The birth of reproductive health: A difficult delivery
... published today, as a "sneak peak" of the October launch issue of PLoS Medicine ( http://www.plosmedicine.org ), the new open access global health journal from the Public Library of Science, Dr El Feki argues that since the Cairo Conference, "a fierce battle has emerged between religious conservatives who ...A room with a view for the International Space Station: Completion of the cupola observation module
...y 6 September. The cupola, currently scheduled for launch in January 2009, is an observation and control tower for the ISS, with windows that will provide a panoramic view for observing and guiding operations on the outside of the station. The pressurised module will accommodate command and control worksta...Biologists deciphering complex lemur scent language
...ands there. So armed — or tailed — they launch their attacks, feathery tails arched over their backs, ears flattened and squeaking warnings. They relentlessly flick their tails at one another until one of the adversaries comes to his scentses, gets the odiferous message and retreats. But until t...Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
... join the system following their initial satellite launch next year. The turtles' tracks were then overlaid with maps of sea level anomalies obtained by merging data with the radar altimeter aboard ESA's ERS-2 with another aboard the NASA-CNES satellite TOPEX-Poseidon. ERS-2, like its succe......generating vertical and angular momentum when they launch a backflip from the balance beam," she said. "We can advise them on how to shift their weight just a little or spring up just a little sooner to perfect the performance." McNitt-Gray specializes in force impact to the lower extremities, an experimen...Canadian Society of Agronomy partners with Plant Management Network
... A fourth journal, Applied Turfgrass Science, will launch later in 2004. PMN also features field trials, including Biological and Cultural Tests for Control of Plant Diseases, Fungicide and Nematicide Tests, and Commodity Variety Trials; PMN Image Collections; and a Plant Science Database, including more th...Workforce achievements celebrated at NASA Marshall Center Awards ceremony
...pidly create flight simulations for spacecraft and launch vehicles. It is now the primary flight simulation program for NASA. Marshall's Inventor of the Year Award acknowledges employees with patented inventions that have realized commercial potential or contributed significantly to specific NASA programs...Dr. Patricia Limerick to speak at ESA annual meeting
...The Lewis and Clark Expedition as a Parable," will launch the Society's meeting, the theme of which focuses on ecological lessons that can be learned from the two explorers. The ESA Public Plenary is free and open to the public. Born and raised in Banning, California, Patricia Nelson Limerick is a Western ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2004
... an unplanned reentry during the spacecraft's 1997 launch or subsequent gravitational-assist flybys -- a safety feature required by the project. NASA remains an ORNL customer: The iridium alloy-clad vent sets have been used in other deep-space missions (such as Voyager, Galileo and Ulysses) and will be pres...New space-borne instrument to track greenhouse gases, ozone destroyers, and other pollutants
...d Kingdom sources. The U.S. space agency plans to launch the 21-channel radiometer along with three other instruments July 10 aboard its Aura satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. HIRDLS will capture the chemistry and dynamics of four layers of the atmosphere that together span a region 8...How DNA repair machinery is a 'Two-Way Street'
... enable the cell's DNA repair machinery to adeptly launch its action in either direction along a DNA strand to strip out faulty DNA. Such flexibility exemplifies the power of the repair machinery, which guards cells against mutations by editing out errors that occur during the process of chromosome replicat...Donaghue Women's Health Investigator Program awards grants to three at Yale
...put new knowledge to work for public benefit. The launch of The Ethel F. Donaghue Women's Health Investigator Program at Yale in 1998 generated an unprecedented opportunity to advance research on the health of women, and provided the groundwork for the formation of Women's Health Research at Yale the larg...ESA and EADS-CASA sign contract to build instrument for the SMOS mission
...form the core of the SMOS mission. Scheduled for launch in early 2007, SMOS is the second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission to be implemented as part of ESA's Living Planet Programme. The main aim of the mission is to further the development of climatological, meteorological and hydrological models by ob...Nerac delivers journal tracking solution through TOC Journal Watch
...ion services company, today announced the official launch of TOC Journal Watch Plus, an online service that tracks the table of contents from 21,000+ publications. TOC Journal Watch Plus also delivers an easy solution for locating the full-text document through DOI (Digital Object Identifier) platforms, Ope...Insight into transplant rejection might lead to novel prevention therapies
...ptive immune system can recognize the invasion and launch its attack. While physicians have generally attributed organ transplant rejection solely to the adaptive immune system, the new work indicates an important role for the body's first line of defense, Palmer said. Acute rejection occurs in 60 percent o...Land Regeneration Network celebrates first year success
... Geoenvironmental Research Centre said: "Since the launch of the Network in March 2003, the scale of membership growth has rapidly exceeded expectation. Membership currently stands at roughly 1250 individuals from about 890 companies and organisations in Wales - the majority of which are SMEs. Awareness of ...ESA's minature Earth observer put to many uses
...biomes. If selected for development, SPECTRA would launch around 2012.......y's anniversary celebration was also marked by the launch of the new book "Images of America: March of Dimes," featuring hundreds of historic photos from the Salk vaccine field trials to celebrities, such as Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe, and Lucille Ball, who supported the March of Dimes d...DELTA mission heading to ISS with Dutch ESA astronaut
After launch and nine minutes of propelled flight, the Soyuz TMA-4 is in orbit and it will now take the crew, Kuipers, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Edward Fincke, about two days to reach the ISS. They are scheduled to dock at 07:00 CET on ...OneWorld Health plans to form network of volunteer pharmaceutical scientists for global health
...onths. The as-yet unnamed network is projected to launch later this year....