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Scientists track stealth DNA elements in primate evolution

...cript, Kyudong Han and Jinchuan Xing, are graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences at LSU. LSU graduate students Hui Wang and Dale Hedges, along with postdoctoral fellows Drs. Randall Garber and Richard Cordaux, a...

Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest

...experiment" is a learning laboratory for Brazilian students who live in the Amazon transition forest. School g...ntly visit the research station, and eight college students are conducting their undergraduate theses within the project. The Grupo Maggi, the world's largest p...

Lance Armstrong through a physiological lens: hard training boosts muscle power 8%

... Coyle summarized. "Recreationally active college students performed only 2-4 minutes of exercise per session and just six sessions over 2 weeks. The remarkable find of this study was that this small total amount of very intense exercise training was sufficient to 'double' the length of time that intense aer...

Virologist finds contagious equine flu in dogs

...Cornell Ph.D. '87, one of Dubovi's former graduate students and currently chief of molecular genetics for the influenza branch, found that it tested positive for equine influenza virus. Donis also ruled out the possibility that the sample had been contaminated with equine virus from another source. ...

MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions

... for technicians, graduate students, post-doctoral students and fellowships. An additional 10 positions will be created for undergraduate students enabling them to receive valuable research experience. "MSU plant scientists have been in the vangu...

Molecular miners find pain relief drugs from the sea

...s National Ageing Research Institute, and research students Mr David Sandall, Mr David Keays and Ms Narmatha Satkunanathan, were the first to isolate and characterise ACV1. It was a true collaborative venture starting with genes discovered by Associate Professor Gayler, Mr Sandall and Mr Keays, capitalizing ...

Rensselaer researchers develop approach that predicts protein separation behavior

...Studies at Rensselaer At Rensselaer, faculty and students in diverse academic and research disciplines are c...gy - engage a multidisciplinary mix of faculty and students focused on the application of engineering and physical and information sciences to the life sciences...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

...o work with local eastern Himalayan scientists and students to identify as many specimens as possible. ...

When in danger humans are similar to a deer in the headlights

... is an associate professor and work with a team of students and collaborators in the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2005, Dr. 2005 Volchan was awarded the Comendador da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico, by the Presidency of the Republic o...

Shampoo detergent added to paint makes surfaces self-sterilizing

...nducted by a multi-state consortium of high school students and retirees. Working through the website science-projects.com, 10 students from New York, Texas and Virginia joined three World War II veterans and a retired railroader from V...

Flies on speed offer insight into the roles of dopamine in sleep and arousal

...g of choice for long-distance truckers and college students pulling all-nighters, appears to do a similar trick for fruit flies, too. This finding is one of several in a new study that demonstrates a critical role for the neurotransmitter dopamine in the modulation of sleep, wake, and arousal states. The wor...

Genomatix, AAAS ink agreement

...ctronic resource enabling scientists, researchers, students and educators to find, organize, and use information relevant to cell regulation processes. Leading authorities enter their knowledge about cell signaling into the Connections Maps database, which includes data on signaling components and their relat...

Computers close in on protein structure prediction

... Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, the students can put their computers to work at night while they are sleeping to search the atomic landscape for the lowest energy structure of proteins. To improve protein structure prediction further, Baker's group has also started a distributed computing proj...

New technique could alter field of mouse genetics

...agen technique. In three months, the two graduate students who led the project, generated knockout mice for each of 75 different genes. Xu, Min Han, an HHMI investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Yuan Zhuang of Duke University, and their colleagues at Fudan University are in the process of ...

How HIV disables the cells' call for help

...un Cohen of the Immunology Department and graduate students Francisco Quintana and Doron Gerber thought there must be more to the story. T cells identify invaders using receptors, like security antennae, on their outer walls. A virus, especially one with its own surface equipment for seeking out specific T ce...

Green diesel: New process makes liquid transportation fuel from plants

...clude chemical and biological engineering graduate students George Huber, Juben Chheda and Chris Barrett. "It's a very efficient process," says Huber. "The fuel produced contains 90 percent of the energy found in the carbohydrate and hydrogen feed. If you look at a carbohydrate source such as corn, our new p...

Drugs from the deep blue

...on. Molinski, a certified diver, and his graduate students make regular collecting trips to study sites in Micronesia, Western Australia and -- using a seagoing vessel, the R/V Seward Johnson based in Florida -- the Atlantic Ocean around the Bahamas. Warm tropical waters support a wider variety of sponges, m...

Birds and bats sow tropical seeds

...ill occupy a great many students," he said. "These students will disperse through Mexico and the rest of Latin America. We hope they will carry the banner of experimental restoration of diversity into landscapes, wherever they go." ...

Virginia Tech football player uses prototype cast

... composed of a uniaxial laminated composite. The students reported their findings Tuesday to the Athletic De...ng enhancements may evolve from the efforts of the students who may have developed even higher performing designs for the longer term than the commercial "off t...

Scientists get first glimpse at how plants, most animals repair UV-damaged DNA

...erfect." Zhong conducted this study with graduate students Ya-Ting Kao and Chaitanya Saxena and research associate Lijuan Wang, all of Ohio State, and Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. ...

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