Brookhaven Lab and BioSET develop a synthetic peptide that enhances the effect of BMP-2
UPTON, NY Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and BioSurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. (BioSET) have developed a synthetic peptide that enhances the effects of a tissue growth factor known as bone morphogenetic protein 2, or BMP-2. BMPs are a family of proteins in the human body responsible for the proliferation, repair, and differentiation...Heart attacks rose at Brooklyn hospital after terrorist attack
Orlando, Fla. The number of heart attack cases surged at a Brooklyn, New York, hospital in the two months after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, suggesting that psychological stress can trigger serious heart problems, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2003. ... In the 60 days after the terrorist attacks, New York Me...Brookhaven spotlights: News from the March 2003 American Chemical Society Meeting
...(Monday, March 24, 9:45 a.m., room 390, as part of a symposium ...honoring nuclear chemist Demetrios G. Sarantites with the 2003 Glenn ...T. Seaborg Award)... ...Despite considerable recent progress in radiation therapy, radiation ...treatment of brain tumors is often associated with side effects due ...to damage to normal brain tissue. But scientists working at the ...National Synchrotron Li...Buck researcher awarded Brookdale Fellowship
Novato, CA -- Matthew S. Gill, Ph.D., a scientist at the Buck Institute for Age Research, has been awarded a prestigious Brookdale Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Gill will use his award to support a two-year study of how hormones influence life span in microscopic worms. ...... Four Brookdale Fellowships were granted in the United States this year, and of those, just two were in science. The Brookda...Brookhaven lab scientist wins Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
UPTON, NY Joanna Fowler, a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won the American Chemical Societys (ACS) 2002 Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry. The award, which includes $3,000 and a citation certificate, will be presented to Fowler at the ACS national meeting, April 7-11, in Orlando, Florida.... ...The award citation honors Fowler for...Stony Brook chemist wins national award for drug discoveries
. Chemist Iwao Ojima of Port Jefferson, N.Y., will be honored April 3 by the world's largest scientific society for his achievements in discovering and assembling new drug candidates, such as second-generation cancer drugs based on taxol. He will receive the 2001 E.B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances from the American Chemical Society at its national mee...