Charting the future in prostate cancer care: A call to action
...cer, and over the next decade, about three million more will be compelled to join the war. The need for n...o defeat this disease. The timing is becoming ever more critical. As the baby boomer men reach the target age for prostate cancer, beginning at age 50, thi...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
...gineering Professor Anbo Wang, will make oil wells more productive. Meanwhile, an economical fuel cell material created by faculty and students with the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute, led by University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry James McGrath, will reduce our dependence on petroleum-ba...Missing genes may help explain why plague bacteria are so deadly
..., possibly giving it an evolutionary leg up on its more benign cousins. Evolutionary pressures may have al...t are not present in its relative, Garcia said the more important finding was the extent and apparent cause of gene inactivation in Y. pestis. "As many as 1...Endangered species list more bleak than originally thought
...ing the list of endangered species much larger and more serious than originally thought, says a study prod...e organisms are uncharismatic parasites, but other more popular animals are also at stake. Proctor cites a host plant vine that became locally extinct in Si...Israeli scientists reveal the plan of a key cellular machine
...the way cells optimize their workload. "It's much more efficient to have a machine on hand, ready to go, than to build a new one each time," they noted. Prof. Sperling's research is supported by the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Center for Structural Biology, the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomole...Study by Israeli scientists provides insight on DNA code
...the way cells optimize their workload. "It's much more efficient to have a machine on hand, ready to go, than to build a new one each time," they noted....The search for a kinder, gentler chemotherapy
...kind of chemistry is folic acid. Cancer cells have more receptors for folic acid and absorb more of the nutrient than healthy cells. In a process akin to hiding a dog's heartworm pill in a glob of ...Newborns have ear preferences, too
...cortex. Therefore, the right ear reacts faster and more accurately to speech-type stimuli than the left ea...lti-center research project that tested hearing in more than 7,000 infants across the country in the 1990s. The project goal was to find the best tool for s...Disruption of protein-folding causes neurodegeneration, mental retardation
...ge disorders, an inherited disease in which one or more enzymes in the lysosomes are defective. Lysosomes ...ell activates a self-destruct program and dies. As more and more brain cells die, the child suffers the symptoms of GM1 gangliosidosis. "No one knew that ...Serotonin metabolites in mollusks suggest pathways for human therapies
...nin pathways could provide novel means by which to more precisely target tissue-specific diseases related ... nervous systems than mammals. "They have larger, more easily identified neurons," Stuart said. Mollusks are also good model systems because they show som...Snakehead in your inbox? Welcome to the nonindigenous Aquatic Species Alert System
...rable because underwater surveillance is certainly more difficult than monitoring land. We anticipate that this tool will be quite useful to the wildlife management community." Before the alert gets to your inbox, the information is checked against the National Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database that...Breaking new ground in germ cell guidance
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...en who live in polluted communities are five times more likely to have clinically low lung function--less ...lung function were to have a cold, they might have more severe lung symptoms, or wheezing," says W. James Gauderman, Ph.D., associate professor of preventiv...The birth of reproductive health: A difficult delivery
... condoms in favour of abstinence and fidelity, and more liberal voices who argue for a full armamentarium....argues, in the case of the US. Although it spends more than any other country on reproductive health--$429 million this year--the money comes with strings ...Early detection hope for eye disease
...ion. We're now at the stage of trialling this much more rigorously in a clinical setting but are very hopeful that this will be a promising new tool that will help doctors screen and monitor the major diseases of the eye." "Some of the existing screening techniques, such as the Fluorescein Angiogram for d...Ventilation in bars, casinos doesn't control health risk for hospitality workers
...m secondhand smoke for 28 years, and has published more than 60 scientific papers on the topic. Among his... Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For more information on Innovators Combating Substance Abuse, please visit www.innovatorsawards.org ....Hunting illusive signs of natural selection
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...viduals in a populationto be healthier and produce more offspring, and these variants become morefrequent ...been transformed as people in Europe beganto drink more cow and goat milk. The result: people that inherited certainvariations of these genes, known as alle...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...rs based on organic materials such as polymers are more suited to a range of practical applications than the more conventional and more inflexible inorganic crystals. Computer models predicted, and laboratory exper...Complex cells likely arose from combination of bacterial and extreme-microbe genomes
...scrutiny of hereditary molecules, which provides a more accurate and detailed picture of the genetic relationships between and among living things. "New computational tools and comparative analyses will undoubtedly find instances in which the evolutionary record will need to be set straight," said Ja...