Ralph J. Cicerone nominated to be next National Academy of Sciences president
...d one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. The membership includes approximately...University of Michigan, and he was also a research scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He was ...Whole body imaging allows better understanding of the immune system
..."choreographer" in these discussions. "I'm not the scientist developing these techniques and modalities," he says. "My contribution is seeing particular biological problems to which they can be applied and how, down the road, this would work in humans." Dr. Witte is best known for his contributions to ...TIGR president discusses significance of finding anthrax toxin
...ch centers. She should know, since she is a senior scientist in the discovery, reported earlier this June, of a newly identified strain of the soil microbe Bacillus cereus containing anthrax toxin genes. The B. cereus bacterium is most commonly associated with food poisoning, although it also has been suspecte...Scientists identify cells that lead to retinoblastoma
...r. Rod Bremner, the study's lead author and senior scientist with the division of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Toronto Western Research Institute, the research arm of Toronto Western Hospital. He is also affiliated with the hospital's Vision Science Research Program, and is associate professor with the de...Fox Chase Cancer Center's Alfred Knudson Jr. named 2004 Kyoto Prize winner
...eates will be: Dr. Alan Curtis Kay, a computer scientist and senior fellow at Hewlett-Packard Co., whose work at Stanford University and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1960s and '70s led the paradigm shift away from mainframe computing and opened the door for the personal computer revolution; a...Earstones tell fishes' tale of early life in the Colorado River estuary
...coauthors are Flessa and David Dettman, a research scientist in UA's department of geosciences. The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Southern Arizona Environmental Management Society, the Chevron Research Fund and T&E, Inc. Totoaba macdonaldi was the first commercially impor...Susceptibility of mice to mousepox offers promise of smallpox protection
...rnational research scholar Gunasegaran Karupiah, a scientist at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, and colleagues have identified proteins that determine which mice succumb to mousepox and which do not. The new insights into the immune response of mice to the mous...Lab mice rescued from Type 1 diabetes via dendritic cell-assisted therapy
...iety of antigens. "Extensive research has allowed scientist to learn that these T regulatory cells are important in suppressing some autoimmune diseases, but they haven't been paying much attention to partnering them with antigen-presenting cells like the dendritic cells," says Tarbell. "Putting the power of ...Researchers establish first molecular link between eating and aging
...uarente's lab, including Frdric Picard, a research scientist in the Department of Biology who is lead author of the paper, publish their research results about how the Sirt1 mammalian gene promotes fat mobilization in mice. A mammal generally burns the protein and carbohydrates in its food immediately; it st...NASA researchers customize 'lab-on-a-chip' technology
...anic molecules," says Dr. Lisa Monaco, the project scientist for the Lab-on-a-Chip Applications Development pro...es in the solar system," says Dr. Andrew Steele, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a private research organization. Steele, the principal in...Clemson researcher receives Komen grant
CLEMSON A Clemson University scientist has received $250,000 to pursue a promising line o...reast Cancer Foundation in Dallas. He is the first scientist from South Carolina to receive a Komen Foundation grant. Chen will use the money to further his rese...Genomic biology institute's first grant to focus on soybeans, climate change
...of Global Change research theme, directed by plant scientist Don Ort. The theme was announced in April by IGB ...an functional genomics laboratory directed by crop scientist Lila Vodkin. It also will build upon already existing research at SoyFACE, a futuristic crop experi...Mite transmits viruses damaging to wheat
...ith Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. But the scientist knows the damage isn't drought-induced at all. The damage is caused by two different viruses, the wheat streak mosaic and the High Plains, he said. Both are transmitted by the wheat curl mite (Aceria tosichella), common to the central plains o...MBL researcher and science teacher visit Siberia to study climate, excite children about science
WOODS HOLE, MA--Thanks to MBL Ecosystems Center scientist Max Holmes and Vermont schoolteacher Amy Clapp, a whole new crop of scientists is budding in Salisbury, Vermont. Holmes and Clapp are leaving for Siberia on May 21 on a double-edged mission: to conduct two weeks of important MBL climate-related resea...Moderate alcohol consumption increases plasma levels of a protective hormone
...n both genders," said Henk F.J. Hendriks, a senior scientist at TNO Nutrition and Food Research in The Netherlands and corresponding author for the study, "just like low testosterone does for men." Atherosclerosis is characterized by irregularly distributed lipid deposits in the arteries, which can provoke fi...Nonalcoholic beverages may impart cardiovascular benefits without the negative effects of alcohol
...resent in red wine," said Steffen Bassus, a senior scientist at the Deutsche Klinik fuer Diagnostik in Germany and first author of the study. "The mechanisms which underlie the protective effects of wine and beer consumption on CHD risk are not fully understood, but there is substantial evidence that the effe...Whales, seals or men? Who stole all the fish?
...eave them hungry, says Naomi Rose, a marine mammal scientist with the Humane Society of the US in Washington DC. Fisheries also have other impacts. For example, trawler nets can churn up the seafloor, disrupt food chains, and linger for years entangling sea mammals, she notes. The new results suggest that int...Model shows long-held constant in ocean nutrient ratio may vary as ecological conditions change
...eld ratio, named after the late Harvard University scientist Alfred Redfield. But researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Princeton University designed a mathematical model based on phytoplankton physiology. It shows a broad range of N:P ratios are possible depending on the conditions under whi...'Cardiofunk' mutation: Probable source of congenital heart defects
...was Dr.Thomas Bartman, M.D., a former postdoctoral scientist in Stainier's laband now an assistant professor of neonatology at Cincinnati Children'sHospital Medical Center. Co-authors are Emily Walsh, PhD and Jonathan Alexander, MD, PhD, both former graduate students in the Stainier lab; Peter A. Rubenstein, ...A computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a novel technique to extract more DNA from a single sequence reaction than is normally possible, reducing both cost and time of the sequencing process. Michael R. Brent, Ph.D., associate professor...