MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions
...our years. The project will create eight full-time jobs for technicians, graduate students, post-doctoral students and fellowships. An additional 10 positions will be created for undergraduate students enabling them to receive valuable research experience. "MSU plant scientists have been in the vanguard i...Researchers discover gene connected to rare muscle disease
...chanism. The researchers found that one of MEF2's jobs is to activate the gene they discovered, Srpk3. Dr. Nakagawa compared Srpk3 to a light bulb and MEF2 to the switch: MEF2 binds to DNA, and that action turns on the gene that creates the Srpk3 protein. You need both genes for normal function, he said....$3.5 million from Homeland Security for lie detection in the 21st century
...mputer, giving interrogators new tools to do their jobs confidently." Metaxas is building on his earlier research into computer modeling of facial expressions and the dynamics of body organs a beating heart or blood flowing through vessels. This work employs image-based "deformable models" that enable co...Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders
...dable protein and nutrient-rich food together with jobs and economic opportunities. The NEPAD-Fish for All Summit, organized in cooperation with the WorldFish Center and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will highlight the urgent need for fisheries investment to address a suite of problems a...Proposal would allow wild animals to roam North America
...It would also offer ecotourism and land-management jobs to help the struggling economies in rural areas of the Great Plains and Southwest. During the Pleistocene era -- between 1.8 million to about 10,000 years ago -- North America's ecosystems were much more diverse. As animals became extinct, many gaps ...First high-tech incubator at a women's college says girls can do science
...tted to being the first tenant, projects having 32 jobs in the first year of operation in the Incubator, i...t has resulted in the creation of thousands of new jobs and dozens of growing businesses," said Senator Bruno. "I strongly believe this new investment will ...NJIT small biz expert Bruce Kirchhoff supports high tech for jobs
High tech start-up businesses create more net new jobs per firm than any other category of start-up businesses," said Kirchhoff. "They create more than twice the number of innovations per employee compared to larger firms. Recent surveys of micro- and nano-technology businesses show that small firms bri...Revolutionary nanotechnology illuminates brain cells at work
...g technique allows us to see living cells do their jobs live and in color," explained Sakiko Okumoto, lead author of the study at Carnegie. "Understanding when and how glutamate is produced, secreted, reabsorbed, and metabolized in individual brain cells, in real time, will help researchers better underst...Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine gets $4 million to make 'smart nanoparticles'
...d promote start-up companies to create high-paying jobs for generations to come....A human parasite with a streamlined mitochondrion
...itosome means that it must be able to do far fewer jobs than our own mitochondria. Further experiments performed by the team reveal that the Entamoeba carrier can only transport ADP and ATP, suggesting that it could fuel energy-requiring reactions within the mitosome but might not perform other functions....Yeast discovery gives insight into familial dysautonomia
...ide the nucleus. "Because proteins can't carry out jobs unless they are present in the correct place at the right time, this experiment showed that there is an essential role for this protein in the cytoplasm," Collins explains. "Future work on this protein can focus on its newly described essential role ...Researchers identify cause of 'early bird' sleep disorder
.... Often, they have adjusted and accommodated their jobs to match their ability. But others are bothered by being out of phase with the rest of the world." He said the FASPS subjects don't seem to sleep any more or less than other people; they just sleep at different times. And there is apparently no conne...Naturejobs/NY Academy of Sciences Career Fair & Symposium
...ture Publishing Group. Naturejobs, the classified jobs section of Nature , has been the first port of call for scientific jobseekers for over 30 years....ICPB locks in license to improve plastics with corn
...will benefit by creating new uses for corn and new jobs for rural economies. Isosorbide could consume another 30 to 40 million bushels of corn annually," said ICPB Director of Research and Regulatory Affairs, Rod Williamson. "We have made a commitment to developing cost-effective processes for obtainin...NIH should take decisive steps to promote independence, originality
...kills and experiences that aid their transition to jobs as independent investigators, but this training pe...arch by scientists who are moving into their first jobs as independent investigators. Each year the proposed career-development grant program should prov...Finger length predicts physically aggressive personalities, study shows
...le, you wouldn't want to screen people for certain jobs based on their finger lengths," Hurd said. "But finger length can you tell you a little bit about where personality comes from, and that's what we are continuing to explore."...NJIT hosts Spring Career Fair: Employers expected to increase hiring...
...out middle managers in computer engineering losing jobs after 9/11, and they have avoided that major, thinking there are few jobs. But that is no longer true. It usually takes a few years for people to realize that job growth in a field has gone from low to high, and this is the case with computing engine...Declining fish supply linked to wildlife consumption in West Africa, Science study reports
...ters of the Atlantic coast, the widespread loss of jobs and income associated with fishing harvests draws people to bushmeat hunting for both income and food, the authors concluded. The authors propose the politically and ecologically difficult task of establishing alternative protein supplies in West Afr...Crucial evolutionary link points to origins of modern cells
... create tiny compartments that perform many of the jobs they need," Rout adds. "Thus, the eukaryotic cell freed itself from relying on only a cell wall for many of its membrane-associated functions, and allowed the cell to develop a host of intricate new internal processes." Scientists believe the e......gram creates prospects for economic growth and new jobs by supporting the research-business-government relationships that transfer advances in labs to advances in lives. Dentistry is one business that has evolved through such relationships. "Even though most people have dental implants, veneers and crowns...