Rainforests at risk: Where theres smoke, theres even more fire
... threats in Southeast Asia and Africa. His results underscore a crucial need to better understand how fire behaves in rainforests and how unintended fires can be detected and contained. Fire in a rainforest behaves differently than fire in temperate forests, such as in North America. Rather than rage, rainf...Teen girls with common hormonal disorder more concerned about fertility than peers
...d sexual intercourse," said Trent. "These findings underscore the importance of providing ongoing counseling on fertility issues, contraception and sexually transmitted disease prevention in the care of teen girls with PCOS." This study was supported by the Maternal Child Health Bureau Health Resources and Serv...The jaws stiffness found to dictate speech production
... factors is unknown. However, the present findings underscore the importance of understanding the contribution of muscle mechanical and geometrical factors in the interpretation of patterns of kinematic variation. Previous work on human arm movement suggests the possibility that the pattern of kinematic variabi...Leading cloning experts challenge Clonaid to prove claim
... possibility of confusion." "These reported claims underscore the urgency for each country to enact responsible human reproductive cloning legislation," said Schatten, who is also director of the Pittsburgh Development Center at the Magee-Womens Research Institute....Death from liver disease major threat to men with hepatitis B and HIV
...ec. 14, 2002, issue of The Lancet. "These results underscore the importance of prevention, treatment and comprehensive management of hepatitis B in people infected with HIV," says Chloe Thio, M.D., assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins and lead author of the st...Global analysis finds nearly half the Earth is still wilderness
...s these wilderness numbers are, they only serve to underscore more than ever the critical importance of protecting the biodiversity hotspots, areas which represent only 1.4 percent of the Earth's landmass but contain more than 60 percent of its terrestrial species," said Mittermeier. "If we are to succeed as co...Natural or synthetic secretin does not reduce symptoms of autism, study shows
...medicine that cures autism, and the results really underscore why research for the cause of autism is necessary." The study is believed to be the first to measure the effectiveness of both natural porcine secretin and a synthetic form of the hormone and a placebo. Secretin is a naturally occurring human hormon...New guide helps researchers mine genome data
...trand, M.S., a program analyst for DER. To further underscore the need for the user's guide, Dr. Baxevanis pointed to a Wellcome Trust's survey of nearly 800 biomedical scientists in 2001. The survey found that only half of the researchers who were already using genome databases were familiar with the free, pub...Kurt Wthrich of The Scripps Research Institute wins 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...very best research," Lerner says. "The prizes also underscore the extraordinary quality of the TSRI structural biology and chemistry programs." Wthrich, who currently operates a laboratory at TSRI and is scheduled to become a full-time faculty member in 2004, was awarded half this year's prize in chemistry spec...Amphibians and crippling parasites
...tions of many North American amphibian populations underscore the need to understand the causes and implications of this phenomenon. Now a new study suggests that a parasite may be to blame for many of the abnormalities found in amphibians of the western United States. In the research article Parasite (Ribeiro...Scientists close in on trigger of insulin resistance
...ey feature of most cases of diabetes. The results underscore the importance of glycosylation attachment of a sugar to a protein -- as a way cells control proteins' activities, the scientists report in the April 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists found that at least...Scientists unravel complicated genetic disease in one fell swoop
...ing parts of the chromosome 10 region, the results underscore the importance of what often is ignored: The part of a gene that carries instructions for making a protein (the coding sequence) isn't the only part that can contribute to disease. "Mapping gives you an independent way of saying that this gene is inv...February media highlights - GSA Bulletin
...ssment in the southern Arava, southern Israel, and underscore the possibility that the Elat fault may be a site of major faulting in the near future. The tectono-metamorphic history of the Valaisan domain from the Western to the Central Alps: New constraints on the evolution of the Alps.Romain Bousquet et al. D...Plant health scientists issue statement in support of biotechnology
...created and issued their statement at this time to underscore the substantial contribution biotechnology has made to the understanding and control of plant diseases, and to stress the important role it can play in future advancements....Vitamin A activates gene to guide kidney development
... the paper in the January issue of Nature Genetics underscore the need for pregnant women to pay careful attention to their vitamin A intake. Proper development of the kidney requires two-way signaling between tissues. One gene that is essential to this communication is ret. Mutations in ret are known to caus...Syndecan-4 regulates wound repair in vivo
...importance of syndecan-4 in wound repair, but also underscore the limited ability of in vitro analyses to predict complex behavior in vivo....UroGenesys researchers discover new target antigen for prostate cancers
...ost prostate cancers are diagnosed. These figures underscore the need for new therapeutic approaches, particularly for metastatic andandrogen-independent disease. To date, few targets that are specific to prostate cancer and are cellsurface antigens have been discovered. UroGenesys, Inc. is a privately held ...Study identifies key molecular mechanism in cancer and rheumatoid arthritis
...c-Myc andactivation of NF-kappaB." "These findings underscore NF-kappaB as a very attractive molecular target inthe development of cancer and arthritis therapeutics," he adds....High HIV RNA levels major risk factor for mother-to-child HIV transmission
...ust 5issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, underscore the importance oftreatment strategies aimed at reducing viral load in HIV-infected pregnantwomen. "Although we know that various factors can contribute to perinatal HIVtransmission," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Instituteof A...UNC Researchers Reduce Arthritis Severity By Turning Off Molecular Switch
...e disease, including genetherapy. "These findings underscore NF-kappa B as a very attractive target for arthritistreatments, including a new generation of drugs targeted specifically to themolecule," says the team's leader, Dr. Sergei S. Makarov, research assistantprofessor of medicine at the UNC-CH School of ...