ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...tudents traditionally lost to science and aided in broadening the diversity of students engaged in science. The award, administered annually by the ASBMB Education & Professional Development Committee, is given to a scientist who encourages effective teaching and learning of biochemistry and molecular biology t...New amfAR research grants to optimize HIV treatment
...mmune activation, this could have implications for broadening the use of maraviroc even in patients who might otherwise seem to be unsuitable candidates for the drug. amfAR will also fund several projects related to the social factors contributing to HIV infection, including one that examines how stigma ass...CSHL awarded Pre-College Science Education Grant by HHMI
...t in science, enabling its continued commitment to broadening access to science across diverse populations. The DNALC was founded in 1988 as the worlds first science center devoted entirely to genetics education. With on-site and extensive interactive on-line learning opportunities, the DNALC demonstrates CSHL...Nuclear medicine patients: No-alarm holiday travel tips
...ofessional society. Nuclear medicine, which is broadening its scope to include molecular imaging, involves using tiny amounts of radioactive materials in patients to examine molecular processes in the body. These procedures can be used to detect and evaluate heart disease, cancer, brain disorders and stress...The power behind insect flight: Researchers reveal key kinetic component
...haker muscle and fast mammalian muscle fibers. "By broadening our research, we will be able to determine if the phosphate release rate contributes to setting muscle speed in fast muscle types from other species," according to Swank....Scientists aim to thwart use of flu as bioweapon
...h the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu are gradually broadening the scope of that disease. This week in Rochester, scientists are discussing ways to better understand the flu and also how to prevent the possibility that terrorists could somehow modify flu as a bioweapon to make it even more lethal than it is alre...Study provides new understanding of spontaneous hybridization
... introgression can be a potent evolutionary force, broadening our view of the mechanisms by which populations adapt to their environments," explain the authors....Baboons in mourning seek comfort among friends
...ey studied appeared to compensate for this loss by broadening and strengthening their grooming networks. As they resumed grooming, their glucocorticoid levels returned to normal. "Without Sierra, Sylvia really had nobody else," Engh said. "So great was her need for social bonding that Sylvia began grooming wi...Experts urge reform of international patent system at eve of WIPO assembly
...lopment in developing countries. Such intellectual broadening will need to involve the integration of different actors, such as - academic researchers, policy makers, international negotiators, and civil society organizations, as well as the integration of different relevant disciplines for IPR: economy, law, ...Metal-based medicine could treat diseases in the body
...of the periodic table," he said. "We have to start broadening the landscape of drug design." His new molecules, called metal coordination complexes, mimic the activity of natural enzymes that break apart DNA, RNA, and proteins in the body. Cowan and his colleagues have tailor-made different complexes to break a...University of Arizona receives IBM grant for massive virtual storage system for life sciences data
...ortunities from the National Institutes of Health, broadening the UA's research base. "We are excited about the possibilities this project holds for our ability to carry out biomedical and life-science research. Developing more advanced, integrated storage capabilities will significantly improve research proces...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, a move aimed at broadening the application of genome information in medical research and health care. Goal of the three-year ASU grant is to develop a system that can read DNA sequence up to one thousand times faster and costing only a hundredth as much as current methods. If...ENCODE consortium publishes scientific strategy
...onsortium's "tool box." "These grants are aimed at broadening the types of functional elements that we are studying under ENCODE and also expanding the portfolio of technologies that we can apply to them," said Peter Good, Ph.D., NHGRI's program director for genome informatics. Recipients of the 2004 ENCODE Tec......reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, a move aimed at broadening the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care. NHGRI's near-term goal is to lower the cost of sequencing a mammalian-sized genome to $100,000, which would enable researchers to sequence the genomes of hundreds or even th...