Inherent mistrust of research institutions limits minority representation
...neral population. "A shrouded history of unethical choices in research, misuse of minority participants, and a lack of safeguards to protect participants are doing little to change this perception," says Technical Insights Research Analyst David Kramer. A patient, sustained outreach from research institution...Sex in the brain: How do male monkeys evaluate mates?
...ns, live in family groups and have to make careful choices when confronted with the scent of an attractive female, a team of marmoset experts led by Charles T. Snowdon, UW-Madison professor of psychology, discovered. "We were surprised to observe high levels of neural activity in areas of the brain important...One-size-fits-all approach to nutrition recommendations may soon be outdated
...biological make-up coupled with personal lifestyle choices are among the many considerations that contribute to nutrition recommendations; a trend that may significantly alter the way health professionals prescribe diets for patients. "Health professionals have been using family history of disease to determ...Science's breakthrough of the year: Illumination of the dark, expanding universe
...ghlighted areas to watch in 2004. This year, their choices include three planned Mars landings, microbiology and genomics for biodefense, more insights into the human genome, open access scientific journals, soils' impact on climate change and sustainable agriculture, the debate over the costs and benefits o...Academy Harbor Consortium releases letter on mercury to President Bush
...ant public health issue that currently poses tough choices for public health officials is seen in the fact the FDA and the EPA are currently struggling to articulate a fish consumption advisory that is protective of health for all populations and yet encourages fish consumption for its important health benef...By the year 2050, human population could add 2.6 billion people, reports Rockefeller scientist
...are, disease or catastrophe. Our future depends on choices -- on the choices we have made in the past and those we will make in the future," adds Cohen. "We cannot continue the ...Marie Curie Nobel Centennial Celebration of Women in Science
...library, and is followed by a discussion of career choices with a panel that includes women in public health, astronomy, materials design, computer science and chemistry. "Yale has made enormous strides insuring that its senior faculty has extraordinary women of science, so it is fitting that Yale is hostin...Ethical guidelines needed before 'nutrigenomic' groceries come to market
...outstripping the public's ability to make informed choices about what kind of regulations should be introduced to address ethical and privacy concerns."...High school students to analyze plant genes for national project
...s to make decisions about right now, through their choices as consumers and voters." PREP began in Virginia high schools last year, and is expanding this year to involve as many as 2,000 high school students. Dolan said efforts during the first year will focus on working out the procedures for experimental d...Sex selection for social reasons unlikely to skew gender balance in Germany and UK
...as no statistically significant difference between choices given by men and women in the survey, though men slightly preferred boys and women slightly preferred girls. "It seems as if couples are sometimes making a deal OK let's have two kids a boy for you and a girl for me," he said. Dr Dahl plans to carr...Old drug works new tricks for iron overload heart disease
...d. "For patients with iron overload right now, the choices are either nightly needles under the skin for hours on end to remove the iron or face certain death from heart failure. The drugs currently used are also extremely expensive, so many patients around the world die at a young age from heart failure" sa...Couch potatoes may be created in the womb, not at the dinner table
...uing possibility that some behaviors and lifestyle choices that exacerbate the metabolic syndrome in humans a... from postnatal effects and affirms that lifestyle choices themselves may have a perinatal origin. The findings reveal that predispositions to obesity, altered...Salk news: gene therapy for Lou Gehrig's disease
... "ALS is a terrible disease, and patients have few choices for therapy today," said Rothstein, also professor of neuroscience and director of the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins. "This animal study is the first to identify a treatment that slows the disease once symptoms have already ......t of Maine, USA. One of the crab's preferred food choices are the area's native soft-shell clams, Mya arenaria. Lindsay Whitlow, of Bowdoin College, looked at aspects of the clams' shell morphology before and after the arrival of the crabs, examining clams from multiple sites along Maine's coast. Whitlow ...Purdue scientists discover why we're all lefties deep down
...agreement about how it happened or how the initial choices were passed on," he said. "The serine theory gives us a simple, coherent picture of one key process - chiral transmission - involved in the origin of life."...OHSU researcher publishes first measurements of 'free-base' nicotine in cigarette smoke
...ditives like ammonia and urea, as well as blending choices in cigarette design." A 1997 Pankow study resulted in the first public-domain report linking ammonia additives with increased free-base nicotine levels. In the new study, Pankow analyzed the smoke of popular cigarette brands under controlled conditio...Researchers discuss trend in customized nutrition recommendations
...ities and challenges of developing customized food choices based on individuals' needs and preferences. The p...nt to customize nutrition recommendations and food choices is becoming more prevalent. A recent commentary, The Challenge to Customize, in the Journal of the A...Customized approaches to food are focus of symposium
...ping customized nutrition recommendations and food choices is being held Sunday, July 13 at 9 a.m. in Room S401-cd, McCormick Place as part of the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) annual meeting. An expert panel of six renowned researchers and scientists will focus on key areas within the individualiza...Plant diversity has 'luxury' effect, say scientists
...sity in terms of human choice, and in terms of how choices are made, and why." These findings, published in this week's on-line issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "are a result of analysis of baseline data gathered in the LTER site's 200-point survey, a major survey under...Age, race and gender influence kids and teens beverage choices
... associated with the types and amounts of beverage choices made by children and adolescents, but there is no ...nd during strenuous physical activity. "Beverage choices were notably different depending on race/ethnicity. While young boys and girls of all ethnicities d...