5 Million award for pioneering project to train new breed of scientists
...ta about molecules and cells means that biology an increasingly complex science. Scientists who can use the latest technology to mine the data and answer difficult answers about biological function are scarce. The new Doctoral Training Centre in Molecular Organisation and Assembly in Cells (MOAC) will fund the 50......h is causing mounting environmental concern and is increasingly subject to legislation. Yet current data on how much waste is produced, what it comprises, where it goes, and how much this all costs the Welsh economy, are simply not known. "The information we have on business waste in Wales confirms there is a ser...Whats next as biology, math combine forces, reciprocate in discovery
...on just keeps growing, mathematics and biology are increasingly commingled in efforts yielding discoveries. Joel E. Cohen, director of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller University, will examine the convergence Thursday, June 12, in a lecture titled, "Mathematics is Biology's Next Microscope, Only Bett...Science Picks-Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (June 2003)
...la rupincola - Molecular genetic tools have become increasingly important in wildlife studies. Genetic techniques contribute to analyses of population dynamics and can document genetic diversity in a variety of species, including Greater Sage-Grouse, Gunnison Sage-Grouse, Trumpeter Swans, Midget Faded Rattlesnake...Environment loses to economic development in local policy-making
Local environmental policy makers are increasingly losing out to their colleagues involved in economi... by concrete measures. "The environment must be an increasingly important part of any debate about urban and regional development," concludes Prof Gibbs. "Yet none ...Few microbiological differences in households using antibacterials
...f biocides, also called antibacterials, has become increasingly popular for regular household use. While originall...gents among sick patients, these same products are increasingly incorporated into domestic household cleaners, healthcare products, clothes, and plastics," says Bon......help ensure their long-term survival." Turtles are increasingly threatened by human exploitation and development-related pressures. Of particular concern is the unrelenting demand from the Asian food and traditional medicine market with more than half of the continent's 90 species endangered or critically endange...Enzyme could overcome industrial bleaching waste problems
...o natural products water and oxygen. Industry is increasingly using peroxide in industrial bleaching processes and needs an environmentally friendly process to handle process wastes. The T. brockianus catalase works well in the hot, alkaline process wastewater where commercially available catalase enzymes do no...Pathogenic yeasts and fungi: A growing health concern
...de effects and to which the pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant. "Antibiotics can kill bacteria without bad side effects, but because fungi contain cellular machinery and proteins similar to our own, it's hard to find agents to kill fungi that don't have negative effects on us," Wheeler explains. Probi...In potentially important discovery, scientists find two forms of genetic material chromatin
...at different positions," Lieb said. "It has become increasingly clear that specific combinations of histone modifications are linked to underlying gene activity." Based on its emerging importance, the information stored in histones and their modifications has been dubbed the "histone code," he said. Packaging DNA...War on germs gets cutting-edge weapon from ancient world technique
...s especially useful today, when germs are becoming increasingly resistant to modern antibiotics. "Research shows that the mechanisms by which silver ions act against microbes are different than those by which antibiotics act, explains Dr. Bhatkal of AgION Technologies. Silver also has multiple mechanisms of ac...Johns Hopkins receives $24 million from Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to study sudden cardiac death
... sparing others. Therefore, treatment will become increasingly customized to the patient, based upon knowledge of the individual abnormalities underlying a person's risk for sudden death." An estimated three to four million Americans with hardening of the arteries currently are candidates for implantable defibr...Arsenic in New England wells more widespread than thought
...o grow as the region's growing suburban population increasingly depends on drinking water obtained from existing and newly built private wells, the researcher says. High-growth suburban and rural areas in the region extend from the Boston area to Portland, Maine. "These private wells are generally not regulated ...Gametes and embryos from mammalian stem cells: religious and ethics perspectives
...an ethicists try to ground their commitments on an increasingly outdated picture of nature and how nature works. M...ay, nature reveals its own vulnerability, becoming increasingly pliable in our hands. Where will we find wisdom to guide us?"...Highway deaths highest for males Male urban squirrels, that is
...pez said. He noted that fox squirrels have become increasingly of interest to biologists as they have adapted to living in cities, because their presence in large numbers may have an impact on landscapes and diseases. But little is known about fox squirrels in Texas, so Lopez and his students made the 400-acre ...Advances in prosthetic, orthopedic, and audiologic diagnostic tools
...provides explanations for each question. TRT is an increasingly popular method for treating patients with severe tinnitus (ringing in the ears). TRT is highly structured, including the use of verbal interview forms to assess patients for treatment and treatment outcomes. Current interview forms are, however, diff...Research and development takes robots and automation into new territory
...e and skillful. "Researchers and technologists are increasingly striving toward developing innovative techniques that include the use of artificial intelligence and progress to less human supervision," states Technical Insights Analyst Anand Subramanian. These modern robotics systems aid surgeons performing compl...Nitric oxide-like drug could revive a failing heart
...rt keeps working, people with the condition become increasingly short of breath and tired, even with minimal exertion. Kass and colleagues studied 11 dogs with heart failure and nine without, comparing the effects of nitroxyl anion, nitric oxide and nitroglycerin on the heart. Nitroxyl anion worked well in bot...As Vitamin B-6 levels go down, numbers of DNA strand breaks go up
...amin B-6 status. After three months of consuming increasingly high levels of dietary and/or supplemental Vitamin B-6, the smokers eventually reached acceptable levels. But they never caught up with their non-smoking counterparts. Considering Vitamin B-6's role in DNA synthesis and repair, these results furthe...The roots of human behavior? AAAS and The Hastings Center host a public meeting
.... Finally, Duster predicts that we're going to be increasingly inclined to give up certain freedoms, for example providing the police with our DNA samples, in return for greater sense of security. Turning to the courtroom, Harold Edgar of Columbia University predicts that the concepts of behavioral genetics may...