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Public Release: 22-May-2012
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Scientists unravel role of fusion gene in prostate cancer Up to half of all prostate cancer cells have a chromosomal rearrangement that results in a new "fusion" gene and formation of its unique protein -- but no one has known how that alteration promotes cancer growth. 
US Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, NIH/National Cancer Institute, Starr Cancer Consortium
Contact: Lauren Woods
Public Release: 22-May-2012
{DISSERTATION} New TB test promises to be cheap and fast Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have developed a microfluidic chip to test for latent tuberculosis. They hope the test will be cheaper, faster and more reliable than current testing for the disease.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 22-May-2012
{DISSERTATION} $3.3 million NSF award creates UCSB and UTEP partnership for materials science and engineering research The National Science Foundation has awarded $3.3 million for the establishment of a collaborative research and education program between the University of Texas at El Paso and University of California, Santa Barbara to broaden the participation and advanced degree attainment of under-represented minorities.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Melissa Van De Werfhorst
Public Release: 22-May-2012
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} Study shows availability of hydrogen controls chemical structure of graphene oxide A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical systems, sensing, composites, optics, catalysis and energy storage.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 22-May-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society A{DISSERTATION} How ion bombardment reshapes metal surfaces Ion bombardment of metal surfaces is an important, but poorly understood, nanomanufacturing technique. New research using sophisticated supercomputer simulations has shown what goes on in trillionths of a second. The advance could lead to better ways to predict the phenomenon and more uses of the technique to make new nanoscale products.
National Science Foundation, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, US Department of Energy
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 22-May-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Human-like spine morphology found in aquatic eel fossil For decades, scientists believed that a spine with multiple segments was an exclusive feature of land-dwelling animals. But the discovery of the same anatomical feature in a 345-million-year-old eel suggests that this complex anatomy arose separately from -- and perhaps before -- the first species to walk on land.
National Science Foundation, Palaeontological Association, Paleontological Society, American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, Evolving Earth Foundation
Contact: Rob Mitchum
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Nature Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} Weight struggles? Blame new neurons in your hypothalamus New nerve cells formed in a select part of the brain could hold considerable sway over how much you eat and consequently weigh, new animal research by Johns Hopkins scientists suggests in a study published in the May issue of Nature Neuroscience.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award, Klingenstein Fund, National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders
Contact: Audrey Huang
Public Release: 21-May-2012
{DISSERTATION} U-M biologist plays key role in effort to create first comprehensive tree of life Since Darwin, assembling an evolutionary tree that shows the relationships between all known species of life has been one of the grandest and most daunting challenges facing biologists.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Erickson
Public Release: 21-May-2012
{DISSERTATION} New report highlights the role of math and computational science in industrial innovation The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics is pleased to announce the release of its latest report on mathematics in industry.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Biogeosciences{DISSERTATION} New study by WHOI scientists provides baseline measurements of carbon in Arctic Ocean Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provides data that will help researchers better understand the Arctic Ocean's carbon cycle -- the pathway through which carbon enters and is used by the marine ecosystem.
WHOI Arctic Research Initiative, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian International Polar Year Office, National Science Foundation
Contact: WHOI Media Relations Office
Public Release: 21-May-2012
{DISSERTATION} Researchers aim to assemble the tree of life for all 2 million named species A new initiative aims to build a tree of life that brings together everything scientists know about how living things are related, from the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree. Scientists have been building evolutionary trees for more than 150 years. But despite significant progress, there is still no central place where researchers can browse and download the entire tree. Now, a team of researchers aims to make that a reality.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Robin Ann Smith
Public Release: 21-May-2012
{DISSERTATION} Florida Tech biological sciences professor earns $257,000 NSF grant to study coral diseases The project will develop quantitative approaches to assess the clustering of infectious and non-infectious coral diseases, which are decimating the corals. When diseases cluster they are usually contagious; When not, there is usually a secondary cause of infection.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Karen Rhine
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Journal of Physical Chemistry A{DISSERTATION} From lemons to lemonade: Using carbon dioxide to make carbon nitride Michigan Tech scientist Yun Han Hu has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it creates some useful compounds to boot.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Yun Hang Hu
Public Release: 21-May-2012
IEEE International Conference on Communications{DISSERTATION} Researchers improve fast-moving mobile networks Mobile ad hoc networks allow people in multiple, rapidly-moving vehicles to communicate with each other – such as in military or emergency-response situations. Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a method to improve the quality and efficiency of data transmission in these networks.
National Science Foundation, US Army Research Office
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Toxic mercury, accumulating in the Arctic, springs from a hidden source Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers that carry the element north into the Arctic Ocean. While the atmospheric source was previously recognized, it now appears that twice as much mercury actually comes from the rivers. The revelation implies that concentrations of the toxin may further increase as climate change continues to modify the region's hydrological cycle and release mercury from warming Arctic soils.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Richer parasite diversity leads to healthier frogs, says University of Colorado study Increases in the diversity of parasites that attack amphibians cause a decrease in the infection success rate of virulent parasites, including one that causes malformed limbs and premature death, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.
National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Contact: Pieter Johnson
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Totally rad: Stanford bioengineers create rewritable digital data storage in DNA Scientists from Stanford's Department of Bioengineering have devised a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data within the DNA of living cells.
National Science Foundation, Stanford University
Contact: Andrew Myers
Public Release: 20-May-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Songbirds' learning hub in brain offers insight into motor control To learn its signature melody, the male songbird uses a trial-and-error process to mimic the song of its father, singing the tune over and over again, hundreds of times a day, making subtle changes in the pitch of the notes. For the male Bengalese finch, this rigorous training process begins around the age of 40 days and is completed about day 90, just as he becomes sexually mature and ready to use his song to woo females.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jennifer O'Brien
Public Release: 18-May-2012
PLoS Pathogens{DISSERTATION} Hitting snooze on the molecular clock: Rabies evolves slower in hibernating bats The rate at which the rabies virus evolves in bats may depend heavily upon the ecological traits of its hosts, according to research from the University of Georgia, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium published May 17 in the journal PLoS Pathogens. Rabies viruses in tropical and sub-tropical bat species evolved nearly four times faster than viral variants in bats in temperate regions.
University of Georgia, National Science Foundation, European Research Council
Contact: Daniel Streicker
Public Release: 18-May-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} A cell's first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: how do living cells figure out when and where to grow?
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, University of Miami, Lehigh University
Contact: Jordan Reese
Public Release: 18-May-2012
Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} Dartmouth researchers are learning how exercise affects the brain Findings suggest that the effects of exercise on memory depend on the age of the exerciser; underlying genetic mechanisms matter, too.
National Science Foundation, Dartmouth College Rockefeller Center, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Joseph Blumberg
Public Release: 17-May-2012
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} Professor uses diamond to produce graphene quantum dots and nano-ribbons of controlled structure Kansas State University researchers have come closer to solving an old challenge of producing graphene quantum dots of controlled shape and size at large densities, which could revolutionize electronics and optoelectronics.
National Science Foundation, US Office of Naval Research
Contact: Vikas Berry
Public Release: 17-May-2012
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology{DISSERTATION} Ancient giant turtle fossil revealed Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool.
National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institute
Contact: Tracey Peake
Public Release: 17-May-2012
PLoS Computational Biology{DISSERTATION} Resolving the ortholog conjecture Researchers at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute have confirmed the long-held conjecture that studying the genes we share with other animals is a viable means of extrapolating information about human biology.
University of Lausanne, Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: Christophe Dessimoz
Public Release: 17-May-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Religion is a potent force for cooperation and conflict, research shows Across history and cultures, religion increases trust within groups but also may increase conflict with other groups, according to an article in a special issue of Science.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense
Contact: Diane Swanbrow
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