UK small firms pay lip service to green issues
...stainability issues within the industry, there was currently little in the way of environmental design occurring in the UK. Several admitted that they would not push the green agenda for fear of alienating clients. Restaurateurs, on the other hand, claimed to be too busy coping with daily business pressures to...Physicists reveal first 'nanoflowers'
...ave a range of exciting applications. Two that are currently being explored are their use as water repellant coatings and as a base for a new type of solar cell. We have already shown that as a coating water droplets roll off these surfaces when they are tilted at angles as small as 5 degrees. This behavior is...North Shore-LIJ research collaboration with Correlogic Systems to advance ovarian cancer blood test
...logic's hidden patterns approach and technology is currently undergoing extensive validation. The test has received worldwide attention because of its novel approach to disease detection and the critical need for an early detection test for ovarian cancer, which kills more than 16,000 women each year. Under th...Newly grown kidneys can sustain life in rats
... first report on growing kidneys in 1998. They are currently working to perfect pig-to-rat xenotransplantation of kidney primordia. If they can extend life in pig-to-rat transplants, the next steps are pig-to-primate and then pig-to-human transplants. "Therapies based on growing new organs will be part of main...New national research effort needed to secure clean, adequate water supply in coming decades
...w mechanism is needed to coordinate water research currently fragmented among nearly 20 federal agencies, said the committee that wrote the report. "Water crises are not confined to western states," said committee chair Henry J. Vaux, professor emeritus and associate vice president emeritus, department of agri...UK researchers develop way of predicting a woman's 'reproductive' age
... menopause varies from woman to woman and there is currently no reliable test of ovarian reserve for an individ...remaining number of follicles. The researchers are currently involved in clinical studies on young women successfully treated for cancer (where fertility may be ...Ralph J. Cicerone nominated to be next National Academy of Sciences president
...S, conducted at the request of the White House. He currently serves on the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, the Advisory Board for the Koshland Science Museum, and the Advisory Committee for the Division on Earth and Life Studies. A Nominating Committee of 28 Academy members, chaired by Peter H. ...JCI table of contents, 15 June 2004
...m cell treatment of neurodegenerative diseases are currently limited to embryonic stem cells or to adult stem c...the interaction of more than one mutated gene, and currently there are no good models available. Siegfried Janz and colleagues, from the National Cancer Institut......m cell treatment of neurodegenerative diseases are currently limited to embryonic stem cells or to adult stem cells of neuronal lineage. It is essential to find additional cellular sources to treat these debilitating diseases given the limited number of embryonic stem cell lines available. Mari Dezawa and coll...Medical implants work better when you rough them up, study finds
...oves only several microns deep. Some bone implants currently used have similar texture, von Recum said, although these grooves tend to be 100 to 200 microns deep and can interlock with hard tissue, such as bone. "The grooves on our disks were a hundred times smaller than an individual fibroblast," von Recum sa...Breast cancer patients failed by treatment with taxol and taxotere respond to abraxane
...rease in side effects one might expect to see with currently available taxane therapies." "It appears that Abra...r flushing. A New Drug Application for Abraxane is currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Abraxane is an investigational drug that use...Existing drug may prevent brain injury and seizures in newborns
...ldren's Hospital Boston. The drug, topiramate, is currently approved to control seizures in adults and in children over age 3, but the findings may provide the basis for a protective therapy that could be given to babies immediately after traumatic birth events that compromise the brain's blood and oxygen sup...Canine word-learning research published in Science
...cle in Science . Scientists around the world are currently studying how chimpanzees learn language and communicate. The authors do not claim that Rico and children have an equally rich understanding of words. They do show, however, that Rico can make the link between objects and sounds. "This is a crucial s...NIH launches first center in Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
... industry, many academic and government scientists currently do not have easy access to large libraries of orga...he 25,000 genes in the human genome, less than 500 currently have a chemical compound with which they interact. With an eye toward expanding the frontiers of ge...Kangaroo hops in line for genome sequencing
...quencing and finishing the genome of the human, is currently working on finishing the mouse genome sequence and continues work on the genomes of several other organisms, including the dog and a group of fungi. Marsupials are unique among mammals because their young are born at an extremely early stage of deve...OUP launch a new Open Access Journal on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
..., and medical communities a new journal in an area currently under-represented, the journal has also been developed to be available for free online. The 'open access' TM (OA) publishing model for eCAM will be the third OA initiative from OUP Journals Division, all designed to gain a better understanding of h...APP reports Abraxane(TM) is active in breast cancer patients who failed taxol or taxotere
...rease in side effects one might expect to see with currently available taxane therapies. It appears that ABRAX...airment of clinical outcome. The solvents used in currently approved taxanes contribute significantly to the toxicities of these drugs with resultant dose delay...Sex-specific differences in gene expression related to drug metabolism and hypertension
...ferences between mature males and females. We are currently looking at molecular differences between males and females at multiple developmental stages, including puberty, as well as differences in subpopulations of cells within a tissue." ...Researchers develop blood test that can detect genetic changes in progressive breast cancer
...eedings of the National Academy of Sciences and is currently available online. The researchers developed a blood test to optimize the detection and characterization of circulating cancer cells shed from a primary tumor. This is done by matching the cells' genetic abnormalities with the parent tumor...Carnegie Mellon U biologists identify critical player in yeast ribosome assembly
...n Farach-Colton at Rutgers University, Woolford is currently developing computer models to outline the many proteins involved in ribosome assembly and the step-by-step process by which various parts come together to make a new ribosome. In addition, Woolford is carrying out genetic experiments to test their id...