Conference focuses on adults living with autism
...port children on the autism spectrum in inclusive peer play programs. Greg Yates, Member of Autastics, a support group for adult individuals with high functioning autism. He will speak on his topological theory of autism. Autastics Panel, moderated by Adam Pollak, founder of Autastics, and fea......ear, two federal science committees and one public peer review panel with non-government members looked at eight nominated substances. The three scientific review committees evaluated available, published data relevant to listing these substances as "known" or, with less complete data, as "reasonably ant......k, Ph.D., of NIEHS said. Dr. Melnick chaired the peer review organizing committee. Because of years of controversy over some of the studies and their meaning, Dr. Melnick said the review has attracted attention from environmentalists, industry, as well as government and academic scientists world...John D. Gearhart's response to President Bushs stem cell decision
...d up the process and will eventually add important peer review and oversight, hallmarks of good scientific research. Through the Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins is committed to pursuing stem cell research with the eventual goal of helping people with currently incurable diseases or injuries...Investigating a 'protective gene' against alcoholism
...n, family intactness, being employed, and positive peer influences. These are called protective factors. ...nt or poor family ties, unemployment, and negative peer influence - are considered risk factors. These factors, like genes, can differ somewhat between eth...New contact-lens materials will revolutionize the industry, UT Southwestern researchers report
... have a scientific-based rationale that has passed peer review at high levels that exactly predicts our current epidemiological risk pattern and strongly suggests that these new lenses will be the breakthrough in reducing risk for infection that everyone has been waiting for, said Cavanagh. Cavanagh said ...Scientists develop protein nanoarrays for biological detection
...s and proteomic arrays are allowing researchers to peer into the genetic code of individuals and develop leads for important therapeutic agents in the pharmaceutical industry. Current technology uses arrays of either proteins or DNA on the micrometer level as screening tools for analyzing DNA, protein-pro...Rare fossilized tube feet suggest functional shift through time
...sils in the Hunsrueck Slate, X-ray techniques that peer into the rock have long been employed. But X-rays, especially older ones, can yield controversial images, Glass said. Some paleontologists have argued that what appear to be soft tissues preserved in the slate are misidentifications of skeletal stru...NHGRI prioritizes model organisms for sequencing
...arch community). The selection process is based on peer review of the white papers by a distinguished pane...retary for Research, Education and Economics. "The peer review process that has placed the chicken and honey bee in the high priority category is good news ...Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
...ology students have access to teaching assistants, peer tutors and computer-based information and learning tools. • Develop a new web-based tutorial and placement system, focusing on stoichiometry and problem-solving skills in General Chemistry and support follow-up workshops that will enable studen...NASA researchers developing tools to help track and predict West Nile Virus
...is planning ajoint public health and Earth Science peer review withagencies responsible for addressing national concerns on WestNile Virus. These agencies include the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention, National Institutes of Health,Environmental Protection Agency, United States GeologicalSurvey an...UC Riverside leads the country with the highest number of 2002 AAAS Fellows
...-deserved international recognition in a respected peer review," said UC Riverside Chancellor France Cordova. "Our goal is to bring together research and teaching excellence for our students and our state." Richard Luben, UC Riverside's interim vice chancellor for research, said, "We're very pleased that...From sardines to anchovies and back in 50 years
...out their possible causes. He remarks, "During the peer review process for this paper, one reviewer called it imaginative. And it is. If we had the ocean wired with a network of instruments and ocean observatories, then we would need less imagination and could understand this a lot better."...Ant agriculture: 50 million years of success
...gi and fungal weeds, the research team was able to peer millions of years into the past to see how this co-evolutionary system evolved. The researchers learned that the ants, their garden fungi and the parasitic fungal weeds have been living in a co-evolved, complex system for a very long time, probably ...Calient Networks chosen as core platform for Optiputer
... completed interoperability with a wide variety of peer networking elements....Life sciences publishers take steps to address potential misuse of information by bioterrorists
...ored to the needs of each discipline, he said. The peer review system is an ideal means of allowing the community of sciences to monitor developments in each field and to judge the possible risks associated with scientific advances. As a publisher of 11 peer-reviewed journals in the microbiological scienc...Study of living eye in real time now possible with optics technology
...s are using a technology called adaptive optics to peer inside the eyes of human subjects and for the first time get clear, sharp images of features such as blood flow in the eye's retina. Until now, clear images of the living retina were not possible because the eye's own structure interferes with the im...Pregnancy prevention efforts rely on neighborhood ties
...al assets like decision making skills and positive peer role models as its overarching prevention strategy. Central city areas were chosen that had high teen birth rates and racial and ethnic diversity, including concentrations of Vietnamese, Hispanic, African-American, Native American or white residents....Supplements that increase the effects of resistance exercise identified
...andomized, placebo-controlled studies published in peer review journals were selected. Studies were excluded if there was any dietary restriction imposed that could compromise the hypertrophic consequences of the resistance exercise. The study had to be at least three weeks in duration and had to involve ...Health benefits of training mothers in developing countries to exclusively breastfeed for 6 months
... community-based trials, which assessed the use of peer counselors, and several hospital and clinic based programs. Our findings are, however, especially important since behavior change was achieved with an approach that is feasible on a large scale and is sustainable, because it was implemented through t...