Purdue research hints that birds could spread Ebola virus
...pears in Sunday's (12/15) Journal of Virology. Two contributors to the group's research are Scott Jeffers, a graduate student in Sanders' laboratory, and Anthony Sanchez, an Ebola virus expert at the Centers for Disease Control. Since its discovery in 1976, Ebola has been responsible for hundreds of deaths in ce...New UNC emergency room wall chart will help health workers respond to chemical terrorism
...fmann led development of the new wall chart. Other contributors were Weber of the UNC schools of medicine and public health, Dr. Woodall Stopford of Duke University, Dr. Gregory Smith of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services and UNC, Drs. Jonathan Newmark and Beverly Maliner of the U.S. Army Medical Re...UV radiation may not be a factor in amphibian declines
...ge information and plan activities for 2003. Other contributors to the research published in Ecology include USGS scientists Erin Muths, Christopher Pearl and Bruce Bury; Wendy Palen and Daniel Schindler of the University of Washington; and Stephen Diamond of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency......., nesting material, habitat, or pollination. Other contributors to this research included Joan Hagar, a doctoral candidate at OSU who studied forest songbirds; Bruce McCune, an OSU professor of botany and plant pathology; Nathan Poage, previously a doctoral candidate at OSU and currently a contractor for the USGS...Getting at the roots of terrorism
...en facing dim economic prospects - also are likely contributors to such terrorism. The United States and its allies have responded to the heinous attacks of Sept. 11 with a short-term campaign focused on the necessary but insufficient task of bringing the perpetrators to justice. It did not respond by instituting...UT Southwestern scientists discover link between infections in mothers and brain injuries in babies
...eelchairs as they get older. Other UT Southwestern contributors to the study were Dr. Abbot Laptook, professor of pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology; and Dr. Hasan Jafri, assistant professor of pediatrics. Dr. Lina Shalak, the principal author of the study, was a fellow in neonatal intensive care at UT Sou...Lower insulin sensitivity found In Mexican-Americans, regardless of behavioral and metabolic factors
... is important to examine these factors as possible contributors to the lower insulin sensitivity in Mexican-Americans.] This study had two specific aims: First, to determine whether or not differences in insulin sensitivity persist between these two groups after controlling for the effects of acute and chronic ...Health of American Indians on decline before Columbus arrived in new world
... Central and South America. The contributors gathered evidence on seven basic indicators of health used to assess chronic conditions that affected people living in the Western Hemisphere during the last 7,000 years. The health index...International consortium launches genetic variation mapping project
... challenge when it comes to uncovering the genetic contributors to more common diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia and stroke. These disorders are caused by many genetic variants that individually have a relatively weak contribution to the disorder, but together can i...Cystic fibrosis gene mutations missing from some cases
...urements, genetic status, and possible non-genetic contributors to find subtle differences between the groups that will allow physicians to distinguish between conditions linked to CFTR mutations and those that aren't....... of trying to understand genetic and environmental contributors to alcoholism," said Marc A. Schuckit, director of the Alcohol Research Center, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and corresponding author for the study. "I can't interp......n function in a localized area. One of the leading contributors to a stroke is hypertension. Before a stroke occurs, prolonged hypertension has been associated with a range of impairments and cognitive ability. Presently, evidence indicates that reduction of hypertension reduces the incidence and the susceptibil...New enzyme pathway to nerve cell death discovered in stroke and neurodegenerative diseases
...alysis of proteins (Dr. Robert Liddington). Other contributors included research assistant professor Marcus Kaul and postdoctoral fellows Zezong Gu, Boxu Yan, Steven J. Kridel, and Jiankun Cui....Wilmington researcher receives award for combating terrorism with chemistry
...iversary, Golf Digest named Rees one of the top 35 contributors to the game. The Heroes of Chemistry program, started in 1996, honors industrial chemists and chemical engineers who create commercially successful products that improve the quality of life. The theme of the awards changes annually; this year, the pr...Scientists, researchers, animal advocates & regulators to discuss alternatives to animal testing
...alidation/testing; and policy/ethics. Speakers and contributors from around the world will address these themes via plenaries, workshops, point-counterpoint sessions, and poster exhibits. Participants are from various backgrounds, including government agencies, industry, animal protection, and scientific researc...World's largest scientific society to honor DuPont scientists for 2 breakthrough discoveries
...iversary, Golf Digest named Rees one of the top 35 contributors to the game. Food supply safety According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, food-borne bacteria cause more than 76 million illnesses each year. To detect harmful food-supply bacteria, the BAX system -- developed by the DuPont...New computer model promises detailed picture of worldwide climate
...is rare in the climate sciences," says Kiehl. The contributors worked in groups on land, ocean, sea ice, and other components of the model toward the single, common goal of capturing the Earth's climate system. It was truly a collaborative effort." Since 1983, NCAR scientists have been refining global climate m...Report considers role of science in a world made vulnerable by terrorism
...to respond in the event of bioterrorism. Several contributors to the report warned, however, of too extreme a response to perceived dangers, pointing out the potential damage to the research enterprise if the federal government decides to restrict the communication of scientific information and/or block the par...Brains of outgoing people react more to happy faces than those of shy individuals
... analysis, particularly molecular biology." Other contributors to the Science study included Heidi Sivers, who earned her doctorate in psychology from Stanford last year and went on to pursue postdoctoral work at the University of Oregon Health Science Center; Susan Whitfield, a science and engineering associate....... However, older types of military sonar are among contributors to deleterious background noise in the oceans, along with commercial ships and seismic surveys, according to the marine scientists. Additional, more-extensive studies in noisier parts of the oceans will be needed before scientists can say for sure ...