Drinking wine, particularly white wine, may help keep lungs healthy, UB study finds
...ine account for our current findings." Additional contributors to the study were Brydon J.B. Grant, M.D., and Deepa Kudalkar, M.D., from UB's Department of Medicine; Jo L. Freudenheim, Ph.D., Paola Muti, M.D., Ph.D., Susan McCann, Ph.D., Malathi Ram, Ph.D., and Maurizio Trevisan, M.D., of UB's Department of Soci...Study: Higher energy intake, obesity affects all age groups, not just youths
...the United States, and these changes are important contributors to the growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes facing Americans, Popkin said. Clearly the problem is that Americans are eating too much food. The shifts in where we are eating, as well as the types of food, are critical. This new study makes an impo...Researchers identify cell, genetic environment behind nerve-tissue tumors that lead to cancer
...rve Growth and Regeneration. Other UT Southwestern contributors to the research include Pritam Ghosh, a lab technician who is now a first-year medical student, and Dr. Dennis Burns, professor of pathology....Scientists unravel complicated genetic disease in one fell swoop
...carry instructions for a protein, when looking for contributors to disease. In the current advance online edition ...disease, and we've shown that such complex genetic contributors can be discovered with a carefully designed study." Hirschsprung disease, in which nerves are missin...Researchers identify gene that controls formation of heart chambers
...iology graduate student at UT Austin, were primary contributors to the study. Other UT Southwestern contributors included Drs. Hiroyuki Yamagishi and Osama Nakagawa, both instructors of molecular biology, and Dr. ...Research institutions, NCSA, HP join Gelato Federation
...veloped by Gelato member institutions and by other contributors from the greater open source community. Gelato also will supply information services such as forums and technical data to make the Itanium Linux platform more accessible to researchers and their support staffs. In addition to HP, NCSA and the univ...Tufts University researchers engineer first 'custom-made' human knee ligaments from adult stem cells
...g and Tufts-New England Medical Center. Additional contributors include faculty at MIT and in Switzerland. "The Bioengineering Center is at the core of a multidisciplinary team at Tufts that draws from all the resources across the University," said Kaplan. The center is involved in a number of other projects tha...APS announces its 2002 Distinguished Lectureships
...by the 12 APS Disciplinary Sections as outstanding contributors and representatives of the best research within their field. Awardees actively participate in the Experimental Biology meeting presenting their lectures and meeting with graduate and postdoctoral students during the meeting. Albert F. Bennett Univ...... that construction sites are actually fairly minor contributors to dust in the region's air, whereas industrial sites are the most productive dust sources. Thickets of mesquite trees are settling-out areas for the dust. In the rapidly expanding Phoenix area, growth is most rapid at the urban fringe, where agric...Like USA children, young adults snacking more now than they did two decades ago
...s and alcohol -- mainly beer -- remained important contributors of empty calories. "It's clear that the nation is in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but why is not so evident," said Zizza, who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a dietician for seven years before returning to school. "Some people ...UCLA/Pitt researchers transform human fat into bone, muscle, cartilage
...." Immature and unspecified, stem cells are key contributors to the body's ability to renew and repair its own tissues. They are unique in their ability to mature into two or more different types of specific cells, depending on their environment. Researchers grow different tissues in the laboratory by manipula...Genome project finds the 'triggers' for E. coli illness
...s devoted to biomedical research. Other UW-Madison contributors include: Guy Plunkett and Val Burland, Genome Center scientists; genomics professors David Schwartz and Thomas Anantharaman; and bacteriology professor Rodney Welch....Tax top of the food chain to aid environmental sustainability
...of the ecosphere and unsustainable economies. The contributors examine key elements of ecological integrity and consider what happens when it is lost or compromised. For his part, Pimentel notes that "a powerful trend to eat lower on the food chain" has started in many developed nations. U.S. beef consumption...The human side of restoring nature
...ke and maintain restored environments. Throughout, contributors set forth a wealth of ideas, case studies, methodological approaches, and disciplinary perspectives that shed valuable light on the social underpinnings of ecological restoration and natural resource management. Ecological restoration is an inherentl...Progress on the molecular basis of mental illness in children
...ort for the role of variations in the DRD4 gene as contributors to increased risk for ADHD. Citation source: Molecular Psychiatry 2000 Volume 5 pages 531-536. For further information on this work, please contact Dr. James T. McCracken, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 48-...Cattle, human genomes contain many identical genes
...r of the UI Biotechnology Center. Among the major contributors to the research were co-authors Mark R. Band, a postdoctoral research associate; Joshua H. Larson, a graduate student in the UI department of animal sciences; and James E. Womack, the W.P. Luse Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University. A pullout pos...INEEL creates a method to link energy use, greenhouse gases
...ributes greenhouse gases. Examining all potential contributors of greenhouse gas for an institution is part of "life cycle analysis". "We try to understand the full impacts of the energy we use. We also look forward and examine the twenty-year cumulative impact," says INEEL mechanical engineer Karen Moore. Sh...Study links impulsive violence with brain's inability to regulate emotion
...netics and poor environmental history as potential contributors to impulsive violence, and together they present a "double whammy" that put people at much greater risk. "These parts of the brain are particularly responsive to experiential shaping," Davidson says. The study may recast the way society looks at impu......ere is reason to suppose that they have been major contributors to the world's kerogen reserves for a long time. This work gives new insights into kerogen formation, and suggests potential sources of kerogen that have previously been untapped. GSA Today Anatomy of the North Anatolian Fault Zone in the ...