Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...on. Fitzgerald and Stronza now will lead 20 other professors at Texas A&M University on a $3 million National Science Foundation grant aimed at cutting down barriers between biological and social science in order to help conserve the worlds rich biodiversity. When we were developing this project, we realized ...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
...r purposes. Access Grid has been used by college professors to teach students in distant locations, by international communities of scientists and experimental facilities working on fusion power, and by groups of doctors and specialists who want to examine patient scans simultaneously at multiple sites, enric...New studies on goats' milk show it is more beneficial to health than cows' milk
...ducted by Doctor Javier Daz Castro and directed by professors Margarita Snchez Campos, M Inmaculada Lpez Aliaga and M Jos Muoz Alfrez, focuses on the comparison between the nutritional properties of goats milk and cows milk, both with normal calcium content and calcium enriched, against the bioavailability of i...New genetic test developed at Emory advances detection and diagnosis of muscular dystrophy
...hael Zwick, PhD, and Madhuri Hegde, PhD, assistant professors in the Department of Human Genetics and the Emory Genetics Laboratory in the Emory University School of Medicine. Muscular dystrophy includes more than 30 genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscl...$125 million bioenergy initiative powered by Midwest ag industry, MSU research
... of the worlds most renowned plant scientists. MSU professors are leading three of the center's five research focus areas. Strong links between plant and agriculture sciences and the agriculture industry as part of its land-grant tradition, made stronger with its Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. ...Pendulum love, science class gender gaps, musical mind mirrors, and unparticle physics
...he University of Colorado at Boulder where physics professors attempted to duplicate an earlier Harvard study. The researchers in both studies looked at interactive teaching methods, which can include online homework systems, help-room sessions, student discussions, and other methods that have not typically bee...A possible mechanistic link between stress and the development of Alzheimer tangles
...Kuo-Fen Lee, Ph.D., and Wylie W. Vale, Ph.D., both professors in the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology. Vale, Lee and their colleagues have been instrumental in piecing together a global view of how the corticotropin-releasing family of molecules regulate our bodies responses to physiological ...Genomatix expands operations in North America
...ght after graduate students and s scientists. Many professors use our material to teach their students eukaryotic gene regulation! Klaus May continued. The new company will be headed by Peter Grant, Genomatix Software Inc.s CEO, who brings a 25 year history of success in sales and business development focused o...Scientists develop new drugs to fight colon and breast cancer more effectively
... (Progress in Biomedicine), under the direction of professors Antonia Arnega, Juan Antonio Marchal and Fernando Rodrguez. The importance of this study, in which researchers from the Department of Pharmaceutical and Organic Chemistry have also collaborated, is that it enabled the identification of a total of s...Generic biologic drugs unlikely to offer significant savings
...sions of the medicines, according to research from professors at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Biologics are drugs, vaccines and other medicines produced by living cells in controlled circumstances. The way they are made differs from traditional pharmaceutical drugs that are produced by industri...National Academy of Sciences elects 2 Brandeis University scientists to membership
...nced today the election of two Brandeis University professors to its membership. Neuroscientist Eve Marder and biochemist Chris Miller were elected to the Academy in recognition of their "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research," according to the NAS. Membership in the Academy is consid...UD chemical engineer receives NSF career award
...science and engineering. Epps is partnering with professors Andrew Goudy and Preston Hayward at Delaware State University to incorporate polymer science and engineering into their courses. He also will welcome students from Delaware State to his UD lab this summer for hands-on research. As an affiliated fac...Macaque genome analysis will help find human disease genes
...under Adam Siepel and Carlos Bustamante, assistant professors of biological statistics and computational biology, with assistance from Andrew Clark, professor of molecular biology and genetics. To analyze the genome, which consists of 2.9 billion DNA base pairs, the researchers used a dedicated computational bi...Little lifesavers -- Nanoparticles improve delivery of medicines and diagnostics
...eton-led team, which includes chemical engineering professors Yannis Kevrekidis and Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, is the first to apply the technology to the creation of nanoparticles, which are particles measured in billionths of meters. The nanoparticles are too large to pass through the membrane of normal ...NJIT receives NSF grant to improve math, science and technology education in Newark High Schools
...ation in an NJIT professional development day with professors and others from the College of Science and Liberal Arts at NJIT. Teachers will also be involved in a conference for New Jersey math and science teachers, where Fellows and teachers will present their work. Teachers and Fellows reports describing th...Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu
...y, ongoing Avian flu Drug Discovery project led by professors J. Andrew McCammon and Art Olson of NBCR, by sharing expertise and resources."...Jefferson scientists uncover gene mutation that cuts colon polyps, may suppress cancer
..., Ph.D., and Linda Siracusa, Ph.D., both associate professors of microbiology and immunology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, studied a type of mice called Min (multiple intestinal neoplasia). Such mice carry mutations in the Apc gene, which causes the development of ...Insulin -- in need of some restraint?
...udy in collaboration with Kuo-Fen Lee, Ph.D., both professors in the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology. "Interestingly, the mutant mice missing the urocortin 3 gene did not develop the age-related insulin resistance and high blood sugar we observed in the normal control mice," adds Vale. Aft...Carnegie Mellon researchers urge regulators to rethink strategies for soot emission
... March 2 article published in the journal Science, professors Allen L. Robinson and Neil M. Donahue report a new conceptual model for how microscopic particles behave in the atmosphere that raises new questions about current regulations. The research found new chemical processes that occur after soot and gaseo...Scientific literacy happens -- when students think for themselves
...ose teachers in college, Rissing said. The college professors and scientists are ultimately the ones that foster public understanding and opinions of science. ...