Whites, African-Americans better rate medical care experiences when seeing same-race physicians
... study finds. Results of the study of audiotaped conversations between physicians and patients showed that medical visits between patients and physicians of the same race were two minutes longer on average, and characterized by patients as having a more positive overall emotional tone and higher satisfaction rat...Taking aim at bioterrorism: UH professor gets HHS funding to battle anthrax
... and human cells use molecules to conduct intimate conversations with each other. With that knowledge, he can determine the cracks in the armor of a particular agent in this case, anthrax. Initially, the Blanke Lab will be the only laboratory at UH directly participating in the RCE program, but the biochemist ...Rutgers to create ultra-tiny 'bio-nano' motors under National Science Foundation grant
...id the idea had its genesis about two years ago in conversations with Yarmush. "Because the motor will be used in an assembly of various biological components, we considered using proteins and DNA molecules as the building blocks," Mavriodis said. "By putting together my experience in robotics and mechanical desig...OHSU researchers discover brain cell mechanism possibly linked to mental retardation
...d Scott. "The close proximity resulted in numerous conversations between the two labs and, finally, collaboration on this project." Scott Soderling, Ph.D., a lead researcher on this project, also noted an unexpected trait found in mice lacking the WAVE-1 protein reduced anxiety. Future studies conducted between t...Scientists urge managers to limit use of destructive fishing gears
...ulate local, regional, national, and international conversations about how to reduce the collateral impacts of fishing. "Too often this problem has been overlooked or ignored because of the lack of comparative measures. Our results indicate that there is more common starting ground on these issues than people have...UCLA scientists eavesdrop on cellular conversations by making mice 'glow' with firefly protein
...ar to a home video camera to eavesdrop on cellular conversations in living mice. Reported in the Nov. 11 online edi..."Our technique enables us to listen in on multiple conversations in cells taking place deep within a living animal." According to Gambhir, the discovery will enable ...Evolution of language: FOXP2 and human uniqueness in religious perspective
...orts documented chimpanzee improvisation of signs, conversations among chimpanzees (apart from human participation), and teaching of ASL to other chimpanzees. "The apparent genetic similarities in FOXP2 in humans and apes may be an alarming challenge to human uniqueness, so central, for example, in Christian theol...Hopkins Bioethics Institute receives $9.9 million from Pew Trusts
...haritable Trusts are committed to encouraging such conversations on this and other vital issues and we welcome our partnership with The Johns Hopkins University in this endeavor." The Genetics and Human Reproduction Initiative will explore policy options and guidelines for using reproductive genetic technologies i...Science's Top Ten: nanoscale computing circuits named top scientific advance of 2001
...mely fast and powerful machines that can translate conversations on the fly or delve deep into your body to diagnose an illness. If these circuits can be combined into even more complex architecture, this would "undoubtedly provide computing power to launch scientific breakthroughs for decades to come," say the S...Scientists dissect bacterial crosstalk
... Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D. "We want tounderstand the conversations that occur between these microbial guests and theirhost." The findings appear in the Aug. 17 Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences. Gordon, the Alumni Professor and head of molecular biology andpharmacology and professor of medicine at Washi...Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
...tion and speechsynthesis technology, including how conversations might be held between machines and humans in thefuture (June 22); Neville Fletcher of the Australian National Institute ( neville.fletcher@anu.edu.a ) willexplain how one can tinker with the rich mathematical properties of musical instruments such as......94-5607 BOZEMAN, MT--If bacteria could talk, their conversations might go something likethis: "Stay with us , in this nice place, and make slime or we'll all floatoff and starve to death." Or, "It's too crowded here. Let's colonize somewhereelse." Bacteria, in fact, do speak a chemical language, ...