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DOE's Office of Science sets up program to aid scientists displaced by Hurricane Katrina

...e to help in the effort to ensure that faculty and students displaced by the disaster may continue their resea...he Office of Science program will match interested students and faculty researchers with research programs that currently receive Office of Science grants whose...

Scientists and engineers apply nature's design to human problems

...hat biomimetry even offers inspiration for the way students -- and faculty ?learn. "Like animals, we can learn by playing," Yen explained. "We're looking to nature as our template." WRITER: Jane Sanders ...

Biologist Discovers What May Be World’s ‘Pickiest?Mates

...nd State University. deRivera and a group of UCSD students who assisted her conducted their observations in the Sweetwater River estuary in Chula Vista, south of San Diego, near the Mexico-U.S. border. She said previous studies of mate selection in other animals, such as birds and the natterjack toad, found ...

Modifications render carbon nanotubes nontoxic

...ticles." Co-authors on the paper include graduate students Christie Sayes, Feng Liang, Jared Hudson, Jonathan Beach and Condell Doyle; undergraduate Joe Mendez; research scientists Wenhua Guo and Valerie Moore; Professor of Chemistry Edward Billups; and Jennifer West, the Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioen...

Student scientists create living bacterial photographs

...tically engineered E. coli instead of photo paper, students at The University of Texas at Austin and UCSF succ...y to the emerging field of synthetic biology. The students produced the innovative bacterial images and a bacterial camera as part of MIT's intercollegiate Gen...

New insights into the software of life

...on-coding RNA. "I congratulate all IMB staff and students involved in this research collaboration, particularly David Hume who has been pivotal in developing the IMB's partnership with RIKEN over several years." As part of the collaboration with RIKEN, Professor Hume's group has recently been awarded a gr...

K-State researchers study insects' immune system

...octoral biochemistry research associates. K-State students taking part in the research are Ana Fraire, junior in biochemistry and pre-medicine, Liberal; and Craig Doan, sophomore in biochemistry, Rose Ochieng, senior in biochemistry and pre-medicine, and Emily Ragan, graduate student in biochemistry, all of ...

Delaware scientists make significant advance in study of small RNAs

...d with industrial collaborators," Green said, "the students and postdocs crossed the boundaries of their conventional training. This emulates the goals of UD and DBI for interdisciplinary research, education and economic development." In addition to funding by NSF, the laboratories have received grants from ...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

...ia, and his student Greg Cesarone, and UD graduate students Shaoxin Lu, Kousik Sivakumar and postdoctoral researcher Kasif Teker. Panchapakesan received his bachelor' TM s degree in materials engineering at Regional Engineering College in India and doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of...

Anti-cancer drugs may hold promise for premature aging disorder

...olars Program gives outstanding medical and dental students the opportunity to conduct biomedical research under the direct mentorship of senior NIH research scientists. ...

Geoscientists follow arsenic from chicken feed to streambeds

...te of arsenic fed to poultry. She and her graduate students found that bacteria in the litter and in shallow subsurface soil transform organic arsenic to inorganic arsenic. Organic arsenic is not highly toxic to humans, but inorganic arsenic, with its organic component removed, is toxic. "We found that organ...

New class of antibiotics effective against drug-resistant bacteria discovered in fungi

...te of arsenic fed to poultry. She and her graduate students found that bacteria in the litter and in shallow subsurface soil transform organic arsenic to inorganic arsenic. Organic arsenic is not highly toxic to humans, but inorganic arsenic, with its organic component removed, is toxic. "We found that organ...

Virtual microscopy project wins educational technology award

...onal applications on a web server can be viewed by students on an ordinary PC screen, from any location with a broad band internet connection. The method allows free navigation in a specimen with stepless zooming, and educational annotations as well as overlay graphics to easily be added to the virtual slides...

Phenotype is influenced by nature, nurture and noise

...imes in 24-hour circadian periods. Hasty, graduate students Dmitri Bratsun and Dmitri Volfson, and post-doctoral fellow Lev. S. Tsimring modified the Gillespie algorithm, a well known computer model of cellular reactions, by factoring in intrinsic noise and delays. Using the modified Gillespie algorithm and s...

Students discover 11,000 year old remains of Irish Elk

A group of history students have discovered the antler of an Irish Elk in clif...e Age, as the glaciers retreated northwards. The students who found the elk were taking part in a field trip examining the Manx landscape. Dr Peter Davey, Dir...

UK sperm donor crisis

...ntre has found that the numbers of men ?especially students ?coming forward as potential sperm donors fell sha...applicants were aged under 36, more than half were students without a partner, 85% were unmarried and over three-quarters had no children. Nearly a third had de...

Young scientists turn to gel to ease side-effects of cancer treatment

...t and dangerous side-effects of radiotherapy. PhD students Andrew Wilson and Paul Watson, together with post-doctoral research fellow Mark Godber, have developed the gel which will help doctors to target cancer tumours more efficiently. Now, the group has secured £30,000 under the Bioscience Yorkshire Enter...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...a Dankbar, Martin Mehlman and Chad Moore, graduate students James Smagala and Michael Townsend and undergraduate Amy Reppert. The group has been working on the project with CDC Influenza Branch Chief Dr. Nancy Cox and CDC researcher Catherine Smith. ...

Making medicine 'smarter'

...esearch in advancing breast cancer research, train students in biomedical engineering and promote interdisciplinary research at FSU," she said. ...

ASU researchers 'wire' DNA to identify mutations

... of the molecule." Electrical engineering graduate students Joshua Hihath and Bingqian Xu carried out the measurement. "We measure a small current through the molecules using a setup developed in our lab." said Tao. "It's a conceptually simple setup. You just bring two electrodes together, separate them apar...

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