Pittsburgh researchers engineer and successfully test SARS corona vaccine in animal model
...hat the adenoviral-based vaccine is economical and suitable for a large population. I hope we will soon be able to translate this vaccine into clinical trials to test its toxicity and efficacy," he said. Other University of Pittsburgh researchers who participated in this study include Leonardo D'Aiuto, Ph.D.,......ction efforts there by providing information about suitable sources of aggregate and other materials for for l...ons based on national geography content standards, suitable for elementary through university level, USGS Geographer Joseph Kerski explains how to use a-maze-in...War on termites heats up with worlds largest test site
... The plant has the capacity to treat a timber pack suitable for an entire house in just 2 minutes. The plant is patented and the University is currently in negotiation with an industry partner to commercialise the technology....Squirrel invasion sows seeds of change for future forests
...ey don't dry out, and they're placed in a location suitable for germination, so they're able to sprout and grow." But that's not the case with nuts gathered by red squirrels, Swihart said. This species practices "larder hoarding," in which individuals collect nuts and store them in large piles above the surfa...Stem cell gene therapy: selecting only the best
...ic compartment with gene-corrected cells following suitable drug treatment. This selection system may be useful in human clinical trials of gene therapy in bone marrow transplantation settings. In an accompanying commentary, Arthur Bank from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons discusses the...Study predicts loss of monarch winter refuges
...ned the fine-scale climatic traits common to sites suitable for monarchs. Those traits allowed them to predict...d intentional forest fires have all shrunk habitat suitable for monarchs in the winter. Furthermore, winter storms in the Mexican fir forests in 2002 caused mas...Re-engineered blood vessels show promise for bypass surgery, grafts, UMHS researchers find
...ts who need vascular bypass procedures yet have no suitable donor vessels of their own," says Borschel, who will present his findings Wednesday, Oct. 22, at the American College of Surgeons 89th Annual Clinical Congress in Chicago. Though Borschel and Brown are plastic surgeons, perhaps the widest application......ss." BMC Ecology being an online journal is a most suitable media for making the kind of data files that have been analysed in the article available for the readers. Three movie clips of feeding walruses exemplifying the foraging techniques are attached as additional files in the article. Here we attach "Walr...Fourteen Grand Challenges in Global Health announced
... is successfully met? Will envisioned advances be suitable for implementation in poorer parts of the world? The authors note that none of the goals or Grand Challenges addresses a single disease, in keeping with the initiative's goal to "identify underlying scientific and technical problems that impede prog...New vaccines may address need to protect newborns in the developing world
...reases the repertoire of vaccine types potentially suitable for infant vaccination." The lead author on the Journal of Immunology study is Zhi Quan Xiang, M.D., at The Wistar Institute. Yan Li, also at Wistar, is a coauthor, as are Guangping Gao, Ph.D., and James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of P...UC Riverside plant pathologist awarded $1 million grant to study virus assembly
...ube into infectious virions. Many viruses are not suitable for this kind of research but Rao's research group uses brome mosaic virus, a virus infectious to plants, as a model system that can be assembled with ease into infectious particles, thus fulfilling all the requirements for studying virus assembly re...Envisat radar altimetry tracks river levels worldwide
... a contract to De Montfort University to develop a suitable software product, with Lancaster University advising on field hydrology. The De Montfort University team proceeded by painstakingly combing through many gigabytes of raw data acquired over rivers and lakes, taking note of the type of echo shapes tha...Platelet refrigeration method may ease shortages for transfusions, researchers report in Science
...unction of refrigerated platelets so that they are suitable for transfusion. This research represents an important step toward that goal," said Katrina Kelner, Science's Deputy Editor for the life sciences. When platelets are chilled down to around four degrees C, the temperature needed for preserving them b...SUCCESS 2002 Student Contest award ceremony
...xperiment, the proteomics approach is particularly suitable for space research. The objective of the experiment proposal is to study the signal transduction pathways of osteoblasts that regulate their most important physical functions (i.e. collagen synthesis, differentiation) in the ideal weightlessness con...Zengen's new technology first to deliver drug active ingredients in an oral strip
...rates additional compounds to make the strips more suitable for various drug delivery needs. "Chloraseptic Relief Strips bring true innovation to the cough/cold category and are a fitting extension of the Chloraseptic product line," said Elise Donahue, president and chief operating officer of Prestige Brand...JCI Table of Contents, 15 August 2003
... inflammatory states and should aid in determining suitable therapeutic strategies. TITLE: Interplay between IFN-gamma and IL-6 signaling governs neutrophil trafficking and apoptosis during acute inflammation AUTHOR CONTACT: Nicholas Topley University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom. P...Anthrax research might provide more time for treatment
...fordable and shelf-stable, making such a treatment suitable for stockpiling. Kane's anthrax inhibitor research is part of Rensselaer's overall effort to advance biotechnology discoveries for the benefit of public health, the environment, homeland security, bioterrorism, and for positive economic development l...DFG presents the new MAK and BAT Value List 2003
...ied in category 4 with a MAK value of 150 mg/m. No suitable candidate was found this year for category 5. This year 14 substances were examined for their respiratory tract sensitising and skin sensitising properties. New labelling was assigned to 14 chemicals, among them the compounds cinnamaldehyde, cinnamyl...Quarries may be last chance for many rare European butterflies
... New research shows that quarries provide the only suitable habitat for at-risk butterflies in some places, suggesting that current policies of filling in old quarries are misguided. "Increasing evidence is revealing the counterproductivity of such practices," say Jiri Benes, Pavel Kepka and Martin Konvicka, ......ld be preventing eagles from colonizing previously suitable habitat in those regions....