Rutgers research takes aim at world hunger
...r research going and growing," he said. The paper concludes by framing the earlier draft sequences as "a useful first look at the rice genome, (but) the finished sequence yields more complete and accurate information essential to our understanding of plant biology."...Consumer education and development of bio-sensitive alternatives can revive the plastics industry
... proves itself to be more ecologically sensitive," concludes Rosato. New analysis by Technical Insights, a business unit of Frost & Sullivan ( www.technicalinsights.frost.com ), featured in The Technical Insights Plastics Advisor, provides valuable insight into the impact of economic and environmental factors ...Environment loses to economic development in local policy-making
... any debate about urban and regional development," concludes Prof Gibbs. "Yet none of the regions or localities we studied is engaged in a comprehensive strategy to make economic development more friendly to the environment. Too often there is lip service paid to the environment, but little is done to make eco...Gene that controls susceptibility to tuberculosis discovered
...ent in humans who are susceptible to the disease," concludes Gros....Membrane separation technology produces myriad applications in numerous industries
...such as cryogenic distillation are not practical," concludes Nagel....Obesity in Costa Rican children 'alarming,' likely future health burden
...al and urban schoolchildren ages 712 in Costa Rica concludes that the current situation there is "alarming" and that the future health burden attributable to excess weight gain "is likely to be huge," if the current trend continues. The study, the first of its kind in Costa Rica, appeared in a recent issue of ...Evidence shows the heart has stem cells able to regenerate muscle tissue lost to disease, wear
...nerating a functional myocardium. Dr. Nadal-Ginard concludes that the presence of stem cells in the myocardium, either as a resident population of embryonic origin or as a blood-borne population that continuously seeds the tissue, points to a mechanism for the continuous renewal of heart and coronary vessel ce...Study demonstrates that low dose tamoxifen may be effective in treating breast cancer
...ide effects such as endometrial cancer, this study concludes that more drug may not be necessarily better." The study protocol randomized 120 women with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer toeither one, five or 20 milligrams (mg) of tamoxifen daily for four weeks prior to surgery. Results in these ...Wrinkle-free mice provide clues about obesity, wrinkles and hair growth
...ee times as thick as that of normal mice. The team concludes that abnormal skin thickness may be used to attempt to compensate for the missing protective shield. But the FATP4 mutation may play an even earlier role in development. The skin's natural barrier cannot be made without lipids (a class of molecules t...Same gene found to cause mental retardation in children, neurodegenerative condition in older males
...rth of children affected with fragile X syndrome," concludes Hagerman. This study is supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of Child Health and Development....Cholesterol lowering drug effective in treating most common form of multiple sclerosis
...ly determine the effectiveness of this treatment," concludes Vollmer. The American Academy of Neurology, an association of more than 18,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving patient care through education and research. For more information about the American Academy of Neur...New hints into development of osteoporosis
...bute to the activation of ERKs and c-Fos, the team concludes that the alphaV beta3 integrin and M-CSF collaborate in the process of osteoclast differentiation....Time to go beyond cholesterol, MUHC cardiologists suggest
... to the patients because fasting is not required, concludes Dr. Sniderman. Apoproteins are specialized transport proteins that carry lipids, or fats in the blood. Most of the cholesterol in blood is present in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles. Each LDL particle contains one molecule of apoB, which sur...Waging war: The curse of human intelligence
...as a motive for war among tribes in New Guinea and concludes that killing enemies to avenge the death of kin something only humans do is probably not a useful evolutionary adaptation. This is because lethal revenge most frequently fuels more killing rather than deterring it, says the professor of anthropolog...A decade later, gene discovered by Temple researchers found to be multi-functional
...s is important also from a clinical point of view, concludes Giordano, a cancer specialist who is now actively investigating the role of cdk9 in cancer. Initial clinical trials of a potent inhibitor of cdk9 function, flavopiridol, are now underway at the National Institutes of Healths National Cancer Ins...US researchers find first conclusive evidence that lead is linked to male infertility
...eproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1] concludes that exposure to lead damages sperm function and may be a contributory cause of unexplained male infertility.[2] The findings have led principal investigator Dr Susan Benoff to urge doctors to measure lead in seminal plasma when evaluating men from c...Genetic heterogeneity of Icelanders
...e not propagated in future studies. Árnason concludes "claims about a special genetic homogeneity of Icelanders relative to European populations would be suspect to the extent that they depended on anomalous data instead of the primary data. In any case, one would not expect that meaningful patterns abo......n is inaccurate, according to a new assessment. It concludes the list fails to reflect the true threat to species, by not taking full account of the threat posed by people. The Red List, which is compiled by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), gauges a species' risk of extinction mainly on the basis of its p...Smaller households fuel global housing boom and threaten biodiversity, study finds
A new study in the journal Nature concludes that the average household is shrinking - a worldwide trend that is fueling an international housing boom, which threatens the survival of plants and animals in dozens of countries including the United States. According to the study, housing units th...People from distant lands have strikingly similar genetic traits, study reveals
...ne another. But a new study in the journal Science concludes that populations from different parts of the world share even more genetic similarities than had previously been assumed. At the same time, researchers found that tiny differences in DNA can provide enough information to identify the geographic ance...