American Chemical Society meets Aug. 19-23 in Boston
... ... In addition, the ACS News Service hosts two...Boston Univeristy bioengineers devise 'dimmer swith' to regulate gene expression in mammal cells
... ... This switch helps advance the f...Chemical Society Boston meeting, Aug. 19-23, focuses on health, wellness, energy, environment
... ... With more than 160,000 members, the American Chemica...Boston University, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft form alliance to accelerate biomedical innovation
... Combining the innovation and translational technology development experience of Boston University and Fraunhofer, the alliance will allow for t...Boston College to develop urban environmental science curriculum for use in urban high schools
... At least 50 high school science teachers and 5000 students also will be involved in the project over the life of the grant. A unique feature of this program is that the team includes Person Education as corporate partners, who will serve to publish and sustain the project after th...Boston University biologists discover amphibian eggs use defenses against water molds
......Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston establishes first affiliate in Canada
... The new Joslin Affiliate is an Education Affiliate, so all of Joslin's premier education programs and services are shared with the institution. This will complement the endocrine services offered by Dr. Farrukh Khan a board-certified endocrinologist who serves as medical d...Children's Hospital Boston presents at the 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference
... Making new parts for babies...American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting August 5-9 in Boston
... ... The major symposium "Plants Mitigating Global Change" 4:20 p.m. August 5 will feature presentations on how plant research initiatives could...Children's Hospital Boston presents at the 2006 Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting
This year's Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, from April 29-May 2 in San Francisco, will include nearly 100 presentations from Children's Hospital Boston researchers. Below are presentations of special interest. Media attending the meeting may register in the Press Room located on the Overlook at the Moscone West Convention Center; hours are 8 AM-6 PM. Abstracts are available at . A...Amazing nanotech in Boston: Weighing DNA, digital heat flow, electromechanical butterfly images
How does a scientist weigh something as small and light as a DNA strand? What seldom used electro-mechanical property in biological tissue has enabled some of the best-ever submicroscopic images of butterfly wings? How does heat flow at the quantum scale? ... ...These and other questions will be addressed on Monday, October 31, 2005, from 1-2 PM, at a press luncheon for the 52nd AVS Internationa...Boston consortium awarded Center of Excellence grant for medical record surveillance systems
BOSTON, MA (Sept. 28, 2005) - A Boston consortium was today awarded one of two national grants to form a CDC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics. The $4.5 million award will allow researchers from the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care), the Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of He...Boston University biologist honored for leadership in estuarine education
(Boston) -- Ivan Valiela, a professor in the Marine Biology Program at Boston University's Department of Biology, has been named to receive the William Niering Outstanding Educator Award from the Estuarine Research Federation. The award will be conferred during the federation's 18th biennial conference to be held in Norfolk, Va., October 16-21. ...... During his more than 35 years as a research...Two Children's Hospital Boston researchers win top presidential awards
Two physician-researchers from Children's Hospital Boston are among 58 investigators nationwide to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the government's highest honor for promising researchers starting independent careers. The awards, presented at a White House ceremony, went to Catherine Gordon, MD, MSc, for her work on anorexia nervosa and bone loss i...Children's Hospital Boston launches major genetic study of autism
Children's Hospital Boston has begun enrolling patients as part of an ambitious new multidisciplinary study of autism that will attempt to pin down its genetic and biochemical causes. Results could be available in a year or two, and could yield a greater biological understanding of autistic spectrum disorders, better diagnostic and prognostic techniques, and potential medical treatments....... Mo...Children's Hospital Boston geneticist awarded for research on muscular dystrophy
Dr. Louis M. Kunkel, director of the Program in Genomics at Children's Hospital Boston and a well-known muscular dystrophy scientist, has received the major annual award given by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). A pioneer in the field of human genetics, Kunkel was honored for nearly two decades of work on the genetics of muscular dystrophy, a family of hereditary muscle-destroying d...Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made two large grants to the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program (CHIP) as part of a first-ever CDC initiative to sponsor innovative research in public health. The grants, aimed at health promotion and public health protection, give Children's an opportunity to pilot two computer-based health surveillance programs. ... ...Under t...