Medicine made to match genetic profile
...ics can live up to its full potential in medicine, adds Weber. And physicians and pharmacists will need advanced training to extend the benefits of individualized medicine to their patients. Weber has written two books on pharmacogenetics: "Acetylator Genes and Drug Response" (1987) and "Pharmacogenetic...A seafood paradox: Will fish farming save or deplete our ocean fisheries?
...n processed meal. On balance, aquaculture still adds to the world`s supply of seafood, she says. Yet fish farming influences wild populations - displacing natural breeding habitats, spreading disease and polluting the oceans in many ways that haven`t been measured. Naylor and other researchers from a...Genomics portends the next revolution in agriculture
...ve dogged GMO technology can be avoided. "Genomics adds centrally and substantially to the toolbox of the plant breeder," says Goodman, a UW-Madison professor of plant pathology and a former executive vice president for research and development at Calgene, a pioneering crop biotechnology company. Critical...Darwinian evolution of reproductive proteins in mammals
...to the interaction between the sperm and the egg," adds Swanson. "We seem to have a cat-and-mouse game going on here, with competing evolutionary forces at play in the interactions of reproductive proteins." To test the "cat-and-mouse," as well as other, evolutionary hypotheses, Swanson and colleagues a...... final form. And so, the Office of Naval Research adds the Scorpion to a robotic menagerie that now includes Robo-Lobster, Robo-Lamprey, Robo-Tuna, and Robo-Fly, among others. Under the sea, on the sea, and in the air, robots packed with sensors and computing power able to go where man can't or shouldn't...Study finds pawpaw a tasty fat substitute in baked goods
...t does have a function in food," Duffrin said. "It adds tenderness and texture. When you replace fat you run into problems." The only thing the participants didn't like about the pawpaw muffins was their appearance: Some commented that the pawpaw treat was too dark in color. Duffrin suggests consu...Elephants pick up good vibrations - through their feet
...cating at much farther distances than we thought," adds O`Connell-Rodwell, author of the JASA study. Underground tests To test the theory that elephants transmit and receive underground messages, O`Connell-Rodwell and her colleagues previously conducted several novel experiments with pachyderms in Africa,...Talking device keeps HIV patients on the straight and narrow
...ally for several hours. The system's software also adds messages about possible side effects or how to off...they find it extremely helpful," says Andrade; "It adds some structure to their therapy; something that frees them to focus on other things." In a second Ho...Scientists, ships, aircraft to profile Asian pollution and dust
... and the burningof wood and field growth. Sea salt adds slightly to the region'saerosol load. And then there's the dust. The developing Asian countries "have got a unique fuel mix, but thedust is what makes it really interesting," says Barry Huebert(University of Hawaii), principal investigator for ACE-As...First chapter of Earth's "biological record" documented from space
...ons obtained on land and at sea. "SeaWiFS not only adds finer detail to our observing capability, it supplies essential continuity between data records that is critical to long-term monitoring of changes in the biosphere," says biogeochemist James Randerson of the California Institute of Technology, a co-......million year story of the X and the Y chromosomes, adds Page whose research is unfolding, chapter by chapter, the odyssey of the sex chromosomes that began their lives as autosomes (or non-sex chromosomes) but have since become specialized. Aside from the intellectual surprise, this finding has enormous ...Eating less may protect nerve cells
... part of the central nervous system," he said. He adds that the risk factors his team studied aging, diabetes, diet are known to influence the risk for stroke and other brain conditions. But in the study, aging had less of an effect when animals ate a low-calorie diet. The retinal model should be usef...Officials design Web-based software for managing hazardous chemicals
... response from the faculty has been very positive, adds Gibbs, noting that many users find it easier to enter data at their own convenience. He also maintains that SCIMS has encouraged researchers to share chemical supplies and has reduced the number of duplicate orders. "Before, if someone ran out of a c...Household ant invasions are determined by weather, not pesticide use, new study finds
...killing off one queen,`` she notes. Unfortunately, adds Gordon, most pesticides are designed to eliminate single-queen species - a strategy that not only is ineffective on Argentine ants but also damages the environment. ``Pesticides are toxic to people, to our drinking water and to the San Francisco Bay,...URI oceanographers discover how planetary waves affect phytoplankton production
...sics and biology is important." The study also adds indirectly to the scientific knowledge about the oceanic carbon cycle, a significant factor for predicting global warming. "Biological productivity in the ocean is one of the ways carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere," added Uz. "The oc...New imaging technique could improve outcome of popular heart procedure
...ses infrared light rather than acoustic waves. He adds that OCT does a better job of imaging the stent because there is none of the reflected interference thats a problem for IVUS. "Accurately monitoring stent deployment would allow for adequate stent dilation without injury," says Dr. Bouma, "this woul...Smart polymers provide size-selective switches to turn proteins on, off
...scriminate on the basis of size, Stayton said. It adds a greater level of responsiveness to things like diagnostics, which usually involve steps of capture and release. Computing is another area in which the technology could apply. Computers operate on a binary system they rely on having an on and an...Proteins are vastly more complicated than previously realized
...lied and how it is applied. If that is so, then it adds additional dimension to the field of proteomics."...New technique illuminates events obscured in the geologic record
...vents or the rise and fall of sea levels and this adds to the distress on the marine animals at that time. Taking this into account, the mass extinction would most reasonably be viewed as a conjunction of events." Zinsmeister says it may require some additional time for the program to be fully integrat...... of gene activation. The lab's latest achievement adds an important piece to the increasingly detailed pi... "Our experiments show that when the HAT complex adds an Acetate Group onto a Histone protein near the Promoter site of a gene, it constructs a code that ...