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Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

... The system performance and scalability will offer students and faculty the ability to quickly and accurately ...tem based on the AMD Opteron LS20 IBM BladeCenter, students and faculty of Georgia Tech are gaining the processing power and system resources they need to make ...

U-M researchers take new approach to defeating Gram-negative bugs

... of the team were U-M medicinal chemistry doctoral students Timothy Meredith and Parag Aggarwal. Meredith, lead author of the publication, has since joined Harvard Medical School as a researcher. Aggarwal, Mamat and Woodard continue to work on the approach, encouraged by the potential of developing a safer w...

Heparin prepared synthetically could replace animal-derived drug

...arolina at Chapel Hill. Graduate and post-doctoral students involved in the work include: Jinghua Chen (UNC-Chapel Hill), Eva Munoz (Rensselaer), Fikri Avci (Rensselaer), Ding Xu (UNC-Chapel Hill), Melissa Kemp (Rensselaer), and Miao Chen (UNC-Chapel Hill). The work was supported by the National Institutes of...

Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population

...ntly, the current supply of physicians and medical students will be adequate through 2020. In recent months, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and others have called for expanded enrollments at medical schools, arguing that population and economic trends will necessitate an increased supply...

Where 'jumping genes' fear to tread

...was conducted under Mattick's guidance by graduate students Cas Simons and Michael Pheasant, as well as by Dr. Igor Makunin, a postdoctoral researcher. ...

Protein receptor cools passion of 'kiss and run' nerve cells

...um Blackmer and Eric Schwartz, all former graduate students or post-doctoral researchers in Alford's UIC laboratory. ...

Are dancers genetically different than the rest of us? Yes, says Hebrew University researcher

... an examination of 85 dancers and advanced dancing students in Israel variants of two genes that provide the code for the serotonin transporter and arginine vasopressin receptor 1a. Both genes are involved in the transmission of information between nerve cells. The serotonin transporter regulates the level ...

Study may help slay 'Yellow Monster'

...University biochemist Diane Stearns and her Navajo students are not only gaining knowledge, they are adding to...is to address these disparities by training Native students for cancer-related careers. In this way, Stearns and her students can help slay the yellow monster,...

Inside rocks, implications for finding life on Mars

... Schopf's UCLA co-authors include geology graduate students Abhishek Tripathi and Andrew Czaja, and senior scientist Anatoliy Kudryavtsev. The research is funded by NASA. Schopf is editor of "Earth's Earliest Biosphere" and "The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study," companion books that provide ...

MIT researchers build tiny batteries with viruses

...ve additional researchers. They are MSE graduate students Ki Tae Nam (the lead author), Dong-Wan Kim, Chung-Yi Chiang and Nonglak Meethong, and ChE postdoctoral associate Pil. J. Yoo. In their research, the MIT team altered the virus's genes so they make protein coats that collect molecules of cobalt oxid...

Study shows hope for ridding lakes of clawed invader

...esearchers, aided by a small army of undergraduate students and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ...ntists, is that the rusty crayfish is edible. "The students up at our Trout Lake Research Station have been eating a lot of crayfish," says Carpenter. ...

Novel connection found between biological clock and cancer

... 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 organism ...

Ritalin packs punch by elevating norepinephrine, suppressing nerve signal transmissions

.... Methylphenidate use is on the rise among college students who solicit prescriptions from friends or siblings diagnosed with ADHD and use the drug to postpone fatigue and stay alert and focused while studying for exams or completing projects, Waterhouse said. ...

UF scientists discover evolutionary origin of fins, limbs

...angJun Zhang, co-authors of the paper and graduate students in UF's zoology department. Extending their genetic analysis to the lamprey - a living relic from the time before fish had paired fins - researchers found the same genetic cues in place. "That we see these same mechanisms operating in lamprey fi...

Researchers add crucial information on how the body's T cells react to parasitic diseases

...r UGA postdoctoral fellow Susan Sullivan; doctoral students Matt Collins, Charles Rosenberg and Sarah Craven; Alessandro Sette of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in San Diego, Ca.; and Susana Laucella and Miriam Postan of the Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud in Buenos Aires, Ar...

Finding a better way to make biodiesel

...try that's not that high-tech. And this allows our students from the Midwest ?some of them from farms ?to learn a new kind of technology that doesn't take them away from home." Larry Breeding, the general manager of biodiesel operations for the West Central Cooperative, said the technology shows promise for ...

Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures

...g with Baca, the lead researcher, current graduate students Carlee Ashley and Eric Carnes and undergraduate Deanna Lopez have made significant recent contributions. Others contributing are Jeb Flemming, Darren Dunphy, Seema Singh, Zhu Chen, Nanguo Liu, Hongyou Fan, Gabriel Lopez, Susan Brozik, and Margaret We...

MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind

...t 10 years, in collaboration with more than 3O MIT students and some of her personal eye doctors. The new devi... She has also worked with dozens of MIT graduate students and undergraduates, including Sylvia Gonzalez (S.B. 2003) and Shima Rayej (S.B. 2004), who helped de...

Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety

...ral research fellow Solitaire Lindsay and graduate students Dongqing Yang, Pavan Aella and Ana Egatz-Gomez. The ASU group's work is part of the international effort by the Interdisciplinary Network of Emerging Science and Technology (INEST), directed by Manuel Marquez, an adjunct professor of bioengineering...

Ready, set, mutate?and may the best microbe win

...to 73 degrees Celsius (163 F). Shamoo and graduate students Rafael Couñago and undergraduate Stephen Chen used a mutant strain of the microbe that was unable to make a key protein that the bacteria needed to regulate its metabolism at high temperatures. They grew the bacteria for one month in fermentor, raisi...

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