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...have interrupted their careers for at least 1 year due to childcare commitments can now apply to take up a fellowship within their current country of residence. Previously this was only possible if the applicant had been resident in the country for less than 3 months. Bi-annual application deadline: Feb......emicals for defense, many of which contain halogen due to the ocean's high salt content." Sponges and other marine organisms produce a variety of bromine-based organohalogens, which repel predatory fish and prevent bacterial overgrowth, he says. These compounds are being studied to someday prevent barnac...Reading hexametric rhyme supports cardiac synchronization, especially after a heart attack
...ter an initial check 3 subjects had to be excluded due to frequent ectopic heartbeats. The 20 subjects (10 female; age: 43 6.6 years, average SD; 3 smokers) had no history of cardiovascular diseases, especially no hypo- or hypertension or anti-arrhythmical therapy. All subjects were invited indi...Long-term heart damage may result from constant confrontation and defeat
...he effects of high biochemical responses to stress due to real-life stressors on the structure of the heart. One animal study has stated that conflict among the rats did not significantly affect heart structure. On the other hand, another animal study reported that isolation followed by territorial str...Carnivore extinction risk determined more by biology than human population density, says study
...es around the world are more at risk of extinction due to their own intrinsic biological attributes than from an increasing human population with whom they share their space, say scientists in a study published this week. Researchers looking at all 280 carnivore species around the world estimated the ris...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...tbreaks of infectious diseases, such as influenza, due to a decrease in immune system function with age. High mortality rates in humans over the age of sixty-five continue to challenge vaccinologists to explore new means of improving immune responses to the flu virus vaccine. "During influenza ...Italian research links diet with endometriosis risk
...ween vegetables, fruit and meat was unlikely to be due to chance because the researchers analysed several dietary items. However, it was possible there was a 'healthy woman' effect as a high intake of green vegetables, fruit and fish may be generally indicators of more health-conscious attitudes. Also, w...New pulmonary hypertension guideline challenges use of common medication
...ment for high blood pressure, in unstable patients due to the potentially fatal side effects associated w...iculty breathing, blood clots, and fluid retention due to right-sided heart failure. Moreover, patients in specific populations, such as women who are pre...Secret behind hard exoskeletons, spreading wings revealed
... knot proteins. Cystine knot proteins are so known due to their molecular structure, repeated across mammalian species, of three loops of amino acids linked together in a specific, unique configuration. Proteins such as growth factors have the cystine knot configuration. "The exciting thing is that this ...When sun's too strong, plankton make clouds
...g 77 percent of the changes in amounts of DMS were due to exposure to UV radiation. The researchers found...One scenario would show our climate without clouds due to plankton, and another would show the climate with the increased cloud cover. Then researchers cou...Society for conservation biology conference
...ems in Iraq, including environmental contamination due to warfare, the draining of the southern marshes, ...imalayas, leopard attacks on humans have increased due to habitat fragmentation and decline in wild prey. Getting the Most from International Youth ...DFG announces three percent budget increase
...gramme has fallen from 40 percent to 35 percent is due to a ten percent rise in the application volume for that period....Asian bird flu became highly pathogenic through continued circulation and gene swapping
...ss of Hong Kong in avoiding H5N1 poultry outbreaks due to preventive measures taken demonstrates the wisdom of this approach. The culling of hundreds of millions of poultry across East Asia reduced the threat of transmission of bird flu to humans, and possibly even prevented the outbreak of a human pand...Water study yields a few surprises for New England
...pled in other parts of the country. This is likely due to the extensive use of MTBE in gasoline and chlorination of city water supplies in this region. "These results indicate the need for regular testing of ground water supplies, especially those from private water wells used by individual homes, sinc...UNC research accelerates discovery of novel gene function
...tered cells, ensuring that the changes in them are due to the introduced gene. The closed system we have developed allows us to take candidate genes from virus to bacteria to cell to animal, quickly and efficiently." The technique system may have clinical applications, including drug design, Kafri added....JCI table of contents, 1 July 2004
...unknown. Many cases of pregnancy loss are known to due to damage to the fetus through genetic, anatomic, ...ess, and found that the loss of the embryo was not due to fetal damage or activity at the fetal-maternal interface, but rather because the inflammatory res...ALL survivors bear genetic damage from life-saving chemotherapy
...genetic ramifications that these children may face due to the treatment therapy they endured during their bout with cancer." Finette noted that children who are cured of ALL after chemotherapy have a 5-20 times greater risk of developing secondary malignant neoplasm's as well as other complicatio......cells fail to reject tumors; a failure that may be due to a series of different immune cell priming or suppressing mechanisms. Now Viktor Umanksy and colleagues from the German Cancer Research Center, provide a method to enable the specific activation and tumor infiltration of these cells from cancer pat...A pregnant pause for unexpected interactions
...known. Many cases of pregnancy loss are known to due to damage to the fetus through genetic, anatomic, ...ess, and found that the loss of the embryo was not due to fetal damage or activity at the fetal-maternal interface, but rather because the inflammatory res...Therapeutic cloning no longer a dream, says scientist who produced first cloned embryonic stem cell
... stem cell line. We do not know whether this was due to something going wrong in the development of the cloned embryo, or whether we need to make small variations in our experimental procedures. But this will become clearer as we proceed. "In the meantime, we believe that we have opened the door t...