Role of thyroid hormones in slumber under investigation at Rutgers
... Thanks to a $415,369 grant from the National Science Foundation, a team of Rutgers-Camden researchers will pinpoint precisely how and when thyroid hormones influence the brains sleep-related structures. Findings could yield new knowledge on a previously unknown sleep-regulatory substance and potentially answer why existing sleep medications arent the cure-all for...Rutgers, Penn researchers capture research dollars to improve prostate cancer diagnostic methods
... Diagnostic methods being developed by Rutgers biomedical engineers and University of Pennsylvania physicians use powerful high resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) techniques to reveal previously hidden cancerous tissue in prostate glands. The innovative techniques also can pinpoint concentrations of suspicious tissue, thus improving the...Rutgers findings a step toward safer chemicals in labs and industry
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Safe, versatile and environmentally friendly chemicals could replace hazardous, petroleum-based solvents used in science labs and industrial plants. Chemists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, reported research results this week on a new class of ionic liquid chemicals with these attributes.... ...Rutgers chemistry researchers Hideaki Shirota and Edwar...Rutgers: GM/GMO/Biotech crop containment strategy
... In a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Rutgers Professor Pal Maliga and research associate Zora Svab advocate an alternative and more secure means of introducing genetic material into a plant. In GM crops today, novel genes are inserted into a cell nucleus but can eventually wind up in pollen grains o...National Academy of Sciences elects 2 Rutgers professors
... Hugo K. Dooner, a professor at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology and in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; and Paul G. Falkowski, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, were among the 72 new members ch...NSF funds new Rutgers plant biomaterials initiative
... This initiative can yield cost-effective, bio-based materials to replace petroleum-derived plastics while creating new economic opportunities for American f...Rutgers survey examines public responses to the recent spinach recall
... ...Rutgers College of Nursing dean authors a book on genetics and how it affects nursing and health
... ... "To...Rutgers anthropologist to receive Crafoord Prize, biology's equivalent of Nobel Prize
... The Crafoord Prize promotes international basic research in disciplines that complement those for which the Nobel Prizes are awarded. These include astronomy and mathematics, geosciences, biosciences (with a particular emphasis on ecology) and rheumatoid arthritis. In contrast, the science Nobel Prizes focus specifically on chemistry,...NSF funds biofertilizer research at Rutgers-Camden
CAMDEN -- A research project underway at Rutgers University's Camden campus could help revolutionize agriculture through the use of fungi as "biofertilizers" that reduce the farming industry's reliance on phosphate and nitrogen fertilizers that pollute water supplies.... Thanks to a newly awarded three-year grant of more than $419,000 from the National Science Foundation, Heike Bcking, an assis...Icelandic volcano caused historic famine in Egypt, says Rutgers-based team
... A study by three scientists from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and a collaborator from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, demonstrates a connection between these two widely separated events. The research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is the latest add...Rutgers-led group lands $2.55 million to advance high school biology and math
... The five-year grant, led by Rutgers, includes the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP) and Colorado State University. The project aims to close a gap between math and biology instruction in high school courses by creating materials that address mathematic...$1.7 million for Rutgers anti-HIV drug research
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Monday, June 5, marked the 25-year anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, and Rutgers researchers have just received new funds to support their pursuit of new ways to combat the virus. Patrick J. Sinko, Parke-Davis Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at Rutgers' Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, has received a highly selective National Institutes of Health (...National Science Foundation awards $15 million grant to Rutgers-led engineering research consortium
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $15 million grant to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and three collaborating universities to improve the way pharmaceuticals, foods and agricultural products are manufactured. ...... The five-year grant funds an NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) to enhance the quality and consistency of materials...Rutgers School of Engineering awards first alumni medals of excellence
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. The School of Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is awarding its first "Medal of Excellence" honors to alumni who have made major contributions to society or achieved notable positions in business, government or education. ......The recipients will be honored at an awards banquet on May 17, the evening before the School of Engineering's spr...Rutgers team's coal-to-diesel breakthrough could drastically cut oil imports
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Professor Alan Goldman and his Rutgers team in collaboration with researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a way to convert carbon sources, such as coal to diesel fuel. ...... This important advance could significantly cut America's dependence on foreign oil what President Bush called "an addiction" in his 2006 State of the Uni...Rutgers researchers find fat gene
Rutgers researchers have identified a gene and the molecular function of its protein product that provides an important clue to further understanding obesity and may point the way to new drugs to control fat metabolism. ...... The scientists found that the human protein known as lipin is a key fat-regulating enzyme. "Lipin activity may be an important pharmaceutical target for the control of...Rutgers researchers create tiny chemical cages to enclose drug, pesticide molecules
Tiny chemical cages created by researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, show potential for delivering drugs to organs or tissues where they're needed without causing harm elsewhere....... These cage-like molecules, called nanocontainers or nanoscale capsules because they measure a mere 3.2 nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide, also could make pesticides less hazardous to han...FDA approves first medical device using Rutgers biomaterial
Rutgers scientists and TyRx Pharma, Inc., have announced the Food and Drug Administration's clearance of a new medical device for hernia repair that incorporates a biodegradable technology developed at the university. This action signals a paradigm shift in the application of biomaterials from permanent prosthetic replacements toward regenerative medicine, in which materials help the body to repa...Rutgers researchers scientifically link dancing ability to mate quality
Dance has long been recognized as a signal of courtship in many animal species, including humans. Better dancers presumably attract more mates, or a more desirable mate.... ...What's seemingly obvious in everyday life, however, has not always been rigorously verified by science. Now, a study by scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, for the first time links dancing ability to...Rutgers researcher uncovers new gene for fear factor
Rutgers geneticist Gleb Shumyatsky has discovered a gene that controls both innate and learned forms of fear. The gene, known as Stathmin or Oncoprotein 18, is highly concentrated in the amygdala, a key region of the brain that deals with fear and anxiety....... "This is a major advance in the field of learning and memory that will allow for a better understanding of post traumatic stress disorde...Rutgers' Wise Young named to Esquire's 'Best and Brightest of 2005'
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers' Wise Young, world-renowned neuroscientist and spinal cord injury researcher, has been selected by Esquire magazine as one of the "Best & Brightest 2005" and is featured in the December issue of the magazine which reaches the newsstands on Nov. 15....... Another of Esquire's picks for "Best & Brightest 2005" is acclaimed social theorist and author Richard Fl...Rutgers entomologist honored by Chinese Academy of Sciences
New Brunswick, NJ Randy Gaugler, a distinguished professor of entomology at Rutgers' Cook College, has been named as a recipient of the 2006 Albert Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ... ...Gaugler said he was pleasantly surprised to have been selected for the prestigious award. "The recipients are some of the biggest names in science, giants in their field," he said. "I'...Rutgers College of Nursing Dean's award winning book updated and released
TO THE POINT: Award winning book on clinical genetics by Rutgers College of Nursing Dean Felissa R. Lashley has been released in the third edition with updated and new information...... NEWARK, N.J. The award winning book, "Clinical Genetics in Nursing Practice," authored by Felissa R. Lashley, Rutgers College of Nursing dean and professor, has been issued in a third edition with new and updated...Rutgers to lead $52.7 million protein research program
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers University will lead a new $52.7 million research program that will help reveal the roles that proteins play in life's most fundamental processes and point the way to designing new medicines. Under the direction of Rutgers Professor Gaetano Montelione, the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG) will conduct the five-year undertaking....... "This gr...Rutgers' Tabasco Sauce connection
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers University plant scientists are truly into something hot. They are working with a research laboratory named for the late Tabasco Pepper Sauce heir, John S. McIlhenny, and built with a gift from the trust he established, the Coypu Foundation. The lab is part of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a campus of the Louisiana State University system. At t...Rutgers is on the 'NIH Roadmap'
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $4 million in three grants to partnerships involving institutes and centers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). The grants are funded through the "NIH Roadmap" program, a series of initiatives designed to accelerate biomedica...Rutgers-led research offers new clues in the genetic mysteries of maize
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers researchers, with the support of the National Science Foundation, have pushed back the frontiers on the genetic nature and history one of the world's most important crops corn. This crop dominates agriculture in the United States, where approximately 9 billion bushels are produced annually at a value of $30 billion. Maize (or corn) is also an important die...