Phillip A. Sharp to present 2004 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture at Chemical Heritage Foundation
...t 7:00. "Untold numbers of people around the world owe their lives and health to Phil Sharp's work," said Arnold Thackray, CHF's president. "Dr. Sharp combines deep originality of mind with unusual gifts of vision, perseverance, and diplomacy. He is not only a Nobel laureate and cofounder of a leading bi...Romond heads up study and reduces breast cancer recurrence
...lly reverse prognosis from unfavorable to good. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the women whose participation in these trials has made it possible to show the substantial benefit of combining trastuzumab with chemotherapy for adjuvant treatment of women with HER-2 positive breast cancer," said Romond....The right hitchhiker can save an aphid's life
...in their genes at all -- the wasp-resistant aphids owe their lives to the symbiotic bacteria carried inside them, according to new research. "We knew there was a tremendous amount of variation in resistance to parasitism among different aphid lineages," said Kerry M. Oliver, lead author on the report. "W...A new angle on flowers: Fish are players in pollination
...NESVILLE, Fla. --- Flowering plants near ponds may owe their pollination not only to the winged creatures of the air, but also to the finned ones of the deep. Scientists have discovered that fish indirectly help spread pollen among flowers near the water. That's because they eat dragonfly larva, which li......tations in genes are the basis of evolution, so we owe our existence to them. Most mutations are harmful, however, because they cause cells to build defective proteins. So cells have evolved quality control mechanisms that recognize and counteract genetic mistakes. Now scientists of the Molecular Medicin...9/11 panel makes recommendations for DNA-based identification after mass disasters
... better results than many would have expected. We owe them a debt of gratitude for providing the scientific expertise and compassion needed to help families and friends identify their loved ones," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. KADAP was organized and funded by the NIJ, the research, develop...Understanding the oceans microbes is key to the Earth's future
Life on Earth may owe its existence to tiny microorganisms living in the oceans, but the effect of human-induced change on the vital services these microbes perform for the planet remains largely unstudied, says a report released today by the American Academy of Microbiol...UCR researchers design chip that can improve citrus varieties
...netics at UCR and a co-leader of the project. "We owe a special thanks to colleagues in the citrus community: Abhaya Dandekar at UC Davis, Bob Shatters, Jose Chaparro and Greg McCollum at the USDA Horticultural Research Lab, and Avi Sadka at Volcani Institute in Israel for sharing the full content of th...New research may reduce global need for nitrogen fertilizers
... they have the ability to fix nitrogen which they owe to a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules. Legumes are often used as a rotation crop to naturally enhance the nitrogen content of soils. Scientists have been working for a number of years to understand the symbiosis be...Ocean seep mollusks may share evolutionary history with other deep-sea creatures
...s makes it difficult to tell whether seep mollusks owe their long evolutionary history to their unique home environment or to their status as deep-sea creatures, he noted. Cold seeps are places where fluids rich in hydrogen sulfide and methane leak up through the ocean floor, creating a unique chemical ......dt University and Free University of Berlin), also owe their ranking to researchers in the humanities and social sciences. In Munich and Tbingen, the funding amount even exceeds the amount for the natural sciences. Smaller universities, however, also increase their visibility in the university landscape ...Plant-derived molecules, genetic manipulation point to future chemoprevention methods
...e New synthetic drugs called triterpenoids which owe their origins to plant molecules have demonstrated their effectiveness in slowing the growth of lung cancer tumors, a research team from Dartmouth University has found. Following up on previous work showing strong links between inflammation and th...NIH Nanomedicine Center draws on NYU School of Medicine expertise
...emerge are stunningly diverse. The immune cells owe their diversity to the special way they are made from their genetic blueprint. Following an intentional and specific DNA break, a process called V(D)J recombination occurs. The acronym stands for the V (variable), D (diversity) and J (joining) gene s...Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain
... who define themselves as "Black or Black British" owe their origins to immigration from the Caribbean and Africa from the mid-twentieth century onwards, in reality, there has been a long history of contact with Africa. Africans were first recorded in the north 1800 years ago, as Roman soldiers defending......ientists that sort of feels that as scientists, we owe our public open reports on what it is that we do in their name." Gates says he developed an interest in physics and math when he was about eight years old and his father brought home a book about space travel. "And in this book I learned that the s......ection committee members did their homework and we owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude for all their deliberations, effort and dedication. The Homestake Collaboration still has a lot of work in front of us before construction and we will benefit greatly from the combined efforts of all the other coll...