National Inventors Hall of Fame welcomes 2005 inductees
...ed to the welfare of society and have promoted the progress of science and the useful arts. The Selection Com...d inventions that make human, social, and economic progress possible. Founded in 1973 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intel...Counting cells in blood samples may predict cancer treatment's effectiveness
...nly 14 percent of patients do not see their cancer progress by six months. ABT-510, an angiogenesis inhibitor in development at Abbott Laboratories, is believed to work by slowing or stopping the growth of blood vessels, thereby choking off a tumor's blood supply. These types of drugs target endothelial cells...AIUM to honor ultrasound pioneers at the 2005 AIUM 50th Anniversary convention
... in his or her particular field, to the scientific progress of medical diagnostic ultrasound, was established in his honor. The 2005 Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer Award will go to Barbara Gosink, MD, in the category of clinical science, and to George Kossoff, DScEng, in basic science. The award was established i...Colleagues, friends gather to commemorate Nobel Laureate Axelrod
...nthesis." The symposium will also highlight recent progress built on by Dr. Axelrod's contributions. These include the role of naturally occurring marijuana-like substances and their receptors in the brain; how the brain responds to stress; neural communications underlying appetite and addiction; and how indi...Research marks giant step in potential of using stem cells to treat human disorders
...since refined their techniques, making astonishing progress in just one year, said Dr. Schatten, who acted as an advisor to the Korean lab for the purposes of data analysis, interpretation and preparation of an English-language manuscript on the landmark study. As Dr. Hwang and his colleagues report, 18 women...Fibromyalgia patients may benefit from cough remedy, UF study finds
...ains unknown, but in the past 25 years substantial progress has been made toward understanding the mechanisms behind specific features of fibromyalgia, Staud said. One is central sensitization, a feature of many chronic pain conditions in which the central nervous system - the brain and spinal cord - somehow ...Racehorses, asthmatics, meatpackers may have similar etiology of airway disturbances
...nd cold-air workers that potentially could lead to progress in understanding the development and perhaps give ...m the fact that while it looks like "we could make progress from our research in human chronic and acute conditions, probably the first direct beneficial applic...Scientists find a maturity gene
...identified a gene that is needed for the animal to progress through normal juvenile development to maturation," says University of Utah geneticist Carl Thummel, the study's principal author. "Without this gene, the juvenile stage is shortened, and it enters adulthood early. The animal then dies because the ge...From memory formation during sleep to novel components for physics
... upon the role played by the vascular walls in the progress of disease. (Spokesperson: Prof. Karl Plate, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main) The understanding of hearing in situations of complex stimuli is the topic of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre "The active ear". Medics, psychologist...From sound analysis to nicotine addiction
...oblems is intended to give a strong impetus to the progress of research in the field addressed by each Priority Programme. Priority Programmes generally run for a period of six years. The new Priority Programmes are: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES The polis as a form of city-state in the Eastern Mediterrane...Mosquito study shows new, faster way West Nile can spread
...America despite experts' predictions that it would progress more slowly or even die out. In the conventional understanding of West Nile transmission, mosquitoes acquire the virus when they bite birds with high levels of virus (or "high viremia.") in their blood. Those levels are reached several days after the...Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
...als as an asthma drug in 2000. Other research in progress includes treatments for breast and ovarian cancer. Impediments to this research include not just the high expedition costs but the absence of clear rules governing resource access benefits sharing. Some companies say uncertainty over access procedu...Leading scientists rank endangered dolphins, porpoises most in need of immediate action
...r countries, and in much of the rest of the world, progress on bycatch mitigation has been slow or nonexistent. "These accidental deaths can be significantly reduced, often with very simple, low-cost solutions. The United States and several other countries have significantly reduced bycatch in their waters....Researchers create infectious hepatitis C virus in a test tube
...rus life cycle in cell culture has slowed research progress on this important human pathogen," says senior author Charles M. Rice, Ph.D., Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor and head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease at Rockefeller. "This system lays the foundation for future tes...Highlights in the June 2005 issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
... The group makes recommendations for tracking the progress of these projects and better coordination and monitoring of tidal and non-tidal restoration efforts. Community Recovery While communities are expected to undergo several series of succession after a major disturbance, a recent review by Kathryn Fli...Burnham Institute awarded $13 M for Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology
.... In concert with the NIH's strategy to accelerate progress in medical research through innovative technology and interdisciplinary research, cardiac disease was chosen as the focus of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's recently established Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology....UCLA engineering professor Jennifer Jay named recipient of Presidential Early Career Award
...es are the young people who will lead our nation's progress in science and engineering as they leap the fences, cross the boundaries and build the blocks of new and exciting areas of science," said Arden L. Bement Jr., National Science Foundation director. "They also pass on to many students their imaginative...Tetanus toxin found to have therapeutic properties
... depression, anxiety and anorexia, and to slow the progress of neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Tetanus toxin is a neurotoxin belonging to the same family as botulinum neurotoxins, which cause botulism. These have been successfully used as a therapy to treat disorders caused by abnorma...NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers
...emic researchers to explore novel ideas and enable progress on a broad front against human disease." For example, the broad-based screening effort will eventually enable researchers to explore the hundreds of thousands of proteins believed to be encoded by the approximately 25,000 genes in the human genome. ...Research zeros in on bipolar disorder genes, link with thyroid condition
...e any definitive bipolar gene, but are making sure progress that will ultimately bring answers about how and why this debilitating disease affects so many. By exploring these genetic connections, we inch closer to surer diagnosis and more rational and effective treatments," commented Michael Thase, M.D., prof...