Internet data-mining of natural history
...n initiative to develop online tools to engage the general public, including schoolchildren, in the collection of bird observation data. One project resulting from that effort, eBird, an online checklist program that allows bird enthusiasts to report bird sightings anytime over the Internet from anywhere in ...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...trol of the salivary glands as the "prototype of a general scheme of an innervation mechanism." According to Smith: "The insight was that the psychological and the physiolo-gical intermingled in the function of the central gastric secretory neural center, and, therefore, their combined effects were expressed...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...pirational role as a mentor to young scientists in general and women in particular. She was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Engineering Mentoring in 1997 and is the founding chair of COACh, the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists. ...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...rtantly, the authors note that in the Netherlands, general practitioners act as the gatekeepers to secondary care. As a rule, patients are listed with one physician who receives daily information on admissions and discharges from hospitals. Patients' Needs for Contact with Their GP at the Time of Hospital ...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...hopes of learning even more about cell division in general and cancer more specifically. "Changes in the mechanisms that control the activity of this complex lead to chromosome instability, and ultimately to cancer," Hershko says. "Thus, work done at the MBL on the mechanisms of cell division in clam e...Biologists ID molecular block for social 'cheaters'
... this pleiotropic mechanism may be indicative of a general mechanism that's employed in many species to stabilize cooperation." The Rice-Baylor experiments draw upon one of the most extraordinary examples of social cooperation among microorganisms: when slime mold amoebae run out of the bacteria they eat, th...... with local authorities, and communicated with the general public via an environment website : http://www.cern.ch/environment . Information technology is a fundamental tool in modern particle physics research. In addition to being the place where the World Wide Web was invented, CERN is at present strongly...New Jersey Institute of Technology professor to develop supersized virtual library
...tion (NSF); and $800,000 from the NSF to develop a general recommendation engine. Librarians and other researchers from NJIT, Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, Ramapo College, Cumberland Community College and the Newark Public Library, as well as several on-line digital libraries, will help Bieb...Cells in retina found to behave like soap bubbles
...mathematics and physics in biology and points to a general principle of patterning found in a wide range of living things." ...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
...e for Integrative Genomics. "All you know are some general rules of grammar and syntax. It would take you years to do by hand, and it's even very hard with a computer." Troyanskaya and Myers started with data from genomics tools that identify thousands of genes at once and show how actively they are being us...Support groups aid women with 'breast cancer gene mutations'
...vements in several psychosocial factors, including general anxiety, cancer anxiety, and depression. They add the group therapy appears to have helped women decide whether or not to pursue surgery by giving them an opportunity to fully examine their feelings and perspectives about treatment choices. "Our gro...Estrogen protects male rats from aortic aneurysms
...Orleans, Derek T. Woodrum, M.D., a U-M resident in general surgery, will present new research results showing that smooth muscle cells from aortas of male rats contain 2.5 times more destructive MMP-9 protein and 10 times the level of MMP-9 gene expression compared to the same cells from female rat aortas. K...Flies have morning and evening clocks
...y offer an important opportunity for understanding general principles of neural structure and function. "The circadian neurons are one of the few circuits in neurobiology where we have a chance to understand at multiple levels how different sets of neurons communicate with each other -- including understandi...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...y histories," Forde said. In addition to providing general insight into the process of coevolution, understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of microorganisms is crucial to a number of fields, including human medicine, Bohannan said....Perceptual decision-making hub pinpointed in human brain
...ated by other tasks, suggesting that it likely has general decision-making functions, note the researchers. Also participating in the study were Drs. Sean Marrett and Peter Bandettini, NIMH. ...Using fruitflies to examine alcohol tolerance
...e, rapid and chronic," he said. "There is a third general type of tolerance which occurs during a single exposure to alcohol, acute functional tolerance, which was not studied here." All three types have been demonstrated in humans, he added. "If researchers could develop an assay for acute functional tole...Pushing the envelope to overcome HIV drug resistance
... substrate envelope, drug resistance emerges. This general principle offers a rational basis for combating drug resistance more aggressively by preventing a common mode of escape. Such a tool would be of enormous benefit in the worldwide fight against AIDS. Nancy M. King, Moses Prabu-Jeyabalan, Ellen A. Nali...UCLA scientists discover new way to fix defective gene
...eight times more likely to develop cancer than the general population. Dr. Richard Gatti, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Chih-Hung Lai, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, created a new strategy for tricking the ATM gene into overlooking cer...An old adage about apples finds scientific backing
...sts split the polyphenols found in apples into two general categories: polyphenol monomers which include flavonoids (catechins and epicatechins); and polyphenol oligomers/polymers such as the procyanidins (polymers of catechins and epicatechins), also found in abundance in red wine and cocoa (chocolate). ......ffers insight into Sjgren's syndrome, but into the general developmental machinery of the immune system. The immunologists, Yuan Zhuang, HongMei Li and MeiFang Dai, published their findings in the October 2004 issue of the journal Immunity. The work was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and t...