Impact of Earth's rising atmospheric carbon dioxide found in world oceans
...on. Today CO 2 levels are reaching 380 parts per million in the atmosphere. "If the ocean had not removed ...evel in the atmosphere would be about 55 parts per million greater than currently observed," said Sabine. "Because CO 2 is an acid gas, the surface ocean pH...Wildland fires: After the smoke clears
...01-2002, the Department of the Interior spent $118 million in post-fire rehabilitation. Post-fire brings floods, debris flows, invasive species, altered ecosystems, economic impact. Burn severity maps help determine where assistance and treatment is needed. Landslide and debris flow assessments help deter...Scientists issue statement on scientific peer review
...ientific organizations representing over a quarter million individual scientists have issued a statement on scientific peer review. The American College of Preventive Medicine, American Fisheries Society, American Institute of Biological Sciences, American Public Health Association, American Society of Agron...90 million year old dino tracks found on resort island
...atian Museum of Natural History in Zagreb, found90 million year old dinosaur tracks and trackways on the isla...at covered what is nowsouthern Europe more than 90 million years ago. The largest trackway found so far consists of a dozen or more tracks madeby at leas...Research to Prevent Blindness awards $4.8 million
... past 18 months, RPB has committed more than $12.9 million to eye research. Across the nation, RPB-supported laboratories are investigating the entire spectrum of eye disease, from cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy to macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and eye movement disorders. The or...Scientists identify molecular link driving spread of skin cancer
...ly key target for molecular therapy. More than one million cases of basal cell or squamous cell skin cancers occur annually; melanoma and other non-epithelial skin cancers will cause an estimated 10,250 deaths in 2004....European researchers tackle mitosis
... Programme (FP6). The partners will receive an 8.5 million Euro grant to address a fundamental question: How is cell division regulated? Cell division (or "mitosis") is one of the key processes of life. Mistakes during mitosis can cause infertility and mental retardation, and can contribute to cancer. For th...Most Americans not sure about the sources of high cholesterol
...tive Chronic Illness Panel(CIP) consists of over 1 million households where members have been screened for more than 50 separate medical conditions. The panel members are recruited from among Harris Interactive's general online consumer panel. The CIP allows targeted and effective sampling on specific popu......enome began in June 2003. NHGRI provided about $30 million in funding for the project to the Broad Institute, which is part of NHGRI's Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network. To learn more about the rapidly expanding field of comparative genomic analysis, go to: www.genome.gov/10005835 . To read the white...Institute for OneWorld Health receives Gates Foundation grant
...n the U.S., announced today it has received a $1.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to ... the developing world. Globally, more than 300 million cases of malaria occur annually and one million people, mostly children, die of the disease. Resist...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...That brings total funding so far to more than $1.2 million in support of 31 projects led by faculty members o...e Systems" $50,000 A growing percentage of the 535 million cell phones sold each year contain cameras, and the improvements in picture quality have mostly come...Scientists discover key step in the development of nerve cells controlling autonomic functions
...scientific serials. PNAS Online receives nearly 4 million hits per month. This research was supported by the Neuromuscular Research Partnership, an initiative of ALS Canada, Muscular Dystrophy Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Dr. Stefano Stifani is an Associate Professor in th...UCSD biologists discover cell's defense mechanism against class of disease-causing bacterial toxins
...us pneumoniae, the bacterium responsible for seven million cases of otitis media in children and 500,000 cases of pneumonia in children and adults in the United States each year. The toxins also play a major role in infections from Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that causes ulcers; Legionella pneumophila, ...National Bioinformatics Resource Center to support infectious disease research
... its partners have been awarded a five-year, $10.3 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The purpose of this contract is to establish a national Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) that consists of a multi-or...DFG announces three percent budget increase
...ships and Research Units. In 2003 it invested 516 million in the Individual Grants Programme, following 504 million in 2002 and 469 million in 2001. The DFG has thus once again, as was the case in previous years, me...Gene therapy alternative to calcium channel blockers
...lar rhythmic beating of the heart. As many as 2.2 million Americans are living with atrial fibrillation (one type of rhythm problem.) Arrhythmias can occur in a healthy heart and be of minimal consequence, or they can lead to more serious heart disease, stroke or sudden cardiac death. According to statist...Confidentiality of genetic databases questioned by Stanford researchers
... many genetic differences. Each person has about 5 million such sites in their DNA. Using a statistical model, the researchers found that matching 100 of these sites would identify an individual to a high degree of certainty. In theory, if a person collected a small amount of genetic information about a form...Call for greater involvement of developing world scientists in fight against AIDS
...e, the disease caused the death of more than three million people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the best efforts of some of the world's most prominent scientists, a vaccine that would protect against the disease is still a long way from reality. Drugs that help fight the virus and alleviate the dise......e U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 20 million Americans are already infected with HPV. To survive and proliferate, HPV-infected cells require continued production of two proteins called E6 and E7, which are created according to the instructions of RNA, or ribonucleic acid, templates. Clawson and...