NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...nomics (JCSG), is also sponsored by the NIH and is led by Scripps Research Professor Ian Wilson, D.Phil. (For more information on the JCSG, see a related News&Views story: http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20010226/jcsg1.html or the JCSG home page: http://www.jcsg.org/ ). The grant is part of th......hat evolved on two species of cavemen. One species led to us. The other species went extinct." Alan Rogers, a co-author of the study and professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, says: "The record of our past is written in our parasites." The analysis of lice genes also conf...Columbia University scientist wins 2004 Nobel Prize
...in vivo. These experiments in cell transformation led to the isolation and functional analysis of the gene for the T-cell surface protein, CD4, the cellular receptor for HIV. He then began to apply the techniques of molecular biology to problems in neurobiology. He identified the peptide genes respons...How roots control plant shoots
...ound parts you can see," says Leslie Sieburth, who led the study and is an associate professor of biology at the University of Utah. "But this study shows that the roots potentially play a huge role in addition to supplying water and nutrients in controlling how the plant comes to look as it does. It's...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
...search Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) led the research team. Jahrling and his colleagues exposed 36 cynomolgous monkeys to one of two variola strains, Harper and India 7124. Eight animals were challenged by a combination of aerosol plus intravenous inoculation--four with Harper strain and fo...New Stanford center probes nanoscale material
...tion? The center also includes a summer institute, led by a full-time education director, to train middle-school teachers and, through them, inspire tens of thousands of young students. Modeled after programs at Cornell and Rice universities that work with high school teachers, the Stanford program train...Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
...ship roles during the three years of planning that led to the grant proposal. They include computer science core researchers Leo Guibas, Oussama Khatib, Adrian Lew, Ron Fedkiw, Pat Hanrahan and Jean-Claude Latombe and biomedical computation core researchers Michael Levitt, Vijay Pande, Charles Taylor and...Most promising clinical uses for stem cells from fat agreed on by international society
...es. The session focusing on scientific methods was led by Jeffrey Gimble, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University. Discussions on clinical applications and opportunities were moderated by Keith March, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Indiana Center ...Low dose radiation evades cancer cells' protective 'radar'
...mage and begin repair. Theodore DeWeese, M.D., who led the study, speculates that cells hit with small amounts of radiation fail to switch on the ATM radar, which prevents an error-prone repair process. DeWeese, who will present his evidence at the annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic R......d Europe. The Bovine Genome Sequencing Project was led by a team at Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Centre in Houston but many institutions across North America are contributing to the project....Muscle-building hand-grips aid systolic blood pressure, carotid AD, endothelial function
...ffect on carotid distensibility Adrienne Visocchi led a group studying whether arterial distensibility (...diovascular disease, noted Cheri L.M. McGowan, who led the other McMaster study. Her group studied endothelial function after IGH to see if it played a rol......xas and South Dakota Beef Check-off Funds. A team led by Richard Gibbs, Ph.D., at Baylor College of Medi...ngth cDNA sequencing is being conducted by a team led by Marco Marra, Ph.D., at the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver. The initial assembly is ...Bovine genome sequence available
...embly of the bovine genome began in December 2003, led by Richard Gibbs and George Weinstock at the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, Texas. The Hereford, a cattle breed well known for its beef production capabilities was selected for the bulk of the sequencin...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
...with CR-induced smell loss. A second effort, led by environmental psychologist Pamela Dalton, PhD, ... The studies represent a national partnership led by the Philadelphia researchers, in which 20 scientists and clinicians from the Monell Chemical Sens...Yale scientists find cooperative RNA switches in nature
...s research, testing theories about how life began, led to the synthesis of "RNA switches" that respond to various target compounds, including several molecules of basic metabolism. They speculated that, if an RNA World theory were true, then RNA molecules most likely would make great molecular switches. ...New risks for bladder cancer identified by MIT team
...h scientific priority," write the authors, who are led by Professor Steven R. Tannenbaum, the Underwood-Prescott Professor of Toxicology at MIT. "This is very important from a public health point of view," said Tannenbaum, who holds appointments in the Biological Engineering (BE) Division and the De...Taking the next step toward growing our own fuel
...n. Lewin said that the new IGB research theme, led by Hans Blaschek, will address one of the most critical problems facing our nation. "With crude oil at $50 per barrel, we must examine renewal sources of energy as a viable alternative to fossil fuels," Lewin said. "The vision and experience of Bl...Drought in the West linked to warmer temperatures
... climate warming trends, according to new research led by scientists from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University to be posted October 7 on Science magazine's website, www.sciencemag.org . This research was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
...dy, an interdisciplinary group of U-M researchers, led by Lynn Wooten, Ph.D., an assistant professor in t...t accepts the treatment recommendations? A project led by Ransom will evaluate and make recommendations on how providers can improve care and interact with......hat iron deficiencies in healthy risk-free rodents led to decreasing levels of dopamine, the neurotransmitter critical to relaying brain messages that control both balance and movement. Dopamine levels fall as the brain cells or "neurons" responsible for transporting it begin to "commit suicide" at highe...