American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...ice that today only a scientist or quality control expert would want to have, the article concludes. ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, August 15, 2007In hot pursuit: Instrument makers harness technology to pursue budding applications for their tools This story will be available on August ...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...A. Back, M.D., Ph.D., an internationallyrecognized expert in pediatric neurology at Doernbecher Children'sHospital, Oregon Health & Science University, recently was awarded aprestigious $2,346,313 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from theNational Institute on Disease and Stroke (NINDS) for his pioneer...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...gical Physics of Eotvos University, Budapest. An expert in the flocking behaviour of birds and insects. Professor Viscek had devised a simple model to replicate the flocking behaviour of colonies of bacteria or large groups of birds and insects such as flocking starlings or swarming locusts. The Warwic...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...tion, the Committee will later recruit independent expert opinions. Then the proposal, supported by these evaluations, will be forwarded to the ESF Science Advisory Board. The Board will subsequently make recommendations to the ESF Governing Council which finally decides on launching the Forward Look. On...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
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...ved in the study. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, an expert on how environmental chemicals affect child development and MARBLES principal investigator, will share her inspiration for launching the study, insights from the pilot phase of the study, various assessments involved and expected outcomes. I...MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
...f memory development, comments Daniel Schacter, an expert on memory at Harvard University who was not associated with the study....Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
...ain areas in greater detail, reports Alois Schlgl, expert for biomedical signal processing at the University of Technology Graz, Austria and at the Fraunhofer Institute Berlin. He has made this new type of coupling analysis freely available for the scientific community in his open-source software-project Bi...Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
...n ICREA researcher working at IRB Barcelona and an expert in molecular parasitology, together with researchers from the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London, have discovered that the parasite has the ability to switch on and off the expression of some of the proteins it uses to enter its...Phase II study of therapeutic vaccine shows efficacy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
...omplete or partial responses following independent expert review. The study, reported in the August 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, was designed to demonstrate the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine, called modified vaccinia Ankara-enc...ESA announces 2007 award recipients
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...l sciences and mechanical engineering at UD and an expert in cellular biomechanics and signal transduction, is a co-investigator on the project. He will assist the interdisciplinary research team in determining how vocal cord cells respond to mechanical forces, which is the first step in engineering functio...Military to study better pain relief in battle zones
...rs to injured soldiers, long before they can reach expert medical help. The ultimate goal is to develop tiny drug-bearing particles that a fellow soldier or perhaps the injured soldier himself could inject with a pen-like device, even in the heat of combat. That would solve one of the challenges now. Morp...Zebrafish: It's not your parents' lab rat
...t that dissimilar," said Rice University zebrafish expert Mary Ellen Lane. "For every zebrafish gene we isolate, there is a related gene in humans." In her most recent work, Lane, graduate students Catherine McCollum and Shivas Amin, and undergraduate Philip Pauerstein zeroed in on a gene called LMO4 that...NCRR launches national network to connect investigators based at minority institutions
...ator leading the network is Keith Norris, M.D., an expert in kidney disease at Charles Drew University in Los Angeles, Calif. Other participating institutions are Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga; University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; Hunter College, CUNY, New York; University of Puerto Rico, Me...Enzyme discovery sheds light on vitamin D
...n, says Biochemistry Professor Glenville Jones, an expert in the field of vitamin D metabolism. By studying the enzyme responsible for breaking down the vitamin, we hope to develop a way to prevent this from happening by blocking that response. First observed in Dr. Joness lab by undergraduate Biochemis...UT and Atom Sciences Collaborate on NIH grant to develop test for major african disease
...robiology professor Pamela Small. Small, a leading expert in the study of Buruli ulcer, will provide a number of samples for use in testing the new technique. The diagnostic relies on a genetic analysis of the bacteria. Hurt and Small will compare test results with different strains of the bacteria to ref...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
...ial of this device in ACL repair. An acknowledged expert in this area of medicine, Dr. Richmond has conducted more than 5,000 ACL and Rotator Cuff Tendon (RCT) reconstructive surgeries over the past 25 years. Dr. Altman founded Serica in 1998, after completing his undergraduate and graduate studies at T...Cancer cures could work for canines and humans
...s for both canine and human cancer patients. An expert from the countrys newest Vet School will tell a symposium in London that studying tumours in dogs and humans could give us a better understanding of their shared pathogenesis. Dr Ali Mobasheri, an Associate Professor from the School of Veterinary M...Changing climate will challenge Northeast agriculture, CU expert warns
...y farms to the limit, warns David Wolfe, a Cornell expert on the effects of climate change on agriculture. His gloomy assessment was part of a report by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) Synthesis Team, presented July 11 at a press conference at the New York Botanical Garden. Choices made tod...