Science's breakthrough of the year -- The Poincar Theorem
...2006, the others finally caught up. Three separate teams wrote papers that filled in key missing details of Perelmans proof, and there was little doubt among his colleagues that he had solved the famous problem. This summer, the International mathematics Union decided to award Perelman the Fields Medal, th...A laser uncovers the logic of the stomata function
...ater loss. In the inaugural issue of PLoS ONE, the teams of both Laura Serna and Jorge Casal have published...pendence of the behaviour of their neighbours? The teams of Jorge Casal and Laura Serna measured the incident irradiance in a leaf partially shaded by anothe...Multinational scientific expedition kicks off International Polar Year 2007-2008
...t one country but many." Scientific and teacher teams The scientific team includes Vctor Hernndez, from Universidad de Concepcin in Chile; VernicaVallejos, from the Chilean Antarctic Institute; Agneta Fransson and Melissa Chierici, both of Sweden's Gteborg University; Hongjie Xie ofUniversity of Texa...Seeing a neurotoxin's deadly grip
Two Howard Hughes Medical Institute research teams working independently have discovered new informat...recisely into a groove in the toxin molecule. Both teams showed that they could disrupt this binding by introducing mutations that would subtly alter the sha...NASA ice images aid study of Pacific walrus arctic habitats
...orate Applied Sciences Program, encourages student teams to investigate the use of NASA science research results and observations relevant to societal concerns and perform advanced, analytical experiments demonstrating their contribution to national policy and decision-making. Researchers say there are b...First familial pancreatic cancer gene identified
...e so far remained elusive, but one of the research teams that had been on a pancreatic cancer gene hunt for years now reports success: Teri Brentnall (University of Washington), David Whitcomb (University of Pittsburgh), and colleagues publish the identification of the palladin gene as the one mutated in a...Researchers in Montral and the US create model of key immune-system component
... Researchers at Universit de Montral, working with teams at Massachusetts General Hospital and Johns Hopkin...uation each year. Thanks to the model developed by teams led by Michel Desjardins of the Department of Pathology and Cellular Biology at Universit de Montral......nd chemical signallingwithout them, drug discovery teams would be faced with the difficult task of looking for a needle in a haystack," STRI Director, Ira Rubinoff concludes....New biomarker predicts effectiveness of breast cancer drugs
...tients with hormone-dependent breast cancer. The teams leader, Erik Knudsen, PhD, says the findings could help physicians more accurately predict which tumors will respond to anti-estrogen therapy and improve long-term survival for breast cancer patients. If we know upfront that a patients cancer will ...Reef sharks threatened by overfishing
...ore serious on reefs elsewhere in the world. The teams report Ongoing collapse of coral reef shark populations appears in this weeks issue of Current Biology....NIH selects Purdue to use phi29 DNA packaging motor for National Nanomedicine Development Center
...ability to facilitate such broad multidisciplinary teams gave us an edge in applying for this award," said Charles Buck, director of operations for Bindley Bioscience Center at Discovery Park and project manager for the nanomedicine center. "The equipment and facilities offered by the Bindley Bioscience, B...Final of the 2005-06 Research Councils' Business Plan Competition
...ere will be an opportunity to speak to some of the teams who took part in the competition and view displays...d outlines of the Business Plan ideas of the seven teams are also available from the EPSRC Press Office. The seven teams in the final: Dr J Paterson, Oxfo...Major Wellcome Trust award to take science from the bench to the bedside
... the Wellcome Trust. Building strong collaborative teams of clinicians and basic scientists, as CIMR does, is therefore essential."......nd perform chemical conversions. To the research teams surprise, enzymes that should have fizzled months before perked right up when entrapped in a nanomaterial called functionalized mesoporous silica, or FMS. The result points the way for exploiting these enzyme traps in food processing, decontamination...... tool to measure the properties of this gap. "Some teams have used neutrons, but they didn't have enough resolution, after all, the gap is extremely small and difficult to track," explained Harald Reichert, the papers corresponding author. Despite the superior quality of the X-ray beam, the experiment was ...Wild gorillas carriers of a SIV virus close to the AIDS virus
...pecies to another.The main challenges facing these teams for future work will be determination of the prevalence, the geographical distribution and biology of SIV infections in these great apes, not forgetting the question of how the gorillas were contaminated. This last point remains a mystery,considered ...NSF awards 17 grants for research on biocomplexity in the environment
...operations. Scientists and engineers will work in teams across diverse fields that include biology, physics, engineering, economics, geochemistry and others, said Leinen, and in scientific areas that extend from the molecular level to changes in the world's climate. "We now have the techniques and tools,"...Scientists' cell discovery unearths evolutionary clues
...x multi-cellular organisms. The York and Dundee teams have worked with field biologists in Germany, the ...l have to construct the sentences." The research teams were able to build the family tree by amplifying and comparing highly conserved genes from all known...454 Sequencing reveals new pathway in RNA interference
...y Nature. In recent months, several other research teams using 454 Sequencing to study small RNA in plants, mammals, and viruses have had their findings published in Science, Nature Genetics, Journal of Virology, and Genome Research. Dr. Hannon has generously made the protocol for his method utilizing 454......On Monday, October 23, 2006 (3-7 pm) the 4 winning teams as well as relevant persons of J&J PRD, COSAT and VIB will kick-off the fund with presentations of the winning projects for all interested VIB researchers....