Nerac rebuilds TOC Journal Watch service with new search engine
... for each journal. TOC Journal Watch results are delivered by email and to a client's Nerac.com account. Each report delivers information on the table of contents for new journal publications with the option to order the full-text article. Nerac also recently improved ways for clients to manage TOC Journal W...Rimonbant shows promise in addressing multiple risk factors
...en rimonabant and placebo.However, rimonabant 20mg delivered positive changes in LDL particle size, a known indicator of atherogenic risk. In patients treated with rimonabant 20mg there was a statistically significant reduction (p=0.002 vs. placebo) in the proportion of small dense atherogenic LDL, which are ...Pioneering flu researcher wins major Imperial scientific award
...l's Rector Sir Richard Sykes followed by a lecture delivered by Sir John on the 'Mechanism of Influenza Virus Infection'. Dr Ralph Kohn of the Kohn Foundation will present the Prize. The event will take place at 6.00pm at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Tickets are free but must be requested in advance by...Discoveries reveal that gene regulation is bipolar
...om recent studies that the TATA binding protein is delivered to genes by either of two massive protein complexes called SAGA and TFIID, Pugh decided to use microarray experiments to investigate the effect of eliminating one complex or the other. Huisinga, who performed these experiments, found that a small fr...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
...o the recipients. But today, research articles are delivered much more efficiently and conveniently via the Internet. Here at Stanford, most students and faculty use the Internet to access the scientific journals to which Stanford subscribes. The Internet has transformed the economics of scientific publishing....UNC study may improve gene therapy safety
...er viruses studied for use in gene therapy, a gene delivered via AAV remains active in cells for months or even years, he added. Last year, a form of gene therapy created and developed in Samulski's laboratory and based on AAV was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and given to children with Can...University of Delaware lays keel for new research vessel
...sel is completed in the autumn of 2005, it will be delivered to the East Coast aboard a larger commercial ship equipped with cradles for transporting other vessels to ports afar. "This will save on any wear-and-tear the brand-new vessel might otherwise experience going from the West Coast to the East Coast thr...New systems biology center positions UT Southwestern in vanguard of scientific research
... nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer was delivered to the campus in November. Funded by a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the NMR device allows scientists to produce three-dimensional images of proteins and other biological molecules in solution, which is similar to proteins'...University of Pittsburgh Medical Center acquires biotechnology firm Rheogene Inc.
...tic products, in which any therapeutic gene can be delivered to and regulated for the patient. Therapeutic gene expression is most effectively managed by modifying the interaction between an inducer drug and its receptor, which regulates the timing and level of therapeutic administration to where it is needed ...Global warming to squeeze western mountains dry by 2050
...hwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. Leung delivered the sobering report at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, and the full results of her study will appear soon in the journal Climatic Change , now in press. Leung emphasized the estimate's conservativeness, noting...The EMBC agrees to six-year budget for EMBO
... multi annual budget for its activities, which are delivered by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). The unanimously accepted outcome was a 33 percent increase over six years. Earlier proposals had requested higher levels of funding in order to meet the new elements in the nine-year plan of t...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
...l - which monitors the contents of documents being delivered to the requestor - alongside traditional access control, the consultant is restricted to material that is relevant to a particular project, Wiederhold says. The databases need not be redesigned to reclassify or remove data that is inappropriate or pr...Targeting hard-to-kill fungal infections
...Our results demonstrate that particulate radiation delivered by organism-specific radiolabeled antibodies is orders of magnitude more efficient in killing human pathogenic fungi than external gamma radiation," stated lead investigator Ekaterina Dadachova of the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein C...Want a side of algae with that? Hawaiian farmers sell seaweed by the seashore
.... Farmers can have a load of seaweed-covered rocks delivered by pickup. Glenn says the farmer's next step would be "put 'em out and start a little patch of it and that would be your little patch to harvest and tend." The starter plants can be grown in a variety of places: an ancient fishpond in the ocean, a l...Stanford launches public lecture series on genomic medicine
...ollowing a reception at 5 p.m. The lecture will be delivered by Stanford geneticist Marcus Feldman, the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Feldman will be introduced by Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the Stanford Department of Bi...Separation day arrives for Mars Express and Beagle 2
.... This will be the first time that an orbiter has delivered a lander without its own propulsion onto a planet and then attempted orbit insertion immediately afterwards. Meanwhile, Mars Express will follow Beagle 2 for a while until, three days before arrival at Mars, ground controllers will have to fire its t...OXiGENE launches significant expansion of its R&D program in ophthalmology
...l models has already established that when CA4P is delivered to the eye by means of drops it can be detected in relevant posterior compartments of the eye." "The results achieved in this patient are especially significant and provide great hope for other patients with myopic macular degeneration. These patien...Pittsburgh researchers engineer and successfully test SARS corona vaccine in animal model
...dy, and then stimulating an immune reaction to the delivered SARS antigens, ultimately conferring protection against the disease. Also, the induced immune reaction appears to be broad: both antibody and cell-mediated immune responses, equally important for protection from viral infections, were detected in the...AACR and CEO Dr. Margaret Foti receive award for raising public awareness about melanoma
... the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), delivered a keynote address on melanoma research and its direction in the future. Samantha Mohr, a meteorologist for KPIX/CBS in San Francisco, Calif., was the evening's mistress of ceremonies....Computer model offers new tool to probe Woburn toxic waste site
...to be contaminated, and how much contamination was delivered to residents. As dramatized in the book and movie ...made monthly estimates of how much TCE and PCE was delivered through the city's water mains to residences and businesses in different parts of town. In particula...