Virginia Tech geobiologist wins Schuchert Award
...r the age of 40 whose work reflects excellence and promise in the science of paleontology. Kowalewski collects paleontological and geological data over a wide range of time scales to study such diverse topics as ecological interactions of ancient predators and their fossil prey and long-term evolutionary pat...Rutgers' Wise Young named to Esquire's 'Best and Brightest of 2005'
... extremely important pursuit that holds tremendous promise for treating and curing a host of devastating diseases and disorders, including spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Young is taking an active leadership position at home and abroad in gathering support for stem cell research. H...Jefferson biologist coaxing human embryonic stem cells to make dopamine with simpler, faster method
For all of the promise embryonic stem cells hold for therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, they are notoriously difficult to use. One problem is in coaxing them into becoming brain cells that make dopamine, which is in short supply in the br...Other highlights in the November 16 JNCI
...eing carried out in other laboratories, holds some promise for new approaches to lung cancer chemoprevention." Contact: Article: Laura Sussman, Communications Office, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 713-745-2457, lsussman@mdanderson.org Editorial: Mary Lawson, UMN Public Relations, 612-624-6165, mlawson......wever, oncologists believe that Iressa still holds promise and continue investigating its potential. Several studies presented at the Annual International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics coordinated by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the National Cancer Institute...Recycled or revamped therapeutics find novel anti-cancer applications
...dard in the treatment of malaria, are also showing promise in cancer cells that undergo autophagy or self-digestion in order to gain the energy needed to proliferate. "By understanding the energy needs of the cell that is growing as opposed to a cell that is not growing, we can very effectively target the m...Information & communications technologies key to sustainable development in Africa: UNU
...g, the Internet and other high-tech tools hold the promise of improving African international competitiveness and lifting its productivity and the incomes of millions without sacrificing the environment, says UN Under Secretary-General Hans van Ginkel, Rector of UNU. "It cannot be stressed too strongly how i...Give thanks for the cranberry, say dental researchers
...werful weapon against bladder infections also hold promise for protecting teeth against cavities. Koo found that cranberry juice acts like Teflon for teeth, making it difficult for the bacteria that causes cavities to cling to tooth surfaces. Stickiness is everything for the microbe Streptococcus mutans, wh...JCI table of contents: November 23 2005
...The results suggest that this approach holds great promise for augmenting the potency of current cancer vaccination protocols. In their study appearing online on November 23 in advance of print publication in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Johannes Vieweg and colleagues show tha...Tropical dry forests receive international recognition
...ners environmental services fees in exchange for a promise the land won't be used for commercial development. Costa Rica is a leader in this strategy, having paid more than US$175 million in environmental services fees since the late 1990's. The network is made up of top scientists in the field from around t...UF study first to quantify validity of DNA I.D. tool using marine snails
... base has attracted widespread attention with its promise as a valuable aid in species identification and discovery," said Christopher Meyer, a UF biologist and one of the researchers. "However, few comprehensive datasets are available to test its performance. This is the first study to actually put realist...Gladstone researchers identify new drug target for Alzheimer's disease
...and it singles out resveratrol as holding the most promise for therapeutic intervention....Picking particles faster than one at a time
...gle-particle reconstruction with cryo-EM holds the promise of providing many high-resolution structures which may be difficult or impossible to obtain otherwise. Instead of trying to coax molecules to arrange themselves in a repeating crystalline structure, as is necessary for x-ray crystallography, cryo-EM...The World Economic Forum announces new class of technology pioneers for 2006: Ossur selected
...tions produced by our Technology Pioneers hold the promise of significantly affecting the way business and society operate", said Peter Torreele, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum. "As a global knowledge hub, we see the Technology Pioneer community as key contributors to this dialogue and to the ...A salty tale: New bacterial genome sequenced from ancient salterns
...ngly stable. And that means the bacterium may hold promise for industrial applications. Meanwhile, TIGR's collaborators are pursuing studies of Spain's salterns, testing the ponds to find out what other microbes call the briny waters home. "How much diversity is there?" Mongodin asks. "We'll all be intereste...Unexpected link between gene in liver and iron overload
...hrough SMAD4 or other members of the pathway, hold promise for treatment."...Carnegie Mellon U. transforms DNA microarrays with standard Internet communications tool
... sensitivity and specificity. The work holds great promise for vastly improving research on health and disease, according to Ziv Bar-Joseph, assistant professor of computer science and biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon. "We are very excited about introducing this versatile, powerful method to the rese...Herceptin plus chemotherapy improves disease-free survival in early breast cancer
...for the BCIRG study. "This further illustrates the promise of targeted therapies and moves us closer to our goal of minimizing the toxicity of therapy while maximizing efficacy." Herceptin is effective in women with HER-2 positive breast cancer, about one in four diagnosed with the disease every year. HER-......fying such genetic and behavioral factors may hold promise for better understanding the aging process and perhaps one day enriching or extending the lives of other individuals."...