Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
...urvey, but the surprise to researchers is that the percentage of men favoring such testing wasn't higher. "The amazing thing is that the guys are always split 50-50. Age and income groups don't seem to matter," said Lisa Hayward, a UW doctoral student in biology and lead author of a paper reporting the finding...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
... in the parasite, revealing that an unusually high percentage of genes ? at least 60 percent -- were "turned on," or expressed, at the third and critical stage in the parasite' s life cycle ? when it invades red blood cells and wreaks the havoc that causes the disease's symptoms. Their analysis show...Marijuana use could cause tubal pregnancies
...the same time, surveys indicate that a significant percentage of young women regularly smoke marijuana. According to the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 13.6 percent of women aged 18 to 25 said they had used the drug within the past month. The federal survey interviews approximately 67,500 people e...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
... other random effects could be plus or minus three percentage points. "Use of Vitamins Containing Folic Acid Among Women of Childbearing Age -- United States, 2004," by Heather K. Carter, M.P.H., Association for Teachers of Preventive Medicine; Lisa L. Massi Lindsey, Ph.D., CDC Foundation; Joann R. Petr...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...es as little as 20 percent -- were fertilized. The percentage was about the same with clutch piracy, but average...ally to show that clutch piracy leads to a greater percentage of fertilized eggs in the clutch, as well as clutches with as many as four fathers. Vieites noted th...Diabetics face fewer healthy food choices in some urban areas
...ally and ethically mixed neighborhood with a large percentage of low-income households, while residents of the Upper East Side of New York City are mostly white and affluent....Environmental costs of home construction lower with wise choice, reuse of building materials
...rgy-intensive on their own and make up the largest percentage of the energy required for home construction. The report offers many suggestions of other opportunities to reduce the energy demands of home construction that include: Redesigning houses to use less fossil-fuel intensive products Changing build...Engineering endurance: The future of the Olympics?
... type I fibers. Couch potatoes have about the same percentage of both. Endurance training can enhance the metabolic performance of muscle types probably by inducing conversion between fiber types, which is mediated by changes in gene expression. Evans and colleagues suspected that a nuclear receptor called P...Disease-resistant papaya saves Hawaiian papaya industry
...aring their land of all infected papaya trees. The percentage of Hawaii's fresh papaya production produced in Puna has risen from a low of 65 percent in 1999 to 84 percent in 2002. Since PRSV is a worldwide problem on papaya, other countries have showed interest in developing the technology for their use. "Du...Improved nutrition could reduce malaria burden worldwide
A large percentage of child deaths related to malaria are attributable to undernutrition and deficiencies of vitamin A, zinc, iron and folate, according to a new report by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their review of recent data...Infant rats eagerly accept high concentrations of alcohol upon first exposure
...sures. Alcohol ingestion was measured in terms of percentage body weight change, grams of absolute alcohol ingested per unit body weight, and blood alcohol concentration. The infant rats ingested extremely high concentrations of alcohol as high as 30 percent without initiation procedures. Acceptance of alco...Two-pronged attack targeting EGF receptor hinders cancer cell growth
...GFR inhibitors are effective in a relatively small percentage of patients--perhaps 10 to 15 percent. Combinations of the EGFR drugs may further enhance tumor response and potentially benefit more patients who currently don't respond to a single EGFR inhibitor, Harari noted. Recent clinical trial results with th...Microarrays, key genome expression trackers, work better when probes are sequence-verified
... intended to measure. They found that an important percentage of the probe sequences -- sometimes as much as 20%, on both old and currently used platforms didn't perfectly correspond with the appropriate mRNA as defined by the reference sequence (RefSeq). Research at Harvard's Brigham & Women's Hospital Th...Gene defects found in age-related macular degeneration
...e gene that would be responsible for a substantial percentage of AMD," he said. "This experiment suggests that in reality a significant genetic cause of AMD may affect only two percent of the total. And so, fifteen years ago if we had done an experiment with 100 people and had seen a change in one only person, ...UGA named recipient of $5.6 million grant from NSF for corn improvement
.... "We feel that people don't recognize the percentage of grants coming here from plants," said Dawe. "It's a substantial fraction of the overall amount. We have one of the world's strongest plant genomics groups." He praised former Vice President for Research Joe Key and outgoing dean of the Franklin Co...Patients' cells from tumors, the immune system merged for customized cancer therapy
...which this was measured. Ten patients doubled the percentage of CD4+ T cells that produced interferon gamma, a ...to the immune response. Seven patients doubled the percentage of CD8+ T cells that produced the interferon in response to exposure to the tumor. "The increase of...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
... and Micro Surveillance 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 from electronics through expansion of the number of pixels and image processing capability. Further improvement will require chang...Cancer gene MYC emerging as key research target
...The unexpected discovery that MYC binds to a large percentage of genes without activating them calls into questi...s are bound by MYC, and it turns out to be a great percentage of genes--one out of every six," McMahon says. "Our work has extended what these studies hinted at: ...ALL survivors bear genetic damage from life-saving chemotherapy
...ldren defeat this disease are keeping a very large percentage of them alive," Finette said. "Pediatricians are continually monitoring these children as they live beyond five, ten, and more recently, 15 years after their ALL is in remission. We now need to be proactive about studying any long term genetic ramifi...Highlights of the July Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...ith its emphasis on carbohydrates as a significant percentage of a daily diet, has been blamed by some people for the rise in excess weight and obesity in this country. However, according to a commentary by researchers from Tufts University, it's not the Pyramid that is to blame for the rise in weight in this c...