American scientist's research of life's first cells
...She is currently a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Erin K. O'Shea at Harvard University...a J. F. Kennedy award in 2006. Milo is currently a fellow in the department of systems biology at Harvard medical school. In his spare time he enjoys investig...ORNL's Thundat elected fellow of AAAS
...atory researcher Thomas Thundat has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Thundat, a member of the Biosciences Division at the Department of Energy laboratory and a UT-Battelle corporate fellow, is noted for research involving sensor technology and weapon...NIH Nanomedicine Center draws on NYU School of Medicine expertise
...r, Ph.D. has built. Dr. Schnurr is a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Roths lab, a physicist by training who says he is amazed by biological systems. The instrument is a microscope that lets scientists hold and handle a snippet of DNA. Like a yo-yo in water, the DNA segment is suspended in a tiny vial of liquid....Former White House science advisor warns that nanotechnology's potential threatened
... e-mail jadeboyd@rice.edu .) Dr. Lane is senior fellow in Science and Technology at Rice Universitys Baker Institute and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice. While director of the National Science Foundation (1993-1998) and assistant to the president for Science & Technology and director of t...A chilling solution: Measuring below-ground carbon without destroying trees
...ournal Plant, Cell & Environment, Kurt Johnsen and fellow researchers at the FS Southern Research Station un...tact, but still destroys the tree. Johnsen and his fellow researchers decided to try chilling the phloem to temporarily interrupt carbon movement and leave th...Penn researchers discover initial steps in the development of taste
... Cell and Developmental Biology, Penn postdoctoral fellow Fei Liu, PhD, and colleagues report their findings in the most recent online issue of Nature Genetics. "The developmental biology of taste is underexplored," says Millar of her team's impetus for the study. The researchers demonstrated that blocki...Mind Wars -- Brain Research and National Defense
...nes. Amidst these fascinating advances, Moreno and fellow panel members will also discuss the ethical and political issues that may emerge from this relationship. Program: Thursday, December 07, 2006 Center for American Progress 1333 H St. NW Washington, DC 20005 12:30pm to 2:00pm Admission is free. L...Invasive ants territorial when neighbors are not kin
...rise," said Melissa Thomas, who was a postdoctoral fellow working with Holway when she collected the data on...and workers," explained Thomas, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Australia. "If nests invest this time and workforce into collecting re...Protein protects against nerve degeneration
...ts first author, Dr. R. Grace Zhai, a postdoctoral fellow in Bellen's laboratory. The story began two decades ago when researchers in the U.K. discovered a mouse whose injured nerve cells were slow to die. Even when the nerve was cut, it had some function two weeks later while in a normal mouse injured ner...Newly discovered immune defense may be impaired in CF airways
...ding Patryk Moskwa, M.D., Ph.D., a UI postdoctoral fellow and first author of the study, showed that one airway enzyme (Duox) makes hydrogen peroxide and a second enzyme (lactoperoxidase) uses the hydrogen peroxide to convert a small molecule called thiocyanate into the bacteria-killing hypothiocyanite. Th...Mode of seed dispersal greatly shapes placement of rainforest trees
... in tropical forests. Joshua B. Plotkin, a junior fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and co-author Tristram Seidler will publish their results in the November issue of the journal Public Library of Science Biology. "Overall, there is a highly significant relationship betwee...Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum, to receive Prestigious Wilson Award
...In some of his initial studies, as a post doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, Rosenbaum showed that flagella grew and elongated by adding on new subunits to their tips, distant from the cell body where the flagellar proteins are synthesized. When listening to Rosenbaum present this flagellar t...Dragonfly's metabolic disease provides clues about human obesity
...in biology at Penn State and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nebraska, are the first to show a non-mammalian species suffering from metabolic dysfunction in ways similar to humans. "Metabolic disease isn't some strange thing having just to do with humans," said Marden. "Animals in genera...Fighting like a girl or boy determined by gene in fruit flies
...Meanwhile, co-author Steven Nilsen, a postdoctoral fellow in Kravitz's lab, had similar questions and was st...brain-switching genetics. So Austrian postdoctoral fellow Eleftheria Vrontou, the lead author, packed up their flies and took them to the Boston fruit fly fig...Scientists find new way to manipulate DNA
... different flows. Vanapalli is now a post-doctoral fellow at Twente University in the Netherlands. The equation they developed can be applied to design flows that break polymers into certain lengths, or to design polymers to withstand certain flows. This could have big implications for industries that rel...Neanderthal genome sequencing yields surprising results and opens a new door to future studies
... all the biology is," said Noonan, a post-doctoral fellow in Rubin's research group who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab and JGI. "If you want to understand how traits like language and cognition are encoded, you have to study nuclear DNA." Studying ancient genomes from fossilized material by d...Different coat color may not mean different species for lemurs
...plants or animals. Kellie Heckman, a post-doctoral fellow in ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale, and her colleagues at other universities, used analysis of a mitochondrial gene, cytochrome b, to test the genetic relationship of 70 lemurs that were thought to belong to up to three different species. ...Exercise, aspirin consumption and childbirth may alter cancer risk
...AIDs and cancer, Jasmeet Gill, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Etiology, and her colleagues found no associations between aspirin and other NSAID (ibuprofen, naproxen, indomethacin, etc) use and breast cancer risk, even if the women's total NSAID use (aspirin plus other NSAIDs) was for 11 or...New model to aid pancreatic cancer research
... time," said Hideaki Ijichi, M.D., Ph.D., research fellow and lead author on the study. The mice survive approximately two months, reflecting the aggressiveness of human pancreatic tumors. Also, the microscopic appearance of tumors in the new model more closely resembles that of human tumors. "Combin...How diet, obesity and even gum disease may affect immune system and cancer
...According to Connie Rogers, Ph.D., MPH, a research fellow at the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, several studies over the years have implicated obesity with diminishing immune function. In the early 1990s, studies showed low antibody levels afte...