USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
...an societies can live harmoniously with nature. CI develops scientific, policy and economic solutions to protect threatened natural ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity. To find out more, visit www.conservation.org . The United States Government, working primarily through the United States Agency for In...Bronfenbrenner book sums up human development
... the times -- as nested settings in which a person develops over time throughout the life course. Since 1979, when Bronfenbrenner published his bioecological theory, he has transformed how many social and behavioral scientists approach the study of human beings and their environments. The theory led to new d...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...d. Each wave of children that enters the community develops NSL further, making it more complex and versatile, and signing with greater speed and fluidity. "It's an unusual community, sort of upside-down, in the sense that the children lead the way. The children are the most fluent users of the language, not...OutFoxed! New research may redefine late-stage cardiac development
...of Medicine, have been investigating how the heart develops from its earliest stages of development to its lat...ence may redefine current models of how the heart develops in mammals. "Understanding the earliest steps in heart development gives us insight into the possib...New research suggests link between maternal diet and childhood leukemia risk
...pregnancy may lower the risk of having a child who develops leukemia, the most common childhood cancer in the United States. "This is the first time researchers have conducted a systematic survey of a woman's diet and linked it to the risk of childhood leukemia," said Dr. Kenneth Olden, director of the Nation...Bone marrow cells routinely help with wound healing
...ermatitis. Contact dermatitis happens when someone develops an inflammatory reaction to a substance that touches his or her skin. However, the white blood cells involved in contact dermatitis express a certain protein, CD45. The new cells identified in the transplanted mice did not produce that protein, and d...Identifying tick genes could halt disease, bioterrorism threat
... small mammals that harbor the pathogens. The tick develops into a nymph, which carries the Lyme disease-producing bacteria to people, pets and other animal species. The tick's olfactory system, or what we call our noses, is in its feet. These organs recognize carbon dioxide, which animals, including people, ...Study reveals first genetic step necessary for prostate cancer growth
...ly used genetically engineered strain of mice that develops prostate cancer at the Baylor College of Medicine prior to joining Fred Hutchinson in January. "These models represent a new frontier in cancer research because they give us a better insight into what specific genes really do in a live mammal," he s...Sweet success in targeting sugar molecules to cells in living animals
... pattern of glycosylation in a tissue as an animal develops through the embryonic stages, as a disease develops, or as tumors become metastatic. Until now, there has not been a technique to do such imaging." Bertozzi and her colleagues are working on probes that could be attached to a phosphine, including tho...Institute for OneWorld Health nominated for the 2004 World Technology Awards
...h, the first U.S. nonprofit pharmaceutical company develops new, affordable medicines for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect people in the developing world. OneWorld Health applies its entrepreneurial business model with a staff of experienced pharmaceutical scientists who identifies promising...Infant rats eagerly accept high concentrations of alcohol upon first exposure
..." said Spear, "but the motor capability of the rat develops more rapidly thereafter in the infant rat than the infant human. In terms of brain development, our rats might correspond to humans between a few days and six months after birth, but in terms of sensorimotor ability, the 18-day-old rat is roughly li...Jefferson Lab detector technology aids development of cystic fibrosis therapy
...E's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility develops and employs a wide range of cutting-edge detector technologies. Now, Jefferson Lab scientists have used their expertise to build a small animal medical imager that's helping researchers develop a new gene therapy technique for cystic fibrosis. ...More aggressive breast cancer tumors found in African American women
...hey have a higher mortality rate. The disease also develops at an earlier age and is more aggressive in African-American women. To explore the reasons for the differences, Beth A. Jones, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, and her colleagues stud...Fundamental change to Immunology 101
...ise to T cells, but remains in the bone marrow and develops into NK and B lineage cells. To further characterize the cell population they isolated from mouse blood, Schwarz transferred these cells into mice whose bone marrow had been destroyed. For 16 weeks Schwarz determined what blood cell types were...Epilepsy: Signals 'brake' in brain impaired
...ves. Yet how this synchronised paroxysmic activity develops at the level of nerve cells is still largely a mystery. Nerve cells are interlinked via a large number of branching networks through which they communicate with each other. Each neuron has a series of dendrites which receive signals from other neuro...Scientists pinpoint molecules that generate synapses
...e special sites form." As the early nervous system develops into a dense tangle of neurons, synapses sprout at places where neurons grow close to one another. In order for a synapse to actually form, Sanes and Umemori believed, certain key molecules would have to flow across the gap between two neurons to com...What are babies thinking before they start talking?
... not, revealing new information about how language develops in humans. The research by Sue Hespos, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, and Elizabeth Spelke, professor of psychology at Harvard University, was published in the July 22 issue of Nature in the article "Conceptual precursors...New discovery could provide tool to detect whether a cancer will develop and spread
...ery challenges current thinking about how a cancer develops and spreads. Rare or "rogue" cells may not be breaking away from the tumor and starting new tumors elsewhere, as previously thought. It now appears that the DNA structure for metastasis is actually hardwired into seemingly normal cells that are des...Patients' cells from tumors, the immune system merged for customized cancer therapy
...inical Cancer Research article. The immune system develops T cells, which are white blood cells, to recognize foreign proteins, cells, and other matter that causes disease or infection. Tumor cells produce proteins, carbohydrates and other molecules that are different than the healthy cells that are normally......umstances is found only in the lining of the womb, develops outside the uterus and attaches itself to ligaments and organs in the abdominal cavity. This tissue responds to the menstrual cycle as though it were still inside the uterus. The repeated growth and disintegration of endometrial tissue in the abdomen...