World's largest scientific society holds regional meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
...n's major scientific contribution was to research, document and publicize the dangers of working conditions within major U.S. industries. Her work revolutionized industrial hygiene and practices, and led to national recognition, which culminated in federal legislation establishing OSHA, signed three months af...National Institutes of Health grant to Rensselaer to further research on healing bone injuries
...nt will allow Plopper and his team to discover and document the conditions that allow hMSC to differentiate into bone reliably and without the use of artificial growth stimulants. Treating Future Breaks With Bone Spackle Someday, these engineered bone cells could be directly injected into the site of a bone...JCI Table of Contents, 1 October, 2003
...ore than 24 hours before that time. Warning: This document and the Journal of Clinical Investigation papers t...securities using information contained within this document or within advance copies of the JCI, may be guilty of insider trading under the US Securities Exchan...Earliest European modern humans found
...a possible Neandertal connection. The researchers document that these early modern humans retained some archa...d Moldovan have assembled an international team to document and excavate the cave and analyze the material after it comes out from the cave. The cave was primar...Exploring oil rigs and an ancient shoreline in the Gulf Of Mexico for new disease cures
...pounds with pharmaceutical potential as well as to document the Gulf's rich biodiversity. This exploration will focus on hard bottom areas of the Gulf seafloor. These include pinnacles of Lophelia coral that jut up to 500 feet from the sea floor in some areas, coldwater seeps where oil and gas bubble up from ...Human rights in Peru: AAAS analysis doubles previous estimates of killings
... the AAAS report on the deaths is part of a larger document produced by the truth and reconciliation commission to record the infamous era in Peruvian history. The report was produced with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which provided a $700,000 grant to support the data analy...Genes that paint fly derrieres hint at convergence
...ost-doctoral student, scientists have been able to document a rare example of molecular convergence, the process by which different animals use the same genes to repeatedly invent similar body patterns and structures. Writing in the current issue (Aug. 21) of the journal Nature, a group led by Sean Carroll an...UC Berkeley museum biologists to repeat 85-year-old Yosemite National Park wildlife survey
...in the park that until now we haven't been able to document adequately," said Leslie Chow, a UC Berkeley gradu...museum scientists will regularly visit the park to document the changes occurring in species distribution and population. "Grinnell established a baseline in t...Museum mammal collection network to aid conservation and research
...ifts in the distribution of mammal populations and document the impact of changing habitats or climate. --Tracking emerging diseases. Many newly recognized disease-causing organisms, such as Hantaviruses, have mammals as hosts. By better understanding the biology of these mammals, scientists can better unders...An old, familiar love nest helps sexual success
..., which focused on Japanese quail, is the first to document what farmers and researchers have long suspected: ... second set of cages. The researchers were able to document how often the females were fertilized in both situations. "We found that inseminations fertilized at...Scientists with Hawaii ocean mixing experiment
...first effort by HOME investigators to collectively document their findings.The HOME scientists chose the Hawaiian Ridge, a 1,600-mile largely submerged volcanic mountain chain that stretches from the Big Island of Hawaii to Midway Island, due to its rough topography, including large underwater mountains and v...JCI table of contents, July 15, 2003
...ore than 24 hours before that time. Warning: This document and the Journal of Clinical Investigation papers t...securities using information contained within this document or within advance copies of the JCI, may be guilty of insider trading under the US Securities Exchan...JCI table of contents, July 1 2003
...ore than 24 hours before that time. Warning: This document and the Journal of Clinical Investigation papers t...securities using information contained within this document or within advance copies of the JCI, may be guilty of insider trading under the US Securities Exchan...Mediterranean fishery recovers, thanks to manmade pollutants
... from the historical one. Recent satellite images document the continuing fertility of the Nile valley and delta where continuous irrigation and intensive applications of fertilizer have replaced the traditional flood-based agriculture. Fish landings now greatly exceed those prior to the closure of the high ...Scientists say 'save our seas'
...tten for a wide audience. This is no dry technical document it is a colourful well illustrated and provoking account that will for the first time inform the citizens of Europe about the state of their seas. This means that we can all take part in the discussions which will lead to the production of a Europea...Possible new cell type found in developing inner ear
...ish, another developmental model, to see if he can document their existence. "It's certainly worth investing some effort to see if they exist in fish and, if they do, where do they go," he says. Dr. Sohal, undaunted most days, says the ubiquitous cells go pretty much everywhere, at least everywhere he has loo...Science Picks-Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (June 2003)
...tribute to analyses of population dynamics and can document genetic diversity in a variety of species, including Greater Sage-Grouse, Gunnison Sage-Grouse, Trumpeter Swans, Midget Faded Rattlesnakes, Lesser Prairie-Chickens, Mountain Plover, and Potentilla rupincola. The USGS and the University of Denver have...Mouse study suggests mammoth evolutionary change
...f fruit flies, this is the first reported study to document such quick evolution in a mammal. What may account for this change? "We think it likely that the new gene sequence was either unconditionally advantageous, or that it was advantageous relative to environmental changes caused by humans," Pergams sai...JCI table of contents, May 15, 2003
...e than 24 hours before that time. Warning: This document and the Journal of Clinical Investigation papers t...securities using information contained within this document or within advance copies of the JCI, may be guilty of insider trading under the US Securities Exchan...Gametes and embryos from mammalian stem cells: religious and ethics perspectives
...ning of a human person, as for example the Vatican document Donum Vitae does, then this position is severely challenged. Should human embryos be derived from human ESCs, the resulting embryo would be living and it would bear the human genome, though it would have only the genome of the donor of the stem cell...