New findings implicate cell size controls in a variety of diseases
...f Michigan Life Sciences Institute. "We found this story that connects all these things together in a logical manner." Guan, who is also a professor of biological chemistry and a MacArthur Foundation fellow, and postdoctoral fellow Ken Inoki have been investigating the general question of how cell growth ...Six reporters reach the 'pinnacle of excellence'
...nce Journalism Award for magazine entries with his story on the world's first full body gene scan, titled, ...where she deftly wove the science into the broader story of how the epidemic was affecting the community. She portrayed the scientist as a person, a hero out...New program interrogates gene pathways
...smattering of white lies -- inevitably distort the story to some degree, requiring multiple witnesses to corroborate each other's testimonies. New software developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research promises to do for biology what any c...Science writer Ron Redfern to receive geoscience Award for Outstanding Contribution
...ions, Ron Redfern has popularized and revealed the story of Earth's evolution to millions of people," said Marcus E. Milling, AGI Executive Director. "AGI is proud to recognize him for these very significant accomplishments." Ron Redfern is an award-winning author and illustrator of natural science books...Princeton paleontologist produces evidence for new theory on dinosaur extinction
...mong a minority of scientists who believe that the story of the dinosaurs' demise is much more complicated than the familiar and dominant theory that a single asteroid hit Earth 65 million years ago and caused the mass extinction known as the Cretacious-Tertiary, or K/T, boundary. Keller and a growing numb...Leakey Foundation celebrates 100 years of human origins discovery
...e. "Since we owe the emerging picture of the human story largely to Louis Leakey, we felt that the Centennial provided an important moment of assessment--to consider the early influence of Louis Leakey as an architect of this science, as well as to refocus our efforts upon the lingering questions of the hu...Collapse of seals, sea lions & sea otters in North Pacific triggered by overfishing of great whales
...the sea urchins' over grazing. "The point of this story is not to vilify whaling and exonerate overfishing," says Estes. "In principle we think that when any species is exploited to excess - be it pollock, halibut or whales - it may trigger a broad and devastating 'domino effect,' and the ecosystem impa...SPR Annual Meeting features newsworthy discoveries
...bility. Processing the Nightly News: How shot and story length affect effort, arousal, and encoding -- Sa... be a finicky bunch. It turns out that how long a story is and how short the camera shots that make it up are important factors in securing viewership. Whi...Laboratory 'theme park' re-creates RNA world for study
...life's origins. "We'll never really know the whole story of how life got started," says Bartel, "but every insight that we can discover is important. This is one of the most significant and fundamental questions in science, right up there with 'how does the mind work?' or 'how did the universe begin?'" Me...Historical coral reef declines featured in this week's Science
...s on marine history established in a Science cover story (July 27, 2001) by coauthor Jeremy Jackson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and STRI, and a large group of colleagues. Jackson often compares a researcher or resource manager informed by history with a physician who is much better able to cope w...Science picks: Leads, feeds and story seeds for August 2003
...er got you down? Here are a host of summer science story ideas sure to refresh your slow summer stories like a tall, cold glass of sweet tea. This monthly collection of science stories can help you cover ongoing earth and natural science research and investigations at USGS---photos and web links are provid...Popular Science announces second annual 'Brilliant 10:' the country's top young scientists
.... From the genes of living people, she divines the story of human origins. Victor Velculescu, 33, John Hopkins University, for his work in the field of genomics. Velculescu's maverick approach is ushering in a new way to finger cancer genes. Rather than identifying genes and then trying to figure out thei...Ancient DNA analysis unveils mystery of history's most horribly deformed man -- The Elephant Man
...RSE OF THE ELEPHANT MAN recounts the terrible true story of history's most deformed man. It shows viewers how his genetic material was gathered and identified and helps them better understand why Merrick became known to the world as the Elephant Man.The Scientists: Dr. Charis Eng: professor and dir......ly. A report on the discovery appears as the cover story in the July 11 issue of the journal Science. To their knowledge, the work is the first to show animals switching back and forth between two different skeleton forms."This is an exciting concept for us because it's not something that we thought animal...Mediterranean fishery recovers, thanks to manmade pollutants
...as the result of increased man-made nutrients, the story of the Nile also shows how quickly anthropogenic nutrient emissions can greatly exceed even those carried by one of the world's great rivers," continued Nixon. "The large number of coastal areas already manifesting serious effects of nutrient over-en...19th century museum specimens help plan reintroduction of endangered tiger beetle
...ally, we used museum specimens to fill gaps in the story of species formation that could not be sampled because the tiger beetles no longer exist at certain locations," Dr. Goldstein said. This finding has implications for the conservation management of these tiger beetles and other threatened species. In ...Pox to pimples; study says acne-like outbreak not vaccinia
...id. "The second light bulb to go off was in a news story in which one volunteer noted new "acne" on his back after vaccination. He said he 'felt like a teen-ager again'." That's all the evidence Talbot needed to start his own sleuthing. He documented the outbreaks and biopsied pustules on seven patients, ...Immigration and Travel Issues for Foreign Scientists and Technology Workers
...the 30 May issue of the Financial Times.(A related story is online at http://www.aaas.org ) Please contact Monica Amarelo at 202-326-6431, mamarelo@aaas.org . WHAT: Immigration and Travel Issues for Foreign Scientists and Technology Workers WHEN: 23 June 2003, 6:00 8:00 p.m. WHERE: The Renaissan...Some 400 'fragile regions' of genome more vulnerable to evolutionary breaks
...zine, where the layout tells you exactly where one story breaks and another begins," explained Tesler. "With the human genome, we know where chromosomes break, but we don't know how big all its component units are. So the best we can do is look at large quantities of data and use computational methods to d......dependence Found in Many Places - Theres always a story in geographic names. Just pick a holiday, a topic, or an historical figure to learn how a placename is scattered across the landscape. For example, there are 528 features named Independence on USGS topographic maps the source for the Geographic Na...