Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
...elivery room and the other regarding inducement of labor to mask the real aim of the survey. The order in which the questions were asked was changed randomly. "It comes out pretty much the same, whether you ask it by itself or ask it in the context of other questions, and no matter what order th...DNA barcode finds four new bird species
...tics. They use DNA too, but current techniques are labor intensive and difficult to compare. Zoologist Paul Hebert, Ph.D., at the University of Guelph, the first author on the PLoS Biology paper, proposed that a short DNA sequence from a gene found in all animals can be used to identify species be...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...a back-up timer trips a control circuit. To lessen labor and also protect against mold, the researchers are...for the livestock. Consumption of water, seed, and labor are also being monitored. "We want to be aware of microclimate variances," says Pate. "W...APS showcases 46 historic breakthrough research articles
...shelf space dating back to 1898 has "truly been a labor of love." To celebrate the completion of the Legacy Project, APS identified 46 articles published in the APS journals that have proven vital to the discipline of physiology and the evolution of modern-day medicine. "The articles epitomize the ever-...OHSU researchers discover possible method for early detection, prevention of premature birth
...uickly detecting one of the major cases of preterm labor and then treating it, we believe this finding could have a very significant impact and likely save young lives." To conduct this research, Gravett and his colleague Srinivasa Nagalla, M.D., teamed animal and human studies with state-of-the-art...LSU researcher discovers new bird
...irds began when he was "three or four," it's all a labor of love. Lane, a New Jersey native who earned his master's from LSU in 1999, says his quest for the mystery bird dates back to 2000. As a part-time international bird-watching tour guide for WINGS Tours, Lane was one of the leaders of a group...Global competition closes Texas sawmills/paper mills
...ost of doing business in the United States. Higher labor and transportation costs combined with increased emphasis on environment quality have made southern U.S. sawlog prices some of the highest in the world. The total cost of producing pine sawlogs in the United States is 150 percent higher than that of ...UCSD study shows how we perceive world depends on precise division of labor among cells in brain
...brain at any time-point is a matter of division of labor between specialized neurons," explains Scanziani, an assistant professor of biology. "Each neuron literally 'picks' the type information it is supposed to process, that it is competent for. Very much like each musician in an orchestra only reads tha...Male susceptibility to disease may play role in evolution of insect societies
...ng behaviors possibly affected are the division of labor between males and females and the relative social ... of disease transmission in a colony. Division of labor is a prime example. While colonies vary widely in the total number of individuals, females vastly ou...Genetic barrier to self-pollination identified
... in an adjacent row. However, this process is very labor intensive and invariably expensive. If the crop pl...d of hybrid seed and, at the same time, reduce the labor costs....Tiny beetle wreaks havoc on Texas ornamental tree nurseries
...wing season, a practice that is both expensive and labor consuming. More effective controls were once available, but as their labels expired, they were not re-licensed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This was because either the chemicals were considered hazardous or the chemicals' manufacture...New proteomics core at OHSU will speed discovery process
...logy couldn't keep up with discoveries. But the labor intensity of the procedure is now a thing of the past for researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine. The Proteomics Shared Resource, an unassuming but state-of-the-art lab on the fifth floor of OHSU's Medical Research B...Pre-term labor drug sensitizes brain to pesticide injury
....C. -- A drug commonly prescribed to halt pre-term labor and stave off premature birth might leave the brai... new study found that rats exposed to the pre-term labor drug terbutaline suffer greater brain cell damage than those not given the drug upon secondary expos......e working with human embryonic stem cells time and labor intensive, but - because so few survive freezing - it may also mean that natural selection is altering the stored cells in unknown and undesired ways, he says. But now Palecek, along with colleagues Juan de Pablo and Lin Ji, are putting the finishing...Fetal lungs provide a signal initiating labor, UT Southwestern researchers find
...e a link between a specific fetal lung protein and labor has been identified, said Dr. Carole Mendelson, pr...currently available online. The initiation of term labor is carefully timed to begin only after the embryo is sufficiently mature to survive outside the womb...Preventative bed rest during pregnancy may be more harmful than helpful
... United States each year in order to prevent early labor and other pregnancy complications. Although there is lack of clinical evidence that bed rest is indeed effective, obstetricians continue to prescribe it. The NIH supported study, led by Dr. Judith A. Maloni of the Bolton School of Nursing at Case W...Pesticide exposure among agricultural workers varies by job task
...y, involved 571 farm workers in 24 communities and labor camps who were interviewed about their pesticide-exposure patterns. Dust samples from households and vehicles of 213 randomly selected study participants were checked for the presence of six organophosphorous pesticides. Urine samples from these work...Two-drug approach might shorten painful labor, reduce Caesarean sections
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The nationwide rise in induced labor and Caesarean deliveries could be eased by an expe...ual drug approach that not only safely jump-starts labor but also remodels the cervix to allow for speedy natural delivery, scientists report. A combination ...Rare ant may help solve some mysteries of social evolution
...s, specialized workers raid colonies to secure the labor force needed to forage for food, care for the queen and so on. Slave-makers therefore rely on overt aggression to make a living, but L. minutissimus is apparently accepted into host colonies without any violence. Assuming that slave-making worker ant...Academy Harbor Consortium releases letter on mercury to President Bush
...eral government and regulatory agencies, academia, labor and conservation organizations. The group's work has been to quantify the sources, sinks and flows of mercury and methylmercury in the New York/New Jersey Harbor Watershed in order to identify where pollution prevention could contribute to long-term...