Marijuana use could cause tubal pregnancies
...in the United States each year (out of more than 6 million total pregnancies) and account for about 9 percent of all pregnancy-related deaths in the country. Risk factors include pelvic inflammatory disease, which can scar the fallopian tubes, and smoking. At the same time, surveys indicate that a significan...Rice finds 'on-off switch' for buckyball toxicity
...e concentration of these modified buckyballs by 10 million times to more than 5 million parts per billion. "We're encouraged to see that controlling the surface properties of buckyballs al...Researchers create nanotubes that change colors, form 'nanocarpet' and kill bacteria
... expanse of upright clusters that when magnified a million times resemble the fibers of a shag rug. Moreover, unlike other nanotube structures, these tubes display sensitivity to different agents by changing color and can be trained to kill bacteria, such as E. coli, with just a jab to its cell membrane. Ho...Master of antimalarial resistance
...one of the lead authors of the paper. Nearly three million people, mostly children, die from malaria each year. Chloroquine is one of the most affordable and widely used antimalarial drugs available, but chloroquine-resistant malaria has become an increasingly serious problem in the developing world, with de...'Gene chips' research in cotton could lead to superior variety
...Experiment Station scientist, is working on a $5.7 million National Science Foundation project led by Thomas ... They recently received a five-year award of $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program for their ongoing studies of phys...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
...e predatory reptiles that lived as far back as 280 million years ago. Scientists have never been able to figu...as recently as the 1980s."Dinocephalosaurus is 230 million years old and dates from the Triassic. It has 25 cervical vertebrae to Tanystropheus' 12, which migh...University of Alberta researcher looks for clues to mysterious disease
...mutant alleles from both their parents. That's the million dollar question--how does ATM work, and we're slowly getting closer to understanding it." ...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...w sea in present-day southeast China more than 230 million years ago. The creature's relatively stiff, 1.7-meter-long neck (approximately five and a half feet) was almost twice as long as its trunk which measured less than one meter in length. These findings appear as a "Brevia" article in the 24 September, ...Poplar DNA code cracked -- a step in combating global warming?
... trees. Populus trichocarpa has in fact 'only' 520 million base pairs (the DNA building blocks), which is abo...rs needed just over two years to determine the 520 million base pairs, distributed among 19 chromosomes. By comparing the genomes of these two model organisms...$7.5 Million grant to Yale researchers for role of viruses in cancer
...ncer Institute recently awarded a five-year, $7.5 million program project grant to investigators at the Yale School of Medicine to continue studies on the role of viruses and mutant cellular proteins in tumorigenic transformation of cells. This grant, "Program on the Molecular Basis of Viral and Cellular...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
...se in aging, currently affecting approximately 4.5 million Americans. The number will increase as the older segment of the population increases. If there are no significant improvements in treatment, there will be a three-fold increase in the number of persons with Alzheimer's disease in the U.S. by 2050....The book opens on the first tree genome
...gy's Office of Science has provided a total of $12 million for the poplar initiative, including $8 million for sequencing and $4 million for associated research. The two-year project was coordinated out of ...NSF and AIBS sign cooperative agreement for NEON project office
...ON) enters a new phase today. With a two-year, $6 million cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) will set up a NEON design consortium and project office to develop a blueprint for the network and a plan for its implementation. ...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
...cience Foundation today announced a $12.4 ($12.376 million for five years) million grant for a new nanoscale science and engineering center to be headquartered at Northeastern Univers...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...proved global exposure thanks to a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources-National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded to Keith Cheng, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, Penn State College of Medicine. The grant will support the creation of a virtual zebrafis...UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
...'s oceans since at least the Eocene epoch, some 55 million years ago. Because rhodoliths probably grow very slowly in Alaska's cold waters, Riosmena-Rodriguez said they probably have been in Alaska a very long time, perhaps long enough to have evolved into an entirely new species. While they searc...AIBS tapped to coordinate design of ecological observatories
...EON) enters a new phase today. With a two-year, $6 million cooperative agreement between the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the National Science Foundation now in place, the NEON Design Consortium and Project Office will be set up to develop a blueprint for the network and a plan for it...'Fossil genes' reveal how life sheds form and function
...e relatively recent. Sometime in the last 5 to 10 million years the pressure (on these genes) started to relax," Carroll explains....Wastewater could treat itself, power city
...oduce 113 megawatts of electricity or close to 990 million kilowatt hours a year. "With a 20 per cent recovery of that potential energy into electricity, the wastewater treatment plants could produce enough electricity for their own operation," says civil engineering professor David Bagley, who conducted...Yale digital diagnostic technology is basis of new company, HistoRx Inc.
...School of Medicine's archive holds more than three million tissue samples collected over the past 70 years. Robert Curtis, president, CEO and co-founder of HistoRx, said, "The company is grounded in the firm belief that the power of AQUA TM , coupled with the extensive clinical data of the Yale ...