HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
...niques of modern molecular and cell biology and to explore how the brain discriminates among odors. It also allowed researchers to "pull out" the genes for similar receptor proteins in other species by searching through libraries of DNA from these species. Odorant receptors of humans, mice, catfish, dogs, an...University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
...rence, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, will explore the theme of 'From Evidence to Empowerment', debating the whole spectrum of childhood disability. Around 500 professionals working with children with disability will attend the 16th annual meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability, host...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
...atment for oral cancer. Complementary studies will explore the physiological bases for these alterations and gauge the potential for prevention of sensory loss and for recovery. In addition to having direct relevance to patients afflicted with chemosensory loss or dysfunction, the project will advanc...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...demiologic Study on Aging (PacGen) was designed to explore and develop studies of the genetics for longevity in the Japanese Americans of Hawaii, one of the longest lived populations in the world. PacGen has developed a multidisciplinary research team to investigate exceptional survival in the Honolulu Heart...Drought in the West linked to warmer temperatures
... team then used published climate model studies to explore mechanisms that link warming with aridity in the western U.S. In addition to the paper in Science , they also used the data to create a CD-ROM called the North American Drought Atlas, the first of its kind, providing a history of drought on this con...Defense provides additional $4.9 million for pathogen research tool
... outbreaks. ToolBus/PathPort allows researchers to explore curated pathogen information and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis from diverse sources. Using its high-performance computational infrastructure and a world-class team of biologists and computer technologists, the cyberinfrastructure group will c...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...d mimic human speech, researchers are beginning to explore such new realms as "automatic emotion recognition" and "emotional speech synthesis," in which machines would respectively recognize human emotion and to generate emotions in synthetic speech. To these ends, Serdar Yildirim ( yildirim@usc.edu ) and ...Flies have morning and evening clocks
...ally. Rosbash and his colleagues will continue to explore the details of the different clocks. Such studies, he said, may offer an important opportunity for understanding general principles of neural structure and function. "The circadian neurons are one of the few circuits in neurobiology where we have a c...Oct. 15-17 Bioinformatics meeting in Irvine, Calif.
...thur M. Sackler colloquium series, scientists will explore recent advances in bioinformatic theory and experimentation across the biological and medical sciences, as well as technological innovations that will further enable the collection of useful data. DETAILS: Meeting will take place October 15-1...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...he Structural Interrogation of DNA This group will explore combinations of fabrication technologies to build devices for analysis of single DNA molecules, and use various measurement techniques to extract information from those devices. Experiment is woven together with simulation and modeling to understand ...Gene-altered mouse is model for rare autoimmune syndrome
...nt of the model will now enable the researchers to explore the complexities of the disease and the immune system in general. "This model really tells us that the biology of Id3 and the immune system is more complex than was suspected," he said. "For example, we need to understand why autoimmunity so...Brain differences in adolescents, psychopaths, lend to their impulsive, risk-taking behavior
...ted by the conflict between the animal's desire to explore and its fear of open spaces. An animal's entering ...sting that the pubescent rats were more willing to explore and less anxious than the adults. The prepubescent rats showed more active behavior, not necessarily...... , Irvine , used magnetoencephalography ( MEG ) to explore the neural correlates of sound sensitivity and language deficits in autistic children. Many children with autism are delayed in the development of language, either not speaking at all or with very limited language capability. Autis...Sandbagging cancer in the bloodstream
...umor cells. This suggests a possible new avenue to explore therapeutically in humans. Src kinase inhibitors might reduce the metastatic ability of cancer cells and improve the prognosis of patients treated with them. Significantly, this approach reduces cancer cell metastasis by targeting a host protein (Sr...Children's Hospital Boston geneticist awarded for research on muscular dystrophy
... to muscular dystrophy. Today, Kunkel continues to explore the role of these proteins and the more than 40 genes that have now been linked with various muscular dystrophies. His lab is using microarray (gene chip) technology to systematically examine the activity of multiple genes at once, seeking to find p...Prominent physicist Freeman Dyson to speak at NJIT: Promises and perils of genetic engineering
...n University's Institute of Advanced Studies, will explore this possibility during the Nov. 10 technology for...d society forum series. The forums are designed to explore the connections between the technological expertise that students study in the classroom and the rea...Deciphering the Arctic Ocean climate puzzle
...Through multiple platforms, pre-eminent scientists explore IODP's principal themes: the deep biosphere, environmental change, and solid earth cycles. Information: www.iodp.org...U-M researcher examines the cell's housekeeping habits
... "We have a lot of really interesting questions to explore in autophagy."...Award will help unlock mysteries of one of Earth's most important organisms
...l Health. The funding is for five years of work to explore the environmental conditions that trigger blooms of harmful algae in marine waters and how these blooms affect public health when contaminated seafood is eaten. "It is the foundation's goal not only to support the top scientists in marine microbiolo......launched a new $6.25 million, five-year program to explore and address challenges in measurement, validation and quality control for the rapidly growing field of gene expression profiling. Enormous quantities of gene-sequence data are pouring out of labs thanks to dramatic gains in DNA sequencing technology,...