One-hundred-fifty year old lessons of John Snow still relevant today
...asonable set of public health precautions that are going to be effective." These epidemiologic lessons remain true today, said Paneth, who founded MSU's Department of Epidemiology. He said it's not uncommon to first discover the way in which a disease is transmitted, act on that, and then do the lab work n...Highlights of American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26
...tations that showcase some of fascinating research going on in the area of physical chemistry. ( PHYS 175-179, 210-215, 248-253, 290-295, 687-692, 716-721 , Tuesday, Aug. 24, 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday, Aug. 25, 8:20 a.m. 5:00 p.m.; Thursday, Aug. 26, 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Cent...Meteorites supplied Earth life with phosphorus
...s of life may have occurred," he said. "If you are going to have phosphate-based life, it likely would have had to occur near a freshwater region where a meteorite had recently fallen. We can go so far, maybe, as to say it was an iron meteorite. Iron meteorites have from about 10 to 100 times as much schre...Computer database being developed at Temple will allow for better inventory of chemicals
...ant to spray water at the fire, because thats just going to make the situation worse, Rappaport adds. Thats why many times in these situations, emergency personnel wont enter a lab until they have a good idea what they are dealing with. Basically, this database will quickly provide them with that informa...Tiny molecules have big potential as cancer drugs, Stanford researcher believes
... specific member of that family. And I think we're going to find that some of those proteases are more important than others for promoting things like tumor growth and angiogenesis." The implications of finding the right inhibitor would reach far, Bogyo said, since cathepsins are associated with many diffe...Trojan Horses, xenon imaging and remote controlled genes
... getting inside of cells and tissue to see what is going on as it happens. At the University of Pennsylvania, researchers are caging molecules xenon, gene-blocking strands of antisense DNA and even therapeutics to facilitate their entry into cells and enable researchers to observe nature's biochemical c...Plumbing trees' plumbing reveals their engineering skill
... its year-round foliage, it has the deepest roots, going some 60 to 75 feet into the bedrock to find water." In their studies, the researchers did genetic fingerprinting on both the roots and above ground trees to match the roots to specific trees. The fingerprinting is the same technique used in criminal ...Researchers report new gene test for isolated cleft lip and palate
...ed it with greater frequency. "The change wasn't going to cause the condition by itself, because we already had found it in lots of people who didn't have clefts," said Theresa Zucchero, a member of Murray's lab and the lead author on the paper. "But maybe it would be found more frequently. Alternative...Hopkins scientists use blood proteins to detect ovarian cancer
... patients. And even then, Chan notes, it is never going to be possible for a blood test to correctly diagnose 100 percent of cancerous tumors 100 percent of the time. "The goal is to come as close as possible to that by using this test in combination with other available diagnostic tools." They believe,...Technology already exists to stabilize global warming
...o," said Pacala. "But the rigorous analysis is not going to be possible until the warming is upon us or not, as the case may be," Pacala continued. "The alternative to acting now is to watch the experiment happen and then find out how accurate we were." A strong case for action comes from three l...Flame retardant levels much higher in farmed salmon
...lly persistent." "Secondly, the concentrations are going up, and that seems to me to be a bad idea," Hites continues. While levels of all the organochlorine chemicals from the previous study are on the wane, PBDEs have been rising continuously for the past few years, he says. Officials are still debating t...New OHSU lab will speed drug discovery process
...sers. "This kind of training program is going to be very valuable," Koop said. ...Brain's reward circuitry revealed in procrastinating primates
...n to use visual cues to predict how their work was going to get them a reward." Richmond, Zheng Liu, Ph.D., Edward Ginns, M.D., and colleagues, report on their findings in the August 17, 2004 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, published online the week of August 9th. Richmond's team traine...Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won't work, study shows
...they do work, the people conducting the trials are going to have to do further investigation on why they are working, because the rationale that we've been using for cycling doesn't hold true." The study is based on numerical models that examined the mechanics of how microbial infections spread in hos...New hypoxic event found off Oregon coast
...om normal conditions and you have to wonder what's going on. This ocean system has changed, and we're paying attention." The issue is sufficiently important that OSU scientists from the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans and the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences have joi...Preschool bolsters early childhood immunity, reduces risk of young adult Hodgkin's lymphoma
...are or nursery school for at least one year before going to kindergarten are about 36 percent less likely than those not in preschool to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma as young adults, according to scientists reporting in this month's edition of the journal Cancer Epidemiology , Biomarkers & Prevention . E...Travelers' diarrhea not improved by restricted diet
...or is freshly cooked. "Tell the waiter that you're going to require everything served steaming hot," said Dr. DuPont....Climate change could doom Alaska's tundra
...n everything we've learned, when we predict what's going to happen during a 20-year period about a century from now, we can be fairly confident. We also test these models by running them backward into the past, and the results are quite accurate." Bachelet and her colleagues at OSU and the U.S. Fore...Gulf of Maine marine ecosystem may have entered new phase
...k. "While there is no fear of these species going extinct," he adds, "entire sections of the food web have become so rare that they no longer perform critical ecological functions in the marine community. This is called food web (or trophic level) dysfunction." When such species as cod were ...MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
... a whole set of issues about what universities are going to be in the 21st century," said Lawrence Busch, a...ype of agreement is just asking for trouble and is going to get you more grief than benefits." The group of 10 MSU experts essentially conducted a post-mort...