Education, monitoring vital for sport-fish eaters
...n, Toronto, Windsor, Niagara and Detroit. The most common fish consumed included bass, yellow perch and walleye. Their results show that 87 per cent of the anglers had detectable blood mercury levels, all within Health Canada's acceptable range. The consumers all had detectable blood mercury levels, includi...Study shows how consensus is attained in a noisy world
...lex system, the result of an evolving process. The common characteristic of complex systems, whether they be social or biological in nature, is that they display organization without any external organizing principle being applied. "How did a consensus come about? Our computer model shows how social networ...New discovery may help transplants survive
...une system to reject corneal transplants--the most common type of transplantation performed. The researchers from the Schepens Eye Research Institute and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, both affiliates of Harvard Medical School, have also found that when this growth factor is blocked, corneal trans...National Academies Advisory: Sept. 18-19 Nanotechnology Conference
...ials science, and other disciplines, and develop a common language with which to discuss nano developments. Participants will meet again from Nov. 19-21 in Irvine, Calif., for the annual Keck Futures conference, at which they will continue their discussions and compete for research grants. DETAILS: The...Activated signaling pathway may predict lung cancer patients' response to gefitinib
...m the pathway was not activated. NSCLC is the most common type of lung cancer. Less than 15% of patients with NSCLC are cured despite aggressive surgical and chemotherapeutic intervention. Gefitinib, a cancer drug that interferes with the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway, is active in approxi...Genetic discovery could dramatically reduce need for liver transplants in children
... atresia, a deadly disease of infancy and the most common reason for liver transplantation in children. The new treatments could dramatically reduce the number of liver transplants performed on children every year. Jorge Bezerra, M.D., a physician/researcher in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology a...New diagnostic technology helps justify earlier cataract surgery
... worldwide, and cataract surgery is among the most common surgical procedures in people over 65 years of age in the United States. Last year, 2,775,000 procedures were performed in the U.S. (one procedure = one eye). A cataract is the clouding of the normally clear, natural crystalline lens of the eye. As...MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
...t unheard of in the natural sciences, but are more common in the medical field. Large grants aren't unusual, but typically go to individual researchers or research teams. The wholesale funding of a department was revolutionary and, Busch said, done quickly without proper safeguards. "It gives the impressio...Ants protect plants better when jacked up on nectar
...cies of ants that visit extrafloral nectaries on a common Sonoran desert plant known as barrel cactus, or Ferocactus wislizeni. The carbohydrates and water supplied by the cacti are not readily available to ants elsewhere, Bronstein said. In one experiment, the researchers sealed up the nectaries with rubb...DNA variations surprise researchers
...assistant professor at HMS. "For example, the most common LCV involves amylase genes. Our study shows that some people may have 10 copies of this gene while others may have as much as 24 copies of this same gene. It would be really exciting if we found that an increased copy number of these genes was associ...Droughts like 1930s Dust Bowl may have been unexceptional in prehistoric times, new study suggests
... relevant is that these sort of drought cycles are common and most of the climate models predict increased aridity in continental interiors in the future," Clark said. "One could speculate that the droughts could be all that much worse when you realize that it's not only climate change from changing CO2 con...Blood pressure hormone may inhibit growth of lung cancer
... both by reducing the rapid proliferation of cells common in cancer and by increasing cancer cell death. Gallagher and Tallant have been working with angiotensin-(1-7) for years as members of the Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center faculty. The director of the center, Carlos M. Ferrario, M.D., disco...Iron can have negative side effects on people with kidney disease
...ey function has been lost. While iron therapy is a common treatment for such patients, new evidence suggests that iron is potentially toxic and its long-term consequences are unknown. Given that intravenous iron can damage normal kidneys, its potential toxicity might be even greater in kidneys affected by d...New UCF researchers, college will help fight Alzheimer's disease, cancer
...ce better drugs to fight those diseases, which are common in Third World countries, and other illnesses such as cystic fibrosis, Teter said. The new researchers and expanding biomedical programs will give UCF a stronger foundation for a medical school as it investigates the need for one in Central Florida. ...Whale carcass yields bone-devouring worms
...ncluded that the two new worm species' most recent common ancestor lived roughly 42 million years ago, about the same time whales themselves first evolved. The worms' genetic diversity also suggests that they are part of an actively breeding population that includes hundreds of thousands of individuals-a po...Forest fire sensor inspired by nature
...is." However, this gift does not appear to be very common in the animal kingdom. Apart from three species of beetle, so far scientists only know of some snakes the pit viper and giant constrictor that have genuine IR-sensing organs. In fact, since the beginning of last year a snake experts, Dr. Guido West...Brookhaven lab biophysicist F. William Studier wins R&D 100 award
...re protein." Studier started his research on T7 a common bacteria-eating virus when he first joined Brookhaven Lab in 1964. "The T7 expression system came out of basic research," Studier said, "and the autoinduction system is also an application of basic knowledge. As so often happens, basic research led ...LICR/UCSD team solves mystery of centromeres
...ds only to centromeres, is a variation of the more common histone 3 (H3), a protein located throughout all regions of chromosomes. The study's first author, Ben E. Black, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in Cleveland's laboratory, was able to characterize the function of CENP-A with a UCSD School of M...Epilepsy: Signals 'brake' in brain impaired
...pe of new therapeutic possibilities. Epilepsy is a common disease: in Germany alone there are 600,000 people...he brain occasionally switch from healthy chaos to common mode. The result of the uncontrolled mass discharge of neurons is loss of consciousness and spastic ...Casanova or caveman: Scientists isolate nerve cells that choreograph male fly's courtship behavior
...ne of approximately 13,000 genes in the DNA of the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Baker and seve...an ancestral neuronal circuit for courtship that's common to many species, and that the very different courtship behaviors we see throughout the animal kingdo...