ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
... these programs. The awards recognize innovative ideas and achievement in association communication campaigns and will be presented at special ceremony during ASAEs annual meeting on August 11 in Chicago. MicrobeWorld Radio, which won the Podcast category, is a daily 90 second audio series designed to ...Penn researchers discover pathway that eliminates genetic defects in red blood cells
...re so unusual. Such information should lead to new ideas on how to manipulate this system in a variety of blood diseases....2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...nd, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. Their original ideas are ranging from new techniques to manipulate antimatter to disease gene mapping and functional genomics in the domestic dog. It has been amazing to witness how the EURYI scheme has evolved and become a force to be reckoned with in recognising youn...Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...n, says director Bryan Allinson. Ventures-worthy ideas generally are focused on a better way to use a device, a piece of equipment or a process, Allinson says. The work with zebrafish has the potential to identify therapeutics that could help the thousands of people who suffer from ALS. In the diseases...Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
...any generations. The new theory has its roots in ideas proposed by James Baldwin in 1896, who made the counter-intuitive argument that learning within each generation could guide evolution of innate behaviour over future generations. It now seems that Baldwin may have been more right than he could have g...Conservation Leadership Program announces 2007 awardees
...and allowed them the opportunity to meet and share ideas with one another and several global conservation experts. Awardees attended the Society for Conservation Biologys 21st Annual Meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa held from July 1 to July 5, 2007. Award winning teams had the opportunity to shar......y hope is that the tremendous talent and wealth of ideas proposed by all of the scientists will come together for the advancement of science. I also thank Mr. T. Denny Sanford for his generous donation of $70 million which will enable the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestak...Illinois researchers presenting at ASPB Annual Meeting in Chicago, July 7-11
... in each others events. Such cross-pollination of ideas and debate will inform and catalyze development across over 40 different plant science research areas.Presenters include scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois and Southern Illinois University. Their findings will incl...New medical implants should react with the body, not seek to be inert
...ooks forward to an exciting future. These sorts of ideas will lead to a new biomaterials science that will permit us to make materials for medical devices that function better, last longer, encourage healing and provide enhanced patient satisfaction, says Ratner....Reap what your ancestors sowed
...ical science. His next step will be to test the ideas from his models in bacterial systems....Getting to the root of plant growth
...ple of how multidisciplinary teams can bring novel ideas to and discoveries in crucial aspects of plant science. CPIB brings together experts from four different Schools at the University Biosciences, Computer Science & IT, Mathematical Sciences, and Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. ...New Naval S&T Strategy to be detailed at partnership conference
...NR Challenge for innovative science and technology ideas brought to ONR during the conference. The CNR Challenge gives registered conference attendees the opportunity to schedule face-to-face meetings with decision-makers from ONR to ask specific questions about naval science and technology or to present n...Research without borders: Head of Santa Fe Institute to address NSF
...on rates and community population structure. These ideas will be extended to discuss urban systems: to what extent are cities an extension of biology" Analogues to metabolic rate and behavioral times in cities scale counter to their behaviour in biology. Driven by innovation and the creation of wealth th...Math that powers spam filters used to understand how brain learns to move our muscles
...o better understand how we learn language, develop ideas and make memories. How we learn to think operates under many of the same principles as how we learn to move, Shadmehr says. ...When the villain becomes your friend: The strange tale of muscle lactate
... Scandinavia, the UK, US and Canada, long-standing ideas about the role of lactic acid in muscle are being overturned. So, why do muscles contract" Usually, muscles contract because the central and peripheral nervous system signals them to do so. Why do the muscles make lactic acid" Lactic acid is the ...Evolution of animal personalities
...lf and Sander van Doorn are developing alternative ideas on structuring properties of personalities....Story ideas from the Journal of Lipid Research
...ous organs is altered. The scientists also give ideas for therapeutic strategies that could help overweight and obese individuals lose their excessive amount of fat tissue. They suggest treatments that would affect the distribution of fat tissue throughout the body and that would alter the way the bioch...New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems
...T in Cambridge, USA in May 2006. They shared some ideas and decided to collaborate since Laggner is a world-expert on nanostructure using small angle X-ray scattering and Zhang can provide the designer lipid-like peptides that he has been studied since 2000. In the near future, many colloidal aqueous d...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...Lander in 1999--and explain how it has stimulated ideas for acoustical exploration of space (3aPAb2). Mic...wledge on this question, and will propose specific ideas for helping to resolve this issue (4pMU5). Scientist and instrument-maker Richard Smith ( richard@s......ientific Programme. 'There will be events covering ideas from across the science spectrum, bringing together different disciplines and highlighting cutting-edge issues and research in Europe and the world', explains Sir Colin Berry, Chairman of the Programme Committee. ESOF2008 will have ten 'Themes': ...