NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...ordinary light microscope) to 1,000,000 times. The final products of these electron images are representations of the biological structures at near-atomic resolutions -- up to about 3 to 4 angstroms under the best of circumstances. That's not quite fine enough to resolve individual atoms in the structure, ...College students recognized & rewarded for their innovative work
...ourteen finalist teams made presentations before a final panel of eight judges on October 1st and 2nd, whic...er to select the fourteen finalists. Don Keck, a final phase judge and an inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the invention of optical fibe...Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
...tial and no notification is given to fellows until final selections are made. Koller's research tackles questions of how complex information with high levels of uncertainty can be approached using algorithms, probabilistic modeling and other computational methods. These tools strive to represent knowle...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...yclin B for degradation at the end of mitosis"-the final phase of cell division. Today Hershko is studying that ubiquitin ligating complex in both clam eggs and cultured human cells in hopes of learning even more about cell division in general and cancer more specifically. "Changes in the mecha......s produced by sequencing the genome 3.3 times. The final target, which is expected to sequence the genome six times, should be completed sometime in 2005. The initiative also plans to sequence part of the genomes of additional cattle breeds including the Holstein, Angus, Jersey, Limousin, Norwegian Red an...Old bones unearth new date for giant deer's last stand
...rs spanning 3.5 metres - appear to have made their final stand in the Ural mountains on the boundary of Europe and Asia, possibly the last haven for a species which was being progressively wiped out by climate change and the spread of ice sheets, according to the study by UCL Professors Adrian Lister and T...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...densed matter physics and astrophysics." The final presentation of the conference will address the questions that participants have submitted beforehand as the key foci for developments in physics over the next quarter century. Gross will give that talk. For 10 years the key landmark for arriv...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
... Williamson evaluated many different concepts. The final design -- shaped like a giant, twisted doughnut -- will help prevent plasma disruption, sustain longer fusion reactions and confine the plasma more securely so that it does not lose particles and energy. NCSX is a PPPL-ORNL partnership. Construction ...Johns Hopkins team wins British biotech business plan competition
... to London to represent the U.S. and Canada at the final nine-team competition, as well as a $1,000 check from the British Council USA (BCUSA), which sponsored and administered the North American initiative. The Hopkins team, made up of graduate biomedical engineering students David Noren, Blanka Sharma, R...Anti-cholesterol drug treats Alzheimer's disease in mice
...hibitor, avasimibe, developed by Pfizer, is now in final clinical trials as a treatment for vascular disease and atherosclerosis. That drug is "considered safe for human use, with a good therapeutic window," wrote Kovacs and her colleagues. "Our results suggest that slow-release biopolymer administration o...International human genome sequencing consortium describes finished human genome sequence
...l Nature . In the paper, researchers describe the final product of the Human Genome Project, which was the 13-year effort to read the information encoded in the human chromosomes that reached its culmination in 2003. The Nature publication provides rigorous scientific evidence that the genome sequence pro...Study demonstrates Cenestin reduces sleep disturbances/night sweats in post-menopausal women
...er at the start of the trial, and again during the final three days of treatment, using standard monitoring methods to track sleep stages, eye movement, total sleep time, wake time and the number of times they awoke during the night. Galvanic skin responses -- an electrical skin conductance from the palms...Sandbagging cancer in the bloodstream
...ans. The potential treatment strategy targets this final step of the metastatic cascade--the exit of the me... "We know that the normal blood vessel wall is one final barrier that metastatic tumor cells must overcome, which allows them to find their way out of the bl...Immune system in a bottle could help prevent flu vaccine shortage
...fer a very good control over the environment." The final goal of the DARPA project will be replication of the function of the human bone marrow and thymus. Besides University of Texas Medical Branch and Nomadics Inc., it also includes Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Scientific Research ...UCSD biologists discover chemical important in guiding visual system development
...ted that the genes specified everything except the final fine tuning of connections," says Feller. "This study sheds light on the important question of how spontaneous activity is generated, but we still have much to learn about the details of the cellular processes involved." ...Rice biologists elected AAAS Fellows
...of individuals within its respective section and a final list is forwarded to the AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list. ...New AAAS report cites 'serious concerns' with electronic voting
...ntested presidential election, AAAS has released a final report on the state of electronic voting systems a...st such systems leave no paper trail to verify the final count. An interim report was released last month. Reflecting the breadth of the issue, participants ...Stress impairs thinking via mania-linked enzyme
...ely reduce PKC activity suggests that PKC may be a final common target of these treatments and may play a key role in bipolar disorder. Studies have also found signs of increased PKC activity in bipolar patients' blood platelets and in the brain cells of deceased patients. Susceptibility to bipolar disorde...Economics and ecology combine at UGA in NSF-funded study of evolutionary game theory
...ion is likely to be," said Keenan, before adding a final note that the solution technique being applied is the Nash equilibrium, the creation of Nobel Laureate John Nash, who was depicted in the movie, "A Beautiful Mind."......the archive and online data interface. The final map products are due for release in early 2005....