A chemotherapy drug packs a one-two punch
...week by the journal Blood, Dhodapkar, postdoctoral fellow Radek Spisek, and their colleagues show that unlike radiation or other chemical therapies, bortezomib can kill multiple myeloma cells in culture in such a way that it elicits a response by memory and killer T cells. The results suggest the drug has t...Scientists will discuss creating a culture of sustainability February 19 at AAAS
... for Environmental Science and Policy and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. "To make reasoned and equitable decisions, policymakers need to look not just at the market impacts, but at other factors such as loss of human lives and biodiversity, and quality of life." Time for acti...Sense and sensibility in short-term memory
..." said coauthor Kristina Visscher, a post-doctoral fellow at Brandeis. "This study shows that our representations of sight and sound get contorted on the way to being remembered, and they get contorted in the same ways." The errors we make in memory for sounds are the same types of errors we make in memory...Targeting the adrenal gland could be key strategy against heart failure, Jefferson scientists show
...or Anastasios Lymperopoulos, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Translational Medicine, and means that adrenal gland GRK2 becomes a new target for heart failure medications. GRK2 inhibitors would be a totally new class of drugs if they come on the market, Dr. Koch says, adding that eventually,...Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker
...partment of Engineering Technology. Luneau enlists fellow birdwatchers to scrutinize the images stored in the hard disks for a shot of the ivory-billed woodpecker. In addition to Luneau, the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp., Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Audubon Arkansas, Nature Conservancy in Ark......cement of Science (AAAS). He will be inducted as a fellow during its annual conference in San Francisco, from February 15 to 19. "It's an honour to receive this sort of recognition from one's peers, and I do feel proud," says Shizgal, a Concordia University professor of psychology. "That pride should be s...Old dinosaur research leads to new honor
...f Science (AAAS). The society will induct him as a fellow during its annual conference, being held from Feb. 15 to 19 in San Francisco. "I am humbled that they chose me, and I think it was because my research has had an impact in my field," says Reisz, a paleontologist at the University of Toronto. "I l...Computer tool helps pinpoint risky gene mutations
...working on the new computer tool as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Andrej Sali, a professor of biopharmaceutical sciences and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. For the current journal article, the biochemical tests to validate the computer tool were conducted in t...Protein sensor for fatty acid buildup in mitochondria
...KAN," said Roberta Leonardi, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the St. Jude Infectious Diseases department and first author of the PNAS article. "For example, reducing the level of fat in the diet and taking carnitine supplements might help PKAN patients cope with this debilitating disease." "One of our ch...New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown
...obal level, said lead author and UTMB postdoctoral fellow Gavin Bowick. He said that checking almost 1,200 interactions simultaneously let the researchers see the big picture of immune response, avoiding the contradictory results often produced by studies that focus on only a single biochemical pathway. ...Protein discovery targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria
...try, are PhD student Jimin Zheng and post-doctoral fellow Vinay Singh; and Microbiology & Immunology Masters student Chunhua He. The group is studying sensory pathways used by bacteria that enter our bodies and move from the stomach into the gastro-intestinal tract. If we can block the sensory pathway, th...Flu shot might also offer some protection against H5N1
...ording to Matthew Sandbulte, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Food and Drug Administration, who did much of the work on this project. "Hemagglutinin is more abundant than neuraminidase on viruses and is a better target for protective immunity, so current vaccines are designed to trigger immune respons...Long-term marijuana smoking leads to respiratory complaints
...poorly understood," said Tetrault, ambulatory care fellow at Yale School of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System. Tetrault and colleagues systematically reviewed articles from 1966 through 2005 identified from the MEDLINE, PsychINFO and EMBASE databases that evalua...Free public events at the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
...of Brazil and the order of merit of Italy. He is a fellow of TWAS, AAS and the Islamic Academy of Science; h...an Royal Overseas Academy of Sciences; and foreign fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. His research areas include theoretical plasma physics, physics ...Researcher to study astronaut bone loss for space biology agency
Roger K. Long, MD, an endocrinology research fellow at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, was one of only three scientists named in January 2007 as 2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellows by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). Long's NSB...Researchers publish first working model that explains how biological clocks work
...ow working in industry; Wubei Dong, a postdoctoral fellow in Arnold's lab in genetics; Cara Altimus, a former UGA undergraduate now a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University; Xiaojia Tang, a doctoral student in Shuttler's lab; James Griffith, Arnold's research coordinator, who is supported by funds fro......d Barbara Stranger, first author and post-doctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "This may occur when the CNV reduces the effectiveness of a region that works to switch the genes on or off." The survey gives the first global view of the effects of SNPs and CNVs on gene activity. The metho...Male sweat boosts women's hormone levels
...p, said study leader Claire Wyart, a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. The team's work was inspired by previous studies by Wyart's colleague Noam Sobel, associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and director of the Berkeley Olfactory Research Program. He found that the chemical androstadienone -...Gene found for rare disorder may reveal new pathway in mental retardation
...ardorff, M.D., the first author of the study and a fellow in genetics at Children's Hospital. "This study suggests there may be other, undiscovered mutations along the cohesin pathway among patients thought to have isolated mental retardation." "This discovery will improve the diagnosis of Cornelia deLang......r the disease. Explains Crabbe, now a postdoctoral fellow at The Institute of Human Genetics in Montpellier, France, "The lack of a single protein (WRN) induced loss of some telomeres, leading to a premature cellular growth arrest." However, the most interesting finding was what the scientists observed in...