NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...Wilson, D.Phil. (For more information on the JCSG, see a related News&Views story: http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20010226/jcsg1.html or the JCSG home page: http://www.jcsg.org/ ). The grant is part of the "roadmap" that NIH Director Elias Zerhouni announced last year as a guide for medical r...US researchers show cottonseed drug is cancer treatment booster
...ole in our fight against cancer." Dr. Xu wishes to see the findings clinically tested soon and a Phase I trial is planned....Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
...ld apply to other small molecules. "Now we have to see how far we can push this and how many small molecules we can accommodate with this technique," Doyle said. "We are trying to generalize this approach to genetic selection. There is a lot of diversity we can work with in terms of different binding p...New Stanford center probes nanoscale material
...eer what's at the nanoscale. We need to be able to see it, and we need to be able to handle it in order t...scale science and technology, and we're excited to see what possibilities these tools will open up," Goldhaber-Gordon said. The probes will enhance the cap...Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
...ched" grant over five years to use in any way they see fit. Above all, Koller believes her work "can pro...or of the MacArthur Fellows program, is excited to see "such a collection of decidedly bold and risk-taking people who are changing our landscape and advan...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
...ng that looks pretty cool as well as innovative. I see this as a fascinating interface between design and technology." The material could have a wide variety of applications and could be used for coats, hats, gloves, shirts, trousers, dresses and skirts. ...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
...ng that looks pretty cool as well as innovative. I see this as a fascinating interface between design and technology." The material could have a wide variety of applications and could be used for coats, hats, gloves, shirts, trousers, dresses and skirts....Use of aspirin or other NSAIDs increases survival
...or prostate cancer has been unclear. We wanted to see if patients who used these drugs regularly before their diagnosis and treatment gained any benefit." The Fox Chase study involved 1,206 men who had definitive radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer. The researchers compared long-term treatm...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...ex," appeared News in Physiological Science (NIPS, see below), June 2004, by Anna Menini et al. Citing Buck and Axel's 1991 article in Cell, the authors note: "It was only after the discovery in 1991 of a large multigene family of odorant receptors that several specific questions (about the nature of sme...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...ey fold into the wrong shape. This is something we see in sickle-cell anemia, for instance, because of genetic flaws that cause the amino acid sequence to be incorrectly synthesized. "The second way proteins go wrong is by not folding at all, which is what we find in diseases involving amyloids. In these...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
... "She realized that this technology could let us see how molecules such as the phospholipids that make up cell membranes control the structure of water at a surface," Bain explains. "She has shown how the molecules of water line up at a surface and turn around to point in the opposite direction if the ...NIH awards Emory and Georgia Tech $10 million for partnerships in cancer nanotechnology
...e universities and growing biotech sector, we will see tremendous innovation, resulting in greater economic growth for the state and better, more effective prevention, treatment and care for cancer patients everywhere." Governor Perdue also said, "The Georgia Cancer Coalition's continued success in recr...Biologists ID molecular block for social 'cheaters'
...telium cells use to recognize DIF-1. "We wanted to see if cells without dimA could cheat the system by ignoring DIF-1 and thereby increase their chances of becoming spore cells rather than stalk cells," said paper co-author David Queller, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Rice. "We created...Viruses found in untreated city water
...lture the enteroviruses and hepatitis A viruses to see if they were infectious. None of the enteroviruses sampled were infectious, although three samples were positive for infectious hepatitis A viruses. During the study period, however, no cases of hepatitis A linked to drinking water were reported. "...Muscle-building hand-grips aid systolic blood pressure, carotid AD, endothelial function
...er group studied endothelial function after IGH to see if it played a role in the reduction of blood pressure in people taking anti-hypertensive medication. Other group members included Adrienne Viscocchi, Martha Faulkner, Mark Rakobowchuk, Neil McCartney and Maureen J. MacDonald. Both McMaster studies w...U-M scientists see ubiquitin-modified proteins in living cells
...oward Hughes Medical Institute have found a way to see proteins in cells that have been tagged by a molec...ferent tasks. With this technology, we are able to see the subpopulation of a protein that is modified by ubiquitin or interacts with a particular partner....Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
...carbonyl sulfide's reactive properties further and see if the gas can bring about other chemical reactions that are relevant to prebiotic chemistry. ...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
...entral memory cells. "We see that these central memory T cells but not the effector T cells persist in the absence of obvious parasites for as long as five months," Scott said. "Since we still do not know much about these new T cells, our next step is to find out how we can e...Drought in the West linked to warmer temperatures
...in comparison with some of the earlier droughts we see from the tree-ring record. What would really put a stress on society is decade-long drought." "If warming over the tropical Pacific Ocean promotes drought over the western U.S., this is a potential problem for the future in a world that is increasin...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...acing a wide expanse of blackboard. Everybody can see everybody, and physicists seated in the front row ...should frame the views, Graves told Gross. "I can see now that Michael was right," said Gross. "Now it's like looking out portholes at the sea--each view...