AGI Foundation endows congressional geoscience fellowship honoring William L. Fisher
...manent congressional staff positions or leadership roles in federal agencies following their fellowship. Others take their congressional experience back to the private sector or to state and local government service. The Congressional Science Fellowship Program, initiated 30 years ago, is coordinated by ...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...most-studied human proteins, including their known roles in health and disease, is expected to hold comprehensive information on 10,000 human proteins by year's end. Importantly, this database includes known interactions between proteins, creating a web that ties separate discoveries together. "This is t......showing that the lung collectins actually play two roles in the lungs, damping the immune response in some situations and promoting it in others. They showed that one end of the lung collectins binds to a molecule on lung cells that suppresses inflammation. But that same end of the lung collectins can reco...UCR geneticist spells out consequences of genetically engineered genes escaping into wild species
...l-written, objective account of the prevalence and roles of hybridization in plants, focusing on the relationships between crops and their wild and weedy relatives. This book is important reading for those concerned with the development of agriculture in the future, and the standards that ought to be appl...Real-time 'movies' will predict wildfire behavior for one hour
...re-detection research at RIT. The RIT team has two roles in its new project: -- To collect real-time data about wildfires using the airborne sensor, WASP, and ground-based sensors; and -- To use computer animation to visualize predicted fire behavior In between those two steps, is a unique fire behavior...Can heart failure impair thinking?
..., suggests neural damage in sites serving specific roles in memory, CO2 regulation, and sympathetic and par... appearing in regions that have demonstrated their roles in cardiovascular, CO2, cognitive, and motor regulation suggests that characteristics of autonomic d...Cellular problem discovered behind syndrome of obesity, learning disabilities
...s in other conditions. Cilia are known to play key roles in mammalian development, creating what's known as left-right asymmetry so organs like the heart, lungs and liver end up in the right place. In people with BBS, sometimes left-right asymmetry is reversed. Also, malfunctioning cilia in the back of the...JCI Table of Contents, September 15, 2003
...of Medicine in Houston, Texas, further discuss the roles of HDACs and Hop in cardiac hypertrophy. TITLE: Cardiac hypertrophy and histone deacetylasedependent transcriptional repression mediated by the atypical homeodomain protein Hop AUTHOR CONTACT: Jonathan A. Epstein University of Pennsylvania, Philadelp...Experimental cancer drugs may halt events that lead to cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
...udy HDAC inhibitors and their possible therapeutic roles in clinical trials to prevent hypertrophy in at-risk patients....Lasker Award honors Rockefeller University biochemist for pioneering studies of gene activation
...is beginning to define more specific physiological roles for the poorly understood coactivators. Four decades of honors Roeder was born in Boonville, Indiana, in 1942. He received a B.A. degree summa cum laude in chemistry from Wabash College in 1964, an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois ...New pollutant cleanup technique puzzles, pleases chemists
...These compounds play many important and beneficial roles in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, so they're not going away soon, and it's important that we find ways to minimize their environmental effects," he said. According to Meyer, scientists have known for decades that hemes, a naturally occur...Study shows critical role for steroids in insect embryonic development
... insect metamorphosis, very little was known about roles for the hormone during embryonic development. To find the answer, Thummel and Tatiana Kozlova, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research associate, looked at the activation pattern of the receptor for ecdysone. They found that this receptor is high...Microbes active in Colorado snows fuel tundra ecosystem
...ht into decomposition rates, carbon cycles and the roles of individual fungi in those processes." Surprisingly, the number of active microorganisms in tundra soils, for at least the top 10 centimeters, (about four inches) peaks when the soils are covered with snow. Schadt and colleagues performed their r...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2003
...decomposition rates, carbon cycles and perhaps the roles of individual fungi in these processes. Surprisingly, tundra soil - about the top 10 centimeters - reaches its annual peak number of active microorganisms beneath the snow. This is significant because snow-covered microbial metabolism is an important...Research on relative species abundance provides new theoretical foundation
...ferentiated" - that is, they have largely separate roles to play in biological communities. During that time, scientists have tried to measure the characteristics of species to predict their distribution and abundance in nature by measuring their "niche characteristics." Ecological nature is, many scientis...MicroRNAs - Tiny molecules shape up plants
...microRNAs and their targets seem to have important roles in helping the plant to decide when to produce flowers. The potential impact of this could be quite large, since it provides a new way of adapting plants to their environment." Also participating in the study were: Javier F. Palatnik, Max Planck Inst...UGA research team reveals molecular key to cell division
...e next year, I think we'll get a clear idea of new roles these molecules play in early cell development and then try to fit the pieces together to see how they may influence cell behavior in the context of cancer. "We've made some observations which fly in the face of the [scientific] literature," he said....Stanford researcher finds method to define genetic 'words'
...The proteins made by these genes have taken on new roles as evolution has progressed. Eran Segal, a graduate student in computer science, is a co-first author on the paper. Daphne Koller, PhD, associate professor of computer science at Stanford, shares contributing authorship with Kim....Genomes of tiny microbes yield clues to global climate change
...lateral transfer. Some of these genes play obvious roles in determining the relative fitness of the (strains) in response to key environmental variables," the authors report, "and hence in regulating their distribution and abundance in the oceans." LLNL's Chain noted that the genome of one of the Prochloro...While genes and proteins have long held starring roles in biomedical research, lipids--fats and oils--often have a more direct effect on human health. A new grant from the National Institutes of Health puts lipids at center stage in an ambitious scientific project that promises to shed light on heart dis...