5 OHSU faculty members singled out for honors
...d peace advocacy, which has been manifested in his work with Amnesty International, the Oregon Interfaith Roundtable for Peace, and PDX Peace, the latter a coalition of peace action groups in the Portland area....Illinois-based study of energy crops finds miscanthus more productive than switchgrass
...rt efforts within biofuel research and industry to work with non-food based biomass resources. ...QUT's top researchers honored with fellowships
...nd industry waste," he said. Dr Martens said his work aimed to develop photocatalytic water treatment technologies to break down organic chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides and oil in water, rendering it safe to drink and re-use. ...Decorated UH professor to help choose nation's top scientists
...hrough 2009. He received the award in 1988 for his work on high temperature superconductivity, making him the only UH professor to earn the honor. The medal represents a token, but significant, gesture in our national commitment to science, Chu said.......on. The Homestake Collaboration still has a lot of work in front of us before construction and we will benefit greatly from the combined efforts of all the other collaborations that competed for the site. In recognition of a $70 million gift for the Homestake effort from T. Denny Sanford, owner of the ...Nearly 90 percent of babies receive recommended newborn screening tests
...he March of Dimes staff and volunteers continue to work with governors, legislatures, and parent groups to advocate for expanded newborn screening on a state-by-state basis. In Pennsylvania, newborn screening is offered at most hospitals, but it is not required by law. Therefore it is not a guarantee an...Study provides new data about the laws governing embryo development in organisms
...t has taken a step forward thanks to collaborative work between biologists specialized in the study of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and scientists specialized in the design of mathematical models that simulate the functioning of biological systems. Specifically, a study of wing formation in Dro...Biodesign Institute leads innovative project to prevent cancer
...operation and Collaboration (MAC5). The research work will be performed at the Biodesign Institutes Center for Innovations in Medicine and Mayo Clinics new Collaborative Research Building. This project is the first major initiative undertaken under the MAC5 umbrella partnership.Earlier, the organization...Fat horses face health problems
...s, he said. Later the horse served primarily as a work animal, serving as a source of transportation and draft power. Today, most horses serve as companions and light performance animals, he said. We can see with increased nutrition and lack of exercise how these animals could drift toward being overw...Maynard Olson receives $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize
... have been an impossible jigsaw puzzle without the work of Maynard Olson. He created a way of breaking ge...students, but for whole institutes. Olsons latest work could change our approach to treating cystic fibrosis, that dread genetic condition in which victims...A compound from olive-pomace oil gets 80 percent slowing down of HIV spread
...nados, senior lecturer in Organic Chemistry. Their work shows that maslinic acid a natural product extracted from dry olive-pomace oil in oil mills inhibits serin-protease, an enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment and, consequently, to spread the ...Neutral evolution has helped shape our genome
... at Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine. But our work adds to the case that frequently, we are what we are largely due to random changes that are completely neutral. I am not at all discounting the role of natural selection, the persistence of genetic changes that confer some advantage, Katsanis adds,...Global community listens to TAU genetic researcher at EU Conference on Hearing Loss
...ference was to bring researchers and clinicianswho work with both the deaf and blindtogether to discuss ea...t can lead to hearing disorders. Prof. Avrahams work demonstrates that geopolitical issues should not be allowed to hinder academic and scientific collab...Scientists identify 2 distinct Parkinson's networks
...ques may be helpful in determining what treatments work and what dont....It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that (modern) swing
... from one population to the next, but Derryberry's work shows the songs changing with time as well. Her thesis advisor, Duke biology professor Stephen Nowicki, has done experiments showing that female song sparrowsprefer the most accurate performance of their song -- the inference being that the male who ...Scientists follow familiar TRAIL to new cancer therapy
..., and others. Like c-Myc, sorafenib appears to work through a mechanism that involves repression of TRAIL-induced expression of Mcl-1 and cIAP2. These results also establish the clinical potential for combining TRAIL or other death receptor agonists with an orally bioavailable, low-toxicity multikinas...Scientists gain important insights into acute promyelocytic leukemia
...mal differentiation of white blood cells. Previous work of these two groups suggested that PML/RARA self-association, called homodimerization, and posttranslational modifications are important for transformation. In addition, retinoid X receptor (RXR) has been shown to be present in the DNA-bound PML/RARA...Penn researchers discover how microRNAs control protein synthesis
PHILADELPHIA While most RNAs work to create, package, and transfer proteins as determined by the cells immediate needs, miniature pieces of RNA, called microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression. Recently, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine determined...Tiny tweezers and yeast help St. Jude show how cancer drug works
...ion, the cells will die. Nanotechnology studies work at a scale of about 100 nanometers or less. For co...ical development of these agents. A report on this work appears in the advanced, online issue of Nature. This is the first time that the tools of nanotech...First all-African produced genetically engineered maize is resistant to maize streak virus
... Town will be presenting the results of her recent work and that of coauthors B. Owor, R. Edema, A. Varsani, D.P. Martin, J.A. Thomson and E.P. Rybicki, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago (July 8, 11:20 AM) in a major symposium on Plant Biology in Sub-Saharan Afri...