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Science News About Pioneer Awardees
- An exquisite container
November 3, 2009
A tiny cage of gold covered with a smart polymer respond to light, opening to empty its contents.
- Harvard scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures
October 21, 2009
New ‘stereocenters’ introduce triangular joints into otherwise linear nanomaterials
- PSA 'Nanotest' May Spot Prostate Cancer's Return After Surgery
October 19, 2009
Screen could boost accuracy but is still years away from approval, experts say.
- Large-scale study probes how cells fight pathogens
September 3, 2009
Researchers reconstruct a key molecular circuit in mammalian immune cells; genome-scale methods offer a practical model for future studies.
- Cost of Decoding a Genome Is Lowered
August 11, 2009
A Stanford engineer has invented a new technology for decoding DNA and used it to decode his own genome for less than $50,000.
- UCSB Study Links Strength and Beauty to Anger, Pro-War Attitudes
August 5, 2009
Anthropologists, psychologists, and other experts in human behavior have long recognized anger as a universal emotion.
- Scientists Discover Origin of Malaria (PDF, 2 pages)
August 3, 2009
Discovery Could Lead to Development of New Treatments, Prevent Future Plagues.
- A matter of density, not quantity
July 10, 2009
Individual bacterial cells are capable of quorum sensing when confined in small volumes.
- Research may hold key to maintaining embryonic stem cells in lab
July 9, 2009
In a new study that could transform embryonic stem cell (ES cell) research, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered why mouse ES cells can be easily grown in a laboratory while other mammalian ES cells are difficult, if not impossible, to maintain.
- Microscopic marvels: The naked microscope
June 30, 2009
Sunney Xie's newest microscopes don't look like the latest in sophistication. Tucked away in his biochemistry lab at Harvard University, they seem to be ad hoc assemblies of lasers, objectives and electronics, surrounded by a thicket of optical equipment.
- Trimming The Fat Boosts Blood Recovery After Marrow Transplant
June 17, 2009
Seeking ways to improve blood recovery after chemotherapy or bone marrow transplant, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered that fat cells, which accumulate in bone marrow as people age, inhibit the marrow's ability to produce new blood cells.
- Stem cell protein offers a new cancer target
June 2, 2009
LIN28, which maintains cell 'stemness,' is abundant in advanced cancers and transforms cells to cancerous state.
- First Detailed Report of New Virus's Promiscuous Past
May 26, 2009
The most detailed description yet of the origins of the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu outbreak appears today on ScienceExpress.
- Why do people with Down syndrome have less cancer?
May 26, 2009
Research in mice and human stem cells suggests new therapeutic targets.
- Federal Research is Exploring Potential for ‘Human Hibernation’
May 20, 2009
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $2,227,500 grant to explore the possibility of inducing a hibernation-like state in “non-hibernating mammals” such as humans.
- Embryo's Heartbeat Drives Blood Stem Cell Formation
May 13, 2009
Clues about how blood forms could yield new strategies for treating blood diseases.
- Using combinatorial libraries to engineer genetic circuits advances synthetic biology
April 22, 2009
Streamlining the construction of synthetic gene networks has led a team of Boston University researchers to develop a technique that couples libraries of diversified components with computer modeling to guide predictable gene network construction without the back and forth tweaking.
- Study finds blood cells can be reprogrammed to act as embryonic stem cells
April 20, 2009
In a recent study, U.S. researchers have reprogrammed cells found in circulating blood into cells that are molecularly and functionally indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells.
- Penn Scientists Use RNA to Reprogram One Cell Type into Another
April 16, 2009
Implications for Cell-Based Personalized Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
- Shedding some light on Parkinson's treatment
April 16, 2009
Scientists use optical approach to study deep brain stimulation.
- MIT: Cooperative behavior meshes with evolutionary theory
April 6, 2009
One of the perplexing questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the individual, came to exist.
- Sleep: Spring cleaning for the brain?
April 2, 2009
If you've ever been sleep-deprived, you know the feeling that your brain is full of wool.
- Stem cell breakthrough: monitoring the on switch that turns stem cells into muscle
April 1, 2009
New report in The FASEB Journal describes how Nobel scientist and colleagues visualize stem cells forming new muscles in a living mouse.
- Stanford study improves insights into Parkinson's disease and possible treatments
March 23, 2009
About the only thing doctors have understood about deep-brain stimulation, which is widely used to treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms, is that somehow it works for many patients.
- Tracking deadly viruses' spread from animals to humans
January 16, 2009
Pandemics can be prevented before they're spread globally, says Dr. Nathan Wolfe.
- Novel technique changes lymph node biopsy, reduces radiation exposure in breast cancer patients
January 13, 2009
Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.
- Synthetic HDL: A new weapon to fight cholesterol problems
January 9, 2009
Buttery Christmas cookies, eggnog, juicy beef roast, rich gravy and creamy New York-style cheesecake. Happy holiday food unfortunately can send blood cholesterol levels sky high.
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