Second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator Award
...is place upon a qualified invitation, as well as a written confirmation from the host institute that it will accommodate the independent junior research group. The DFG is responsible for funding proposals in the Federal Republic of Germany; for the other participating countries the organisations listed in th...As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...of terabytes of Human Genome Project data and have written software that correctly predicts the chemical structures of effective pharmaceutical drugs. Leading informaticians from the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom will come to the IU Bloomington campus next week to decide where their field sho...Virginia Tech professor honored with DeLaval Award
...rogram and continues his research projects. He has written more than 400 journal and general dairy interest magazine articles and has advised many independent study students. Nebel received his bachelor's degree from Northeast Louisiana University, his master's from the University of Maryland, and his Ph.D. ...Humans march to a faster genetic 'drummer' than primates, UC Riverside research says
...ething else. The spread of the Alu DNA repeats was written into the chemistry of human chromosomes. The process was not random, Dugaiczyk said, and it was not subject to an environmental "natural selection," separating winners and losers as theorized by Darwin. "We are not contending that natural selection ...One-hundred-fifty year old lessons of John Snow still relevant today
... Nigel Paneth, a professor of epidemiology who has written a piece about Snow that will appear in the Septemb...ready known. "It was as if I was reading something written by a contemporary, very direct and logical and to the point," he said. "Somehow Snow managed to be b...Illustrated guidebook published for Chinese biomedical scientists and students
...inese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists" was written by scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Maryland, Weidong Wu, Yuh-Chin Huang, Xinchao Wang, and James Samet. Frustrated by frequent interruptions to laboratory discussions caused by confusion over the meaning of common scientific...International symposium on nutritional genomics
...the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley, who has written extensively on race, ethics and genetic testing; J...Northington-Gamble of Tuskegee University, who has written extensively of the use of human subjects for clinical research; and David Castle from the University...Muscling their way into the food chain: Zebra mussels alter fish populations in the Hudson River
...Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences article, written by Dr. David L. Strayer of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES) and Drs. Kathryn A. Hattala and Andrew W. Kahnle of the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), has revealed that open-water fish species, like the commercially i...Institute for OneWorld Health nominated for the 2004 World Technology Awards
...ollection of insights-from-the-innovators, largely written by and about current WTN members, as well as "World Technology Reports" on more focused topics of interest. Central events in the WTN calendar include the annual World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards - the culmination of a global judgin...Water on Mars not easy to find, says Texas A&M researcher
...ssue of Science magazine. Members of the team have written several articles in the magazine, among them "The Spirit Rover's Athena Science Investigation at Gusev Crater" that deals with the search for water on the red planet, and "Pancam Multispectral Imaging Results from the Spirit Rover at Gusev Crater" th...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...xpedition web site, www.at-sea.org , and articles written by the scientists about their research and the tools they will be using, as well as lesson plans for students for grades 5-12, can be found at oceanexplorer.noaa.gov ....Parasitic cowbirds thrive with a less ruthless strategy than cuckoos
...s County. Kilner and Madden, who have studied and written about cuckoo brood parasitism, approached Hauber last year with a plan to experimentally manipulate cowbird nests to see if they could determine why cuckoos and cowbirds use different strategies. Kilner had proposed that, unlike cuckoos, cowbirds suf...8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
... conservation programs. One of his colleagues has written that Birkinshaw's success is largely due to his "being particularly attentive to the needs and sensitivities of the Malagasy. . . and his ability to offer advice rather than telling people what to do." Steven M. Goodman , a U.S. citizen employed by ...American Society of Mammalogists honors CI president Russell Mittermeier with Aldo Leopold award
...e conservation of mammals and their habitats. In a written statement to the recipient, the ASM's president, Dr. Bruce D. Patterson, highlighted Mittermeier's "productivity as a scientist and [his] effective leadership of several conservation organizations, especially CI." The Aldo Leopold Award honors the me...New textbook introduces students to the foundations, applications of nanotechnology
..., with examples selected for educational value and written in a manner accessible to both science and engineering disciplines. "We avoid jargon and overly-technical terms," Heflin said. All of the chapters have end-of-chapter questions. In most cases these relate directly to the content of the chapter while ......rom the following reviews: "A comprehensive, well written and well presented book ... compelling reading ......his book ..." Chromatographia "... a readable book written in a narrative style ..." Canadian Society of Forensic Science " well written and informative also ...Warren Pharmaceuticals publishes results of preclinical evaluation
.... Accompanying the Science article is a commentary written by Hannelore Ehrenreich, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Goettingen, Germany. Dr. Ehrenreich emphasizes the clinical need for non-erythropoietic tissue protective compounds, especially for chronic treatment ...The science and law of torture
... has evaluatedtorture survivors since 1990 and has written extensively onhealth and human rights issues, including health care forprisoners, the medical and social consequences of using landmines, and human rights education for health professionals. Hewill address the definition of torture today in light of ...Study helps explain island populations' susceptibility to exotic diseases
...are particularly susceptible to disease. A paper, written by University of Michigan researcher Johannes Foufopoulos, an assistant professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment who specializes in disease ecology, and collaborators from Princeton University and the University of Upsalla, invest...UCSD study shows how we perceive world depends on precise division of labor among cells in brain
...eads that part of the score of a symphony that was written for his or her own instrument." Because they needed to see and record electrical impulses from individual nerve cells, the researchers used slices of rat brain, which when bathed in an appropriate solution can be kept alive under a microscope. To m...