Atmospheric ozone recovering in mid-latitudes, report shows
...ed this study in collaboration with: Cunnold, his former Ph.D. advisor; Yang, his former Ph.D. student; and other prominent scientists. Newchurch is also an author on the current paper. Mo...Scientist-astronaut sends T-cells into space
A former astronaut and researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center will be traveling to the Cosmodrome space-launch site at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, this Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, to prepare a crucial experiment designed to demonstrate how human immune resp...Iraq's marshes show progress toward recovery
...chardson and Hussain report that 39 percent of the former extent of the marshes had been reflooded by September 2005. Despite incomplete data, the researchers found that in many respects the restored marshes they studied are functioning at levels close to those in one marsh that remained undrained. The fast...Novel connection found between biological clock and cancer
...mistry, graduate student Christopher L. Baker, and former students António M. Pregueiro and Qiuyun Liu. The team of Loros and Dunlap were among to first to delineate the intricate web of clockwork genes, proteins and feedback loops that drive circadian rhythms, working chiefly in the classic genetic model ...First direct mechanical communication of mitochondria, cardiomyocyte nucleus shown
...ignaling between organelles." Vladimir Veksler, a former Soviet scientist who maintained his contacts with Estonian researchers after moving to Paris, said their latest research "shows that substances increasing the mitochondria can also compress the nuclear organelles, ensuring storage and treatment of ge...Even fish don't swim well when they're young!
... on the burst phase and the other on the coast.The former of the two explanations suggests that because the larvae are not very heavy they may not gain much momentum in the burst phase to carry over into the coast phase, while the latter theory states that when the larvae are very small they experience the ...DNA end caps may lead to cancer treatments, UT Southwestern researchers report
... Dr. Weihang Chai, instructor of cell biology, and former senior research associate Qun Du, now with Cumbre Inc. ...Nano-particles effective in killing cancer with one-two punch of chemotherapeutics
... to a tumor," said Fariyal Ahmed, the lead author, former doctoral student in bioengineering,and now a fellow at Harvard Medical School. "Polymersomes get around those limitations". Discher developed polymersomes with Penn bioengineer Daniel Hammer in the 1990s. The Discher lab is further studying the ...Protein receptor cools passion of 'kiss and run' nerve cells
...hotowala, Trillium Blackmer and Eric Schwartz, all former graduate students or post-doctoral researchers in Alford's UIC laboratory. ...World Trade Center identifications pushed forensic DNA technology
... of the presumed 2,749 who died," said Shaler, the former director of the department of forensic biology, OCME, New York City and the man responsible for overseeing the DNA identification of World Trade Center victims. From the destruction of the Twin Towers in 2001 until his retirement in July 2005, Shale...Uncovering sex-change secrets of black sea bass
In a former cowshed on the edge of the University of New Hampshire campus, David Berlinsky, assistant professor of zoology, peers into a big blue plastic tub. Inside, black sea bass circle slowly in the dim light. The converted barn is now an aquaculture researc...Relationship of brain and skull more than just packaging
... brain. Co-author of the paper, Kristina Aldridge, former postdoctoral researcher at Penn State and now at Washington University, looked at the reproducibility of standard anatomical features on the skull and brain. "We found that the brain landmarks people often use were highly variable and had the bigges...Sociality of sweat bees evolved simultaneously during climate change
... evolution, however, began as an honors thesis for former Cornell undergraduate Adam Pearson '03, now a grad...onnecticut, in collaboration with Danforth and two former Cornell postdoctoral researchers, Sean Brady and Sedonia Sipes. "What's so interesting is that the...Lizard 'third eye' sheds light on evolution of color vision
...ing Su, Ph.D., the first author of the study and a former neuroscience graduate student at Hopkins. "It's just like in a small company," says Yau. "You have to delegate each person to do more things." By sharing features found in human photoreceptors as well as those found in simpler organisms like the sc...Mice lacking social memory molecule take bullying in stride
...the "socially defeated" animals vigorously avoided former aggressors or unfamiliar mice. BDNF and an indicator of gene expression increased markedly in their social memory circuit. Yet, the social avoidance behavior was reversible by giving the animals antidepressants. Next, borrowing a page from gene the...Polymer aids in blood clotting, pointing way to new treatment
...he lead. The PNAS report comes about a year after former Illinois scientist Roberto Docampo, now a professo...Illinois M.D./Ph.D student who worked in Docampo's former lab in the U. of I. College of Veterinary Medicine, Morrissey's postdoctoral assistants Stephanie A....Parts of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to have less summer rain
...her in atmospheric and oceanic sciences; Hui Su, a former UCLA researcher now at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Joyce Meyerson, a UCLA researcher in atmospheric and oceanic sciences; and Chris Holloway, a UCLA graduate student in atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Neelin conducts research on processes...Deep-rooted plants have much greater impact on climate than experts thought
...globally, according to lead author Jung-Eun Lee, a former UC Berkeley graduate student and now a post-doctor...pecies. Earlier this year, Dawson's colleague and former UC Berkeley doctoral student Rafael Oliveira of the Laboratório de Ecologia Isotópica at the Univers...Common enzyme is a key player in DNA repair
...ents led by MIT graduate student Daniel Jarosz and former postdoctoral fellow Veronica Godoy revealed that when bacteria that are missing DinB are exposed to a chemical that causes DNA damage, these bacteria are 1,000 times more likely to die than normal bacteria. Godoy is now an assistant professor of biol...Weizmann Institute suggests that immune cells help to maintain cognition and brain cell renewal
...a Ron and Oleg Butovsky, and in collaboration with former graduate student Dr. Jonathan Kipnis and with Dr. Hagit Cohen of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. It was reported before that rats kept in an environment rich with mental stimulations and opportunities for physical activity exhi...