NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...s in that they have all the enzymatic machinery in place that allows the membrane proteins to fold and assemble properly. But, because these technologies can be expensive and time-consuming, the team is also looking at a technology that Chang and others have been developing called in vitro expression. In...Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...aboration so that a true meeting of minds can take place that will broaden the scope of investigation, yield fresh and possibly unexpected insights, and create solutions to biomedical problems that have not been solved using traditional, disciplinary approaches," says NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, MD. Th...College students recognized & rewarded for their innovative work
...nd of creativity needed to make the world a better place for future generations, and this competition celebrates their inventiveness." Undergraduate winner Wei Gu , 21, has found a way to microscopically control small amounts of liquid, for anything from medical purposes to chemical analysis. He has crea...Head lice reveal contact between modern and ancient humans
...e of our archaic forerunners, Homo erectus , took place about 1.8 million years ago but is statistically consistent with the more recent divergence time of the lice (at 1.18 mya). Reed and colleagues therefore propose a scenario in which H. sapiens and H. erectus carried distinct types of lice. As the...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...imulate all of the chemical interactions that take place when a single protein folds itself into its characteristic shape. Despite this mystery and complexity, Clementi and colleagues believe they are creating a statistical method that will help scientists predict which proteins are prone to misfold. "In d...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
..., birth or death. When both are present, patients place a great deal of value on continuity of care. They note that simply seeing the same doctor over time does not guarantee that the patient will feel a personal relationship with or loyalty to the doctor. Interpersonal Continuity of Care and Patient S...Brain circuit may permit scientists to eavesdrop on memory formation
... that a lot of the important activity likely takes place off-line, when the animal is removed from the direct behavioral experience." Future studies could give insight into the role of sleep in memory consolidation, which has been suggested by many researchers, said Schuman. Studies by other researchers ha...Forum at Virginia Tech to address issues of human cloning
...this topic. The main panel discussion will take place at 11 a.m. and feature a number of nationally-recognized experts on issues of human cloning, representing a range of views and areas of expertise: Wendy Goldman Rohm is an investigative journalist and author of the forthcoming book, The Eighth Day: ......article physics research. In addition to being the place where the World Wide Web was invented, CERN is at present strongly involved in the development of Grid computing, which will be an essential element of the LHC, CERN's new particle accelerator currently under construction and due to start operation i...Is more better: Counting birds may only tell part of the story
...e habitat, or it could, in fact, could be the only place the animals could find, wrong for feeding, mating, and rearing young, in other words, an "ecological trap." "Ornithologists and ecologists in Europe and North America have good reason for using bird count results as indicators of environmental c...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...orium at one end and the tower at the other. In place of the middle bar of the "E" was a three-sided cou...d and enviously emulated in so many countries as a place where the world's top scientists gather and where great science happens. This signature piece of ex...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...enzymes called E3 ubiquitin ligases. These ligases place a long tail of ubiquitin molecules on proteins, which are then slated for degradation and recycling. The degradation signaling process is set in motion when a protein is "misfolded" and cannot function properly. Degradation also occurs when proteins...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...n a sample, scientists often have to "plate" it -- place the sample in a Petri dish and let the bacterial colonies grow for one to a few days before analysis. However, the bioconjugated nanoparticles found a single E. coli bacterium in a sample of ground beef in less than 20 minutes, from start to finish. ...Workshop on Responsible Stem Cell Research
...5 p.m. each day. The first day's meeting will take place in the Auditorium of the National Academies building, 2100 C St., N.W., Washington, D.C. The second day's sessions will be held in the Lecture Room of the same building. REPORTERS: Seating is limited, and reporters should register in advance with t...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...e of the open-ended nature of cricket rules, which place no restrictions on the bat handle's shape or mater... potential new applications: one could conceivably place a tiny microphone in a baseball to listen to what the ball "hears" during a home run. Session 2aEA ...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
...om moment to moment turn on or off the Velcro from place to place, determining exactly when and where cells stick and accumulate. When some adhesion molecules are activated, cells begin to roll slowly along a blood vessel wall; when others turn on, the cells are snagged by the blood vessel wall and ultimat...Channel protein converts vibrations to electrical signal
... channels. "We thought the TRP family was a likely place to look for this channel, because many other TRP c... the hair cells. Not only was TRPA1 in the right place to be the channel they were searching for, Corey said, it was also there at the right time. When the...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...stallation, workers lock GEOPS' hollow casing into place in the ground and thread probe sensors through to ...ly, Jones says. Having sensors consolidated in one place saves scientists from needing to piece together incomplete information from various locations. And s...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...t was so stable that we said, 'There's got to be a place this can be used,' and we started looking around. We found the answer in industrial bleaching." Still puzzling to Thompson, however, is why the extremozyme survives alkaline waters better than its mammalian counterparts do. Its long life in high-temp......of useful data. DETAILS: Meeting will take place October 15-17 at the Academies' Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, 100 Academy Drive, Irvine, Calif. A program is available online at http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf REPORTERS: REGISTER TO ATTEND by calling 949-387-2464, ...