Four tourist destinations named best worldwide
...d the best examples in the tourism industry of the ideal balance between nature conservation, the protection of heritage sites, social responsibility and commerce. One winner was named in each of four categories: Nature Travel, Heritage Tourism, General Purpose Hotels and Resorts, and Destination Stewa...Common worm provides insights into salmonella virulence
...athogen and host is so important." C elegans is an ideal model for genetic studies, Aballay said, because the worm takes only three days to develop from an embryo to an adult capable of reproducing. Also, scientists can easily manipulate specific genes in the worm, and as opposed to other animal models, la...NPS Pharma and VIMAC Ventures locate at MaRS, a major new research and enterprise center in Toronto
...wn Toronto. These firms have selected MaRS as the ideal global destination to pursue research and commercial opportunities in the fast-emerging medical and related technology fields. MaRS Centre will become the primary location for NPS's research and development activities in Canada while VIMAC, a ventu...Data show investigational antibiotic safe, effective in preventing travelers diarrhea
...ut-selective" in clinical trials — make it an ideal drug for prevention of diarrhea in international travelers. It particularly practical in that it was effective in preventing illness with as little as one dose a day." About the Study The randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluate...Embryonic stem cell - based tissue engineering may help repair damaged heart muscle
...ave been working for a long time on developing the ideal scaffolding to support the injected cells and the architecture of the organ," said Dr. Kofidis. "We have identified a collagen, a mesh-like structure, that we have manipulated into an excellent framework. The cells distribute evenly into this meshwor...Testing soil for contamination
...is easy to use, can test soil and sediment, and is ideal for rapid screening of land for pollutants providing instant results saving lab time and costs." The tester harnesses the Eignos navigation system, and in future will use the new Galileo navigation system just launched by the European Space Agency to...Domesticated tree crops may be the 'future of forestry'
...irst step in eventually developing trees with many ideal characteristics, such as insect resistance, improv...ional breeding - mating male and female trees with ideal growth characteristics, sowing their seeds and planting out seedlings. However, ideal parents are no...Second generation targeted antibodies - It's all in the binding
...anti-tumor activity in patients, they are far from ideal because they bind to EGFR on both cancer cells and normal cells. As a result, they target normal tissues as well as the tumor, and side-effects, although mild, are common." Perhaps more importantly, the 'first generation' antibodies are limited in th...Trial found no impact of Malarone(TM) on performance and alertness tasks
...ntinued daily until 7 days after travel, making it ideal for people who spend only a short period of time in an endemic area, such as aircrew. Malarone TM is approved for the prophylaxis and treatment of P. falciparum malaria, the most common and serious type of malaria....Taxanes may enhance immunity in breast cancer patients
...er Research. Carson says the research team had the ideal population to study, with the results of critical immune functions taken immediately after the patients' enrollment in the earlier study already on file. All of the women were part of an ongoing clinical trial at Ohio State running from 1994-2006 to ...First target for childhood malaria vaccine
... parasites from East and West Africa, making it an ideal candidate for a universal vaccine to boost immunity to severe malaria in young children....Staying close to mother helps baby dolphins swim
...s, who are more powerful swimmers, by adopting the ideal position to get a 'free ride' in the mother's slip...other's swimming efforts to carry it along. In the ideal position the mother can provide close to 90% of the thrust needed for the young cetacean to move at ...UCSD finds genetic time bomb in heart that leads to heart failure in some patients
...y resembled the human disease and therefore was an ideal experimental animal model for studies of this form of congenital heart disease caused by the Nkx2-5 mutation." To determine what was causing the excessive overgrowth in the hearts of Nkx2-5-deficient humans and mice, the UCSD researche...Research finds lawn chemicals raise cancer risk in Scottish terriers
...sition toward developing bladder cancer makes them ideal as "sentinel animals" for researchers like Glickman because they require far less exposure to a carcinogen than other breeds before contracting the disease. "You might compare them to the canaries used in coal mines a century ago," he said. "The diff...A fly (genome) like any other fly
...als -- to everyone, Langley said. Drosophila is an ideal test platform for studying how individual differences in the genome translate into differences in appearance, physiology and behavior, Langley said. It has been intensely studied by a large community of scientists and has a relatively small genome. T...Vanderbilt's John Oates wins clinical research award
...estigation of human pharmacology, this has been an ideal setting." Oates said the Vanderbilt General Clinical Research Center has been recognized as one of the leading GCRC's in the United States, and a great asset to the Medical School. "The General Clinical Research Center has provided essential resour...Discovery could improve anemia treatment in patients
...ion while we're trying to resolve the anemia. The ideal would be to control infection while allowing enough iron for red blood cell production." HFE has long been known to control iron absorption. Andrews' lab has previously shown that a lack or a defect in HFE causes an opposite condition -- hereditary ...HHMI commits more than $30 million to help reverse brain drain, beat infectious diseases
...nally competitive lab, which provides training and ideal working conditions for many graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduate student researchers." In HHMI's first infectious diseases and parasitology research competition in 2000, 45 scientists in 20 countries received grants to study the basic biolo...Gene with key role in replicating pox viruses also halts inflammation
...lly identical to the smallpox genome, making it an ideal model virus to use in the laboratory to understand how smallpox and other dangerous poxviruses function, Shisler said. In their research, Shisler and Xiao-Lu Jin, a research specialist in microbiology, found that a 5.2 kb segment of vaccinia virus DN...... source that formally opened Jan. 29, would be the ideal place for that. ''We propose to build a new facility at SPEAR3 where the structure of water would be a large part of the scientific drive,'' he says. ''Water covers the majority of the Earth's surface, is present in all forms of life and is perhaps t...