Chemical derived from vitamin-E shows early promise as cancer drug
...and former graduate student Karla Lawson also used special microscope equipment to identify smaller cancer lesions. The equipment could pinpoint the injected cancer cells in the animals because the cells had previously been genetically modified by co-author LuZhe Sun from the University of Texas Health Scien...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...esearch. NIH is announcing the recipients of these special awards today in Bethesda. "This is an exciting opportunity to bring enormous energy and new brain power to solve some of the most complex puzzles in eye research," says Darlene Dartt, PhD, the Director of Scientific Affairs at Schepens who is heading...AAAS US Presidential Candidates' Forum
...for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will host a special Candidates' Forum on Science & Technology Policy, at which representatives of the presidential campaigns of incumbent George W. Bush and challenger John Kerry will discuss their plans and policies for science and technology. Former House Science Comm...HHMI, NIBIB/NIH to invest up to $35 million in interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs
...Peter J. Bruns, HHMI vice president for grants and special programs. The new graduate training program parallels HHMI's commitment to bring together biologists, computer scientists, engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians to conduct collaborative research at Janelia Farm, HHMI's new researc...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
...e same in terms of control -- to say that one is a special form of the other. Thus specialists studying discrete movement have considered rhythm a subset of discrete movement -- the same thing speeded and repeated -- while behaviorists studying rhythmic movement like walking have considered discrete movement...US Presidential Candidates' Forum
WASHINGTON, DC - On September 30, AAAS willhost a special Candidates' Forum on Science &Technology Policy, at which representativesof the U.S. presidential campaigns ofincumbent George W. Bush and challenger JohnKerry will discuss their plans and policiesfor science and technology. The Forum will take place...A novel, safer strategy for regulating gene expression
... applications. The technique involves inserting a special DNA sequence into a patient's own genes, or into a gene introduced by gene therapy. This sequence encodes a ribozyme, a sequence of RNA that has the unique ability to spontaneously cut itself in half. The ribozyme becomes part of the gene's messeng...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...Senghas. The government expanded opportunities for special education with a new elementary school in Managua ...eaching children to talk by a certain age or using special tools like flashcards or vocabulary drills, she said. All they need is natural social interaction. "...USC study links historical increases in life span to lower childhood exposure to infection
...h younger age. "These people would have a special lifestyle recommendation from the earliest years," Finch said. "We noticed that improvements in the environment may be reaching a maximum which would mean that further increase in life expectancy will depend on interventions other than public health ...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
... issues, particularly questions of ethics, receive special attention, covering an important area too often overshadowed by science and technology. If the genome really is the book of life, then we have only just opened to the first of its many pages. Those who triumphantly claim DNA is destiny may have s...Research on carbohydrate metabolism receives historical recognition
...ignated a National Historic Chemical Landmark in a special ceremony at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis on Sept. 21. The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, sponsors the landmarks program. Beginning in the 1920s, the Coris conducted a series of pionee...Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits
...ertebrate evolutionary developmental biology, with special focuses on the evolution of morphogenesis (Day 1), the neural crest, sensory systems and the brain (Day 2), and the genetic and cellular bases for the chordate body plan (Day 3). It is hoped that the broad scope of the presentations and disciplines c...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...scharge of methane might have on global warming. A special 17-paper August/September issue of American Mineralogist (http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/AmMineral.html), edited by Bryan Chakoumakos of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, offers an in-depth exploration of clathrate hydrates. [Contact: Ron Walli 865-5...Essential smell gene may provide key to new insect repellents
...gues also looked under the microscope to see, with special staining techniques, whether the olfactory neurons of the mutant flies had certain receptors and where these were located. In flies lacking Or83b receptors, the other smell receptors ended up in the wrong part of the nerve cells. Instead of being loc...Entrepreneurs to be told how nature's secrets can improve business
... bird feathers. On September 20 and 21, a special workshop entitled 'Conflict, Analogy and Natural Design' will be held to explain these ideas, at the Carpenter House Innovation Centre near Bath Spa railway station. The event is part of the 9th International Biomimetics conference, which continues i...Other highlights in the September 1 JNCI
...but such cells survive this stress by turning on a special molecular pathway--the unfolded protein response--that protects cells from the harmful effects of unfolded proteins. Researchers have hypothesized that glucose-deprived tumor cells could be killed by disrupting this pathway. Kazuo Shin-ya, Ph.D., of ...First clinical study of new pediatric croup vaccine shows safety, tolerability in adults
...able protection from hPIV-1. In cellular immunity, special cells, rather than antibodies, destroy virus-infected cells inside the body. The vaccine consists of Sendai virus (SeV), a mouse virus that is similar enough to hPIV-1 to act as a vaccine, but different enough to have never been associated with a hu...Enzyme activation appears key in helping internal clock tell night from day
...regulated loop of transcription and translation of special clock genes, whose products act as "gears" of the clockwork. Correct cycling is vital to the oscillation of metabolism and behaviors, which happen during sleep and wakefulness. "Without PKG-II, the clock behaves as if locked in a dynamic loop that e...Gene linked to cleft lip and palate identified
...yndrome or other malformation), Dr. Green says. "A special strength of this study is that its findings come from a variety of ethnic groups, including Europeans, South Americans, and Asians," Dr. Green says. "This gives us confidence that the linkage of this gene variant to oral clefts is true across differ...New mechanism for display of foreign proteins to immune system
... this display the sentinel cell can then stimulate special immune cells called cytotoxic T lymphocytes to spring into action and battle the abnormal cells. One of the ways that sentinel cells accomplish crosspresentation has been described in detail. Antigens are internalized into a specific compartment, tra...