Trade, science, risk, precaution: Issues for Seattle
...ach to risk issues means that new technologies are effectively assumed safe until proven otherwise. This places excessive faith in our limited knowledge about the safety of new technologies" said Alister Scott, Assistant Director of the GECP and coordinator of the letter. "The opposite is needed: better testi...Researchers identify molecule crucial to adjusting bodys internal clock
...hy bright light at night keeps a person awake more effectively thandim light, Gillette said. Bright light delays clock time more and, thereby, makes it harder to awakenearly the next morning. More PACAP in the light signal means a greater delay, she added. Eventually, Gillette said, it may be possible to crea......s). TAPET has been shown in preclinical models to effectively deliver anticancer agents while having a minimal toxic effect on healthy normal tissues. TAPET uses genetically altered strains of Salmonella as a bacterial vector, or vehicle, for delivering cancer fighting drugs preferentially to solid tumors. Pr......ose. By altering the diet over time, bacteria more effectively digest lactose, making milk very well tolerated." He recommends starting with one-quarter to one-half cup of milk with meals two to three times a day, and slowly increasing milk consumption. For those people who experience only slight discomfort when...Common anti-inflammatory drug rescues low-growth fetuses in mouse study
...etter understand IUGR and develop interventions to effectively treat it. Indeed, working with the mice, the scientists found they were able to completely rescue underweight fetuses through administration of a drug called indomethacin during what would correspond roughly to the middle trimester of pregnancy. Indo...The future of planet earth: scientific challenges in the coming century
...vided by the USGS helps people respond quickly and effectively when disaster strikes and provides important scientific data used by decision makers for planning and developing new policies. More information is available about USGS work in natural hazards at www.usgs.gov/natural_haz.html or from USGS scientist ...Environmental quality gains require major policy changes
... to reduce costs, improve efficiency, compete more effectively and develop new products and services. The U.S. E...cy is not set up to regulate industry's operations effectively or to provide adequate incentives for firms to go beyond regulatory compliance, Rondinelli and Berry...Cell division study aids cancer drug search
...etter placed we are to devise ways of intervening effectively when it goes wrong." * The complex of proteins identified by the researchers are cyclin E-Cdk2 kinase and group known as p300/CBP....Researchers find key to growing, differentiating human cells
...he polyester at the same time, effectively ironing it into shape. Li explained that the polyester acts like a solid at room temperature, and a liquid at high temperature. At a specific temperature in between, around 160F, it exhibit...UNC-CH bus brings mobile lab, high-tech science focus to underserved N.C. schools
...puters and the Internet -- that can help them more effectively teach their students, said Dr. Walter E. Bollenbac... "We want to share how high-quality science can be effectively taught and then continue to serve as an ongoing resource for students, teachers and their schools an...BioMed Central to free scientists and clinical researchers from copyright restrictions
...o help scientists communicate research findings as effectively as possible." Current industry practice typically requires researchers to transfer the copyright of their work to the journal publisher. However, BioMed Central will require only the non-exclusive right to distribute the research and to be cited a...... validity of our business model and our ability to effectively market individualized product." In 1999, AVAX announced that it had received notice from Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) that M-Vax may be made available for commercial sale, subject only to licensure of a manufacturing facilit...Oral exposure to anti-oxidant glutathione could help prevent flu infections
... to someone with the flu on an airplane. You could effectively block the infection for a period of several hours." Although the data suggest that a glutathione lozenge would probably work, the concept should be tested in humans, Jones says. And a glutathione lozenge should not be considered an alternative to ...ZymoGenetics discovers potential new therapy for autoimmune diseases
...lating antibodies become too great for the body to effectively eliminate, eventually resulting in kidney damage and sometimes death. The immunosuppressive agent under investigation at ZymoGenetics, termed soluble "TACI," is a modified form of a receptor that is found on the surface of B cells. Soluble TACI works...Give it a thought -- and make it so
...ronment isn't so quiet. Jessica has found a way to effectively cut through the interference." The National Institutes of Health is supporting Bayliss' research because it may someday give back some control to those who have lost the ability to move. A person so paralyzed that he or she is unable even to speak ma...Genes for unusual flower within a flower are identified by UCSD scientists
...plants, having lost their reproductive organs, are effectively sterile. Plants do not normally produce double flowers in the wild and, in their study, the UCSD biologists discovered why. Only when three virtually identical genes within the plant's cells are all mutated, they found, is the result a flower w...Carbon diem: Grants awarded to research that seizes excess carbon dioxide
...son. The goals are to create a membrane that can effectively separate carbon dioxide from other exhaust gases and to improve membrane durability by developing new molecular composites. The composites, combinations of polymers and ultra-tiny sand particles, will need to be characterized and tested. "Scaling up ...One-two punch knocks out fly genes
...e recognize each other to automatically recombine, effectively switching places with each other. To "knock in" the correct version of the body color gene--and make the yellow flies revert to their normal brown--Drs. Golic and Rong took a normal, error-free version of the body color gene and modified it sligh...New test for radiation damage to DNA developed at Brookhaven Lab
...t DNA damage, or reveal ways to use radiation more effectively in fighting cancer. "We hope that if we learn how to alter damage to tumor cells, we can improve therapeutic regimens," Sutherland says.......y said. "Until sources of lead contamination are effectively countered, releases of captive condors cannot be expected to result in viable wild populations," she said. "To re-establish any wild species, the main causes of its extinction must be identified and eliminated before releases of captive animals are...