Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...study or career path reported their plans had been set prior to being involved. How ABC works Some 1,200 students across Canada have taken part in the challenge since 1994, a competitive process designed to introduce hundreds of students each year to the real world of biotechnology through projec...Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
...on the scene, and some scientists think that fires set by humans had as much to do with extinction as direct hunting. Over a few thousand years, Barnosky said, an extended sitzkrieg may have led to the extinction of large mammals such as kangaroos, wombats, the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) and th...Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...eement with Samoa. "I think that UC Berkeley could set a precedent both for biodiversity conservation and genetic research by including indigenous peoples as full partners in royalties for new gene discoveries that result from their ancient medicines," Keasling said. Keasling and a team of scientists le...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...eement with Samoa. "I think that UC Berkeley could set a precedent both for biodiversity conservation and genetic research by including indigenous peoples as full partners in royalties for new gene discoveries that result from their ancient medicines," Keasling said. Keasling and a team of scientists led...Cigarette smoke causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, Pitt study finds
...ecome separated is called anaphase. Normally, each set of chromosomes is pulled with equal force in opposite directions so that each daughter cell receives the same number of chromosomes. But when the researchers exposed cells in culture to cigarette smoke, they found that the fused chromosomes were bei...DNA lends scientists a hand, revealing new chemical reactions
...e able to undergo chemical reaction under a chosen set of reaction conditions. Liu's team first applied DNA-templated synthesis to the creation of new synthetic molecules; now, shifting their focus a bit, they're using the technique to reveal as-yet undiscovered chemical reactions. DNA's inherent sequenc...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
... avoid antibodies, whereas other microbial vectors set up an antibody response that prevents them from being used more than once. A listeria-based cancer vaccine could thus be given periodically until a tumor has responded. Despite these attributes, the one problem with listeria has been toxicity. Though...Award winning researchers reveal potential new role for Glivec
... other centres in the USA, Belgium and Switzerland set out to see whether the cellular genetic and kinase profiles in DFSP would correlate with clinical responses to imatinib. The ten patients were treated with 800mg of imatinib daily. Of the eight with locally advanced disease, two achieved complete res...High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...s, supplied by an ESA-backed project called HUMAN, set up to provide geo-spatial mapping products and services for humanitarian aid organisations. "MSF is evaluating new methods to control Chagas disease, and the acquisition of a high resolution image of Matagalpa is part of this research activity," s...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
... of invited speakers, ample time each day has been set aside for discussing the over 380 presentations with the authors. Below are summaries of a few of the top presentations, with their program references. 1.5 Charles H. Turner (Indiana University, Indianapolis) Mechanisms for increasing bone mass by...Punching the timeclock of life
... to look at aging that directly opposes principles set forth by Darwin in his theory of natural selection. It has long been accepted that natural selection happens on the individual level the better suited an organism is to its environment, the more likely it is to reproduce, forcing the species to ...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
... of rhythmic movement. But in a carefully arranged set of experiments, Schaal and co-workers from Pennsyl...rist, pausing, flexing it back, and rest. Another set of experiments had the timing of the rhythm dictated to the subjects by a metronome. The resulting f...Alaska scientists find Arctic tundra yields surprising carbon loss
...University of Florida, Gainesville, and colleagues set out to investigate whether the commonly held assumption that a warming climate will lead to bigger plants that can store more carbon and thereby reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide was indeed a silver lining in the global warming cloud that some people......genin produced defective enamel. Other experiments set out to pinpoint the part of the protein responsibl.... Armed with this information, Shaw and colleagues set out to prove that this carboxyl group was indeed the business end of the protein. To do that, they s...Researchers ID chlorophyll-regulating gene
...otochlorophyll is like a ticking time bomb that is set off by the sun." Quail is also research director of the Plant Gene Expression Center, a joint research center of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of California. The researchers targ...Florida Tech earns $50,000 grant to create coral database
...from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to set up a Coral Database (CoralData) node for the southeast region of the U.S. The team hopes to extend this database to include a national database and ultimately an international coral database. CoralData aims to increase understanding of...Poplar DNA code cracked -- a step in combating global warming?
...ars ago. In May 2002, the international consortium set to work to determine the poplar's genome. To do this, they used a female poplar from the banks of the Nisqually River in Washington state (USA). The researchers needed just over two years to determine the 520 million base pairs, distributed among 19 ...Joslin Diabetes Center honors brothers living 70-plus years with type 1 diabetes
...th insulin-dependent diabetes. The award ceremony, set for tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 23, at 2 p.m. at The Nottingham Senior Living facility in Jamesville, NY, will honor Robert Cleveland, who has lived for more than 78 years with type 1 diabetes, and his brother Gerald Cleveland, who has lived for 72 yea...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...ensure that the newly divided cells each receive a set of chromosomes. A growing challenge is how to handle the massive amounts of data coming out of ongoing genomics projects and to make it readily accessible to the broader community of students, researchers and breeders. This year's awards include d...NSF and AIBS sign cooperative agreement for NEON project office
...rican Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) will set up a NEON design consortium and project office to develop a blueprint for the network and a plan for its implementation. NEON, envisioned as field and lab instrumentation deployed across the United States and integrated via cutting-edge cyberinfrast...