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Fruit fly gene research may shed light on human disease processes

...ellular differentiation, Erickson and his graduate students have been researching how fly embryos become male or female, a process that occurs over a 30-minute period early in their development and which is similar to the differentiation process for different types of cells, mirroring, for example, the way a ...

Williams College biologist explores photosynthetic apparatus

...The project will involve a number of undergraduate students in scientific research. Students participating in this project will become familiar with state-of-the-art technology used in this field of study and have a chance to participate in national scientific meetings. Recently the Woodrow Wilson Founda...

In presence of fragrant cleaning products, air purifiers that emit ozone can dirty the air

...of breath and throat irritation. Nizkorodov and students Ahmad Alshawa and Ashley Russell conducted their experiment in a sparsely furnished office with a floor area of about 11 square meters. They placed an ozone-emitting air purifier in the middle of the room along with a large fan to better mix the air....

Organic is healthier: Kiwis prove that green is good

...ucational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution centres in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb. Wiley's recently re-lau...

Scientists unravel clue in cortisol production

... 17, or which proteins are important. So, graduate students Eric Dammer and Adam Leon, along with Marion Sewer, assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Biology, decided to model the events that occur after the adrenal gland receives the signal. One of the things the signal does is cause adrenal cel...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...utions ?all members of PRAGMA ?will host some U.S. students and researchers, while taking responsibility for s...aduate and undergraduate level. "We’ll be engaging students from the above institutions as an international research team," said NBCR’s Li. "We will also send U...

Can engineered immune cells stop AIDS?

...very. With a group of USC biomedical engineering students and Caltech biologists, Wang is experimenting with CD20 as a target antigen for human B cells. His strategy, published in the August 1, 2006 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, targets the human B cells only. After two years o...

Stopping plants from getting sick

...also a reflection of the hard work my trainees and students and post-docs put in as they worked with me during their careers," says Kronstad, a biologist at the University of British Columbia. "There are about 40 other people who I wish could share this fellowship with me." Kronstad's NSERC-funded research...

Sleep enforces the temporal sequence in memory

...as found to enhance word recall, but only when the students were asked to reproduce the learned words in forward direction. This finding shows that sleep associated consolidation of memories enforces the temporal structure of the memorized episode that otherwise might be blurred to a timeless puzzle of exp...

Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance

... negative impact on how well middle or high school students perform in the classroom. A study published in th...ol district-approved questionnaires, filled out by students attending middle school or high school, which included a high frequency of sleep complaints. Accord...

UBC researchers reveal dwarf aquatic plants' hidden ancestry

...t evolutionary family tree." Graham and his PhD students Hardeep Rai and Jeffery Saarela, who is now a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature, show that Hydatellaceae are actually closely related to water lilies. Their findings are published in this week’s edition of the journal Nature. Due...

Protein discovery targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria

...ein ?called YihE or RdoA ?a team of professors and students from the departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology & Immunology has opened up possibilities for new drug development. “Our group is the first to solve the structure and to begin to understand the function of this particular protein,?says D...

Fighting to keep Darwin in the classroom

...tted to helping educators teach Darwin's theory to students at all levels. Outreach and Education in Evolution will provide them with the tools they need." Outreach and Education in Evolution, a traditional peer-reviewed journal with non-traditional features, will address these concerns. Each quarterly ...

Childhood obesity among Quebec Cree raises concerns

...esity rates, but in general, the elementary school students exhibited very low levels of physical fitness and physical activity. Diet is another obvious possibility to consider. This University of Alberta research is ongoing—and there’s no question that it is timely. The federal government has just announc...

Shedding new light on proteorhodopsin

...uthoring the paper with Liphardt were UCB graduate students Jessica Walter and Derek Greenfield, and Carlos Bustamante, who also holds a joint Berkeley Lab-UCB appointment and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. There was a great deal of excitement in the biology community in 2000 whe...

Study shows hope for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...ults are not always conclusive. Polikar and his students analyzed the data using sophisticated signal processing, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques to explore the hypothesis that the entire ERP signal, not just the P300 indicator, reveals markers that previously have not been assoc...

UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic

...ch team. In September, Ackley plans to take more students and faculty from the Department of Earth and Environmental Science's Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics on the US icebreaker NB Palmer for a two month trip to the Antarctic sea ice....

McBride shows DNA detective work with paper-eating bacteria that 'glide'

...ected in both gliding microbes." McBride and his students have used F. johnsoniae to study the motility of gliding bacteria for more than a decade. They cloned "mutants" of F. johnsoniae that are unable to move, and then attempted to "repair" them by inserting certain pieces of DNA. In this way, they hav...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

...rch. Using an experimental apparatus he and his students created in UD's Human Performance Lab, Knight has been examining muscular force on a very small scale in the index finger, specifically, the first dorsal interosseous muscle. Located between the index finger and the thumb, this muscle contains 120 "m...

ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5M biofuels research program at Iowa State

...gram will involve 10 faculty members plus graduate students in the first year with additional researchers added in subsequent years. He noted that ConocoPhillips turned to Iowa State as a research partner, in part, because of Iowa State's expertise in a wide range of biorenewable technologies. Iowa State's...

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