ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
... Dr. Nynke Dekker in one of this years EURYI award winning projects sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS). Dekker and her team are trying to stop tumor development by interfering with the molecular motors that copy DNA during cell division...Ecologists work to link kids with nature
Cable television and video games are winning out over more traditional outdoor recreation for the time and interest of our young people. Our kids need fewer adventure games and more actual adventure in their lives and we need to make that happen. So said Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Chai...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
...Bob Rosner also offered his congratulations to the winning scientists. These awards are a fitting tribute to scientific work of the highest rank, and a testament to the quality of research that happens every day at Argonne, he said. This years winners from Argonne are: Access Grid, a piece of open-...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...Diego computer science professor and Academy Award winning computer graphics researcher. Jensen created the model with two colleagues from the Technical University of Denmark Niels Jrgen Christensen, an associate professor, and Jeppe Revall Frisvad, a Ph.D. student. On August 8, 2007, the new graphics res...FDA Nanotechnology Task Force takes positive step forward
...n will be key both to developing good policies and winning public confidence in the agencys oversight of nanotechnology, and I applaud the Task Force and FDA for taking this approach. Finally, the extensive nanotechnology to do list outlined in the report should remind Congress, as it considers FDAs 2008 b...Conservation Leadership Program announces 2007 awardees
...e important conservation projects globally. The winning projects are: Amburana Project: Determining the...uth Africa held from July 1 to July 5, 2007. Award winning teams had the opportunity to share their initial research findings with an international audience of...Bull's-eye -- Programs targeting math, science teacher shortage may get boost
...s invited the University of Houston to take aim at winning up to $2.4 million to foster the next generation of teachers in these areas. NMSI, based in Dallas, wants 10 universities to replicate UTeach, an effective science and mathematics teacher-training program established at The University of Texas at...Weeds survive the wild better than natives
Weeds are winning the battle when it comes to surviving in the wild with foliage eating insects preferring the taste of native plants, according to a study by Queensland University of Technology. Eve White, from QUT's School of Natural Resource Sciences, has been in...Could fungal collection hold the key to new life-saving drugs?
...We are hopeful that our partnership will prove the winning formula for discovering new pharmaceutical drugs to fight cancers, diseases and resistant strains of infections such as MRSA. SIDR brings together scientists from different disciplines to focus on drug discovery. They have developed test systems to...2007 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award winner announced
...erstood aspect of early HIV infection. Aldhous's winning articles have been made freely available on the New Scientist web site: "Miracle Postponed" (stem cell research), March 11, 2006: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/mg18925421.600-stem-cells-miracle-postponed.html "Friend or Foe"" (b...No pain, DOE Joint Genome Institute gains coveted ergonomics prize with 'Shake 'N Plate'
... may put our production-line staff at risk." The winning innovation, "Shake 'N Plate," is a simple device d... safety become part of our institute's DNA." The winning team of DOE JGI and LBNL Engineering Division staff comprised Christine Naca, Martin Pollard, Diane ...Why are male antlers and horns so large?
... rival males as a cue to assess the possibility of winning a fight in order to control and monopolize more females for reproduction." Mark Hewison concludes, "This leads to the key question of whether males with larger antlers do have greater access to females than other males." According to Franois Klein, G...New therapeutic target for Alzheimer's could lead to drugs without side effects
...lead author Marc Flajolet and from the Nobel Prize winning laboratory of Paul Greengard, director of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at Rockefeller, has identified another protein, casein kinase 1, that controls the regulation of these enzymes. When the researchers block casein kinase 1, p...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
...amed "dancing with journals") and applying for and winning research funding. Experimental Biology itself has arranged a number of sessions on topics of interest, including "NIH at the Crossroads: How Diminished Funds Will Impact Biomedical Research and What Scientists Can Do About It," a presentation by...Winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...world.Allan Butler of The Science Channel said the winning program used "great analogies that take complex ma...er formerly with The Washington Post , called the winning program "a well-produced overview that not only informs listeners about the science, but also about ...Brain's reward circuit activity ebbs and flows with a woman's hormonal cycle
...es of Health (NIH), has revealed. While women were winning rewards, their circuitry was more active if they were in a menstrual phase preceding ovulation and dominated by estrogen, compared to a phase when estrogen and progesterone are present. "These first pictures of sex hormones influencing reward-evok...National Academy of Engineering announces winners of $1M challenge
...eptable, and environmentally friendly. All of the winning systems meet or exceed the local government guidelines for arsenic removal and require no electricity. The prizes will be presented at a gala dinner in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20, 2007. ABUL HUSSAM, an associate professor in the department of...Huddling and a drop in metabolism allow penguins to survive the South Pole cold
(Bethesda, MD) -- March of the Penguins, the Oscar winning documentary, showed how the emperor penguins endure their incubation and fast for four dark and bitterly cold months each year. The tight huddling among these South Pole penguins is a key energy-saving mechanism that allows them to endure their extre...Wiley acquires publications from Carpe Diem Communications
...y over the past decade. PFQ is another ASBPE award winning publication. Launched in 2005, Contamination Control ( www.contamination-control.com ), focuses on the life science industry, covering the technology and methods used to prevent contamination in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuti...U of MN adult stem cell research shows promise for transplant therapies
... and other recent discoveries, the researchers are winning over previous skeptics. For decades, researchers have tried in the lab to expand hematopoietic stem cells (cells that give rise to the blood system). Success in this venture would mean increasing the supply of cells available for bone marrow transpl...