'Europeans and biotechnology' survey of public perception
...ology, this survey stands as a contribution to the informed debate. The European Commission has emphasised the need for "societal scrutiny and dialogue" in the Life Sciences and Biotechnology - A Strategy for Europe 2002 (COM(2002)27). Europeans are not technophobes. The greater majority thinks that telec...Anthrax threat needs aggressive government action plan, say researchers
... case is detected everyone in the area needs to be informed and directed to where drugs can be administered. "The first people develop symptoms within two days of exposure, and many more would develop symptoms over the next week," said Wein. "Our response needs to be measured in hours, not in days or weeks." ...New study offers clues to how breast cancer spreads
... metastasis, and may provide us a way to make more informed treatment decisions based on a woman's risk."...High-risk women welcome genetic testing for breast cancer gene
...d about what they would learn from such tests, and informed about medical or surgical alternatives that might ...sue. It is an issue of helping women to make more informed choices about their high-risk status with breast cancer."...Study examines chemical safety across United States, effects on population
..., especially in terms of keeping their communities informed about what's going on. While people surveyed in th...ies would be in danger. "We need to have a better informed public -- where the public trusts the information coming out of the chemical industry -- so people a...Genetics, genes and intelligence
... Hope Medical Center and all subjects gave written informed consent. Using the SSCP technique, the authors identified a common single nucleotide polymorphism, A 1890T in the 3'UTR of the CHRM2 gene based on accession No. M16404. To assess which variable was more closely associated with the CHRM2 gene, the aut...Mount Holyoke College series examines advances in human reproductive technologies
...le of producing. We want people to be able to make informed decisions about the regulation and application of this technology, to be able to participate intelligently in public policy decisions. One way to do that is to exchange ideas with scientists, scholars, and artists who are directly involved in these i...New study of healthy men finds semen quality decreases with age
...ing a child," said Wyrobek. "We want couples to be informed when making their decision."...European scholars support development of germ line modification
... good information and communication as well as the informed participation of all relevant stakeholders in diff...vels of involvement in decision making, from being informed and having the possibility to react, to being consulted and having the power to make the actual deci...2,000+ brown recluse spiders in a Kansas home inflict no bites in the occupants, UCR study notes
...ht brown recluses found in California. But he was informed of 120 California bite diagnoses in three years. "Considering the fact that a family of four in Kansas can live in this house with over 2,000 brown recluses and not be bitten," said Vetter, "how many thousands and millions of brown recluses would hav...Screening certain infants can be lifesaving, Wake Forest study shows
...ologists, obstetricians and gastroenterologists be informed of this association." Screening the babies "allows early diagnosis and treatment in the newborn and genetic counseling and prenatal diagnosis in subsequent pregnancies in affected families." The prenatal diagnosis may show that the baby is complet...Testing method improves management of Johne's disease in cows
...f infection, thereby enabling farmers to make more informed decisions about disease management that could impr...cation, says Collins, enables farmers to make more informed decisions on how to handle each cow. In addition to saving farmers money, the method also allows di...International consortium launches genetic variation mapping project
...eveloped to ensure that participants can give full informed consent. No medical or personal identifying information will be obtained from the people providing the samples. The samples, however, will be identified by the population from which they were collected. "Studies like this must be done as ethically an...Washington University's Sarah C. R. Elgin is one of 20 'million dollar professors'
...nd high school classrooms. "We're trying to create informed consumers of genomic information, particularly as it relates to health," Elgin explained. "If we want to make students aware of DNA and their own unique genome, middle school is the right place to start. I want to help teachers lay a useful foundatio...Ghana takes aim at bushmeat hunting
...icer of the Ghana Standards Board Yaw Agyei-Henaku informed the plenary that 30 percent of bushmeat samples collected contained chemical poisoning. Laboratory analysis of bushmeat carcasses revealed the presence of organochlorines, carbamates and organophosphorus, elements commonly found in pesticides. Indeed...Evolution of language: FOXP2 and human uniqueness in religious perspective
...utionary universe. Today, however, scientifically informed Catholic thinkers have little difficulty with the idea that the sacred origin of our specifically human kind of existence is consistent with an evolutionary emergence. This new theological reflection insists on the intrinsic value of other forms of ...Ocean aquaculture: Technology, business practices, policies & caviar
...sted in a sustainable manner so consumers can make informed buying decisions Industry-wide enactment of professional codes of practice Better- coordinated facility planning and operations to maximize social benefits, both regionally and locally To succeed, says Costa-Pierce, "Aquaculture developers will need...Hopkins scientists return to the mouse to overcome some obstacles in working with human stem cells
...ted and characterized at Hopkins, the parents gave informed consent to provide the fetal tissue, but no genetic samples from the parents were taken. Their solution to the obstacles was to mate males of one kind of mouse to females of another kind. From the offspring, the scientists established four new mouse ...Researchers arming farms to halt increases in greenhouse gases
...y and to educate the farmers so that they can make informed decisions about changes in their farm management." Brouder said the Purdue CASMGS group will be developing publications and training modules to complement the outreach effort. In addition to Purdue, universities participating in the consortium are C...Statement by the Ethics Advisory Board of Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.
...sory Board (EAB) exists to provide independent and informed advice to the leadership and researchers of Advanc...cial ties to ACT. The ACT EAB has been kept fully informed of the research to be reported in the July edition of Nature Biotechnology on the generation of immu...