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...owing child as acceptable and preferred. Mennella comments on some of the implications, "Because we know that flavor preferences established early in life track into later childhood, eating habits in the growing child may begin to be established long before the introduction of solid food."...The American Academy of Microbiology releases report
...mics holds great promise for improving our world," comments colloquium co-chair David A. Relman, M.D., of Stanford University. "By allowing scientists to understand better the processes shaping and sustaining the microbial communities that, in turn, affect human health and the environment, genomics could subs...East Texas feral hog numbers skyrocketed in last decade
...rprise for Higginbotham was the number of negative comments from landowners about feral hogs. The animals are ...exas, but when those surveyed were invited to add comments at the end of the questionnaire, not one was positive. "I expected a few to say that they liked the...Study identifies which patients can benefit from targeted lung cancer drug and why
...they will be responsive to treatment with Iressa," comments Johnson, who is also a faculty member at Brigham and Women's and HMS. "They also point to the fact that certain ethnic populations may benefit from Iressa therapy to a greater degree than others." The Dana-Farber team's next step will be to conduct...Alice S. Weissfeld wins 2004 bioMrieux Sonnenwirth Award
...onitors practice standards for microbiologists and comments on proposed laws and regulations. She also served on the Laboratory Practices for Microbiology Committee, which reviews legislation affecting the science and technology of microbiology laboratory practice. Weissfeld has been especially active in work...Other highlights in the May 19 JNCI
...cine in Indianapolis, reviews the two articles and comments on this style of translational research. "Designing a sequential series of experiments, both laboratory and clinical, that lead intentionally to proof-of-concept adjuvant trials is all too rare. But, as Pegram et al. remind us, it is not impossible,"...Staying on the path - One atom at a time
...doulou of DARPA,and the W.M. Keck Foundation. NSF comments regarding the Sastry research group:"With her PECASE award, Ann Marie Sastry has expanded herresearch focus from a single area in mechanical engineering,materials processing, into a broad exploration to uncoverfundamental knowledge. She has demonstr...First ever standards linking climate change, biodiversity and poverty seek global peer review
...ly 15th, 2004. Field-testing and a second round of comments will take place later this year. "We hope this fi...of the CCB Standards will stimulate a broad set of comments and perspectives from around the world," said Michael Dutschke, staff member with the Hamburg Instit......he only planet we have," Kennedy said, reiterating comments set forth in an editorial published 11 June in Science . "It's only natural that there is lively disagreement among scientists about what the future may hold," he added, referring to uncertainties associated with physical climate-change models, whic...X marks the spot: Vector insertion is viral specific
...ter to direct integration to different locations," comments Bushman. These findings can also help researchers understand how HIV enters cells in order to devise drugs to block that entry. "If there's a key interaction required for growth of a virus, then that would be a target to inhibit," says Bus...Penn scientists identify novel pathway in aneurysms
...firm the arteriosclerosis-leukotriene connection," comments Zhao. The researchers found the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme mainly in macrophages in the outer layer of blood vessels not in the fatty atherosclerotic lesions of the inner layer, as expected. (Macrophages engulf such foreign objects as cellular debris, exc...Maine-based biophysics institute gets funding for first US-based 4Pi nanoscale microscope
...rstand the history and structure of the universe," comments IMB co-director Barbara Knowles of The Jackson Laboratory and the University of Maine. "Physicists have giant particle accelerators to isolate the fundamental elements of energy and matter. Now researchers in genetics and biology have an advanced too...Circulation of 'disaster myths' in Haiti could hinder appropriate disposal of bodies
...ves without proper identification of the victims', comments Oliver Morgan, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, whose paper reviewing the scientific literature to assess the infectious disease risks of dead bodies following natural disasters appeared in the Pan American Journal of...