Field Museum maps 'social assets' of Chicago's industrialized Lake Calumet region
...the asset mapping research. "Our study shows how a wide variety of places, organizations and people are connected, and how they are powerful." From 2001 to 2003, a team of graduate and undergraduate researchers, assistants, and museum staff conducted ethnographic research in Hammond, Ind., and the Chicago...Gene variants may increase susceptibility to type 2 diabetes
... heart disease and mental illness." Homing in on a wide stretch of chromosome 20 flagged by earlier studies as a likely location for a type 2 diabetes susceptibility gene, the teams identified four genetic variants, called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are strongly associated with type 2 d...Newly cloned gene key to global adaptation of wheat
...ture of how wheat has been able to adapt to such a wide range of climates and become one of the world's st... Middle East, wheat is now cultivated throughout a wide range of temperatures and environments. This climatic adaptability is, in large part, respon...Method produces uniform, self-assembled nanocells
...a type of artificial cell---produce particles in a wide range of sizes. The sizes must be sorted and filtered before being used for drug delivery, since dosage depends critically on size. The new NIST method uses micrometer-size channels etched into a device to produce self-assembled liposomes of specifi...UT Southwestern researchers identify gene as essential for vascular smooth muscle development
... uterus. Abnormalities in their growth can cause a wide range of human disorders, including atherosclerosis, hypertension, asthma and leiomyosarcoma (a fatal smooth-muscle cancer). The molecular mechanisms that control smooth muscle cell growth and differentiation, however, have been poorly understood. "I...Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Research at the Interface of Biochemistry and Human Health
...laboratory is contributing to the development of a wide range of drugs to treat disorders including heart disease, high blood pressure, asthma, and pain. Other ASBMB awards, with lectures by the recipients, go to Pehr A. B. Hjarbury, Stanford University School of Medicine, the Schering-Plough Research Ins......the end of the Cretaceous Period. It left a 180 km wide crater and from the impact site tsunamis developed and the Caribbean region was buried in ash and other debris. The consequences of the asteroid impact were global. Vajda and her colleagues have previously studied the broad-scale changes in the New Z...Sarah Staples and Daniel Grossman win 2004 AIBS media awards
... judges said that the story was "outstanding for a wide range of data, non-cliched use of scene setting, u... former freelance journalist, he has written for a wide range of magazines, newspapers, and web sites, including The Economist, Audubon, The Washington Post...Rice bioengineer wins international design contest
... or scientists who did the work, the briefs span a wide array of fields, including electronics, physical sciences, materials, computer software, mechanics, machinery/automation, manufacturing/fabrication, mathematics/information sciences, and life sciences....Workshop for new synchrotron light source at Brookhaven
...ad to many advanced experimental capabilities in a wide range of scientific disciplines including materials and nanoscience, life sciences and chemistry, geosciences and more. The program will feature an overview of NSLS-II; a perspective from Pat Dehmer, Associate Director of the Department of Energy's O...Inhibition of insulin-like growth factor receptor-1 as promising anticancer therapeutic
...antly, their ability to sensitize tumor cells to a wide range of anticancer agents, highlight the major role of IGF-1R signaling for human malignant cells, and suggest that the molecular pathway of IGF-1R is an attractive potential target for development of anticancer therapeutics."...Tagging faulty genes with fluorescent nanodots
...ally. Quantum dots absorb light efficiently over a wide frequency range and re-emit it at a single wavelength (or color) that depends on particle size....Marsupial among model organisms next in line for sequencing
... S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "The ability to compare a wide range of genomes is the best tool currently available for understanding the underlying genomic components that affect human health and disease." NHGRI's Associate Director of Extramural Research Jane Peterson, Ph.D., added, "Building on the success ...Researchers receive NIH grant to open pediatric pharmacology research center
...sons for the challenges include parental concerns, wide differences in drug kinetics between infants and children of different ages, children's smaller blood volume compared to adults', and a shortage of pediatric inpatient and outpatient facilities to perform these studies. Plans are already under way t...Oxidation processes basis of interdisciplinary research, graduate training
...s," says chemistry professor Tim Long. "We focus a wide range of expertise on the study of free radical and oxidative processes." Susan Duncan, associate professor of food science and technology, Long, and Craig Thatcher, large animal clinical sciences professor and department head in the VirginiaMaryland...Veterinarians, wildlife experts applaud China's ban of wild bird trade
...ng wild and domestic birds, or other species, from wide ranging locations together, then keep them in cramped, stressful conditions, you will always run the risk of disease outbreaks," said Dr. William Karesh, Director of WCS' Field Veterinary Program. "The simplest and most cost effective way to elimina...Tumor cell-specific therapy shows preclinical promise
...velopment of cancer, could have implications for a wide variety of tumors....Other highlights in the February 18 issue of JNCI
...agues subjected tumor samples from patients with a wide variety of solid tumors to tumor tissue microarray analysis. They found that PML protein expression was reduced or abolished in many of the tumor types examined and that loss of PML protein was associated with tumor progression in prostate cancer, b...Statistical technique helps researchers gain more information from a single data run
...avelets can be traced back almost a century, their wide use began only about 15 years ago when new wavelet bases were discovered and their implementation was connected with fast-filtering computational procedures. "The interest in wavelets is their speed and locality," said Vidakovic. "Locality is the mo...... for identification of antimalarial compounds with wide applicability in the developing world. The assay for plant-derived compounds also can be used to detect anti-plasmodial compounds from synthetic or natural sources. Initial results of the research are published in the American Journal of Tropical Me...