Sustainability, environmental education highlight carnegie mellon presentations at AAAS Meeting
... Klahr will be joined by Junlei Li, a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon, and Lara Triona of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Baruch Fischhoff, the Howard Heinz University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Engineering and Public Policy, will give a presentation about applying ...Scientists to assess effects of multiple copies of genes on disease risk
...by graduate student Patrick Cahan and postdoctoral fellow Deepa Edwin, Ph.D. The 20 mouse strains were previously selected by the Mouse Phenome Project, which is assembling a database of how changes in mouse DNA affect mouse characteristics. The project is headquartered at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, ...UCF student's research with Disney giraffes may help conserve several species
...Fewsters research. Disney also has a post-doctoral fellow from the University of Florida and at least two other UCF students working on research in areas such as animal behavior and reproductive studies. Valdes said hes also involved with manatee and toad research in Florida and Puerto Rico, among other l...Major link in brain-obesity puzzle found
...e 1990s, worked on the new paper with postdoctoral fellow Decheng Ren, Ph.D., who also collaborated on a paper in the journal Cell Metabolism in 2005 that first indicated SH2B1s key role in obesity. The team and other researchers have found that SH2B1, which was previously called SH2-B, is a kind of jack-...Molecular link between inflammation and cancer discovered
...ical reactions," said Soumen Basak, a postdoctoral fellow working with Hoffmann. "When we ran the model, it predicted that p100 levels would be elevated for a significant period of time when the inflammation pathway was stimulated. We confirmed the prediction using biochemical techniques with cells in the...Disabling key protein may give physicians time to treat pneumonic plague
...es Research, Wyndham Lathem, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Goldman's laboratory, developed a mouse model of pneumonic plague and showed that it had many similarities to human infection. In mice, pneumonic plague causes the lungs to fill up with a fluid composed of bacteria, inflammatory cells and other su...Rutgers College of Nursing dean authors a book on genetics and how it affects nursing and health
... first nurse to be so certified, and is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. She began her practice of genetic evaluation and counseling in 1973. She is a member of the International Society of Nurses in Genetics and the American Society of Human Genetics. Lashley was a member of ...Rice breakthrough could prevent multiple fibrotic diseases
...nference. Pilling, who was a post-doctoralresearch fellow at the University of Birmingham in the UK, had recentlyidentified the factor that promoted lymphocyte survival in the fibroticjoints of rheumatoid arthritis patients. However, Pilling was hoping toisolate novel biochemical factors associated with hig...Scientists map key landmarks in human genome
...y member X. Shirley Liu, PhD, and her postdoctoral fellow Jun S. Song, PhD, working closely with Fisher's graduate student Fatih Ozsolak. The researchers borrowed a computational technique from signal processing called "wavelet denoising" that revealed the striking patterns of positioned nucleosomes. On a...Small molecule offers big hope against cancer
...elakis and his colleagues, including post-doctoral fellow Dr. Sebastian Bonnet, have published the results of their research in the journal Cancer Cell. Scientists and doctors have used DCA for decades to treat children with inborn errors of metabolism due to mitochondrial diseases. Mitochondria, the energ...Researchers first to map gene that regulates adult stem cell growth
... former graduate student who is now a postdoctoral fellow at UK. Van Zant said this research and publication of the journal article is the culmination of a difficult but rewarding scientific journey. "We think these findings will have an effect on the broad understanding of the molecular mechanisms that ...Maxine F. Singer to receive Public Welfare Medal
...ersity in 1957. From 1975 to 1990 she served as a fellow (trustee) of the Yale Corp. Singer is the recipient of many honors, including the National Medal of Science in recognition of her "deep concern for the societal responsibility of the scientist." The Public Welfare Medal will be presented to Singer ...AAAS/EurekAlert! refocus on China with 2007 Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions
...an cover the latest research and mingle with their fellow science writers from around the world. The fellowship pays for travel, lodging and meals at the San Francisco meeting. The fellowships were originally launched in 2004 with a seed grant from the William T. Golden Endowment Fund for Program Innovati...Radiation degrades nuclear waste-containing materials faster than expected
...ls to leak, although co-author William J. Weber, a fellow at the Department of Energy national laboratory in Richland, Wash., who made the samples used in the study, cautioned that this work did not address leakage, and researchers detected no cracking. Weber noted that the "amorphous," or structurally degr...Beavers helping frogs, toads survive
... of honour on the Canadian nickel, is also helping fellow species survive. Though considered a pest because of the culvert-clogging dams it builds on streams, the beaver is an ally in conserving valuable wetland habitat for declining amphibian populations, a University of Alberta study shows. The study,...European Union outpaces United States on chemical safety
...beyond Europe, says Stacy D. VanDeveer, a visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. VanDeveer co-authored an article this month in the journal Environment with Henrik Selin, an assistant professor of international relations at Boston University, analyzing the ripple...Scientists uncover potential key to brain blood-flow disorders
... team included Jessica Filosa, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in pharmacology; Adrian Bonev, Ph.D., research ass... pharmacology; Stephen Straub, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in pharmacology; Keith Wilkerson, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in pharmacology; and collaborators at S...Synthetic peptide targets latent papilloma virus infections
...have a big health impact." Botchan, post-doctoral fellow Eric A. Abbate and researcher Christian Voitenleitner reported their results in the Dec. 28 issue of the journal Molecular Cell. Many of the 90-plus known genetic variants or strains of HPV cause warts in surface tissues, including the penis, vagina...How does a zebrafish grow a new tail?
...eration," said Weidinger, a former UW postdoctoral fellow who leads the Wnt Signaling in Development and Regeneration research group at the TUD's Biotechnology Center. "This is very exciting, because this gene might also inhibit regeneration in mammals and man. So, if we find ways of interfering with the fu...Protein's effects essential for kidney-to-bladder urine transfer
...ther biological processes. Swat and postdoctoral fellow Bndicte Sammut, Ph.D., originally generated mice lacking DLGH1 to study the protein's role in a structure known as the immune synapse. As conceived by Swat's colleague Andrey Shaw, M.D., the Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology, the immune synap...