Scripps research-based center awarded more than $50 million by NIH to solve protein structures
...led up for a production center. The JCSG has been solving about 100 structures a year, and this output should increase significantly. As one of ten new research centers established nationwide under the Protein Structure Initiative, the JCSG will be one of only four centers that was selected to advance from ...Duke professor to lead $300 million NIH center for HIV vaccine research
...ciences & Policy. CHAVI researchers will focus on solving several unanswered questions about HIV, including how the virus interacts with the body during the earliest stages of infection; designing, developing and testing improved vaccines; and evaluating promising HIV vaccine candidates in small-scale clini...Chickadees can help humans get their bearings
...present. "Getting oriented is an important part of solving many spatial navigational problems, such as locating your car in the parking lot at the end of a long day in the office. This discovery points to the fact that our early experiences influence how we solve such problems and could mean that by varying ...Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans
...cience," says first author Boris Worm. "It is like solving a giant puzzle and seeing the night sky in constellations for the first time even as the stars are blinking out. It's beautiful and tragic at the same time." In a sequel to their groundbreaking study in Nature in 2003, showing the depletion of 90% ...NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies
...eam brings a unique set of skills and expertise to solving difficult scientific and engineering problems," said Jeffery Schloss, Ph.D., NHGRI's program director for technology development. "The different approaches will likely yield several successful and complementary technologies. It is going to be intere...Brain activity in youth may presage Alzheimer's pathology
... on a task -- reading, engaging in conversation or solving a math problem, for example -- it switches to a default mode, a state of mind where we may muse, daydream or retrieve pleasant memories. When a young person is asked to concentrate on a specific task, they are easily able to shut off the default mode...Findings on plummeting salmon populations at 8th World Wilderness Congress
...r colleagues. The book proposes four approaches to solving these large-scale challenges: an international monitoring system; more effective fisheries management; increased conservation efforts; and improved partnerships to protect salmon throughout the entire Pacific Rim. The Atlas also details threats to sa...Researchers discover key to human embryonic stem-cell potential
...ays Young. "They also establish the foundation for solving circuitry for all human cells."...Coming to grips with robot learning
...learner is shown a certain behaviour necessary for solving a task by an instructor, the motion alternatives for producing the goal-reaching behaviour with the learner's own devices and effectors can be dramatically reduced," says Knoll. "The learner would then try to mimic the coarse motions of the instructo...Heme controls antioxidants and iron in ferritin
...ramatically change the way researchers think about solving certain health problems involving iron or inflammation," said Elizabeth Theil, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute and co-author of the study. "For the first time we understand that ferritin is one of the protect...What mutations tell us about protein folding
.... Small single-domain proteins may hold the key to solving this puzzle. These proteins often fold into their three-dimensional structures by crossing only a single barrier. The barrier consists of an ensemble of extremely short-lived transition state structures which cannot be observed directly. However, mut...AAAS elects NJIT professor as Fellow for math modeling research on the brain
...a helped develop the inverse scattering method for solving nonlinear partial differential equations. The equation was originally published in 1895 by Dutch mathematicians Diederik Johannes Korteweg (1848-1941) and Gustav de Vries (1866-1934) at what is now the Technological Institute of Delft. Miura recen...Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh receive educational grant from HHMI
...their clinical and basic research collaborators on solving current complex problems in biological sciences or identifying more rational approaches to the development of new drug targets and vaccines," said Bahar, who is co-program director. The new program leverages the recognized leadership in biomedical ...UC Davis wins $8 million EPA grant to study health effects of air pollution
...cal and scientific approaches to understanding and solving air-pollution problems. This large, long-term grant from the EPA will let us build upon that work to the benefit of both Californians and other Americans," said Barry Klein, vice chancellor for research at UC Davis. UC Davis' representative in Congre...NJIT mathematician receives noted math prize
...a helped develop the inverse scattering method for solving nonlinear partial differential equations. The eq...duce results." Miura said a major breakthrough in solving this fascinating problem was the development of a method for the exact solution which the mathematic...Chronic oil pollution takes toll on seabirds along South American coast
...razil to northern Argentina. Existing laws are not solving the problem, said University of Washington biologist Dee Boersma, co-author of a paper detailing how the oil pollution is affecting Magellanic penguins, appearing in the February edition of the Marine Pollution Bulletin, published by Elsevier. The ne...UCLA biochemistry professor Sabeeha Merchant wins prestigious research award
..., and over the years, she has largely succeeded in solving this mystery. Indeed, last December, she published the results of a major research effort from her laboratory, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That research concerns a specific protein molecule she has identified in c...Scientists model 900 cell receptors, drug targets
...ct," said Skolnick. The next step for Skolnick is solving the structure of proteins that have been implicated as a factor in various types of cancer....When seeing is misleading: Clutter leads to high-confidence errors
...apply to complex cognitive tasks involving problem solving and memory. If people find themselves confronted with multiple events in a chaotic, confusing environment, they may decide about some aspect of the situation and be totally wrong even though they have full confidence in their decision. The consequenc...... Indian scientists suspect they are on the path to solving a piece of the puzzle. The researchers are studying a protective protein they believe may boost bacteria-battling defenses, protecting against TB and giving infected patients an easier recovery. Alcohol consumption likely reduces the amount of this p...