Weather forecasting technique wins top prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition
...e his method. He was announced as the grand prize winner of the Competition, receiving a $25,000 prize. T...improve the world in which we live." Grand prize winner Matthew Haugland, 26, has been fascinated by weather prediction and microclimates from the time he w...HIV exploits competition among T cells
... T cell is chosen as a winner. Instead, a separate winner for each strain is picked in each affected lymph node before immunodominance can come into play. "In our simulations, this strategy appears effective at all but eliminating competition among T cells," Deem said. "As a result, HIV remained in a state...16 outstanding researchers receive Singapore's highest honor in science and technology
... is one of the founding fathers of modern biology, winner of two Albert Lasker Awards and the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This scientific giant is a constant source of ideas and insight. Many of the initiatives and progress in Singapore's biomedical sciences sector originated from or were ...UCR's Xuemei Chen receives the 2006 Charles Albert Shull Award
... less than 10 years from receiving their Ph.D. The winner also addresses ASPB members at its annual meeting the following year. Chen's specialty is analysis of developmental mechanisms in plants with an emphasis on the role of RNA-based gene regulation. Her research is responsible for much of the current ...EMBO honors triple talents of UK scientist, author, broadcaster
...hor and broadcaster Armand Marie Leroi is the 2006 winner of the EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. The multi-talented developmental geneticist from Imperial College London receives the award in recognition of his remarkable contributions to science communication. Author of an acclaimed popu...China's environmental challenges
...lison highlights Goldman Environmental Prize Award winner Yu Xiaogang, a Chinese watershed activist. She notes that the Chinese government realizes it must rely on the support of the private sector and that the country now boasts more than 2000 environmental organizations, working on issues ranging from pu...UT Southwestern scientist receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...as sleep, wakefulness and hunger. The other 2006 winner from Texas is Dr. Cheng Chi Lee of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Eleven other winners were named from around the nation....Wiley-VCH and EFIS expand collaboration
...fit enormously from this arrangement." "The real winner of this new collaboration agreement is the scientific community, as profits from the journal will be used to aid and support the immunology research community and to sponsor scientific events," said Dr. Manfred Antoni, Managing Director of Wiley-VCH....Frank Uhlmann of London Research Institute wins 'EMBO Gold'
...cer Research UK's London Research Institute is the winner of the 2006 EMBO Gold Medal. He receives the award "in recognition of a decade of extraordinary work that has revolutionised our understanding of the cell cycle and opened the door to new possibilities in cancer treatment," said EMBO Executive Direct...Presentation of the first The Dr. Paul Janssen Award For Biomedical Research
...sen Award for Biomedical Research to the inaugural winner at a scientific symposium and press conference in ...tion of the selection process; Introduction of the winner and the significance of his work 11.30 a.m. Acceptance remarks by the inaugural winner 11.45 a.m....Joe Sodroski wins the 2006 Retrovirology Prize
...ates between HIV and non-HIV research. Last year's winner was Stephen P Goff at Columbia for his basic retro...virus research. The M Jeang Retrovirology Prize winner is selected, by Retrovirology's editors, from nominations submitted via the journal's Editorial Boar...Scientists aim to thwart use of flu as bioweapon
...fense Immune Modeling, is a lecture by Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty, Ph.D., an expert on how flu spurs the immune system to defend itself against the infection. Doherty's technical talk on the roles of specific types of T-cells in influenza will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 23, at the Rochester Marriott...New waste water technology company wins 2006 EUREKA Lynx Award
...IRON BIOMAC project which was named today as joint winner of the EUREKA Lillehammer award for projects in environmental technology. Waste water is conventionally biologically treated by bacterial biomass, known as activated sludge, which breaks down waste products into simple forms. However many toxic subs...Device that aids people with muscular dystrophy wins inaugural WPI Entrepreneurship Award
...laborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.The winner is selected based on the novelty of the invention and its commercial potential, the viability of its business plan, and the likelihood of its success. Ideally, the recipients should be either associated with an existing small business or in the proce...Australian of the Year wins top American honour
...or Immunology and Cancer Research (CICR), is joint winner of the Cancer Research Institute's (CRI) 2006 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumour Immunology. Professor Frazer will share the medal with German scientist Harald zur Hausen, the man who first linked the skin wart virus, human ...Another great boost to medical research
...ongratulates Professor Frazer for becoming a joint winner of the prestigious William B Coley prize for distinguished research in tumour immunology, as awarded bythe United States' Cancer Research Institute....Survival of the selfless - scientists find cheats don't always prosper
...n a competition for common resources the long-term winner will always be the individual acting selfishly rather than the one working as part of a group. To test this theory, scientists set up a series of competitions between two strains of yeast. The strains are identical apart from the genes that determine...Genetic tug of war determines sexual differentiation
...evelops into a male or female is determined by the winner of a tug of war between two different genes encoding signaling proteins and the divergent pathways they control, according to a new study led by Duke University Medical Center cell biologists. In their experiments in mice, the researchers found that ......informatics. Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard, Ph.D., winner of the 2000 Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine and professor of molecular and cellular neuroscience at The Rockefeller University, will be among the distinguished speakers at the "Frontiers in Biological Systems"symposium to be held June 13-15 in ......(Rutgers University Press, 2006). He is a two-time winner of the AIBS Media Award; he also won in 2004 for "The Penguin Barometer," a story on global warming. Margaret Wertheim will receive the Print Media Award for her work with LA Weekly on "GenX on Ice" and "Godzilla Ice." Wertheim is an internationally...