Common airborne substance makes asthmatics more sensitive to house dust mites: study
...oxin, ozone and other airborne agents share common interactive mechanisms that may increase allergen sensitivity and disease severity in people with asthma. "There is also the possibility of finding drugs to block that interaction and prevent the worsening of asthma," Boehlecke said.Along with Alexis and Boeh...CIESIN receives grant to establish government biological information site
...mation resources, provides users with new types of interactive analysis and visualization capabilities, and conducts research about human interactions with the environment as well as about the management of data and information. By combining these activities in a single institution, CIESIN redefines what it mean...MIT student dances with robots
...t step in Gentry's far-off goal: to design a truly interactive robot leader "who could signal move changes in advance, who could recognize an error in the follower and execute a different move to compensate for it"--just like an experienced human leader does. Her motive is not to create a robot substitute for he...The scoop on poop: Insect feces, dead leaves may provide clues to health of world
...he JASON expedition team in real time through live interactive satellite broadcasts, Webcasts and chats on the Internet....New evidence points to pollution as main cause of much coral reef destruction
...aspect of the work was the group's findings on the interactive effects of nutrients and grazers on reefs. The team worked with conch and sea hares, which are grazers naturally found in the area, as well as parrotfish. At each study site they set up cages where the number of grazers was controlled. Some had no gr...New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna
... emerging; this picture is portrayed in a dynamic, interactive mapping system. The insights gained from this 3D visualization are critical to understanding and managing marine resources, underscoring the need for scientists to share their findings with fishermen, managers, researchers and educators worldwide. A...Seeing the forest for the trees: The future of environmental policy lies in interaction
... intended." Liu said a solution is to consider the interactive effects of different policies rather than in isolation. It places different demands on policy making, forcing experts to look beyond their own fields and requiring various government agencies to work together. "To meet the challenges of environmental...Oxidation processes basis of interdisciplinary research, graduate training
...ped to modify oxidative stress. "We are looking at interactive systems," says Duncan. For example, Ed Smith, associate professor of animal and poultry sciences, is studying the genetics of a bird that has a long life. "He's looking at oxidative stresses to see what is different from short-lived birds. He will pr...New Web site for biogeoscience community announced
...particularly excited about facilitating web-based, interactive communications that will allow biogeoscience to rapidly mature," Cutter says. Another interactive feature is an image gallery where users can share pictures for educational purposes. Due to the inhe...Five Marine Conservation leaders receive world's top award from Pew Institute for Ocean Science
...t Program in Sulawesi, Indonesia, who will develop interactive conservation courses to educate Indonesians about the threats to coral reefs and encourage actions to protect them. Julia Horrocks, Ph.D., a marine ecologist at the University of the West Indies, who will expand and strengthen sea turtle conservatio...APP reports Abraxane(TM) is active in breast cancer patients who failed taxol or taxotere
...e tumor to fight cancer cells." "This biologically interactive nanoparticle, through its novel albumin receptor-mediated mechanism of action, provides an opportunity to realize the full therapeutic potential of chemotherapeutic agents, while minimizing the drug's side effects, in the treatment of solid tumors. ......eoscience are also featured. One of the exciting, interactive features of biogeosciences.org is a discussion for...he debate as to where do we go from here." Another interactive feature is an image gallery where pictures are exchanged freely for educational purposes. For those...Ancient brewery discovered on mountaintop in Peru
...site of expeditions@fieldmuseum.org TM , a free, interactive online program that follows Field Museum scientists as they conduct scientific research around the world. Through this expedition website, the public can subscribe to free email dispatches from scientists working in the field. Currently, the site fea...Virtual counselor supplements traditional genetic counseling
HERSHEY, PAAn interactive computer program developed at Penn State College of Medicine is as effective as one-on-one genetic counseling for increasing knowledge of breast cancer and genetic testing among women at low risk for breast cancer. Counselors were, however, mor......get protein IAP," said Wang. "We realized that the interactive motif of Smac with that protein is only four amino acids, so it was possible to make a small-molecule mimic." According to HHMI investigator Steven F. Dowdy, who co-authored a Perspectives article in Science, the key to the study is that Wang and hi...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...d with new semantic technologies that will support interactive navigation across many sources from many viewpoints, at the level of concepts rather than data." Technologies to statistically analyze the information sources to enable semantic indexing will be developed by ChengXiang Zhai, professor of computer sci...Winning combination to build bone density in children
... in bone density. Few studies have examined the interactive effects of calcium intake and activity, especially...ract The purpose of this study was to assess the interactive effects of habitual physical activity (total and vigorous intensity) and calcium intake on bone mine...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
...ecasts of temperatures and precipitation; creating interactive models, visualizations and scenarios to understand complex relationships; investigating the cognitive processes by which people and water managers make decisions; developing and applying sophisticated models of decision science to water allocatio...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...n. "This grant will allow us to make that research interactive by providing an essential architecture for the sof... dedicated lightpaths will also permit super-fast, interactive control of ocean-going instruments along with real-time access to the data from those instruments." ...