Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
... that is highly regarded for its aesthetic appeal, drawing together many important concepts in mathematics and physics. The EURYI Awards scheme, entering its fourth and final year, aims to attract outstanding young researchers from anywhere in the world to work in Europe for the further development of Europe...UCLA researchers show that culture influences brain cells
...earchers need to take this into consideration when drawing conclusions about brain function and human behavior, said Molnar-Szakacs. The findings, the researchers note, may also have implications for motor skill and language learning, intergroup communication, as well as the study of intergroup attitudes tow......niversity of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) involves drawing up a census of insect species of forensic interest. These are basically necrophagous diptera, i.e. flies that live on dead tissue, cadavers. Such flies detect a dead body in a question of minutes and at times at a distance of several kilometres. They...What's the backscatter of your beer?
...ithout having to disrupt the process by physically drawing a sample and analyzing it, said Dick Pappas, senior research scientist. And because we can measure how fast sound travels across a vat, for instance, and the change in the signals frequency and strength, we can also tell when a mixture has changed fr...New tumor markers -- 'Spot the differences'
... difference puzzles, we try to find out what makes drawing A different from drawing B; in this case, which messages are being sent by cancerous cells but not by normal cells. However, ...New findings challenge established views about human genome
...orys European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), drawing on expertise from 35 groups from 80 organizations around the world. The project served as a pilot to test the feasibility of a full-scale initiative to produce a comprehensive catalog of all components of the human genome crucial for biological funct...Salty oceans provide early warning for climate change
...e a pocket of water becomes salty enough it sinks, drawing in additional water from surrounding areas, and initiates an ocean circulation loop called thermohaline overturning. The scientists discovered that a build up of salt in the waters off the coast of South Africa could help to speed up ocean circulat...UC Irvine awarded $3.9 million to upgrade stem cell research facilities, training
...embryonic stem cells. The course is well-attended, drawing students from UCI and UC Riverside. We are delighted that CIRM recognized the strength of our training program and the efforts of all at UCI who contributed to the quality of the course, said Leslie Lock, director of the training course. UCI will...Climate change signal detected in the Indian Ocean
...arming is due to a strengthening of westerly winds drawing a southward shift in ocean current patterns. These findings are consistent with research in the South Atlantic and South Pacific ocean basins. He said that the change in atmospheric conditions altering ocean temperatures weakening of Pacific Ocean...Cooperative science program yields results
...Gauvin, Rose and Kodiak fishermen went back to the drawing board. Video from the fall indicated water flow through the excluder was too fast for some halibut to escape. So a "gauntlet" was designed from floats used to slow the water and create an area within the net where the fish can mill around while tryi...Satellites play vital role in understanding the carbon cycle
...hing by allowing scientists to witness the biology drawing down CO2 during the growing season and then releasing some of it back. "The exciting new area breaking from this sort of data is that we begin to be able to look at the tropics, which are the lungs of the atmospheric system," Monks said. "Using th...Mosquito genes explain response to climate change
...ey must do to survive. "This chromosomal map is drawing a lot of interest in terms of understanding the genetic response of animals to rapid climate change and also to understanding the metabolic processes involved in disease intervention in humans and other complex organisms," Holzapfel said. Bradshaw ......Dartmouth's center and the SBRP in general is the drawing together of scientists from multiple disciplines to solve problems of significant human impact," said Karimi's advisor and co-author Carol Folt, Dartmouth dean of faculty, professor of biological sciences, and associate director of the Dartmouth toxi...Discoveries thrust cancer-initiating stem cells into a larger role in cancer biology and treatment
...d in the development of secondary acute myeloma by drawing hematopoietic stem cells, the blood-producing cell...a trap for this specific population of stem cells, drawing them into the bone marrow present in the radiation field and getting them exposed to the following r...New way to catch cancer's spread, rapid 3-D retinal imaging, more at CLEO/QELS 2007
...inspired by John Pendry's "perfect lens" idea, and drawing upon the Princeton hyperlens and U-Penn crystal lens concepts as well as Maryland's previous work, the magnifying superlens uses alternating layers of negative- and positive-index-of-refraction metamaterials. In negative-refraction metamaterials, lig...Scripps research study shows humans and plants share common regulatory pathway
...pathway in mammalian cells as well as the value of drawing on plant studies of R protein pathways to better understand the pathogen recognition functions of these proteins." The Nod proteins recognize invasive bacteria, specifically distinct substructures found in Gram-negative and Gram-positive organisms...Setting sights on the drugs of the future
... centred on the theme of targeted therapeutics and drawing on everything from pharmaceutical nanotechnology and biopharmaceuticals to advanced physical, mathematical and life sciences....Dr. John A. Martignetti receives 2006 Prostate Cancer Foundation Award
...rom the bench to the bedside." With its model of drawing new investigators around the globe to the field and enabling investigators to attract additional significant investment, the Competitive Awards Program has played a unique role in the area of prostate cancer research. To date, more than $81 million h...Genetic analyis for personalizing of treatment of lung and colon cancer, certain sarcomas
...arkers for response and toxicity and their role in drawing up more individualised therapeutic plan.......he state's successful land acquisition program and drawing attention to water quality protection." The March 6 luncheon keynote speaker is international environmental expert, Hilary Stone, whose topic is "Sustainability and Environmental Law." Stone holds an honorary research fellowship in waste manageme...