Debate over genetically modified food gets an educational home on the web
... site provides a glossary of terms, links to other relevant sites, a model curriculum for teaching the science of genetic modification, a resource library, and answers to questions posed to scientists by editors at Science. The site has sections for educators, scientists and the general public. The educatio...Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
...ose coping strategies from the Serengeti may prove relevant here in the Silicon Valley. "Some baboons have a Type A personality, and they pay for it in terms of disease," Sapolsky told an audience Feb. 18 at a symposium on stress and health at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancem...Neuronal choir hums in unison to rivet brain's attention
... volume of brain signals representing behaviorally relevant stimuli. Desimone and colleagues pinpointed the responses of brain neurons in monkeys paying attention to a particular stimulus and ignoring nearby distracters. Using electrophysiological recordings, they monitored groups of neurons in the visua...Calcium signals found to guide nerve cell development
...FM dial on the growth cone to produce these highly relevant signals."...The Frozen Zoo: the University of New Orleans and the new world of saving endangered species
...h a research and educational alliance" to focus on relevant issues of biodiversity and the environment. This is being accomplished through a new Ph.D. program in Conservation Biology that provides graduate level educational experiences in the study of biodiversity and species conservation. "Jazz" is just one ......iew committees evaluated available, published data relevant to listing these substances as "known" or, with less complete data, as "reasonably anticipated to be" causes of human cancer. Here are the substances reviewed: Trichloroethylene. This widely used metal degreasing solvent was unanimously recom...A stomach enzyme deficit may place women at more risk from drinking alcohol
...an understand therapy. Therapy is not going to be relevant to us if we don't understand the 'why;' if we know why, then we may be able to do something about it."...A neurogenetic approach to alcoholism
...e mood states, and a low response to alcohol - are relevant to the development of alcoholism. Both pre-existi...otransmission and three behavior patterns that are relevant for alcoholism: disinhibition (impulsive aggression), negative mood states (such as anxiety and depr...Effective acne treatments remain elusive, Hopkins researchers find
... health topics. AHRQ asked Hopkins to analyze the relevant scientific literature and identify the best drugs for treating acne and to determine the strength of acne research findings based on predetermined criteria. The team selected 250 English-language studies that compared 150 acne drugs to each other or ...Science paper suggests strategy to more effectively control harmful ozone
...program," says Ryerson. Since their findings are relevant to current ozone control efforts, the researchers have shared their findings with the EPA. For instance, they suggest that ozone impacts would be lessened if rural power plant emissions were transferred away from regions with high isoprene emissions.......g vehicle for delivering therapeutic agents to the relevant tissues. Tworeports in this issue apply this principle to suppress collagen-induced arthritis (CIA), a mouse model of rheumatoidarthritis. Nakajima and colleagues previously used adoptive transfer of transgenic T cells to block autoimmuneresponses in...Making science museums more dynamic, beneficial
...ions as they discuss new ways to make museums more relevant and beneficial to society. WHO: - Jose Sarukhan, Mexicos Commissioner for Human Development (Keynote speaker; pioneering scientist, author and internationally recognized biodiversity expert) - John McCarter, President and CEO, Chicagos Field Museum ......y reductionist approaches may help generate highly relevant animal models Transgenic mice used in the French study are likely to assist scientists in better understanding a range of oral infection events. In addition, the Science findings set the stage for new studies of the body's immunological response t...Montana State University begins major trout and salmonid book collection
...collection while pondering how to keep his library relevant in a digital age. "We got caught in the notion of Trout U," he said. That's a nickname MSU has recently claimed owing to an historic curriculum in fisheries science, proximity to several blue-ribbon trout streams, and a longstanding physical educ...GIS, bioinformatics collaborations offer promising new perspectives
...ogy. Shared technical challenges and applications relevant to both disciplines were other topics for discussion. Both fields rely heavily on mining, managing, accessing, and analyzing large amounts of data, and the disciplines share many of the same challenges for data management and representation, said Car...Lithographic technique creates neuronal networks in a dish
...isely reproduce a master pattern with biologically relevant materials."The microstamp works the same as a conventional rubber stamp except that the ink is polylysine (an artificial polymer commonly used for cell culture) and the patterns produced are measured in micrometers, or the same size as the cells them...Hendra virus has a growing family tree
... found with specific antibodies to the virus. The relevant State authorities successfully contained outbreaks of the Hendra and Menangle viruses. The Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia was also successfully brought under control. The Executive Committee of the International Committee for the Taxonomy of Virus......enome analysis revealed a number of novel insights relevant to the biology of S. pneumoniae including: the observation that 5% of the genome is composed of repeats (pieces of DNA that are found in several locations in the genome) that may facilitate incorporation of foreign DNA into the S. pneumoniae chromoso...Scientists call for development of ecological forecasting
...t many ecologists perceive in making our work more relevant to societal needs," said first author James Clark of Duke University. "We devote much effort to understanding the biosphere, and we communicate our findings to the scientific community. But society faces a great number of environmental problems, and...UCSD biologists identify genetic mechanism conferring resistance to 'Bt toxins'
...e by the loss of carbohydrate-modifying enzyme is relevant to insects as well. Furthermore the three dimensional structure of diverse insecticidal Bt toxins contains a fold that is predicted to bind precisely the sugar modification made by the galactosyltransferase, raising the possibility that this mecha...