Educators in Georgia and Maryland earn top 2006 Mentoring Awards from AAAS
... for Mathematics and Its Applications. Johnson has helped organize conferences to promote more participation in mathematics research by African Americans and other minorities. He was a founding member of the Conference for African American Researchers in Mathematical Sciences. In a letter of support for J...2006 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize awarded
...rengthen federal-university-industry relations and helped bring education and research issues to broader public attention. He put special emphasis on undergraduate education in science and engineering and also stressed the importance of racial and cultural diversity among faculty and students at MIT. Vest...Kaiser Permanente Unveils Groundbreaking Genetic Research Program
...xamples of large-scale research projects that have helped us understand a great deal about prevalent health conditions. Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research is a bellwether in high-profile research that has led to significant health care findings through use of its research database. For example, a Kais...New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown
... all the strands to move, and the Ingenuity system helped us see and comprehend connections we would have missed otherwise. Connecting those strands is critical to diagnosing and restoring balance to an immune system gone haywire in a disease like Lassa fever. Early on, you cant really differentiate these...Googling brain proteins with 3-D goggles
...ed proteome. This turned out to be the case, which helped to validate the new measurements. What the Allen Brain Atlas doesnt tell you is which genes produce proteins and how much of each of them, he said. Marrying the voxel map with proteomics, researchers were able to generate quantitative information ...2006 AAAS International Scientific Cooperation Award goes to Arizona State U. landscape ecologist
... to study urbanization and desertification. He has helped bring the human element into the study of landscape ecology by incorporating economic, social and cultural factors in an integrated fashion. Wu has made fundamental contributions to the study of grassland ecology, His extensive study of the largest g...UF study: World shark attacks rise slightly but continue long-term dip
... decline as overfishing and more cautious swimmers helped take a bite out of the aggressive encounters, new University of Florida research finds. The total number of shark attacks worldwide increased from 61 in 2005 to 62 in 2006 and the number of fatalities remained stable at four, far below the 79 attac...Cold climate produced by algae contributed to onset of multicellular life
...f cold water to contain more dissolved oxygen also helped the multicellulars to thrive. The diversification of the marine food webs introduced by multicellular predators as well as the moving and burrowing activity of animals on the seafloor contributed to a more efficient decomposition of the algae-produc...Flu shot might also offer some protection against H5N1
...otein in both the human flu and the bird flu virus helped to convince us to look for evidence that immunity to human strains of flu might also trigger some antibody response to H5N1," Webby said. The investigators first vaccinated mice using DNA that coded for N1 from a human influenza virus. This ensure...RIT researchers developing 'micropump' for hearing-loss treatments
...e for the Deaf at RIT. "Although some people are helped with hearing aids, the majority of those with hearing loss or hearing-related balance disorders go untreated," Frisina says. "Future biomedical interventions will be aimed at treating the underlying biological problems that cause permanent sensorineu...Free public events at the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
...l quantities with unprecedented precision. He also helped start Bio-X, a multi-disciplinary initiative that brings together the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine. International Science Leader Mohamed H.A. Hassan , International Cooperation on Science and Technology for Susta...New mechanism for nutrient uptake discovered
...nitrogen uptake in plants. That identification has helped other researchers find the relatives of these genes in a variety of species from bacteria to humans. In this study, the scientists wanted to identify how ammonium transport is regulated. Plants import nitrogen in the form of ammonium from the soil....Pregnancy news -- Preterm delivery risk reduced by high-dose progesterone treatment
...ounced today that high-dose progesterone treatment helped at-risk pregnant women avoid premature delivery. A preterm birth can have serious consequences to the baby, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, chronic lung disease, blindness and hearing loss. In this study, 45 hospitalized women who alr...Animal studies in the land of the midnight sun illuminate biological clocks
...uing these questions and finding answers that have helped build the field of biological clock research is G. Edgar Folk, Ph.D., emeritus professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Folk notes that humans have a natural circad...Female Antarctic seals give cold shoulder to local males
...tic diversity of fur seal populations and may have helped them recover so successfully from near extinction only 100 years ago. This could in turn affect how well they respond to future challenges such as climate change." Antarctic fur seals were nearly hunted to extinction in the 17th and 18th Centuries b...World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
...high concentrations of greenhouse gases could have helped Earth avoid global freezing in its youth by allowing the atmosphere to retain more heat than it lost. Now a team from the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder that analyzed ancient rocks from the eastern shore of Hudson Ba...Researchers earn $200,000 prize for filtering arsenic from water wells
...ear. In the 1970s, UNICEF and other aid agencies helped the government of Bangladesh build tube wells to tap underground aquifers whose water was presumed to be safe for drinking. It was not until 1994 that toxic levels of arsenic were discovered in the wells, SenGupta says. (Arsenic is not present in t...Tibetan antelope slowly recovering, WCS says
...ang Tang Reserve, a Colorado-sized park, which WCS helped convince the Chinese Government to establish in 1993....Natural fiber may take extra pounds away
...ill Parnell found that consuming the natural fibre helped the rats to significantly reduce their food intake and improved their blood lipid profile. The new study will involve human subjects for the first time. The researchers are looking for 50 overweight, but otherwise healthy individuals living in Cal...Phase III trials of cellulose sulfate microbicide for HIV prevention closed
...ted: "It was our hope that this product would have helped women in protecting themselves from HIV. While the findings are unexpected and disappointing, we will learn scientifically important information from this trial that will inform future HIV prevention research." The microbicide, also known as Ushe...