Science survey ranks top Biopharma employers
... rankings, determined from a study conducted by an independent research firm commissioned by the business office of the journal, will appear in a special business supplement of the 20 October 2006 issue. Like Science 's 2005 ranking of biopharma employers, the 2006 survey sought to identify the companies with...Gene linked to autism in families with more than one affected child
...ng is an important clue, which if replicated in an independent sample, will take us closer to understanding the genetic basis of autism."...HIV exploits competition among T cells
...it, the possibility exists to set up simultaneous, independent competition against each of the multiple strains that will evolve by injecting each strain simultaneously so that they drain to different lymph nodes. In this case, no single T cell is chosen as a winner. Instead, a separate winner for each strain is...Most important actors in the growth process of neurons identified
...f axons and the activity of neurons are completely independent of each other. This new finding can lead to better... neurons. Axonal growth turns out to be completely independent of neuronal activity. This finding brings greater clarity to the axon's growth process - knowledge t...16 outstanding researchers receive Singapore's highest honor in science and technology
...duals who worked with Dr Brenner have matured into independent investigators and are in turn supervising PhD students and younger scientists. Dr Brenner has also been involved in countless discussions at research institutes and university departments, and in giving scientific talks and public lectures. These pu...Bad blood between boys and girls
...stablish cause and effect. They conclude that "an independent confirmation of this tentative conclusion by a manipulative experiment (by experimental infection of animals) is necessary."...Childcare tug-of-war influences shorebird breeding systems
...than males (average 12 days). "Having systems of independent self-feeding young, compared to those that require feeding by the parents, opened the possibility for the evolutionary divergence of breeding systems to those where either females or males had more than one mate," said Dr Tamas Szekely from the Depar...UCR-led research team receives $5 million grant to study interaction of ecology and evolution
... none before to see if ecological interactions are independent of evolution and if these interactions impact all aspects of the ecosystem. The research team chose Trinidad as the research site because of prior history of work done on guppies on the island and the simplified nature of island communities. Reznic...NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective
... detectors will be constructed that yield a signal independent of the rotation of the DNA molecule relative to the electrodes. Jens Gundlach, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle,$605,000 (2 years),"Engineering MspA for Nanopore Sequencing" The passage of single-strand DNA through a nanometer-scale pore......the two-cell embryo, perhaps because the embryo is independent and the pre-ovulatory egg must still coordinate signals with surrounding tissues. Another discovery was that 80% of the expressed genes identified in mouse eggs are also expressed in the eggs of two other organisms previously studied, a frog and a ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- September 27, 2006
...on silicon permit collection of sunlight virtually independent of the angle of incidence of the sun, which could be vital, for instance, in Antarctica." ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Biomimetics: From Teeth to Photonic Crystal Solar Light Collectors" DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/...Highlights from the October 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...ol vending machines and fast-food restaurants make independent contributions to total (sugar-sweetened beverage) intake that increase with repeated exposure or use." Additional research articles in the October Journal of the American Dietetic Association include: "The Food Propensity Questionnaire (FPQ): Con...Why don't all moles progress to melanoma?
...tes. Both these mechanisms work in addition to or independent from other well-known tumor suppressor mechanisms involving apoptosis. Soengas says the results of the study will be important in helping scientists understand all the different mechanisms melanocytes use to protect themselves against oncogenes. B...Conflict over rearing young shapes breeding systems
...kely to persist. In species with young that become independent early, either males or females are likely to desert their partners....NIH funding renewed for VA study of alcohol and HIV/AIDS interactions
...oup. As such, it is uniquely poised to examine the independent effects of alcohol use and abuse, aging, HIV infection, and HIV treatment as well as the interaction between these factors," said principal investigator Amy Justice, associate professor of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine and Public Healt...USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
...ure, scientists radio-tracked black rails at three independent tidal marsh sites in northern San Francisco Bay in spring and summer 2005 and 2006, and collected blood and feathers and invertebrate food prey for mercury and methylmercury analyses. Danika Tsao Melcer will discuss what was learned from the radio-tr...Handling HPV vaccines and screening: The views of 100 authors
... a set of proposals are analyzed by a group of 100 independent experts, leaders in the various relevant fields". This monograph was officially launched during the 23rd International Papillomavirus Conference & Clinical Workshop in Prague, Czech Republic at the beginning of September 2006. The full version is av...Georgetown leads effort to study safety of 'alternative' tobacco products
...e companies that manufacture them, or that we need independent verification of claims," said the grant's lead scientist, Peter Shields, M.D., a Georgetown professor of Medicine and Oncology and Director of Cancer Genetics and Epidemiology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Figuring out if these produ...Novel biomarker for prediction of survival in colorectal carcinomas revealed
...of Medicine. The study revealed two different and independent predictors of survival in colorectal cancer. One w...the cytoplasmic-to-nuclear ratio appeared to be an independent marker, not correlated with high nuclear levels. Among patients with a high ratio, more than half (5......earchers like Skinner to incorporate data from two independent studies. Pancreatic cancer is a rapidly fatal disease and the fourth-leading cause of death from cancer in the United States. This year, the American Cancer Society estimates that 32,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed. About the same number ...