HFES honors 2001 awardees at 45th Annual Meeting
...R. Lauer Safety Award for his many achievements in enhancing safety in traffic, the workplace, medicine, and the environment through the application of human factors principles, theory, and communication. Peters is senior partner in the consulting and law firm of Peters & Peters in Santa Monica, California. Hi...U.S. and EC officials sign agreement to foster scientific collaboration
...ionally competitive and globallyengaged workforce; enhancing NSF's international partnerships;and enabling joint research projects with four research officesand directorates at NSF -- the directoratesfor biological sciences, geosciences, and engineering and theOffice of Polar Programs. The agreement also ...Virginia Tech leads global effort to sort out social, economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology
...y that has been marketed to date has been aimed at enhancing productivity. But increasingly, biotechnology is being applied to add to the value of crops, such as by increasing nutritional value, adding certain vitamins, or in coaxing plants to create substances that can be used in making pharmaceuticals. The s...Excessive fishing prompted coastal ecosystems to collapse, but wise management now will help
...blic benefit in achieving better water quality and enhancing habitats for fish and shellfish, he said. "The central point for successful restoration is that loss of economically important fisheries, degradation of habitat attractive to landowners and tourists and emergence of noxious, toxic and life-threatenin...Untangling the matrix of risk factors for alcoholism
...ly anxious individuals are often treated with 5-HT enhancing medications such as selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitors." "Exactly how a serotonergic dysfunction relates to BD and NA is the realm of great speculation," commented Robert O. Pihl, professor of psychology and psychiatry at McGill University. ...Biotechnology to protect soldiers of the future, report says
... hold great potential for enhancing soldiers' performance in the field, and helping them return home safely." Among technologies discussed in the report is Ferrari's area of investigati...Researchers find 'north pole' of the molecular world
...that atoms and molecules exchange energy, possibly enhancing solar energy devices or helping biochemists better understand proteins. The research, appearing in the June 4 issue of Physical Review Letters, shows how a tightly-focused laser employing a new kind of polarization can produce valuable images of indi...UC Davis study finds breastfeeding may protect bones in teen-age mothers
...ed. "Teen mothers may feel confident that they are enhancing their own long-term health and their babies when they choose breastfeeding," Chantry said....Carbon monoxide has unexpected benefits, but don't try it at home
...od supply, according to the authors. It does so by enhancing the body's own clot-dissolving mechanisms and by dilating blood vessels. The researchers demonstrated the results in mice. At lower than lethal doses, it seems, "CO can paradoxically either imperil or salvage tissue by disparate mechanisms," the ...NASA satellite spots unique ocean eddy
...a great amount of nutrients from the ocean depths, enhancing the plankton population on the oceans surface, and providing a banquet for marine life. Several organizations collaborated to track Loretta, and other Hawaiian eddies and their ecological benefits. The University of Hawaii, NASA and the National Ocea...Treatment in mice proves effective against Duchenne muscular dystrophy
...t by researchers at the University of Illinois. By enhancing the production of a naturally occurring molecule on muscle tissue, the scientists reduced muscle-related problems and increased by three-fold the lifetimes of affected mice. Their work appears in the March 19 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. Th...... Learn how pharmacokinetic discoveries are enhancing dosage convenience and promoting patient adherence to therapy February 4-8, 2001 Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Visit us at Posters #332 and 333 (Feb 6th)...Atmospheric aerosols impact on smog formation being reassessed
... lowest layers of the troposphere, while sometimes enhancing their rates in the higher layers." Vuilleumier, Harley, Brown and colleagues used the SCOS 97 measurements of solar ultraviolet irradiance, taken at two stations in Riverside and Mount Wilson, to compute the atmosphere's total optical depth. As a mea...Gene study to unlock causes of stroke
...he causes are likely to involve many factors, some enhancing each other. Even if we can isolate genes that are involved, we will then have to determine what exactly they do in the body, and only then can we expect to develop suitable treatments," he said. The researchers regard the city of Adelaide as the per......otein also matures other aspects of the synapse -- enhancing the clustering of glutamate receptors on the target cells receiving the chemical messenger, increasing the number and size of the dendritic spines that hold glutamate receptors, and increasing the number of glutamate neurotransmitters emitted from...ZymoGenetics researchers identify novel Interleukin that plays key role in immune system regulation
...ations such as protecting against viral infection, enhancing vaccines, boosting the efficacy of chemotherapy or treating autoimmune disease. Our continued biological studies of IL-21 will clarify which activities will have primary therapeutic value."......aling. MSC transplants may have a future role in enhancing wound healing after an injury or surgery. Additionally, said Dr. Flake, because MSCs also develop into supporting cells in bone marrow, they might provide a more favorable environment for the transplanted cells used in bone marrow transplants for leu...Insect defenses point the way to defeating bacterial antibiotic resistance
...lent of the DnaK receptor, known as Hsp70, greatly enhancing its pharmaceutical potential in humans. If the peptide bound to the human Hsp70 receptor, it and related compounds might pose a danger to human cells. With the receptor now identified, scientists might be able to develop new drug compounds with imp...Hopkins wins $14 million NIH grant for genetic cardiopulmonary disease research
...ed in 10 heart and lung diseases, with the goal of enhancing their diagnosis and treatment. The grant will be distributed over the next four years, and the division will have a chance to renew for an additional four-year period. "At the end of the four years, we should have an impressive understanding of the...Tiny microchips have big promise in fighting serious diseases
... would give us much better control of dosing, thus enhancing the effectiveness of the drug while limiting its toxicity," Caligiuri said. Also, a chip could house the tools to relay to physicians information on potentially cancerous tissues. "Most men 70 and older harbor some evidence of pre-malignant or even m...