Highlights of the October 2004 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...ool vending machines over the past two decades are contributing factors to excess weight among kids. To gauge parents' thoughts on school vending machines, researchers at the University of Minnesota conducted focus groups, from which five major themes emerged (in order of importance): ...USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
... to coffee cooperatives and other small businesses contributing to biodiversity conservation in CI's priority areas. In January 2004, Starbucks announced a $2.5 million direct loan to help capitalize the fund. Starbucks has also enabled consumers to support these conservation efforts by making the high quality, ...A liking for sweets, combined with novelty seeking, may predict alcoholism
..., I would view the significance of the findings as contributing to our ability to understand subtypes of alcoholics and that, in turn, could have implications for treatment although any treatment implications will require further study. Second, identifying factors that appear to be associated with alcoholism is......harm the intestinal lining. However, the processes contributing to active destruction of healthy tissue are not well understood. A research study headed by Dr. Bana Jabri from the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago examined a receptor on CTL cells called NKG2D that can be activated by stress-ind...NHGRI launches Centers for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research
... will be awarded over the next five years with DOE contributing $500,000 and NICHD, $450,000. The first four Centers are being established at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.; and the University of Washington, Seattle. "The NHGRI'...Integrative biology of exercise APS Intersociety meeting October 6-9, 2004 in Austin
...performance. Chair Joe Metzger. Basic mechanisms contributing to physical inactivity-induced disorders. Chair Frank W. Booth and P. Darrell Neufer. Interpreting physiological adaptations to exercise and disease states through bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics. Chair Eric Hoffman and Robert Grange. Mec...Unicellular organisms contribute more nitrogen to ocean that reported earlier
... emissions are enhancing the greenhouse effect and contributing to global climate warming. The nitrogen-fixation rates reported in Montoya's study are conservative figures, according to the paper. First, any errors in the researchers' experiment will tend to produce underestimates of the true rate, Montoya ...Nevada researcher re-ignites mammal reproduction debate
...reby supporting the hypothesis that glucose may be contributing to the sex of the mammal's offspring," Cameron said. This finding is key to the Trivers-Willard debate, and if supported in future studies, Cameron's theory could have dramatic influence on wildlife control and animal production. "If you can get ...Researchers report new gene test for isolated cleft lip and palate
...tician at the University of Pittsburgh and a major contributing author on the paper. "What we found is that a particular haplotype is overtransmitted in some families with isolated clefts, suggesting a predictive association with the birth defect, and this was true in the populations that we analyzed from The Ph...Embryonic stem cell therapy shows steady benefits in rebuilding infarcted heart
...3.2% of deaths globally in 2000, WHO reported. A contributing cause of what some have called a pandemic is that in contrast to many other organs in the body, the heart has only a minimal capability for self-renewal, leaving most current therapies to address symptoms with little hope of rehabilitating the injure...Using statistics to decipher secrets of natural mutation
...d in mammalian evolution. Green concluded that by contributing to a better understanding of naturally occurring mutations, the technique would help in understanding both how genetic disease arises and how evolution has occurred. A next step, he said, will be to extend the analysis to sites on the genome that ar...Study links high carbohydrate diet to increased breast cancer risk
...ave long suspected that diet was among the factors contributing to breast cancer," said study co-author Walter Willett, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H, the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. "Now, with studies like ours, we are beginning gradually to underst...Pocket gophers serve as 'ecosystem engineers'
...e plants versus invasive species. This research is contributing to efforts to restore native habitats. In his presentation he will explain that gophers have an energetically "expensive" life habit in which burrowing through the soil costs 360 to 3,400 times as much energy as walking the same distance on the surf...Two-pronged attack targeting EGF receptor hinders cancer cell growth
... added. Other University of Wisconsin researchers contributing to this study were Eric Armstrong, Sergio Benavente and Prakash Chinnaiyan....JCI Table of Contents, 15 July 2004
...of this protein effects normal TGFb signaling thus contributing to many of the previously unexplained traits of the disease. TITLE: Evidence for a critical contribution of haploinsufficiency in the complex pathogenesis of Marfan syndrome AUTHOR CONTACT: Harry C. Dietz Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...European researchers tackle mitosis
...p of top scientists across Europe, each of whom is contributing an essential piece towards a common goal - understanding mitosis."...Scientists find 75 percent of red snapper sold in stores is really some other species
...he status of fish stocks in the eyes of consumers, contributing to a false impression that the supply of marine species is keeping up with demand," Marko said. ...New research suggests previously unrecognized mechanism by which blood vessels are patterned
... and many types of tumors. Other Penn researchers contributing to this study are Aaron D. Gitler and Min-Min Lu. This study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association....Bacterial protein recycling factor possible key to new class of antibiotics
... catalyzed by RRF in bacteria." Other scientists contributing to this work are: Rajendra K. Agrawal, Manjuli R. Sharma, and Timothy M. Booth from the New York State Department of Health; Michael C. Kiel and Go Hirokawa from Penn; and Christian M.T. Spahn, Robert A. Grassucci, and Joachim Frank from the Howard H...Study: Artificial sweetener may disrupt body's ability to count calories
... is not the sole cause of obesity, but it may be a contributing factor," Swithers said. "It could become more of a... body weight, as well as whether age or gender are contributing factors. Additional research also will need to evaluate if the body and brain can be retrained to na...