DNA Imaging to Design Better Drugs
... Using a scanning force microscope, two chemistry graduate studentsand their research advisors have developed...ior of individualmolecules," he said. Fourth-year graduate student Joseph E. Coury, working underBottomley's direction, is responsible for much of the developm...Chemists Develop Probe To Detect Changes In Imaging Agents Inside Body
..., chemistry professor Carl Seliskar,and chemistry graduate students decided to try to develop asensor to see if they could monitor what happens to an imagingagent after it enters the body. "We just happened to be in a unique position of knowingsomething about nuclear medicine and also about developingsensors...Scientists Produce New Anti-Malarial Compound
... fellow in chemistry; Jared N.Cumming, a chemistry graduate student; and Donna Klinedinst, aresearch assistant in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine....A Surgical Semiconductor Laser With More Precision And Power
...rgery, or treatingglaucoma. The work, done by graduate student <AHREF="http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/users/John_Marciante/homepage.html"> John Marciante and Professor of <AHREF="http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/"> Optics <AHREF="http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/facult...Premature Birth Sometimes Can Adversely Affect Infant's Ties To Mother
...sity of Illinois;Jean L. McHale, a former U. of I. graduate student in psychology; and Universityof Michigan researchers James Plunkett, Cynthia Dedrick, Meryl Berlin, SamuelMeisels and Margo Dicthellmiller. Previous studies had found little differencein the quality of parent-infant attachment between prematu...Common Carbohydrates May Prove To Be Substitute For Dietary Fiber
...bananas. Working with Fahey on the rat study were graduate student Joy M. Campbelland Bryan W. Wolf, a clinical research monitor with Ross Products Divisionof Abbot Laboratories; Fahey was joined on the pig study by Campbell, veterinarypathobiologist Carol A. Lichtensteiger and Stephen J. Demichele of RossPr...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...ed. To prove their conjecture, Toone and his graduate students would haveto analyze a complex combination of reactions involving not only the proteinsand ligands but also the water that those molecules interact with. Separating the effect of protein-ligand interactions from changes inprotein-water...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...isciplinary team at Purdue included Richard Flack, graduate student in physics, Joe White, professor emeritus who specializes in mineralogy, Mark Suckow, lab animal veterinarian, Anita Rudy, pharmacokineticist from Indiana University Medical School, and Euphemie Dandashli, a Purdue chemist who worked with Hem...Common Drug-Capsule Coating Not As Inert As Previously Thought
...hemical engineering professor Deborah Leckband and graduate studentShailesh Sheth used a surface-force apparatus to measure the molecular forcesbetween two membranes supporting PEG and the protein streptavidin. Theresearchers discovered that PEG can undergo attractive interactions withthe proteins that will ...'Bathtub' Equation Aids Diabetes Research
... ResearchCouncil of Canada. She currently has four graduate students, two postdoctorate fellows, three technicians and two co-op students at work onvarious aspects of her research. One study may shed light on what triggers the immune system to attack cellsthat make insulin in auto-immune diabetes. Another wil...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
...researchers with TSRI; and, Keiki-Pua S. Dancil, a graduate studentin Sailor's laboratory at UCSD. As reported in the Science article, the new biosensor is able to detectmany of the classic biological reactions that involve the recognition andbinding of one molecule to another partner molecule. ......ative Neuroscience atUCSF. Yu Qing Cao, a graduate student in Basbaum's lab, conducted keyexperiments on mice which revealed that two different types of signalingmolecules, called neurotransmitters, are involved in mild pain and more intensepain. For several years researchers have known that...Higher Prices Won't Stop Teenage Smokers
...ll's College of Human Ecology, and Phil Decicca, a graduate student in their department. Their findings are particularly relevant in light of the bill approved by the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee last week that would raise cigarette prices by $1.10 a pack over the next five years with hopes of cutting tee...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
...rdue; Silvia Moya-Camarena and Carla Portocarrero, graduate students at Purdue; Kwangok Nickel, postdoctoral researcher at Purdue; and Karen Houseknecht, assistant professor of animal sciences at Purdue and an adjunct assistant professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the Indiana University School of Medi...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
...ough in the particle that K. Bruce Thurmond, II, a graduate student in Wooley's group, first synthesized in 19...dable polymers into the knedel structure. She and graduate students Jennifer Weinberg and Min Wang have developed new degradable polymers that they can time to...Lupus Foundation Of America Awards Summer Internship To Student Working At Wistar Institute
...tthe University of Pennsylvania. She is doing her graduate rotation at Wistar,where her research focuses on antigens targeted in autoimmune diseases such aslupus erythematosus. Following her graduation, Ms. Seo hopes to combine clinical practicewith research in immunology. The Wistar Institu...Parenting CD-ROM Helps Reduce Children's Behavioral Problems
...M have been conducted separately byfive psychology graduate students at Ohio University over the course of fouryears, including Chris Kacir, co-author of the studies presented at theWashington, D.C., conference. Researchers at several other universities,including Kent State University and the University of Ne...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
...earch at Stanford was conducted by James Brewer, a graduate student inneurosciences and in medicine; associate...rd study, led by Anthony Wagner, a recent Stanford graduate whoworked in Gabrieli's lab, activity in several regions of the left prefrontalcortex predicted subs...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
...et tissues. The researcher, together with Cornell graduate student Melissa Mahoney, developed a polymer pellet in which molecules of NGF were embedded, something like a sponge in which the holes are filled with solid particles. "When you put this pellet into tissue, the molecules are slowly released over a ...Electronic Nose Inspects Cheese, Hints At Human Sense Of Smell
...y Harper and Kuen-Da Jou, a graduate student, decided to find out whether the devices really work. Compared to the senses of sight, hearing, and touch, scientists know relatively little about how humans smell and tas...