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Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor

A significant debate is currently underway in the scientific community over the evolution of the Great White shark, and Chuck Ciampaglio, Ph.D., an assistant professor of geology at the Wright State University Lake Campus, is right in the middle of it. The issue is if the Great White, one of the most feared p...

Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert

... plans call for Zoë, equipped with a full array of scientific instruments, to operate autonomously as it travels 50 kilometers over a two-month period. The science team, led by Cabrol, is made up of geologists and biologists who study both Earth and Mars at institutions including NASA's Ames Research Center an...

NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications

...derstand better their research portfolios, monitor scientific productivity, and, ultimately, help set research p... deliberations with representatives of patient and scientific organizations, researchers, and publishers. NIH posted the draft policy for public comment in Septem...

Institute for Systems Biology Symposium Addresses Need for Better Computational Tools

...t the shape of human proteins and helping make new scientific and medical breakthroughs come at an ever faster pace-certainly more rapidly than in any new field of biology in the 20th Century. Annotating these proteins of unknown function remains a critical bottleneck for systems biology and is crucial to under...

Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

...e are trying to identify the best ways to leverage scientific knowledge and the expertise of partner organizations to conserve this region for the benefit of not only its plant and animal species, but also for the millions of people whose well-being is tied to its ecological health." The Madrean Pine-Oak Woodl...

Gene therapy promising for growing tooth-supporting bone

...er U-M Dentistry professor who now serves as chief scientific officer of private tissue engineering firm Ivoclar Vivadent-Dentigenix, was a co-author, as well. ...

Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks

...t, along with PLoS Medical, is committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource. "By injecting the luc gene that makes fireflies glow into our zebrafish, our bottom-line finding goes back to nature versus nurture," Cahill said. "We found that these per3-luc zebrafish contain something in...

Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

...ed and situation to be addressed. In any case, the scientific and investigative processes must be closely couple...arch, development, and validation. Input from the scientific community should be avidly sought, said Murch. "Our traditional system of robust scientific inquiry ...

Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny

...the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, suggest that closer regulation of the tat...ists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy...

Disease diagnosis, biodefense among UH chemical research projects

...n Diego. Founded in 1876, the ACS is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization and the largest scientific society in the world with an international membership of more than 159,000 chemists and chemical eng...

FDA Announces Series of Changes to the Class of Marketed Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)

...e public information based on the latest available scientific data to guide the careful and appropriate use of t...f Vioxx. These actions are based on the available scientific data, including data accumulated since the drugs were approved. The FDA has carefully considered the...

Emergence of cancer as major cause of childhood death in developing countries is not being adequately addressed

...Tenn., St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world. No family ever pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fund-raising organization. ...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

...ystems. The Hopkins researchers noted that in the scientific literature some comparisons of different microarray systems found compatibility and some did not, and no study explored the possibility that a laboratory's methods of using a particular system affected the results. "Given the amount of tinkering tha...

A puzzle piece found in unraveling the wiring of the brain

...there are fewer than 30,000 human genes is still a scientific mystery. A team headed by Drs. Robin Hiesinger and Hugo J. Bellen at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have unraveled a piece of that puzzle by finding a gene that plays a key role in brain wiring. A report on their work appears today in the jou...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...ommunication. She and her colleagues are part of a scientific revolution that began nearly two decades ago with ... we discover otherwise, it expands the horizons of scientific knowledge and sends us the humbling and vital message that we are not, after all, 'the measure of al...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

...to voluntarily submit research data to further the scientific exchange of information as we move into more advanced areas of pharmacogenomic research. The voluntary data, which will be reviewed by an internal, agency-wide group and will not be used for regulatory decision making, will help FDA and industry gain...

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

...umor recurrence," said Robert Coffin, Ph.D., chief scientific officer at Biovex Ltd. While this has not been demonstrated in patients, the approach has show promise in pre-clinical studies. In a phase I/II clinical trial, the scientists tested their modified virus in 26 patients, including eight with melanoma,...

Researchers find promising cancer-fighting power of synthetic cell-signaling molecule

...g, the researchers plan to submit the results to a scientific journal in coming weeks. Enigmols are synthetic analogs of sphingolipids, a group of cell-signaling molecules that help cells decide whether to grow or die via a controlled process called apoptosis. Cancer cells are usually defective in these regula...

UN votes to ban human cloning

... expression of the ethical norms that should guide scientific research. South Africa abstained because it belie... should "actively pursue the potential medical and scientific benefits of these scientific methods, which have already enabled researchers to develop innovative d...

Marine sponge yields nanoscale secrets

...les is the cover story of the current issue of the scientific journal, Advanced Materials. The article is written by Daniel E. Morse, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at UCSB, and director of the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, and his research group. The authors include p...

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