Gulf of Maine marine ecosystem may have entered new phase
...doption of new fishing technologies. It is a revolution of sorts, an overturning of the established order ...Western North Atlantic." In the Gulf of Maine, the revolution was brought on by the drastic reduction in the number of cod and other top predators over the past c...Ottawa's leadership in biomedical and health research has paid off
...ap the health and economic benefits of the current revolution in health research." "The CFI has served as an agent of transformation, helping to modernize the research landscape in Canada and serving as the catalyst for major institutional change," said Dr. Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO of the CFI. "Thi...Microarrays, key genome expression trackers, work better when probes are sequence-verified
...ome-wide expression patterns and has facilitated a revolution in the characterization of cellular regulation. In addition, comprehensive gene expression profiling shows great potential for human disease diagnostics. For instance, multiple research groups have shown that microarray data can identify previously u...Healthy fats and oils essential to satisfy calorie-conscious consumers
...demic, food consumers have stirred a global health revolution and are increasingly demanding healthier oils and fats. Since eliminating fats can upset the nutritional balance, researchers are constantly trying to develop innovative methods to improve the health properties of oils and fats. Though fats and edibl...The revolution in understanding the molecular basis of cancer has lead to the discovery and development of numerous innovative agents 'designer' diagnostics, new prognostic tests, 'smart' drugs and other entirely novel ways of tackling cancer. To bring these new d...Impact of Earth's rising atmospheric carbon dioxide found in world oceans
...s that for the 400,000 years before the industrial revolution began in the 1800s, atmospheric CO 2 concentrations remained between 200 and 280 parts per million. Today CO 2 levels are reaching 380 parts per million in the atmosphere. "If the ocean had not removed 118 billion metric tons of anthropogenic car...Spanish scientists develop powerful tool for exploration and integration of biological information
... expect this highly connected network to trigger a revolution in new text-mining tools that will bring biomedicine within closer reach of both the scientific community and the wider public....Therapeutic cloning no longer a dream, says scientist who produced first cloned embryonic stem cell
...e that we have opened the door to an extraordinary revolution in medicine, where one day transplanting organs from other donors will become a thing of the past, and where millions of people with have access to life-saving therapies developed from their own DNA," he said....Lab mice rescued from Type 1 diabetes via dendritic cell-assisted therapy
...une silencing, or tolerance, it would constitute a revolution in immunology." T cells "know" whether to attack or tolerate by biochemically tuning in to another immune system cell called the dendritic cell. Dendritic cells, which were discovered at Rockefeller University by Steinman and his colleagues in the ...New X-ray sources speed protein crystallography
...culating protein structures. "The biotechnological revolution of the last two decades is built upon the twin pillars of protein structure determination and genetic engineering," he says. Indeed, says Gruner, "Synchrotron X-radiation has become an enormously powerful tool throughout science and technology." Grun...Stanford launches public lecture series on genomic medicine
... understanding of the Human Genome Project and the revolution in genomic medicine. The lecture series, titled ''Sequencing the Human Genome: What Does It Tell Us About Ourselves,'' will be held in Fairchild Auditorium on the Stanford campus. The first lecture, "Biomedical Innovations: Confronting the Polity," w...Purdue researchers solve decades-old corn, sorghum problem
...the green revolution. "The next round of the green revolution must impact Africa," he said. "Sorghum, which is a staple in many parts of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, could play a key role there." Other cereal crops, including teff, a grain grown primarily in Ethiopia, and basmati rice, grown in India,...USC awarded multi-million dollar engineering research center by National Science Foundation
...rk of this center will extend the microelectronics revolution in medicine - which includes such implanted devices as the pacemaker and the cochlear implant - to the realm of the central nervous system," he said. "We're going to implant into people devices that will communicate with tissue and treat incurable d...NIH announces strategy to accelerate medical research progress
...h of all Americans." "There has been a scientific revolution in the last few years. The opportunities for discoveries have never been greater, but the complexity of biology remains a daunting challenge. With this new strategy for medical research, NIH is uniquely positioned to spark the changes that must be ma...Salmon farms pose significant threat to salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest, researchers find
...ationships. "The good news is that the aquaculture revolution is forcing more efficiency on a sector sorely in need of such change. The bad news is that such change involves considerable human suffering and community disruption," Naylor explained. "The social impacts of salmon aquaculture in the Pacific Northwe...Francis Collins and Ari Patrinos receive Energy Secretary's Gold Award for Human Genome Project
...plishment has opened the door to the biotechnology revolution that now offers such promise for human health, clean energy and a cleaner environment." Francis Collins, a physician-geneticist, practiced medicine at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Following a fellowship in human genetics at the Yale Medical Sch...Scientists find key to ocean bacterium that helps control greenhouse gas
...d survival." Since the beginning of the industrial revolution atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased by 30 per cent. Evidence strongly suggests this increase is due to increased combustion of fossil fuels and other human activity. Until now it was not known how Prochlorococcus, which lives ...Genetics pioneer from the Bronx wins Gruber Prize
...smology, justice and women's rights. "The genetics revolution is changing our lives," the president of the Foundation, Mrs Patricia Gruber said. "It has so much potential for identifying and curing disease." In accepting the award, Dr Botstein said he was a "Boy from the Bronx" who had been able to achieve beca...New opportunities for accelerating the conquest of human cancer
...al within our grasp." To describe how the genetics revolution -- and other scientific and policy-related issues are presenting new opportunities to accelerate the conquest of cancer, Dr. Eschenbach will chair a panel of experts, to be held 2:15-4:45 p.m., Friday, July 11, during the opening plenary session of ...Assisted reproduction provides bright future for HIV positive men
...ld discriminate against these patients. A cultural revolution is taking place, especially in the medical profession," she said....