Engineers develop process to recycle unused paint by blending it into common plastics
...lastic recycling, Nosker and postdoctoral research fellow Jennifer Lynch tested the feasibility of blending latex paint solids with two inexpensive and widely available plastics. One is high-density polyethylene (HDPE), commonly used to make milk and laundry detergent bottles; the other is polymethyl methac...UCLA scientists design masks to hide genetic mutations from cell
... of pathology and human genetics, and postdoctoral fellow Liutao Du at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, are available for interviews. JOURNAL: The research appears in the March 19 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
...s," says co-editor Steven Ratuva of Fiji, a senior fellow at the University of the South Pacific. Tribal Genes for Sale: $216 One of the earliest offences involved the US government, which filed patents on DNA cells taken from the Hagahai tribe in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the early ...38 minority scientists receive travel fellowships to Experimental Biology 2007 in D.C.
...tion to paying travel and registration costs, each fellow is paired with an established researcher, an APS m...etworking opportunities. The mentor introduces the fellow to other established scientists at the conference, and the fellows meet other minority students at a...Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria
...at target iron," explained Yukihiro Kaneko, senior fellow in microbiology at the UW and the study's lead author. To accomplish this, the researchers used gallium, a metal very similar to iron. "Gallium acts as a Trojan horse to iron-seeking bacteria," said Singh. "Because gallium looks like iron, invad...Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest
...essor of civil and environmental engineering and a fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford. "[But] on the sanitation side, we're in big trouble. We're probably going to miss that goal by 500 million people." Sanitation, the 'poor cousin' Today, more than 1 billion people worldwid...Researchers create artificial enzyme that mimics the body's internal engine
... that CcO rarely fails, said Stanford postdoctoral fellow Neal K. Devaraj, whose doctoral dissertation was the basis of the Science paper. According to Devaraj, CcO has more than 99 percent efficiency in transforming oxygen into water. To understand why CcO is so efficient, Collman's group, led by Stanfor...Researchers use poliovirus to destroy neuroblastoma tumors in mice
...., Ph.D., a pediatrician and postdoctoral research fellow in Stony Brook's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. "Effectively, we have harnessed a virus that was deadly in children just a few decades ago, namely polio, and used an essential aspect of its nature to destroy a disease that is dead...Smithsonian study concludes Caribbean extinctions occurred 2M years after apparent cause
...gists normally do," said Aaron O'Dea, postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "In our case, we see that most coral and snail species died off a good 2 million years after the environmental change that caused their demise." The researchers ...Bacterial walls come tumbling down
...ng hospital infectious disease staff. Postdoctoral fellow Andrew Lovering, who is first author on the paper, hopes the group's three-dimensional pictures of the sugar-building enzyme from S. aureus will accelerate the search for an effective weapon against the infamous superbug. The images produced by Str...Penn study finds inhaled anesthetics accelerate the appearance of brain plaque in animals
... human disease," explains Eckenhoff. Post-doctoral fellow and first author Shannon Bianchi, MD, exposed "middle-aged" Alzheimer mice to anesthetics at low to moderate concentrations for two hours a day over a total of five days, not unusual for a clinical scenario. The cognitive abilities of the mice were t...Despite their heft, many dinosaurs had surprisingly tiny genomes
...lineages of dinosaurs," says Organ, a postdoctoral fellow in organismic and evolutionary biology supported by the National Institutes of Health. "The theropods -- carnivores such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor -- had very small genomes, in the range of modern birds. Ornithischians -- which include St...Researchers learn what sparks plant growth
...the shoot," said Savaldi-Goldstein, a postdoctoral fellow in Chorys lab. Chorys research group is interested in identifying the mechanisms by which plants alter their shape and size in response to changes in their environment. Chory studies Arabidopsis, a member of the mustard family that is to plant bio...Ovarian cancer may mimic fallopian tube formation
...tissue straight from the operating room, Bowen and fellow OCI researchers are engaged in investigating the molecular profile of ovarian cancer tissue in order to discover the causes of ovarian cancer, develop a reliable diagnostic blood test and understand the genetic basis of resistance to chemotherapy. ...UA researchers identify new adherence factor, Pili, produced by tuberculosis
...f immunobiology. Dr. Alteri now is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School. Jorge A. Girn, PhD, UA assistant professor of immunobiology, and Juan Xicohtncatal, PhD, his postdoctoral fellow, collaborated on this study. If M. tuberculosis pili are important for the bacillus to e...Joslin researchers discover a surprising culprit in the search for causes of diabetic birth defects
...e study was Rulin Li, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral fellow at Joslin. The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, will appear in the March print edition of Diabetologia and was published online by the journal on Jan. 18. "Glut2 is a gene that we wouldn't have expected to be switched on in e...Unique tomatoes tops in disease-fighting antioxidants
...d science; and Torsten Bohn, a former postdoctoral fellow in food science at Ohio State. ...Eating ice cream may help women to conceive, but low-fat dairy foods may increase infertility risk
...of the study, Dr Jorge Chavarro, who is a research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, said that, given the scarcity of information in this area, it was important that more research should be carried out into the association between low-fat d...Three young scientists at Yale honored with Sloan Foundation Fellowships
...g fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Each fellow receives a $45,000 award for the two-year period and is free to pursue whatever line of inquiry is of the most compelling interest to him or her. Those named at Yale are Assistant Professor Jack Harris ( Physics and Applied Physics ), Associate ...Protein identified that regulates effectiveness of Taxol chemotherapy in breast cancer
... Taxol, said the studys first author, postdoctoral fellow Ayesha Shajahan, Ph.D., of Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown. "Because breast tumors are not all the same, it is important to know the cancers molecular makeup in order to increase the efficiency, and lower the toxicity, of chemoth...