Side effects of prostate cancer surgery far less when performed by specialist
...an when they reported directly to the doctor. When asked directly, some doctors hypothesized, patients may ...ery. The researchers found that when patients were asked at 12 months whether they had a problem with urinary control, 98 percent said they did not have a pr......e perhaps at the heart of adaptive evolution." He asked the audience how he might examine regulatory genes, and one researcher asked Avise if he'd considered using restriction enzymes to assay such pieces of DNA. Restriction enzyme...Licensing procedure for genetically modified organisms turns out to be fallible
...sed in general terms. For instance, applicants are asked aboutdifferences between the modified plant species and the original species and whetherthey expect hereditary changes to be spread within the environment. By formulatingthe questions in this way, the body awarding the licenses places the responsibil...Some carotenoids specifically target colon cancer
...f 2410 patients without cancer. Participants were asked to report what foods they had eaten during a specific time period two years before, or two years prior to their diagnosis for the cancer patients. Of all the carotenoids investigated, only lutein and zeaxanthin showed a protective effect against co...Unfiltered coffee may increase heart attack risk
...hy volunteers with normal homocysteine levels were asked to consume, each day for two weeks, six large cups of unfiltered coffee or another beverage in a crossover design. During coffee-drinking, both serum cholesterol concentrations and homocysteine levels increased by 10%. The authors equated this 1......ol subjects with cerebellar injuries. Researchers asked the subjects to reach quickly for targets while grasping a robotic arm. The arm continuously measured the movements for jerkiness and smoothness and the ability to stay on target called "aiming." Results were then analyzed by a computer. ...INEEL microbiologist joins Japanese on expedition to tap marine-methane deposits
...ot tens or hundreds of years," said Delwiche. When asked if methane hydrates will eventually become an economically viable energy resource, both Colwell and Delwiche pause and then shrug their shoulders. "The time will come when we will need to know whether or not we can access this resource," said Delwic...It's not such 'a wonderful life' living next door to a liquor store
...when community groups in South Central Los Angeles asked him to investigate the possible contribution of alcohol outlets to the 1992 riots. Although somewhat skeptical at first, his research found that there was indeed a relationship between the availability of alcohol and problem behaviors. Those findin...Researchers seek siblings with Parkinson's disease for national genetic study
...eed to live in the same city. Participants will be asked to complete a screening questionnaire, undergo a neurological examination and permit the drawing of blood to obtain DNA. The physical and neurological evaluation, as well as the blood draw, are administered at no cost to the participant and all info...A new way to engineer cells: The Staudinger ligation
...art in water almost as easily as they form. "We asked ourselves if we could create a different kind of aza-ylide that transformed into a stable adduct. Staudinger would have loved the challenge!" Bertozzi and Saxon added an electron-hungry carbohydrate trap to the phosphine, which attaches to the electr...Tucson researcher receives national award
...an inorganic chemist at the University of Arizona, asked why so many heme proteins exist and why they differ so much. "What are the particular features around the iron center's electrons that will help me understand why it was chosen for a particular task?" she summarized. That question led her to the kiss...Detroit researcher receives national award
...s after many years of experiment and debate." When asked how he ended up in chemistry, Newcomb described himself as "one of those kids who tried to blow up the basement." He added, "Later, as I understood its puzzle-solving aspects, I found it an interesting challenge." The James Flack Norris Award in Phys...UT Southwestern to study effect of low-carbohydrate diet on kidney-stone formation and bone loss
... In the first phase of the study subjects will be asked to eat a regular diet for two weeks followed by two weeks of a highly restrictive diet that has less than 20 grams of carbohydrates. Participants then will eat a less-restrictive diet for the final four weeks. During the last five days of each of th......ynthesis from inexpensive, synthetic compounds and asked Dr. Doncel to test this compounds," says Gandour. After initial success in in-vitro studies, "it became apparent that multi-gram quantities of starting material would be required. Savle took on the challenge of making this starting material reliably...Sea slug's shopping habits dictated by hunger, scientists report
... at the least cost. In this case, Gillette's team asked if degrees of appetite affected the readiness of snails to attack or avoid available prey. Responses were measured by the concentrations of food chemicals at which they would bite or turn away. "What we've found in studying this very simple sea slu...Study shows gene may boost smoking-related heart disease
...ho served as controls. "Subjects already had been asked about their smoking habits and had provided a blood sample for genetic analysis, and so we looked more closely at those people who had had heart problems," he said. "We found that those who had heart attacks and heart disease were more likely to be s...UC Berkeley biologist disputes current dogma that genetic mutation is the cause of cancer
...ancer cells. "What's more likely to cause cancer," asked Duesberg's colleague and coauthor David Rasnick, a visiting scientist in his laboratory, "the tens or hundreds of genes screwed up by aneuploidy, or the several genes screwed up by a few genetic mutations?" Experimental evidence analyzed by Rasnick a...Monkeys pay one another for work
...with an individual who doesn't share the payoffs?" asked Dr. de Waal. Noting the survival value of cooperative behavior, Dr. de Waal believes that his research offers insight into the evolutionary basis for an essential element of human society. "Society wouldn't exist without cooperative behavior......onducted at her institution in which children were asked to complete a difficult task in a room that was scented with a particular odor. None of the children completed the difficult task. Shortly afterwards, the children were divided into three groups, all were given the same simple task to complete, but...