Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...nt competition since its inception. The economy of tomorrow is being built today on biotechnology and other sciences. Canada needs to foster a strong science culture to remain in the forefront in this field." Additional survey highlights Of 350 ABC participants surveyed: 62% were fem...Noah's modern ark: The role of ART in conserving endangered species
...ety of Human Reproduction and Embryology will hear tomorrow (Monday 28 June). But, whereas in humans the focus of assisted reproductive technology (ART) is on producing a baby, amongst wildlife conservationists the focus is on the much more basic aim of simply understanding the fundamentals of reproduction i...Beagle 2 fails to call Mars express
...eks to come. "We have another opportunity to look tomorrow in a more sensitive mode, the canister mode on Mars Express, which is the most sensitive mode Mars Express has for detecting an RF signal," said Dr Mark Sims, Beagle 2 mission manager. "We have two Odyssey sessions tonight, when we will be attempting...B2MIN9: Beagle 2 teams continue efforts to communicate with the lander
..., while the next Mars Odyssey pass will take place tomorrow evening at 18.57 GMT. Meanwhile, scientists are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft in its operational polar orbit on 4 January. Mars Express was always intended to be the prime communication relay for...Scientists await first call from Beagle
...t by Mars Odyssey will take place around 18.15 GMT tomorrow evening, followed by daily opportunities to contact Beagle 2 via the Mars Odyssey spacecraft and the radio telescopes at Jodrell Bank and Stanford University in the United States. There are several possible explanations for the failure of Odyssey to ...Researchers show autoantibodies occur before lupus in New England Journal of Medicine
...AHOMA CITY--October 15, 2003--In a study published tomorrow in The New England Journal of Medicine, scientists report that in patients suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus (commonly known as lupus), autoantibodies--proteins that the body mistakenly unleashes against its own tissue--are typically presen...Don't ban embryo-based research says new chairman of European fertility organisation
...c stem cells. Professor Arne Sunde, who takes over tomorrow as chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, told a news briefing today (Monday 30 June) at the society's annual conference, that a ban would severely impede progress in understanding the causes of human infertility and d...... I think if we just keep at it, we could hit on it tomorrow with any of these projects." When that happens, it will come as no surprise to Oliver's pre-kindergarten teacher who used to tell his mother repeatedly, "This kid is going to go far." But Oliver, who came to Binghamton straight from a postdoctoral p...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory February 2003
NANOTECHNOLOGY -- The shape of tomorrow . . . Carbon nanotubes hold great promise for applications ranging from miniaturized drug delivery systems to lightweight structural material for aircraft, spacecraft and suspension bridges. The hollow, spaghetti-like tubes promise to replace steel w...Acorda Therapeutics receives L.W. Freeman Award for Scientific Research
...ive the L.W. Freeman Award for Scientific Research tomorrow evening at the National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA) 2002 Annual Conference in Mesa, AZ. This award is given annually for pioneering research on regeneration in spinal cord injury or disease and was established in memory of Dr. L. W. Freem...Rolex announces winners of international awards
... and a specially inscribed, gold Rolex chronometer tomorrow evening (October 23) at a gala ceremony in Tokyo. An international panel of prominent scientists and explorers selected the five Laureates from nearly 1,400 applicants from 113 countries. This year's prize-winners are: Gordon Sato Sustainable Ag...DuPont to launch soybeans into space
... In the first space experiment of its kind, DuPont tomorrow will begin space exploration designed to discover new scientific research about one of the most consumed crops in the world today soybeans. Continuing its extensive history with NASA, DuPont has partnered with the Wisconsin Center for Space Automati...... the National Academy of Sciences, and will appear tomorrow on the journals web site. The findings should enable the creation of transgenic individuals in a wide range of species, permitting scientists to develop research models for study of numerous human diseases. Led by Ralph L. Brinster of Penns Departme...Stem cells guided down blood's developmental pathway
...This is not something that's going to be available tomorrow or next year," Kaufman says, but the research does represent a key step forward in the quest to direct stem cells to become a specific cell type. Writing in PNAS, Kaufman and his colleagues show that stem cells can be directed to become what are know...John D. Gearhart's response to President Bushs stem cell decision
...ill not change the way stem cell research is done tomorrow or next week, since it will take time to make the funds available and iron out the details. But even with the limitations he's put forth, it will likely affect stem cell research positively once the systems are in place for evaluating and awarding g...Scientists call for development of ecological forecasting
...o be the best estimate of what the weather will be tomorrow or the next day. Unfortunately, there has been miscommunication in how scientists view the outputs of such models versus how the general public or decision makers see them. Those miscommunications have in some cases resulted in confusion, a situation...UAF part of university without walls
...e University of the Arctic (UArctic) is launched tomorrow there will be no cornerstone to pour and no ribbons to cut across buildings because the UArctic is a "university without walls." A cooperative effort that was initiated nearly four years ago, the UArctic is an independent international network ......suitable to laboratory analysis, will be described tomorrow in the June 12 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Early Edition No. 24). This discovery, by Mark Roth, Ph.D., a member of the Hutchinson Center's Basic Sciences Division, promises to open new paths of research into underst...New clue to diagnosis and treatment of malignant melanoma
...in cancer (see figure). In a study to be published tomorrow in Nature, Lowe and his colleagues report that malignant melanomas often lose a key trigger of programmed cell death a protein called Apaf-1 (apoptosis activation factor-1). The researchers also discovered that the loss of Apaf-1 in melanoma cells i...Scientists reveal details of brain cell communication: implications for learning & memory
...ncipal author of the study which will be published tomorrow in Nature. Svoboda, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, helped pioneer the use of a high resolution imaging technique called "two-photon microscopy" in neuroscience. In the current study, Svob...