The EMBC agrees to six-year budget for EMBO
...ty for EMBC and for EMBO and allow them to be well placed for future developments in the European Research Area....Surveillance and containment would be effective intervention against deliberate smallpox attack
...ely vaccinated, recognized smallpox cases would be placed in hospital isolation rooms, and their close contacts would be vaccinated and kept under observation. "We found that any delay in individuals withdrawing to their homes or to the hospital after they become ill would have much more of an adverse eff...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
...res that all of the contents be well organized and placed into neat bins for access by those with authorized roles. Protection is poor for data that are complex, multipurpose, unstructured, formatted as images, or now used for roles not recognized when the data were first collected. Medical records, for in...Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish
...dicates that even small reserves if strategically placed to contain high quality habitats - can effectively protect adult populations of these fish. Acoustic tracking of these gamefish identified the scope of their daily movements over two years showing that the home range of these fish is within the rese...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
...antic. After seven days at sea, TAG scientists had placed 100 electronic tags in 100 fish each weighing between 300 and 700 pounds. The TAG program has placed more than 800 electronic tags in bluefin tuna since 1996. In the Pacific, researchers from Block's p...A shocking surprise: High voltage + rats = ozone, reopens power-line debate
...ctrical conductor at high voltage. The researchers placed rats in a Plexiglas cage hooked up to a device that produced 10 kilovolts, or roughly the power of air ionizers marketed as health aids. In an empty cage, the ozone level peaked at 22 parts per billion with or without a corona discharge. When the ani...Could memory performance and spatial learning be genetically based?
... computer tracking system. A circular platform was placed at the center of one of four imaginary quadrants a...en per day over two consecutive days. Animals were placed into the maze at one of three randomized starting points and allowed to traverse the maze in search ...MIT student dances with robots
...l over the world and excelled in competition; they placed fifth in the 2001 and 2003 national Lindy Hop championships and first in the 2002 U.K. Lindy Hop Open. They also teach swing dancing, specializing in "1930s smooth-style Lindy Hop, collegiate shag and Balboa," according to their web site, http://www...Examining cardiac performance of tunas at the cellular level
... sensitive fluorescent dye fura-2. The cuvette was placed in a spectro- fluorophotometer and the vesicles and media were allowed to equilibrate. Ca2+ uptake was stimulated by the addition of 1.5 mM MgATP. After the steady state was reached, CaCl2 was added to a final concentration of 10 M and the reaction w...New 'bumpy' jelly found in deep sea
...o study the jelly's eating habits, the researchers placed a captured jelly in a tank with small shrimp and pieces of squid. The shrimp and squid collided with batteries of stinging cells on the jelly's bell and stuck there. The prey then moved slowly down to the edge if the bell. At that point, the jelly tr...Physicists use fractals to help Parkinson's sufferers
..., have devised a portable system based on a sensor placed on the patient's body that measures movements in three dimensions. The readings from this sensor, known as a tri-axial accelerometer, are fed to a computer, together with measurements of the patients walking speed, and analysed using a fractal system...Two-drug approach might shorten painful labor, reduce Caesarean sections
...nistered by means of a small infusion pump that is placed beneath the skin at or near the time that labor is induced with RU 486. "We believe that relaxin would be ideal for short-term timely use," Sherwood said. "It would simply fill a late-term deficiency and would be safe." A regulatory hurdle, however...Lock to food-borne pathogen pathway may be key to vaccine
...phalitis and spontaneous abortion. The Purdue team placed a Listeria protein known to bind with human host cells in a laboratory dish with human intestinal cells. They found that the bacteria's ligand bound with an intestinal cell surface protein, which they identified as heat shock protein 60 (Hsp60). Heat...Successful progress launch paves the way for further scientific utilisation of the ISS by Europe
...the Matroshka experimental facility, which will be placed on the outside of the Russian Zvezda module. It wi... human tissue. Sensors measuring radiation will be placed at various key external and internal positions on the model such as the areas of the stomach, lungs,...U. Chicago study overturns conclusion of historic human genome data
...emain where it is and another version of it can be placed elsewhere in the genome. This type of gene duplication is one of the ways organisms diversify. "You can duplicate a gene used for one function, tweak it just a little bit, and you can have a totally new function," Emerson said. "When you need new fun...New research technique provides clues into cell growth
...tions of N-WASP activation throughout living cells placed in a petri dish. Traditionally, N-WASP was thought to be significantly active in filopodia, thin filaments that protrude from cells to help navigate through the body. As expected, N-WASP activity was high in these compartments. However, several of t...Thailand dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemics spread in waves emanating from Bangkok
.... Our results suggest that high priority should be placed on surveillance and control systems in urban areas of Southeast Asia," said Donald S. Burke, MD, co-author of the study and professor of International Health at the School of Public Health....Adolescent rodents experience milder hangover effects than do adult rodents
...ons that would normally occur when two animals are placed together. For this study, researchers examined changes in the social interactions of adolescent (110 male, 110 female) and adult (115 male, 115 female) rodents at various times during the recovery period following injection of a single high dose...NIEHS and UNC to collaborate on registry of 20,000 subjects
...poses to be used for the isolation of DNA that was placed in the registry depository. The samples are coded to protect the identity of donors and then made available for researchers at the National Institutes of Health, including NIEHS, and UNC, and their collaborators, to screen for the presence of genet......y symmetric on the outside, their inner organs are placed quite asymmetrically; for example, the heart points to the left and the liver lies to the right side. "We know that in the phase of development, there is a genetic cascade that leads to the proper placement of organs. If that cascade is disrupted, t...