jennie Hunter-Cevera wins 2004 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award
...iology (ASM), the award recognizes Hunter-Cevera's remarkable expertise in collecting, maintaining, and preserving microbial cultures. At the ASM General Meeting, she will deliver the USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award Lecture, "Cultural Experiences of Thinking Like a Microbe." An innovative scientist, Hu...Researchers find evidence that sea turtles navigate with magnetic maps
... is based at least partly on a "magnetic map" -- a remarkable ability to read geographic position from subtle variations in the Earth's magnetic field. Previous work by the group showed that baby sea turtles can use magnetic information as a built-in compass to help guide them during their first migration acros...Searle Scholars program awards $240,000 to UT Southwestern researcher
...tually gifted investigator who shows promise for a remarkable and outstanding independent scientific career," said Dr. James Stull, chairman of physiology at UT Southwestern. Dr. Jiang's research focuses on determining the structure and function of ion channels, which are proteins found in cell membranes. I...The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
...peditions: One is the story of the seals and their remarkable adaptations to life on and beneath the Antarctic sea ice, while the other is a human story of adventure and discovery in one of the most punishing environments on Earth. The scientific question that Williams and seven fellow scienti...Brain cells become more discriminating when they work together
...differ by only a third of a degree. That is pretty remarkable when you consider that individual neurons normally don't respond to changes in orientation of ten degrees or more! It is even more amazing when you stop to think that a neuron is basically a little sack of salt water!" Bonds exclaims. Until recently,...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...rot seeds were planted. "It is remarkable that a one-time application of contaminated irrigation water or compost can result in pathogen contamination of radishes and carrots well beyond their growing cycle," say the researches. "Our results indicate that contaminated irrigation water or ma...Moss Landing researchers reveal iron as key to climate change
MOSS LANDING, California-- remarkable expedition to the waters of Antarctica reveals that iron supply to the Southern Ocean may have controlled Earth's climate during past ice ages. A multi-institutional group of scientists, led by Dr. Kenneth Coale of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (M...New IU Bloomington life sciences building gets a name
...ding will be named Simon Hall. "The Simon family's remarkable vision will enable Indiana University to significantly enhance basic research on our Bloomington campus. The collaborative research facilitated by the Simons' generosity will dramatically distinguish our work in the life sciences and advance our purs...Too good eyes for living below ground
...ws on the visual system of subterranean mammals. A remarkable number of mammals have turned to a completely or partially subterranean mode of life during the course of evolution - almost 300 species of rodents, insectivores and marsupials. As a presumed evolutionary adaptation to their lightless habitat, most o...Water molecules clump more loosely than previously thought
...and years of rigorous study, water can still yield remarkable surprises,'' says Patricia Dehmer, director of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences. ''This collaboration ... has given a new understanding of the molecular bonding in liquid water.'' In addition to Nilsson and Bergmann, the other SLAC scientists ......and years of rigorous study, water can still yield remarkable surprises." said Patricia Dehmer, Director of DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, "This collaboration between researchers at three Office of Science light sources has given a new understanding of the molecular bonding in liquid water." In addition ......genome sequences of several spirochetes provides a remarkable opportunity to study evolution," says Norris, who says all spirochetes are cousins even though they live in a wide variety of environments, including mud, clams, termite guts, ticks, and humans. By comparing the DNA sequences of more spirochetes, he ...Scientists discover why not enough choline results in fewer brain cells, poorer memory
... nerve cell division, he said. "Nature has built a remarkable switch into these genes something like the switches we have on the walls at home and at work," Zeisel said. "In this very complicated study, we've discovered that the diet during pregnancy turns on or turns off division of stem cells that form the me...Microbe's trick provides a template for willowy crystals
...arre and extreme environments, and that accomplish remarkable feats to survive there. Now, the flooded depths of an abandoned iron mine in southwestern Wisconsin have yielded yet another novelty: microbes that produce nanometer-scale crystals of extraordinary length. The discovery of the willowy microscopic cry...Researchers model embryo implantation and tumour metastasis in fruit flies
...es develop quite differently from humans, there is remarkable conservation of fundamental processes and the genes that control them. For example, two thirds of all known human disease genes are also present in fruit flies. "This cheap and tractable genetic system serves as a 'living test tube' in which to figu...Undisturbed Amazonian forests are changing, say scientists
...ago. "We really need more research to see if these remarkable changes are also happening in other tropical forests around the world. If they are, then it's likely that even the world's remotest forests are now being altered by human activities."......weight loss was clinically relevant, what is truly remarkable in the RIO-Lipids study is the significant effect rimonabant had on improving associated cardiovascular risk factors," said Jean-Pierre Despr's, principal investigator for RIO-Lipids and Professor in the Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition and ...