Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
...r of these chemicals in the environment allows the scientific community as a whole to identify potential threats to human health and the environment and work to reduce or eliminate them," Hites said. IU SPEA post-doctoral fellow Daniel Carlson and graduate students William Hafner and Eunha Hoh will also partici...Rice finds 'on-off switch' for buckyball toxicity
...the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. One of the first toxicological studies of buckyballs, the research was published online by the journal on Sept. 11. Buckyballs, whose chemical notation is C60, are hollow, soccerball-shaped molecules containing 60 carbon atoms. Their diamete...UCI scientists successfully target key HIV protein; breakthrough may lead to new drug therapies
...improved treatment options. The researchers used a scientific technique called "phage display," which is used to identify small molecule inhibitors that can disrupt interactions between proteins. According to Gregory Weiss, lead researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, his research tea...Pollutant causes delayed flowering in plants
...es by exposing the seedlings of the mustard plant, scientific name Arabidopsis, to a chemical that produced nitric oxide. The researchers found that such exposure enhanced the vegetative growth of the plants and significantly delayed flowering in a dose-dependent manner. Arabidopsis is a widely used model plant...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...to appreciate." "The Lau Basin is a candy store of scientific problems, and this is the first time there's been ...versity of Hawaii. One of the primary goals of the scientific team is to identify a 'bull's eye' site, a localized site that will become their research focus for ...Posters highlight water, energy and other natural resource research
... Washington State University. INRA is a non-profit scientific and educational organization. INRA ranks eighth in the nation in terms of research funding among larger institutions of higher education. The Alliance was created to promote new opportunities for research and education that will benefit the region an...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...IV database, a foundation for HIV research for the scientific community. Korber is a technical staff member in the theoretical biology and biophysics group at LANL. Max, an astrophysicist, will receive the award in the physics category, for her contributions to the theory of laser guide star ...16th EORTC NCI AACR Symposium 'Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics'
...ofessor Jaap Verweij (EORTC chairman of conference scientific committee) together with scientific committee co-chairmen Dr Janet Dancey (NCI) and Dr Eric K Rowinsky (AACR). NB: any reports involving...16th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics
...ofessor Jaap Verweij (EORTC chairman of conference scientific committee) together with scientific committee co-chairmen Dr Janet Dancey (NCI) and Dr Eric K Rowinsky (AACR) NB: any reports involving...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...ive amounts of genomics data being produced by the scientific community. In addition, all projects continue the commitment of the PGRP to train the next generation of scientists by exposing students to research at the cutting edge of biological sciences. As many as 150 students will participate in this year's ...NSF and AIBS sign cooperative agreement for NEON project office
Arlington, Va.--The scientific community's effort to create a National Ecological...l ecological observation system designed to answer scientific questions at regional and continental scales and to enable ecological forecasting. "Once built, ...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...h will take place at the Experimental Biology 2005 scientific meeting in April....UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
...ution of rhodoliths, and is the author of numerous scientific papers on the subject. He says the discovery of rh... Konar, Iken, and Riosmena-Rodriguez will submit a scientific paper on their discovery to a marine journal. And if one of their rhodoliths turns out to be a new s...AIBS tapped to coordinate design of ecological observatories
The scientific community's work to create the National Ecological...l ecological observation system designed to answer scientific questions at regional and continental scales and thus enable ecological forecasting. Just as the nat...Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
...eve my eyes" when surprised by what we see. Recent scientific evidence suggests that we are right to be sceptical and that what we see depends in no small part on what we expect to see. In new work reported this week, researchers have made headway in understanding how signaling in the brain allows expectation t...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...s a timely recognition of her remarkable record of scientific achievement and, coming at this early point in her career, also signifies her tremendous potential in the field of chemical sciences," ORNL Director Jeff Wadsworth said. Her work has centered on technologies for the treatment of nuclear wastes in...Scientists explore genome of methane-breathing microbe
...genomic sequencing and conducted the analysis with scientific collaborators at the University of Bergen in Norway. While noting that "there is a clear need for experimental validation" of the metabolic pathways suggested by the genome, the study's authors suggest that their analysis "deepens our understanding ...Brown ecologist garners major National Science Foundation grant
...logy as well as other fields to answer significant scientific questions. Schmitt's team will include experts in plant, molecular and evolutionary biology, as well as ecologists, geneticists and computer scientists from Brown, Kansas State University, North Carolina State University, University of Wisconsin-Madi...22nd amino acid synthesized and added to genetic code of e. coli bacteria
...o, Ohio State University researchers surprised the scientific community by announcing their discovery of a 22nd ...e results are described in two papers published in scientific journals this month. The first appeared in the British journal Nature and the second in the journal ...US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
... he encountered on stopovers while on his historic scientific expedition aboard the H.M.S. Beagle: "A single glance at the landscape was sufficient to show me how widely different it was from anything I had ever beheld." A Unique Alliance To assure continuity in this important project, Goldman Sachs, the Gol...