Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...ely designed and built by undergraduates, with the exception of some computer programming done by a graduate student a couple of years ago. The project received NSF funding in 2000 and has made great progress since then. Vincent anticipates that it will be ready to track octopuses next year. Before that happen...Bright idea could doom cancer and viruses, say Purdue scientists
...milar to platinum chemotherapy drugs, but with one exception - it remains benign until irradiated with a light beam. "Anticancer therapies could, in theory, be developed using such photo-activated rhodium complexes," Morrison said. "The interior of the body is dark, but it might be possible to thread a fibero...British scientists exclude 'maverick' colleagues, says report
...ts only served to exacerbate problems. With the exception of university research, mechanisms for control of outgoing material tended to be more elaborate and more strictly followed in Britain, than in Sweden. British scientists also felt that a breach of procedures would have graver consequences, than did t...K-State researcher working to improve alternatives to equine antibiotics
...researchers in medicine. Veterinary medicine is no exception and Dr. Elizabeth Davis, assistant professor of equine internal medicine at Kansas State University, is working to help improve alternative methods for combating infectious diseases in horses. "In veterinary medicine and medicine in general, we're ru...Conflicting views on embryonic and adult stem cells complicate research in stem cell therapeutics
...ing federal funding for research on ESCs, with the exception of those derived from the approved twelve existing stem cell lines. Following the Bush decree, of the $370 million in grants awarded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) during 2002 for animal and human stem cells, only $10 million went to resea...Loyola decides to test new blood substitute in trauma patients at the scene of injury
...arch could not be practicably conducted without an exception from informed consent requirements....Pharmacogenomics could replace 'trial-and-error' with science from the human genome
...considering whether the patient might represent an exception to this rule. "The medical and pharmaceutical communities tend to avoid trying to individualize therapy even using such simple patient characteristics as age or kidney function," Relling said. "So we've become accustomed to designing treatments usin...OneWorld Health completes enrollment, treatment in Phase III India trial
...e annually. Left untreated, it is fatal. With the exception of malaria, VL kills more people than any other parasitic disease. While most Westerners have never heard of visceral leishmaniasis, if the disease existed in the U.S., it would be the third largest killer after heart disease and cancer, and would ca...Fish no exception to trend in marine-organism disease
...ynthesis in Santa Barbara, Calif. And fish are no exception to the troubling trend, despite fewer reports of fish disease over the years. The analysis of hundreds of previous studies of marine-ecosystem disease is published this month in the journal Public Library of Science Biology (available without cha...Three new South American fish identified
...my students don't listen to me, and we can make an exception in this case." Lopez-Fernandez grins when told about his mentor's response. "It can be appropriate to name a species after a person," he said. "He's a really important researcher internationally in this area, and he has organized most of the expedit...Proven method of bone analysis may clarify human origins
...iving ancestors besides Homo sapiens and (with the exception of neanderthalensis and early sapiens) are too old to have left any DNA for analysis. "Like it or not, morphology matters," said Lynch, a biomorphologist who helped developed the mathematical analysis. "For some problems you can't use genetics, and c...Human evolution at the crossroads: Integrating genetics and paleontology
...and genetic approaches as the norm rather than the exception in primate and human evolutionary studies," Hlusko said at a news briefing on Sunday. This integrative approach was first developed by scientists working outside the study of primates, such as Rudolf Raff of Indiana University, also a participant in ...Special training may help people with autism recognize faces
... when they looked at most faces and the cars. The exception was a picture of the subject's mother, which activated the fusiform gyrus. This finding could have important implications for intervention. Dawson said the UW's Autism Center is involved in two follow-up studies designed help people with autism to ...Researchers-again-pinpoint why stress kills
...were left undisturbed in their home cages with the exception of routine handling (i.e., regular cage cleaning and measuring of body weight), which was matched to that of the CMS group. This CMS model provided an opportunity to examine a potential link between experimental anhedonia (absence of pleasure from th...New evidence points to pollution as main cause of much coral reef destruction
...arther away as nutrient levels decreased. With the exception of one site, reefs far enough away from the channe... healthy with little or no seaweed overgrowth. The exception was a reef in 80 feet of water near the island. There the group found an abundance of seaweed, but a...Measuring perchlorate levels in lettuce
...ing most vegetables eaten as roots and fruits. The exception was leafy vegetables, such as lettuce, where the foliage is consumed. However, for iceberg lettuce most of the perchlorate was in the frame and wrapper leaves that are discarded and not the head, which is consumed. Sanchez hopes to expand this prelim...MBL scientists confirm evolutionary exception
...reproduction. Their results demonstrate a radical exception to the biological rule that abandonment of sexual reproduction is an evolutionary dead end. While almost all multicellular organisms reproduce sexually, this form of reproduction is much less efficient than asexual reproduction (or mitosis) whereby f...Northern climate, ecosystems driven by cycles of changing sunlight
...strikingly consistent" during the cycles, with the exception of conflicting correlations that occurred in aless-defined cycle that occurred between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, the researchers wrote. The presence of predictable cycles dating back thousands of years provides data that are not detectable in instru...Retinoblastoma survivors face increased risk of a second cancer
...as the cancers in the general population. The only exception was that there was a slightly higher incidence of malignant melanomas and sarcomas amongst the second cancers in the hereditary group of patients. Dr Alsner said: "We can only speculate as to why there is this increased incidence of melanomas and sar......ndency was not statistically significant. With the exception of one HF subject (one of nine), no brain infarction sites in the sample were noted. The infarcted site of the one subject did not overlay any of the regional areas with reduced gray matter volume. Insular cortex and basal ganglia: Significant gray ...