Young in Biological News

A young brain for an old bee

We are all familiar with the fact that cognitive function declines as we get older. Moreover, recent studies have shown that the specific kind of daily activities we engage in during the course of our lives appears to influence the extent of this decline. A team of researchers from Technische Univ...

Kelvin Lee winner of Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award

The Biochemical Engineering Journal and the ECI Biochemical Engineering Conferences have announced that Kelvin H. Lee, Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware and Director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, is the winner of the Biochemical Engineering Journal ...

They are young and need the job: A second chance for dangerous T-cells

The immune system's T-cells react to foreign protein fragments and therefore are crucial to combating viruses and bacteria. Errant cells that attack the body's own material are in most cases driven to cell death. Some of these autoreactive T-cells, however, undergo a kind of reeducation to become ...

Promising device snags young inventors coveted spot at IShow

The IShow is for young inventors what "American Idol" is for young performers, and a pair of local researchers has won a coveted spot in the IShow finale in Palm Desert, Calif., this weekend. If their unique health-monitoring device wins at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Innovatio...

Five outstanding young gastroenterologists receive AGA Foundation 2009 Research Scholars Award

Bethesda, Maryland (May 27, 2009) The Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition has announced the 2009 American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Foundation Research Scholars. The grants have been awarded to five outstanding young gastroenterologists who promise to make significant stride...

System that regulates blood pressure is amiss in some healthy, young blacks

AUGUSTA, Ga. When stress increases blood pressure, a natural mechanism designed to bring it down by excreting more salt in the urine doesn't work well in about one-third of healthy, black adolescents, researchers report. They hope the finding, which is being presented May 8 at the American Soc...

6 young ASU faculty earn NSF Career awards

TEMPE, Ariz. Six Arizona State University faculty members have earned Faculty Early Career Development (Career) awards for 2009 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Career program is a NSF-wide activity that is one of the most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exem...

ONR announces 2009 Young Investigator Award recipients

ARLINGTON, VA. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has announced 15 aspiring researchers as award recipients of the U.S. Navy's 2009 Young Investigator Program (YIP). "We serve our Fleet best by tapping the brightest young minds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics," says Chief ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

NEW ORLEANSMany active young women use oral contraceptives (OC) yet its effect on their body composition and exercise performance has not been thoroughly studied. A team of researchers has now examined the effects of OC on female muscle mass, and found that oral contraceptive use impairs muscle ga...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

NEW ORLEANSMany active young women use oral contraceptives (OC) yet its effect on their body composition and exercise performance has not been thoroughly studied. A team of researchers has now examined the effects of OC on female muscle mass, and found that oral contraceptive use impairs muscle ga...

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes 2009: Six young researchers recognized for outstanding achievements

This release is available in German . Four women and two men have been chosen to receive this year's Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, Germany's top research award for young scientists. This is the first time in the history of the prize, which has been awarded annually by the Deutsche Forschung...

For old or young dialysis patients, AV fistulas remain pure gold

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 9, 2009)A new study shows that for those individuals with chronic kidney disease, it doesn't matter if you're young or old: arteriovenous (AV) fistulas remain the gold standard for maintaining access to one's circulatory system to provide life-sustaining dialysis. Interven...

GUMC young scientist selected postdoc Fellow at National Space Biomedical Research Institute

Washington, DC The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has selected Daniela Trani, PhD, of Georgetown University Medical Center as one of four young investigators in the nation for its 2008-2010 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Trani is a postdoctoral fellow in Georgetown's Lomb...

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 13 top young investigators

New York, NY-- The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named 13 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its November 2008 Fellowship Award Committee review. The recipients of this prestigious, three-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in t...

NSF-funded workshops help young researchers teach science

EAST LANSING, Mich. Early career scientists will leave the lab this summer to apply their scientific skills to effective teaching, sharpening their skills at workshops held around the country by Michigan State University and partners. As enrollment in science majors grows, college-level scienc...

Old and young brains rely on different systems to remember emotional content

DURHAM, N.C.Neuroscientists from Duke University Medical Center have discovered that older people use their brains differently than younger people when it comes to storing memories, particularly those associated with negative emotions. The study, appearing online in the January issue of Psych...

Elsevier announces winners of 3rd Annual Scopus Young Indian Scientist Award

NEW DELHI, December 5, 2008 Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific information, announced today the winners of the third annual Scopus Young Indian Scientist Award. Prof. J J Theo Groothuizen, S&T Counsellor, Embassy of Netherlands, presided over the award ceremony, held at Le Mer...

Old flies can become young moms

Female flies can turn back the biological clock and extend their lifespan at the same time, University of Southern California biologists report. Their study, published online this month in Molecular Genetics and Genomics , casts doubt on the old notion of a tradeoff between reproduction and lo...

12 outstanding young scientists named as EMBO Young Investigators

Heidelberg, 5 November 2008 - Today, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced the selection of 12 of Europe's most talented young researchers as 2008 beneficiaries of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. Now in its ninth year, the programme annually identifies the brightes...

Research shows that time invested in practicing pays off for young musicians

A Harvard-based study published October 29 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE , led by Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental trainingnot only in tests of auditory di...

Researchers discover that growing up too fast may mean dying young in honey bees

Hilton Head, SCReactive oxygen species (ROS) occur as a by-product of aerobic metabolism and impair cellular function by damaging proteins, nucleotides and lipids. Organisms possess a variety of anti-oxidant mechanisms to mitigate the effects of ROS, and the oxidative stress model of aging and se...

Generation innovation: Young UC San Diego bioengineer to use NIH grant to fuel tissue engineering

At 30, Karen Christman, an assistant bioengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, plans to help fuel the growing field of tissue engineering. With a new $1.5 million New Innovator Award grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Christman will be able to do j...

Sweets make young horses harder to train in Montana State study

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets, says a Montana State University study where two-year-olds wore pedometers, wrist watches and Ace bandages. A commercial mixture of corn, oats, barley and molasses -- sometimes called "sweet grain" or "...

UC Berkeley virologist named Keck Distinguished Young Scholar

Britt Glaunsinger, a University of California, Berkeley, virologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, has won a W. M. Keck Foundation grant, an award given to innovative young scientists in the area of biomedical research. The grant, which totals up to...

W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2008 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research

Los Angeles, CA. July 28 2008: The W.M.Keck Foundation, a leading supporter of pioneering medical research, science and engineering, today announced its 2008 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research and Research Excellence Awardees. Robert A. Day, Chairman and Chief Executive Of...

Scientists integrate data in three dimensions to study climate effects on young fish

From the surface, the two areas of ocean off the coasts of northern New Jersey and Long Island, New York look the same. But to NOAA scientists, the four-square-mile patches could not be more different as they view real-time underwater images and environmental data to try to figure out what lives t...

Healthy parents provide clues to survival of young haddock on Georges Bank

In 2003, haddock on Georges Bank experienced the largest baby boom ever documented for the stock, with an estimated 800 million new young fish entering the population. With typical annual averages of 50 to 100 million new fish in the last few decades, fisheries biologists have been puzzled by the ...

Children's Hospital leads projects to develop nation's first heart assist devices for young children

Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC a national leader in the use of lifesaving ventricular assist devices (VADs) for children in heart failure is part of a collaboration that recently has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an external h...

Five young Hebrew University scientists win first competitive EU grants

Jerusalem, Dec. 26, 2007 Five young Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have been awarded five-year research grants under the European Unions first competition for outstanding starting independent investigators. The amount awarded to the five Hebrew University winners totals 6,380,000 euros...

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 17 top young investigators

New York, NY-- The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named 17 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its November 2007 Scientific Advisory Committee review. The recipients of this prestigious, three-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research i...

New book defines promising young field of adult neurogenesis

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. Studies of the birth and incorporation of neurons into the brains of mature animalsa process known as adult neurogenesispromise intriguing insights into the mechanisms of normal brain function and into the causes of depression and other psychiatric disorders. A new boo...

2007 Albert Maucher Prize for Outstanding Young Geoscientists

Two young geoscientists have been selected to receive the Albert Maucher Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in honour of their outstanding research findings. The prize will be awarded on 8 November 2007 to Dr. Martin Blumenberg from the Institute of Biog...

Yale chemist receives NIH Young Investigator Award for antibody targeting

New Haven, Conn. David Spiegel , assistant professor of organic chemistry at Yale, has received a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Directors New Innovator Award that will support his work designing a rational approach for using antibodies to target a wide variety of cells and d...

18 young scientists join EMBO Young Investigator network

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced today the selection of 18 of Europes most talented young researchers as the 2007 beneficiaries of its prestigious Young Investigator Programme. Each year since 2000, the programme identifies and supports outstanding young life scienti...

Alcohol and sleep restriction can affect young men's alertness and driving performance

WESTCHESTER, Ill. Combining low-dose alcohol with moderate sleep restriction can have a significant adverse effect on young mens subjective alertness and performance behind the wheel, according to a study published in the October 1 issue of the journal SLEEP. The study, authored by Andrew Vaku...

Meth exposure in young adults leads to long-term behavioral consequences

WASHINGTON, DC August 13, 2007 Young adults who use methamphetamine may be more vulnerable to age-related brain degeneration when they grow older, new animal research suggests. The emergence of behavioral deficits in animals months after methamphetamine discontinuation may be relevant to human...

Carbon nanoparticles toxic to adult fruit flies but benign to young

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Carbon nanoparticles are widely used in medicine, electronics, optics, materials science and architecture, but their health and environmental impact is not fully understood. In a series of experiments, researchers at Brown University sought to determine how ...

Computational model examines the pathways of Alzheimer's that strikes at the young

NEW ORLEANSAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a tragic disease that robs an individual of their memory and mental capacity. One in eight people over the age of 65 now suffer from the disease and one in two people over 85 are diagnosed with the disease. Contrary to popular belief, Alzheimer's does not onl...

Computational model examines the pathways of Alzheimer's that strikes at the young

NEW ORLEANSAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a tragic disease that robs an individual of their memory and mental capacity. One in eight people over the age of 65 now suffer from the disease and one in two people over 85 are diagnosed with the disease. Contrary to popular belief, Alzheimer's does not onl...

Don't go changing: New chemical keeps stem cells young

Scientists at the Universities of Bath and Leeds have discovered a chemical that stops stem cells from turning into other cell types, allowing researchers to use these cells to develop new medical treatments more easily. Stem cells have the ability to develop into many other cell types in the b...