American Lung Association's 2004 State of the Air report ranks cities and counties with dirty air
...nts of small children. These simple and concrete action steps include avoiding exercising outside on high pollution days and not burning wood or trash. The American Lung Association also urges taking steps to help clean up the air, including carpooling and filling gas tanks after sundown, as well as supp...Mexican farmers effectively cultivate phenotypic diversity in maize
... which these plants diversified under the constant action of farmers (2). Insofar as local landraces are still grown as crops on sufficiently large areas of land, the introduction of others from outside, favouring a certain rate of gene flow, would in fact be a source of diversity rather than a factor of ge...Researchers describe long-perplexing 'magic spot' on bacteria
...ntibiotics. The researchers studied a mechanism of action they call the "magic spot" an important regulator of gene expression. They describe their results in the current issue of the journal Cell. Researchers know that the magic spot a molecule known as guanosine-tetraphosphate or ppGpp is involved in h...S.C. hospitals and universities form statewide health research collaborative
...t goes far beyond business as usual. "Academics in action benefits communities. The transfer of knowledge from research being done at our hospitals and universities to private business fuels the wellbeing of our communities," said Freeman, "The Health Sciences Collaborative is not just a first for South Car...U.S. President's budget proposal means 5-year cuts 'well below historic levels'
...etionary Defense Spending In the wake of military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, there have been spectacular increases in defense discretionary spending after nearly a decade of relative restraint in the 1990's. Koizumi adds, to reduce the amount of discretionary spending, the president's budget allots no...New approach offers potential drug-discovery shortcut
...ition to further studying the mechanism behind the action of the gridlock suppressors they identified, the research team hopes to apply this new drug-discovery approach to other diseases....Hemochromatosis, inflammation and anemia
...bat the anemia of chronic diseases by blocking the action of only one gene HFE without having much effect on the rest of the immune response, and without any serious consequences for the organism. HFE is the gene mutated in the common genetic disease hemochromatosis, a condition in which the body becomes...UNC researchers identify virus gene involved in tumor cell growth, spread
...astasize. Damania's research team investigated the action of K1 in blood vessel endothelial cells and skin epithelial cells. "We observed that K1 up-regulates vascular endothelial growth factor, VEGF. This growth factor leads to greater recruitment of blood vessels to the site of the tumor, which supplies n...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...P gets fully quenched only if it just generated an action potential; otherwise, it suffers only a leakage decay. Also, we shall strive to incorporate the observed phenomenon that the probability of a synaptic failure is a function both of whether or not a failure occurred at the synapse in question the pre...Cinnamon may help to alleviate diabetes says UCSB researcher
...proteins involved in reactions associated with the action of insulin. Graves said that other major diseases could possibly be helped by cinnamon. For example one prospect is pancreatic cancer, a disease in which abnormal amounts of insulin are produced by the pancreas in response to the cancer tumor causin...Genetic basis of hereditary nerve disorder revealed
... current finding uncovers a whole new mechanism of action that can cause disease by damaging mitochondria, said lead author of the study Stephan Zchner, M.D., of the Duke Center for Human Genetics and the department of neuropathology at the University Hospital Aachen in Germany. "Mitochondria must link into...Water molecules clump more loosely than previously thought
...e difficulty of ''seeing'' the actual molecules in action meant a dearth of real data. ''There has not really been new experimental information about water in the last 20 years, except for data from neutron studies,'' Nilsson says. ''The amazing thing is that hardly anything is known about the unique proper......the difficulty of 'seeing' the actual molecules in action meant a dearth of real data. "There has not really been new experimental information about water in the last 20 years, except for data from neutron studies," says Nilsson. "The amazing thing," he says, "is that hardly anything is known about the uniq......hypertension. To see if this mmutation effect the action of the BK channel, the authors tested mutant beta1 subunit (beta1-E65K) in cell culture and showed that beta1-E65K alone or in combination with wild-type beta1 subunit further increased the normal Ca2+- and voltage-sensitivity. These data provide bi...JCI table of contents, 2 April 2004
...hypertension. To see if this mutation affects the action of the BK channel, the authors tested mutant beta1...ry T-cells play in controlling hepatic CD8+ T cell action during HCV infection and that the concomitant appearance off these two cell types may be the main fa...Leptin rewires the brain's feeding circuits
...uppressing the activity of POMC neurons. While the action of these two types of neurons had been inferred, s... discovered is a particularly striking modality of action that wasn't what we initially would have suspected was the likeliest." The major problem in studying......hese scientists have identified areas for priority action as well as new research initiatives. The recommendations that follow are based on consensus achieved among a broad cross section of these experts, and are meant to help policy makers and the public understand the scientific underpinnings in several ...Fat hormone leptin alters brain architecture and activity, which in turn drives feeding behavior
... So learning more about the hormone's mechanism of action could be critically important in understanding why some people are resistant to leptin's weight reducing effects. "The malleability of these feeding circuits by leptin suggest the possibility that the brain's wiring may be different in lean versus o...Soy consumption could help prevent prostate cancer and male pattern baldness
...f immense clinical importance because blocking the action of the potent androgen (male hormone) DHT has been one of the holy grails of the pharmaceutical industry as a strategy for treating prostate cancer and other related diseases. This natural metabolite made from soy isoflavones, which are found in hig...Policy review in Science calls for Bush Administration to protect wild salmon
...udent and cannot work in the long term. Immediate action required Myers states, "I want my grandchildren to experience real wild salmon in their natural habitat, not only in a hatchery or aquarium. It is our responsibility, as citizens, to prevent the on-going disappearance of wild salmon."...