At Life's Most Sensitive Stage, Embryos Cope With Stress
...g the low carbonhypothesis, and to former graduate student Ester Serrao, who did what Brawleycalls the "clenc... then become resistantagain. Also, former graduate student Rui Li has shown that the temperaturesexperienced by adult algae affect the heat tolerance of their ...Conservation Biology Clearinghouse, Engineering Design Tutor
...y and evolutionarybiology, while he was a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, the sitequickly established itself as a premier clearinghouse. Design with Feedback: Rice researchers are creating an Engineering Design Tutor, aWorld Wide Web-based automated learning system that will not ......st-doctoral fellow Zhe Chen and Anne Fay, a former student nowteaching at Stanford University, Klahr has examined the effectiveness ofdifferent methods for teaching elementary school children the Control ofVariables Strategy -- one of the central process skills needed in scientificexperimentation. ...Population Growth Costs Include Global Warming Impact
...rdhaus, who developed the index with Yale graduate student Joseph Boyer. Nordhaus reported his findings on Feb. 15 at the annual meeting of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia in a talktitled "What are the External Costs of More Rapid Population Growth? Theoretica...Females' Siren Song Initiates Courtship Duets In African Frogs, Columbia Biologists Find
...h scientist, and Sandya S. Viswanathan, a graduate student in neurobiology and behavior, all at Columbia. A female frog faces an urgent problem: there is a span of only about 24hours in which her eggs are ready to receive sperm. She must attract a suitorduring that period, or lose her progeny. Ma...Biotech Approach To Feral Cat Problem Devised
BLACKSBURG, VA, February 18, 1998--A student in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veter...s roam the United States, according to second-year student Michelle Meister-Weisbarth. These feral cats are wreaking havoc on the nation's songbird population...Long-Standing Puzzle Of Immune System Is Solved By UCSF Researchers
... In studies of mice, Marilia Cascalho, a graduate student withWabl's laboratory, found that the disruption of the gene that encodes Pms2resulted in a dramatic decrease in hypermutation. Pms2 also has been discovered to be abnormal in certain forms ofhuman cancer. This finding has led some cancer r...Scientists Invent Faster Gene Function Identification System
...hors of this new study are Yuefeng Xie, a graduate student inmolecular and cellular biology, and Xiaozhuo Chen, an assistant professor in theCollege of Osteopathic Medicine, both working with Wagner at the EdisonBiotechnology Institute at Ohio University. Contact: Thomas Wagner, (614) 593-4713; twagner2@ohi...PEBBLEs Help U-M Scientists Open A Window On Cell Chemistry
...ging the cell," said Heather Clark, a U-M graduate student in chemistry. Clark is part of a U-M team currently developing and testing the biosensing devices in a research project funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Clark will present results from her research this ...UF Researchers Use Gene Therapy To Prevent Hypertension, Organ Damage
...adult animals. Jeffrey Martens, a graduate student in pharmacology and the currentpaper's lead author, said gene therapy may someday offer an alternativetreatment for people genetically predisposed to high blood pressure. "We have not identified the gene that causes high blood pressure and ar...Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot
... Sherman credits Billing, a Cornell undergraduate student of biology at the timeof the research, with compil... the new taste are healthier for it." For biology student Billing, the spice research for a senior honors thesis tookher to an unfamiliar field, food science,...Study Of Microbes May Hone Predictions Of Mining Impact
...te, said Katrina J. Edwards, a UW-Madison graduate student and a co-author of the study. Prior to the new study, conducted at Iron Mountain, Calif., an abandoned and heavily polluted iron mine, two species of bacteria, Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and Leptospirillum ferrooxidans, were believed to be the primary...Rare Mutation Find May Offer Clues To Treating Osteoporosis
...ofessor of biochemistry, respectively,and graduate student Jennifer Price, all at Wake Forest. Researchers extensively studied six large families, including 46 peopleaffected by TDO and 24 not affected. They found all affected people to have anidentical genetic defect: four pairs of nucleotides -- ...Mouse Gene Reveals Clues To Human Deafness
...the journal Science. Oz Vahava, a graduate student in Avraham's laboratory, initiated thestudy of the genetics of deafness in a number of generations of the Israelifamily. Hearing impairment was traced back five generations to an ancestor bornin 1843 in Libya. The family migrated through Tunisia and ...Research: Breast Cancer Gene Screening Not Warranted For All
...-CH and YaleUniversity, respectively, and graduate student Lesley M. Butler. Drs. Hua Mu andMary-Claire King of the University of Washington at Seattle also participated. The study involved screening the entire sequence, or structure, of theBRCA1 gene in patient blood samples to determine t...New Study Of BRCA1 Shows No Need For Widespread Screening Of American Women
... The researchers (Newman is a former graduate student of King) studied211 women from North Carolina with breast cancer. White and black patients wereincluded in approximately equal numbers, as part of Newman's ongoingepidemiological study of the genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer,which no...Liquid Crystals Light Up Simple Chemical Test
...ic Systems in Somerville, N.J. Skaife is agraduate student at Davis. Abbott is the Joe and Essie Smith Endowed Professor of chemical engineeringand materials science at UC Davis. In 1994, he was named one of 20 of themost promising science and engineering researchers by the David and LucilePackard Foundatio...Small-Scale Fires Key To Understanding Forest Structure
... ofEuroamericans," says R. Matthew Beaty, graduate student in geography. "Torestore forests, we need to understand their natural variability." What Beaty and Dr. Alan H. Taylor, associate professor of geography, arefinding is that variation on a fairly local scale is important and that theenvironmen...Rapid Progress Reported On New Class Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
...ies. In Casey's studies, he and graduate student Ruth Fu have producedversions of FTase with select...on, Casey also cited advances by Beese andgraduate student Steve Long in obtaining the first crystallographic structuresof the FTase enzyme that include the fa...How Did Life Begin? Biochemical Evolution On Chemical Surfaces
... the University of Chicago in 1954 bythen-graduate student Stanley Miller and his advisor, the Nobel laureatechemist Harold Urey, showed that amino acids, which make up the proteins foundin all living organisms, could form from chemicals in the atmosphere combinedwith water and lightening. No experim...