ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March 21, 2007
... ACS highest honor. In a beautifully illustrated essay that is half of a two-part C&EN cover feature, Whitesides explains the rationale for those predictions. He notes, for instance, that chemistry now has powerful new instruments new keys to open new doors and enormous intellectual capital to provide ...Global ocean sampling expedition
... a feature by Henry Nicholls. A "challenge series" essay by Jonathan Eisen provides insight into the issues surrounding the field of metagenomics today. To host all the additional metadata that surround metagenomic studies, a new database, CAMERA, has been established, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moor...American scientist's research of life's first cells
...eir PhD degrees in 2005 and submitted a 1,000-word essay based on their dissertations. Their essays were ju...onse in yeast. Bernhard Loll (Europe): For his essay "Photosystem II, a bioenergetic nanomachine." Loll was born in Ravensburg, Germany. He studied chemi...NIH director announces 2007 Pioneer Award competition
... streamlined, electronic application process is an essay on the investigator's vision for addressing a biomedical challenge, the importance of the problem, and the person's qualifications to engage in groundbreaking research. The application period opens on Friday, December 1, 2006 and closes on Tuesday, J...'Urban Wildlife Management' book something to crow about
...ns between people and wildlife. One of these is an essay about the importance of cemeteries with their numerous varieties of old and well-kept plants for birds. It also describes how wildlife can lead to adverse situations such as overabundant populations of coyotes that may prey on pets, or the threat of...Science offers 'state of the planet 2006-2007' to explore global challenges
...nnedy. At the heart of the book is a landmark 1968 essay in Science , "The Tragedy of the Commons," by the late Garret Hardin, formerly a professor of human ecology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "Where have we come in 38 years?" Kennedy asks. "The population/resource collision has only...Biological diversity and human health; Rapid autopsy program; Snake bites and more
...e short term, say two researchers in a provocative essay in PLoS Medicine. Dr Joanna Moncrieff (University College London) and Professor David Cohen (Florida International University) argue that psychotropic drugs create abnormal states with a wide range of effects, including sedation, indifference, or st...Learning to love bacteria: Stanford scientist highlights bugs' benefits
...ch, is publishing his thoughts on this topic in an essay in the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Cell, in which...ent bacterial infection good for your health?" The essay is based on a talk he was invited to give at Cambridge University in November. Falkow points out tha...Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
...r Ph.D. degrees in 2004 and submitted a 1,000-word essay based on their dissertations. Their essays were judged on the quality of research and the applicants ability to articulate how their work would contribute to the field of molecular biology, which investigates biological processes in terms of the phys...University of Kentucky author captures national attention with 'Lost Mountain'
...awarded by Columbia University in New York for his essay "Death of a Mountain." The essay appeared prominently in the April 2005 issue of Harper's Magazine, one of the leading literary magaz...AGI announces winners of Earth Science Week 2005 contests
...n the Essay Contest with "The Big Dream." Kendle's essay described his love of paleontology and the career he hopes to pursue in this field. Students in grades 5-9 were asked to submit essays of up to 500 words answering the question: "What kind of geoscientist would you like to be, and why?" All submiss...Modern technology helps shed light on illnesses in artists of the past
...tent with "An Opium Dream." DeQuincy's most famous essay is Confessions of an English Opium Eater. In it, the author offers an eloquent essay on both the delights and agonies of opium abuse. A modern clinical chemistry lab could have detecte...Insect pheromone research wins Eppendorf/Science prize
...by a young scientist, as described in a 1,000 word essay based on research performed within the last three ... receives $25,000 from Eppendorf, and the winner's essay will be published in the 04 November 2005 issue of Science . Three finalist essays will be publish......of schizophrenia with clarity and sensitivity. The essay also focuses on the fascinating connection between changes in DNA, smoking and schizophrenia. Asked to elaborate on the inspiration behind his entry, Rydberg explained that the idea was born of a minor project carried out as part of a postdoctoral f...Could better mangrove habitats have spared lives in the 2004 tsunami?
... be avoided if a tsunami ever strikes again. In an essay published this week in the June 21 issue of Current Biology, a group of researchers recount the first findings arising from their recent assessment of how mangrove ecosystems might have influenced the tsunami's impacts on coastal communities. The res...Water research initiatives at UW-Madison
...nd their potential contributions to conflict in an essay in "Geographies of War and Peace" (2005, Oxford University Press). Noting estimates that as many as 10 million people die annually from the preventable effects of unsafe drinking water, Harris argues for broader understanding of how water relates to ...Marine researchers deliver blueprint for rescuing America's troubled coral reefs
...eefs. Their message is contained a strongly worded essay titled, "Are U.S. Coral Reefs on the Slippery Slop...es could be the pride of the nation." The Science essay was co-written by lead author John Pandolfi of the University of Queensland, Australia; Jeremy Jacks...Emory biochemist writes lead essay describing Nobel Prize research on ubiquitin protein
... leading to premature cell death." Dr. Wilkinson's essay in Cell traces the history of the groundbreaking research on ubiquitin over the past 25 years. It is remarkable, he notes, that it took so long to discover a system that plays such a central role in a variety of pathways in the cell and also notable...Research led by UGA professor reports first routine tool use by wild capuchin monkeys
... nut-cracking among Brazilian capuchins in a photo essay published in the February 2003 issue of BBC Wildlife magazine. The dramatic pictures showed the monkeys lifting improbably large stones to crack palm nuts, which had been put in scoured "anvil" areas that indicated long-term use. When she traveled to......o received. "With the AAAS award," she wrote in an essay on her prize, "I knew that I would be judged by the crme de la cognoscenti, one panel composed of working scientists and another of science journalists I was delighted to win the AAAS award."...