Fair to showcase innovations in natural resources, forestry
...ers are available to discuss their innovations and offer free publications, guides and software. For more information on the 2004 Innovation Fair, visit http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/calendar/innovation-fair.shtml ....UCSF finding advances insight into adult stem cells in human brain
...regenerating damaged brain tissue - and that could offer new insight into the most common type of brain tumor. The study, conducted by investigators in the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery, is the cover story in the Feb. 19 issue of Nature . The researchers conducted their study on brain speci...Other highlights in the February 18 issue of JNCI
...d insight into the pathogenesis of the disease and offer possible clues toward its prevention," the authors write. In a second study, Chin Hur, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues examined the cost-effectiveness of aspirin as a chemoprevention strategy for esophageal cancer in patients ...Statistical technique helps researchers gain more information from a single data run
...cation shapes are important to diagnosis. Wavelets offer advantages over traditional statistical analysis techniques, including: Ability to remove noise from complex data sets; Sensitivity to the fractal nature and self-similarity of data; Ability to minimize correlation and time-dependency of data; Lo...JCI table of contents, 16 February 2004
...r, these findings suggest that MAPK inhibitors may offer a therapeutic solution for glucocorticoid resistan...ctive effects of Vanin-1 deficiency. These studies offer the enzymatic activity of Vanin-1 as a potential new target for anti-inflammatory treatments. TITLE:...Neurologists create a font of human nerve cells
...source of life-saving treatments, progenitor cells offer great potential, Goldman says. To be sure, progenitor cells lack a key feature of stem cells: Their potential to become nearly any type of cell. But what progenitor cells lack in potential, they make up for with commitment: They have already "decided...Digging for truth in Guatemala
..., WA-- Unmarked graves in the Guatemalan highlands offer mute testimony to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people--many of them Mayans--who were killed by military and paramilitary during the country's bloody civil war. AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, helped train the...Money talks: Concern for biodiversity pressed on boardrooms by new breed of fund managers
...t the adoption of principles of sustainability can offer substantial long-term investor value. A nascent emerging issue is biodiversity. Kerry ten Kate, Director of Investor Responsibility at Insight Investment and a Senior Visiting Fellow at UNU-IAS, says business represents a threat to biodiversity bu...A link between thimerosal and the brain: Can vaccines affect central nervous system function?
...hyperactivity disorder. The research the first to offer an explanation for possible causes of two increasingly common childhood neurological disorders will be published in the April 2004 issue of the journal Molecular Psychiatry, and earlier as advance online publication. Though some speculation exists r...Substances found in blood may predict development of preeclampsia
... predict the development of preeclampsia, we could offer treatment before it becomes a serious problem." In cases where the condition does not progress to eclampsia, infants born to mothers with preeclampsia may be extremely small for their age or may be born prematurely. This may, in turn, place them a...Researchers adapt RNA interference to study gene function on a large scale
...their response in such assays. Such groupings will offer a guide to further biological studies to map the functional cellular protein machinery that the genes produce in living organisms. "The idea is that with this information we might be able to connect a number of proteins together, implying that they...World's largest-ever sea turtle symposium to address plummeting populations of sea turtles
...ea Turtles report at the end of the symposium will offer the most up-to-date information on the status of the world's sea turtles. The world's seven species of sea turtles are under grave danger from threats including over-fishing, destructive fishing practices such as long-lining and trawling of the...Free, public events at the 2004 AAAS Annual Meeting
...dvisor, recently wrote in Science. Prof. King will offer his latest thoughts on global warming, and its impacts to people around the world. Infectious Diseases -- Saturday -- Kenneth R. McIntosh of Children's Hospital, Boston, is an expert on the natural history of pathogenesis, management and treatment of...JCI table of contents, February 2, 2004
...ch regulation of the autoimmune response occur and offer approaches to immune modulation and ultimately tolerance, the immunologist's "Holy Grail." TITLE: Autoreactive T cell responses show proinflammatory polarization in diabetes but a regulatory phenotype in health AUTHOR CONTACT: Mark Peakman King's Col...Primate testes grafted into mice rapidly produce fertile sperm
...s that might die before reproducing. It could also offer reproductive options to men rendered infertile by cancer treatments before they reach puberty. The authors of the report warn, however, that ethical and safety issues will need to be resolved before work on this method proceeds to the production of h...New Georgia Tech Biosciences Center assists life-science startup companies
...C Biosciences Center is the first ATDC facility to offer wet labs. Equipped with fume hoods and sinks, this kind of laboratory space is important for bioscience companies that typically need special ventilation and purified water systems to advance their research. Another hallmark of the new incubator is ...Dazzling new light source opens at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
...r at atomic and molecular scales, and the first to offer beam time to a broad user community of scientists from academic, industry and government labs (based on peer-reviewed proposals). The original SPEAR ring, built for particle physics programs at SLAC, yielded two Nobel prizes as well as fertile ground...Genetic screening recommended to detect new neurodegenerative disorder in men over age 50
...e mechanisms leading to fragile X syndrome and may offer new targets for developing treatments," Paul Hagerman said. In addition, because some carriers of the premutation develop FXTAS while others appear protected, other factors also may play a role in disease development, offering additional clues to the...Rice and M. D. Anderson establish Center for Computational Cancer Research
...ising results are obtained. Such flexibility would offer patients the best therapies as soon as possible. The center's work will further build on advances in analysis technologies that enable the assembly of large databases of detailed profiles of genes and proteins obtained from cancer patients. These dat...Conservation International & Starbucks expand partnership, launch Verde Ventures loan program
...rk and the effort we are making in our fields, and offer us a better price that directly benefits the producers and frees us from intermediaries." In another significant move, Starbucks has renewed its partnership with CI with a total cash contribution of $1.5 million over the next three years. Starbucks...