AAAS honors recombinant DNA advisory committee at NIH, citing 30 years of leadership
...ry Committee has enhanced opportunities within the field of modern genetics, explained AAAS Science and Pol...us diseases by correcting genetic errors. When the field was in its infancy in the 1970s, Teich explained, there was widespread public concern about potentia...Mechanical tension helps shape lung development
...she says. Ingber is a pioneer in the new, growing field of mechanobiology--the study of how physical forces affect the function and behavior of living cells and tissues and, ultimately, disease. At the turn of the last century, scientists commonly described biological phenomena in terms of mechanics. "T...Spit, and call me in the morning
...going to come together," said Wong. One reason the field of oral fluid testing is gaining momentum now is that an effort has just gotten underway to decipher the entire set of proteins, or "proteome," present in saliva. This information could allow researchers to determine exactly how the saliva of a healt...Scientists discover how climate change causes the simultaneous boom or bust of multiple populations
...ed Kingdom. The researchers coupled their detailed field studies and ecological knowledge with statistical analyses of data that Hudson had obtained from the owners of 100 individual estates in Northern England, where populations of Red Grouse have been maintained as game birds for more than 100 years. Th...Michael F. Hochella Jr. named Virginia's 2005 Outstanding Scientist
...ials at the atomic scale. He calls this developing field of study nanogeoscience. One nanometer is about 10 times the diameter of a single atom. As a Humbolt Fellow, Hochella discovered heavy metals in soil, streams and rivers as far away as 300 miles from an old copper mine in Montana. Scientists worldwi...Missing micronutrients - How best to nourish a child?
... in color, appearance or texture as a result. Some field studies already have been done on the efficacy of adding meat in a systematic way to the diets of children in developing nations. In a two-year study in rural Kenya, completed in 2003, scientists supplemented the usual corn- and bean-based lunches of...Gorilla diet tips -- Have we 'evolved to eat mush'?
...ing the fossil record. The results of a nine-year field study of mountain gorillas living with chimps in Uganda offer intriguing new clues to the evolution of the modern human diet, Stanford said. The late Dian Fossey's studies of "gorillas in the mist" may have left many laypeople with the impression tha...K-State professor to discuss feeding the world's population without poison
... between fields and water supplies to help control field runoff from entering the water supply. He said a more efficient water irrigation system, subsurface drip irrigation, could help combat loss of water during irrigation. In subsurface drip irrigation, crops are watered underground, resulting in less lo...El Nino forecasting could aid fisheries management, disease control, marine species protection
...ersity oceanographer who did early research in the field believes more could be done with the computer and satellite technology underlying these advances. Richard Barber, who is Harvey W. Smith Professor of Biological Oceanography at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, will outlin...Genome of deadly amoeba shows surprising complexity, evidence of lateral gene transfer
... disease can be fatal, especially in children. One field study in Bangladesh found that E. histolytica infection occurred at least once in 80 percent of 300 children. Over a period of four years, about a third of the children suffered from amebic colitis, an ulceration of the stomach lining. Petri s...2005 ASM biodefense research meeting
...any new technologies currently being tested in the field of infectious diseases can be applied to the challenges of homeland defense. The purpose of this meeting is to identify existing state-of-the-art research in the biomedical sciences that can be adapted to address biodefense needs, including vaccin...Tailing the cause of a rare heart disease
... is identified, it adds new basic knowledge to the field of medicine," she said. "And sometimes rare disorders such as this one can provide very powerful insights into the biology of more common problems. In this case, the finding that transcriptional regulation goes awry in this disorder gives us a top-do...Helping the body heal itself: Regenerative medicine to be discussed at UH
...medical engineering have come together in this new field directed toward long-term repair and replacement of failing human tissues and organs. One of the most highly cited researchers in the world, she is ranked in the top 10 of the World's Most Prolific Scientists. Joining Imperial College London in 199...One year after groundbreaking, desert research center takes shape on the Israeli-Jordanian border
...e Jerusalem Post called the first joint biological field survey ever conducted on both sides of the border.... the Israeli scientists openly participated in the field survey, their Jordanian counterparts asked that their names and institutional affiliations not be ma...Fred Hutchinson announces 2005 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awardees
...e 49. Weintraub was an international leader in the field of molecular biology; among his many contributions, he identified genes responsible for instructing cells to differentiate, or develop, into specific tissues such as muscle and bone. "Hal was one of the most outstanding scientists of his generation, ...DFG awards 2004 Bernd Rendel Prize
...sation of individual members with interests in the field of economic geology, in Freiberg in 2000. Bodo Bookhagen , University of California, Santa Barbara In his thesis, which he completed at Potsdam University in 2004, Bodo Bookhagen dealt with the topic of climate changes and landscape evolution in th......d his team pinned artificial 'moths' to trees in a field with a dead mealworm attached. The 'moths' were triangular pieces of waterproof card with specific patterns printed on them. By varying the colours, size and location of patterns on the moths the team were able to mimic real tree characteristics and ...Researchers find three major beetle groups coming up one testis short
...e available now online. The researchers said that field observations such as this provide valuable clues to beetle biology and evolution. The one-testis phenomenon, or monorchy, was first noted in beetles by French naturalist Leon Dufour in 1825. He found that Harpalini carabid beetles had a single testi...... on cognitive neuroscience an emerging scientific field that investigates how the mind arises from the bio...ogy of the brain. One important factor driving the field is the application of tools such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to yield more precise measureme...