UAB has received a five-year, $409,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a national network of researchers to gather and share information about the use of microarray technology in genetics research.
President Bush has appointed an LSU Boyd Professor to the President's Commission on Ocean Policy. Established by the Oceans Act of 2000, the commission will make recommendations to the President and Congress for a comprehensive national ocean and coastal policy.
Today Earth and Mars will experience their closest encounter in a dozen years. Stargazers won't want to miss the Red Planet blazing bright in the midnight sky.
A Cornell University-led research group comprised of 25 faculty members from six institutions has been awarded a $19.6 million, five-year grant by the National Institutes of Health to build a structural biology research facility at Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source.
1) Detection and diagnosis of diseases; 2) Mutations in mice in months instead of years; 3) Law enforcement weapon on the horizon is a micro-robot about the size of a june bug; 4) Some landfills may be serving as bioreactors, turning inorganic mercury into methylated -- or organic -- mercury.
With the Bush administration pushing natural gas as fuel, and rolling blackouts threatening the West, Colorado State engineers are developing a micro-pilot ignition device that will make gas pipeline transmission cleaner, cheaper and more effective.
The key to improving weather forecasts may lie in the discovery by University of Maryland researchers of atmospheric "hot spots" -- regions in which small changes in conditions are believed to magnify most quickly into large changes in the weather.
The gene mutation that gives humans natural resistance to malaria is a striking example of how infectious disease can shape the human genome, a University of Maryland professor has shown.
Proteome Systems of Australia and the University of Missouri-Columbia announced a new partnership in the war against cancer. Working together, the partnership will research the composition of proteins in the human body and what roles they play in cancer.
Leaders in human genetics and biomedical research will hold a public forum on the human genome at UC Santa Cruz. A panel of experts will discuss research on the human genome and its implications for the future of medicine and society.
Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee dedicated the Frances Williams Preston Laboratory in honor of the music industry leader's support of cancer research and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
U.S. soldiers of 2025 will be eating foods that are a combination of hometown comfort and space-age wizardry. A report lays out a vision of foods and agricultural activities that will keep warriors fed, disease-free and even safe from friendly fire.
Getting fuel to soldiers in the field has been a problem since machines replaced horses. But according to a new report, by 2025 soldiers could make fuel and electricity where they are, instead of relying on long supply chains to transport energy to them.
A report recommends that the U.S. Army take advantage of dramatic advancements in biotechnology that promise to help soldiers survive and perform better in the 21st century.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service and National Sea Grant College Program have announced the awarding of $3.5M in federal research grants to 14 science research teams in seven states to determine the causes behind the 1999-2000 winter die-off of the Long Island Sound lobster fishery.
Researchers studying medicinal, pharmacological, antibiotic, carcinogenic and food-production agents would do well to look at an often-overlooked group of fungi that once had -- but then lost -- the ability to form lichen symbioses.
Researchers at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute report that HID (high-intensity-discharge) headlights enable drivers to see more effectively at night than conventional tungsten-halogen lights.
"In principle, there's no reason why a computer couldn't be fairly indistinguishable from a human," says a computer science professor at Bowdoin College who specializes in artificial intelligence. "But that day is a long way off." Chown is available to comment on artificial intelligence in general and in relation to the new film AI.
An autonomous solar-powered robot, developed at Carnegie Mellon University with support from NASA, will be taken to the Canadian Arctic to test Sun-Synchronous Navigation, which has the potential to enable robots to do long-term exploration of distant planets and moons.
More than 8,000 pharmaceutical scientists from around the world will gather in Denver, Oct. 21-25 at the 2001 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition.
African dust that crosses the Atlantic Ocean and brings beautiful sunsets to Florida also carries potentially harmful bacteria and fungi, a new study shows.
A study resulting from collaborative research among scientists at the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center in Houston, the Texas A&M-Kingsville Citrus Center at Weslaco, and the University of Texas-Pan American at Edinburg suggests that a compound in citrus pectin may help prevent prostate cancer.
President George W. Bush's proposal to expand NATO to include Ukraine and other former parts of the Soviet Union could present the alliance with a new set of communications and information technology challenges, says a University of Missouri-Rolla professor who is working with NATO to meet those challenges.
Feeding the world while sustaining the environment will be high on the agenda when more than 200 educators from universities around the world meet in San Francisco this summer.
Saving the Gulf of Mexico from polluted runoff is possible, but it means creating or restoring at least 5 to 13 million acres of wetlands in the Midwest and the lower Mississippi River basin, according to a new report by environmental researchers.
"Universe 2001," the 113th meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, will be held July 13-18 in St. Paul, Minn. It includes talks by prominent astronomers and the first international symposium to examine results from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church overwhelmingly "affirms the use of fetal tissue and embryonic tissue for vital research," including "the use of human stem cell tissue for research that may result in the restoring of health to those suffering from serious illness."
"Aware but not ready" is how Cham Dallas, Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Toxicology at the University of Georgia and Civilian National Consultant to the Surgeon General for Weapons of Mass Destruction described U.S. preparedness for a large scale biological, chemical or nuclear terrorist attack.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified genes in the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that appear to be counterparts of genes responsible for more than 700 different genetic diseases in humans.
MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(tm), a drug research and development company, announced that Nobel Prize winner Sir John Vane, pharmaceutical executive Joshua Boger, and venture capital entrepreneur Adolphus Busch IV have joined the company's Board of Directors.
Turning soy oil into industrial grade plastic? Call it food for thought, says University of Delaware chemical engineering professor. Soy composites have been used to manufacture large doors for John Deere farm machinery, they could be used to build an entire tractor, including the tires.
The remoteness of one of the world's largest ecosystems has not made it immune from global environmental problems, according to a major new report on the state of Arctic biodiversity, funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
Microwave technology under development at Ohio State may improve global weather mapping and detect buried land mines. Researchers are developing sensors that detect the small amounts of microwave radiation emitted by the ocean surface and by buried objects.
Global warming is a natural geological process that could begin to reverse itself within 10 to 20 years, predicts an Ohio State University researcher.
Researchers have developed a procedure for using an ultrafast laser to make clean, high-precision surgical cuts in the human cornea. The procedure is expected to advance the popular LASIK eye surgery by reducing complications due to traditional manual cutting techniques.
Salk scientists discovered the origin of patterning in flowers.
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working with colleagues at Pennsylvania State University, have identified a gene responsible for controlling water retention and cell division in plants. Their discoveries raise the possibility of making crop plants more resistant to drought, a goal agronomists have pursued for decades.
New evidence suggests that the current stew of airborne chemicals and particles might be giving clouds stronger cooling properties than previously thought, a University of Washington atmospheric chemist says.
Russia is on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the virulent, fungal-like pathogen, called late blight, that was responsible for the 19th century Irish potato famine. As the strains spread through Central and Eastern Europe, a blight-resistant potato variety has been developed at Cornell.
An instrument aboard a spacecraft that will be launched in 2001 to explore two, and perhaps three or more, comets in the solar system will for the first time provide a "fingerprint" of the surface of cometary nuclei, giving the first firm evidence of the composition of the icy, rocky objects.
A Michigan State University study has found that an environmental contaminant that was routinely used as a pesticide may affect the growth of children.
A new energy-generating, light-absorbing pigment called proteorhodopsin is widespread in the world's oceans, say scientists funded by the National Science Foundation and affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
From middle school through college, students are taught that each plant or animal cell has a nucleus -- a simple, round sphere containing the organism's genetic blueprint. In an accidental discovery, however, researchers at North Carolina State University have found it's not that simple, after all.
The global phenomenon of bleaching, in which reef-building corals lose their colorful algae and become white during times of stress, may actually allow some corals to adapt to global warming and other environmental change.
UC Irvine Chancellor Ralph J. Cicerone, the lead author of a recent National Academy of Sciences report on climate change prepared for the White House, will speak on "Global Climate Change and U.S. Policy."
With summer approaching, concerns about the nation's energy situation come to the forefront. Here are experts from the University of Missouri-Rolla who can address some of the issues related to U.S. energy concerns.
Using sophisticated post-genomic technology, a team of UCSD researchers has looked deep within the body's immune cells and recorded the molecular events triggered by invasion of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), creating a detailed account of the devastating progression of cellular injury folloiwng HIV infection.
NASA's upcoming HESSI mission might finally solve the riddle of solar flares by making x-ray and gamma-ray pictures of the eruptions.
Using a technique that peeks over obscuring rings of dust and gas and into the hearts of distant galaxies, a researcher has found evidence suggesting that as many as half of the bright, active galaxies known as Seyfert 2 galaxies may have significantly less active central black holes.
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