Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
... the letter, my wife and I both sat at the kitchen table and cried and we're not sissies or anything." "I didn't even know the fund existed," he continued. "He's gone now, but because he is gone that donation was made. And maybe the next dog that comes along won't die from a brain tumor." ...Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
... LVEF via cineangiography, as provided in the data table below. LVEF is a measure of the heart's ability to...mmediately post-infarction, and at six months. The table below summarizes the study results: 2D Echocardiography LVEF at Baseline Treated = 46% ...Serotonin metabolites in mollusks suggest pathways for human therapies
...embles a wet brown paper bag with the appetite and table manners of a hyena," said Rhanor Gillette, a professor in the department of molecular and integrative physiology at Illinois. He collaborated with Stuart and Sweedler to study how serotonin metabolites relate to behavior. As predators, Pleurobranch...Study links high carbohydrate diet to increased breast cancer risk
...m and the sugar beet; it is most commonly found in table sugar and sweetened prepared foods and beverages. Fructose is a component of sucrose and is also found in fruit. Eating sweets and starches causes a rapid rise in the body's blood sugar levels, which in turn cues the production of insulin and trigge...LA BioMed Medical/Research Briefs, July/August 2004
... Torday presents a stimulating case for a periodic table for biology, much in the same way that Mendeleev imparted order to the chemical elements. According to Dr. Torday: "Like the chemical elements, human genome data behooves biologists to systematize information and view it through a new lens The gene ...What are babies thinking before they start talking?
...ould be a tight fit relationship, while a pen on a table would be a loose fit relationship. English does not mark this distinction in the same way, instead emphasizing the "containment" versus "support" relationship, for example: the coffee is in the mug or the mug is on the table. Hespos and Spelke teste...Junk DNA yields new kind of gene
...s it regulating SER3? They put the question on the table during a lab retreat atop a downtown skyscraper. "Everybody talks, and they are not allowed to show any data," said Winston. Out of that intellectual free-for-all, three models emerged. The first held that RNA transcripts produced from SRG1 were bein...Nerac delivers journal tracking solution through TOC Journal Watch
...rnal Watch Plus, an online service that tracks the table of contents from 21,000+ publications. TOC Journal...ey, Nerac's President. "Because Nerac provides the table of contents for more than 21,000 publications and a tailor-made system for full-text linking, TOC Jo...Latest findings on PCBs to be subject of June workshop at Illinois
...ction, Per Eriksson, Uppsala University; 6. Round table discussion by presenting authors. Noon -- Lunch 1 p.m. -- Session Six: Risk Issues: 1. Relative potencies of PCB congeners in animals, Deborah Rice, Department of Environmental Protection, Augusta, Maine; 2. Critical analysis of the Dutch and G......l of gene expression will be possible during round table discussion sessions. Discussion and poster sessionscreate the opportunity for interaction and exchange between chemists and biologists. Further details: http://www.embo.org/projects/yip/chemicalbiology/index.html...Technique plucks rapidly evolving genes from a pathogen's genome
...ure of the genetic code - that is, the translation table connecting codons to amino acids - the group was able to tell which codons were more likely to have been mutated into a codon for a different amino acid. By counting, for example, the frequency of the six codons coding for arginine in a single gene,...Nerac rebuilds TOC Journal Watch service with new search engine
... to locate their favorite journals. Delivering the table of contents for new journal issues, TOC Journal Wa...automatic report that provides the current issue's table of contents and information on the publication. "TOC Journal Watch is an easy way to help researcher...Study in worms shows how genes linked to complexity in animals
...exposed to high levels of sodium chloride regular table salt. The expression of lin-48 in the excretory cells appeared to give C. elegans a survival advantage over its relatives, as the other species were unable to process the excess salt, and more than three-quarters died as a result. "Havin...New book explains plants, medicine
...hapters on injurious plants, including a very long table describing the symptoms of plant poisoning complet...t, plants as they relate to cancer, and a thorough table describing every known and documented plant or herbal aphrodisiac. Part III is composed of four cha...Envisat radar altimetry tracks river levels worldwide
...tool to study both the historical changes in water table levels and critically important data to use in forecasting models of water availability, hydroelectric power production, flood and drought events and overall climate changes." The Radar Altimeter 2 (RA-2) flown aboard ESA's Envisat environmental sat...Salmon farms pose significant threat to salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest, researchers find
...r 48 states. In Alaska, plans are currently on the table for new cooperative fishing programs and a restructuring of producer-processor relationships. "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 inv...New study of Europa may explain mysterious ice domes, places to search for evidence of life
...ide or sulfuric acid. Basically the equivalent of table salt or battery acid, these compounds melt ice at low temperatures, allowing warmer, more pristine blobs of ice to force the icy surface up in places, creating the domes. "We have been trying for some time to understand how these ice blobs can push u...$13 million grant boosts breast cancer research
... new SPORE. "It is wonderful to have a seat at the table with the top breast cancer research centers in the country." The proposal submitted by Arteaga and his colleagues scored in the highest possible range of "outstanding." Arteaga noted that this score reflects "the fact that the NCI and peers have ver...Diet researcher asks how now lemur chow?
... lemur food -- one large, one much smaller -- on a table a few years ago. Her point: The center had been unknowingly overfeeding its animals. The larger pile of pounds of food pellets, cabbage and bananas represented a human-sized extrapolation of what the generous technicians had been giving the lemurs -......t this contaminated site, PCE penetrated the water table and contaminated drinking-water wells in the area. The contaminants also migrated through the groundwater into nearby Lake Huron, which attracts sunbathers and swimmers to its beaches and water. In 14-feet by 16-feet, 20-feet-deep test plots at the B...