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Road salt affects mitigation wetlands

... very salt tolerant. The Penn State researcher has students poised to look at the numbers and species of algae, amphibians, insects and bacteria in the salty and freshwater wetlands. "We would like to know how big a hit these two wetlands are going to take from the salt. We see an effect on the midges in the...

Gladstone investigators discover how resting T cells avoid HIV infection

...Stopak, and Wes Yonemoto. Kreisberg and Stopak are students in the UCSF Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. The Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology is one of three research institutes of The J. David Gladstone Institutes, an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution affiliated with ...

Scripps scientists find potential for catastrophic shifts in Pacific ecosystems

...ge. Scripps Professor George Sugihara and Scripps students Chih-hao Hsieh, Sarah Glaser and Andrew Lucas conducted the study--an extension of an advanced graduate course at Scripps--that analyzed the underlying dynamics responsible for major shifts in biological and physical conditions of the North Pacific O...

Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom

...ucation through intriguing topics that will engage students and the wider public. This is Dr. Holmes' second y...lmes and Clapp will have daily communications with students and the public, using a satellite phone hooked to a laptop computer for internet communications. Acc...

Molecular messengers perform a crucial role in the ability of injured nerve cells to heal themselves

...rus en route. Dr. Michael Fainzilber and graduate students Eran Perlson and Shlomit Hanz of the Weizmann Inst... the Materials and Interfaces Department, graduate students Keren Ben Yaakov and Yael Segal-Ruder of the Biological Chemistry Department, and postdoctoral fello...

Engineers improve plastic's potential for use in implants by linking it to biological material

...dt and Belcher, the paper's lead authors, graduate students Archit Sanghvi and Kiley Miller identified the peptide that attaches to polypyrrole from among the billion alternatives initially analyzed. These unique peptides were displayed on the outer surface of a harmless type of virus called a bacteriophage t...

Scientists use manufacturing methods to reconstruct mastodon

...al." In the first part of the process, Fisher and students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program ... 0.1 millimeter (0.004 inch) thick. Crews of UROP students and community volunteers also made molds of the bones, which took about a week for the ribs and almo...

Computational Tool Predicts How Drugs Work In Cells, Advancing Efforts To Design Better Medicines

...h associate in BU’s Center for BioDynamics; and BU students Erin Eastwood, a graduate student in chemistry, and Sarah Chobot and Andrew Wojtovich, chemistry undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences. The research was supported by funds from the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health...

Research on antibiotics receives historical recognition

...nning in the 1930s, Selman Waksman, Ph.D., and his students began the search for antibiotics produced from actinomycetes, microbes in the soil that are related to bacteria and fungi. The culmination was the isolation of streptomycin in 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student of Waksman's, using soil screeni...

Small worm yields big clue on muscle receptor action

...of biological sciences at UIC, along with graduate students Denis Touroutine and Anna Burdina, reported the fi...at Vanderbilt University, and work by his graduate students Rebecca Fox and Stephen Von Stetina. Richmond has developed a preparation for cutting open the micr...

Chickadees can help humans get their bearings

...tch, who supervised the work conducted by graduate students Emily Gray and Laurie Bloomfield. The findings also suggest the need for more research outside of lab environments, Dr. Sturdy said. "We have to look away from lab species and look at the diversity out there. There could be a lot of other species th...

It's electric: Cows show promise as powerplants

...lls produced between 300 and 400 millivolts. "The students put a few of these cells together and were able to fuel their rechargeable batteries over and over again," Christy said. In that work, the researchers didn't need to use cellulose to feed microbes, as some plant material passes undigested through a ...

Scientists discover the body's marijuana-like compounds are crucial for stress-induced pain relief

...lty members Philip Holmes and Jonathon Crystal and students Richard Suplita, Nathan Bolton and Mark Neely. Authors from UC-Irvine include Darren Fegley and Regina Mangieri, in addition to Piomelli. Other co-authors are Jocelyn Krey and Michael Walker from Brown University; Andrea Duranti, Giorgio Tarzia and ...

Self-assembled DNA buckyballs for drug delivery

...tors to solve the puzzle. Luo and Ph.D. graduate students Soong Ho Um, Sang Yeon Kwon and Jong Bum Lee described DNA buckyballs in an invited talk titled "Self-assembly of nanobuckyballs from dendrimer-like-DNA-polystyrene amphiphiles" Sunday, Aug. 28, at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Chemical Soc...

Virginia Tech group adds tools to DNA-targeted anti-cancer drugs

...r of chemistry, will give an invited talk, and her students will present a number of posters at the American C...n chemistry; Virginia Tech chemistry undergraduate students Jerita Dubash, of Ashburn, Va., and Matthew Jeletic, of Centreville, Va., graduate students David F....

Bees, Brains and Addiction

...SD. He told a gathering of scientists, high school students and community members last week that neurobiologis...ng the participants at last week's lecture were 20 students from San Diego's High Tech High, seeking to learn more about the neurobiology of drugs and addiction...

Bad aftertaste? New sensory on/off switch may 'cure' bane of artificial sweetener search

...r of chemistry, will give an invited talk, and her students will present a number of posters at the American C...n chemistry; Virginia Tech chemistry undergraduate students Jerita Dubash, of Ashburn, Va., and Matthew Jeletic, of Centreville, Va., graduate students David F....

Disease diagnosis, bioengineering covered at state nano summit

...te research and development executives, as well as students in related disciplines. UH is a co-host of the event. Held from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Edwin Hornberger Conference Center in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, the Nano Summit will provide presentations, a poster session and networking oppo...

Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health

...ronmental physiology. Currently, about 40 graduate students are enrolled in the Department of Human Physiology, which also has roughly 400 undergraduate majors. (The department, previously known as Exercise and Movement Science, underwent a name change in July 2004.) "In this current day of rapid discovery i...

Gifts from the sea

...t triggers an influx of hundreds of scientists and students from around the world, who return here faithfully ...research headquarters each year. U.S. and foreign students seeking intense, specialized science courses taught by top researchers, flock here, too--to particip...

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