Potential for enhanced sequestration of carbon in soils supports evaluations
...ncentives that make these practices attractive for use by land managers." ...Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...ge (ABC) CEGEP student Sophie Desbiens was able to use the research facilities of the Montreal Jewish Hospital and ended up working in the hospital's lab the following two summers. "It was my first real lab experience and I just loved it," Desbiens said. The Montreal student took first ...Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...rst taught ethnobotanist Dr. Paul Alan Cox how to use the plant. The agreement also states that UC Berke...onal Cancer Institute, which patented Prostratin's use as an anti-HIV drug, requires any commercial developer of Prostratin to first negotiate an equitable...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...irst taught ethnobotanist Dr. Paul Alan Cox how to use the plant. The agreement also states that UC Berke...onal Cancer Institute, which patented Prostratin's use as an anti-HIV drug, requires any commercial developer of Prostratin to first negotiate an equitable...Circulation of 'disaster myths' in Haiti could hinder appropriate disposal of bodies
...cautions for these people should include training, use of body bags and disposable gloves, good hygiene practice, and vaccination for hepatitis B and tuberculosis....Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
... from a brain tumor." Improvements in the use of non-invasive imaging technology to diagnose brain tumors is just one of the dozens of different clinical areas that have been funded as a result of the fund. Veterinary Memorial Fund research projects have funded projects across the spectrum of mo...New study shows hope for treating inhalant abuse
...27,000 in 1994 to 1.2 million in 2000. The chronic use of inhalants has been associated with heart, liver...perator of Brookhaven National Laboratory, for the use of the drug GVG for its application in treating drug addiction. ...NIH awards $18.2m to The Burnham Institute to develop Center on Proteolytic Pathways
...ular strength of the Center is its emphasis on the use of activity-based proteomics to profile protease function. This approach, developed by Dr. Bogyo at Stanford, marks an innovation over other proteomics strategies because the activity-based approach reports on protease activity, as opposed to just a...Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...ll the experimental groups. This means that we can use PSA values as a surrogate marker in short phase II/III human trials as it is clear that PSA values are accurately reflecting the inhibiting activity of the lycopene and vitamin E on tumour growth. "What was particularly marked was that it was the low...International study findings link acne-like rash to effectiveness of new targeted cancer treatment
...by the Food and Drug Administration in the USA for use with the cancer drug irinotecan for colorectal cancer that has failed other treatments. It is also the first monoclonal antibody targeting EGFR to have gained marketing authorisation in Europe and is now being evaluated in first-line treatment of col...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...pplying the research to humans, investigators will use participants from the Dallas Heart Study, an investigation of cardiovascular disease involving nearly 6,000 Dallas County residents. Molecular and clinical research techniques are being used in this groundbreaking study of a large multiethnic group o...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...o. That infrastructure will be a prototype for the use and automation of undersea sensor networks -- both delivery of data from sensors and the control of sensors and networks from land -- and will assist in designing sensor networks for conducting research in other remote and hostile environments. The N...Belgian researchers explore revolutionary approach to angiogenesis
...at this means is that we may have the potential to use drugs to selectively exploit these blood vessels a... endothelin pathway. "What we did was to use a an endolthelin antagonist in this case a cyclic peptide called BQ123 to target selectively one o...Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
... produced each year in the sea, and in the process use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. And they are an... "Oceanographers thought we understood how diatoms use nitrogen, but we discovered they have a urea cycle, something no one ever suspected," Armbrust says....Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...ure and behavior of living systems. McCune will use the funds to further his research into the mechani...loping AIDS -- and that will also be available for use around the world." McCune, an associate director of the General Clinical Research Center at San F...AAAS US Presidential Candidates' Forum
...of maintaining current legislation. "We should not use taxpayer money to encourage or endorse the additio... of the AAAS Building beginning at 12 noon. Please use the entrance at the intersection of 12th and H Streets and proceed to the 2nd floor....New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...dical Sciences in Iran, are running a trial of its use in newly diagnosed APL patients who have received no prior therapy, and they are impressed enough with its effectiveness to suggest that it should now be considered as a first-line treatment for APL. They also believe it is likely to prove effective ...DNA lends scientists a hand, revealing new chemical reactions
...logical reactants together. Liu and his colleagues use DNA as a similar type of intermediary to bring together synthetic small molecules that are otherwise too dilute to react, allowing minute quantities of sparse molecules to behave as denser mixtures when assembled together by DNA base pairing. Liu's ...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...o will explore other questions such as the common use of MULEs in gene tagging the process of interrupting a gene to understand its function. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Program.......n non-demented aging, Buckner reviews studies that use structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images to link white matter lesions in the anterior part of the brain with the severity of cognitive dysfunction. Hypertension and accompanying vascular compromise is a salient predictor of white-matter dam...