Loyola decides to test new blood substitute in trauma patients at the scene of injury
...loodsubstitute . Members of the public who do not want to be enrolled in the study may receive a bracelet stating "I Decline the Northfield PolyHeme Study." They may call the study hotline, (708) 327-2452 or send an e-mail to: bloodsubstitute@lumc.edu . The study is sponsored by the blood substitute ...Floods, bugs and Hollywood disasters
...t, so it will dry it and stop the mold growth. You want to save it, but you need to treat it and make sure it's safe. The best thing to do is buy yourself time to make the right decision. So many people just throw stuff out thinking nothing can be done, and that's the saddest thing." For specific advice ...'Noisy' genes can have big impact
... it affects the fitness of the organism. They also want to follow noise production in a single cell over time -- rather than in populations of cells -- to explore in more detail how noise is produced....Genomic biology institute's first grant to focus on soybeans, climate change
...lready is pretty well defined," DeLucia said. "We want to know how changes in carbon dioxide and ozone concentrations in the atmosphere affect the productivity of the crop." In addition to greenhouse gases, DeLucia's team will study the potential effects of drought under global warming conditions and how...Can we restore wetlands and leave the mosquitoes out?
...pically alter social contexts," she said. "We also want to build healthy, sustainable human communities." The upsides and downsides of restoring a wetland should be addressed before a project begins. She said that considering all aspects allows better decision-making about what is best for the community a...Study helps satellites measure Great Lakes' water quality
...tists a broader view of trends in the lakes. If we want to really understand whats happening in Lake Erie, we can take these computer models and marry them to other data to get a more complete picture, Merry said. The models could also apply to other large lakes and seas, such as the Mediterranean. The ke...Study may improve survival of transplanted livers
...ry in the liver," said Kim. The researchers also want to determine if nitric oxide can be protective in an animal liver transplant model. Drs. Shigetoshi Ohshima and Peter Pediaditakis, postdoctoral researchers, also were authors on the study....Promising research: From employment issues to virology
...iority Programme "Age-Differentiated Work Systems" want to develop strategies on how to deploy employees in a company according to their age so that they remain employed for a longer period of time. So-called life span models are meant to give concrete information on how to optimise work sys-tems and what...Researchers target deficit irrigation for wine grapes
... vine's moisture status," Hellman said. "You don't want too much of a moisture deficit, and you don't want the vine to get thirsty at all during certain stages of growth.". At the end of each growing season...Cutting back on cigarettes: when less is more
...bacco increase, sales drop off. Millions of people want to quit, and they often see cutting back as the first step in a long-term strategy. Unfortunately, our research suggests that this may be giving them a false sense of security." Ahijevych, who has been studying smoking cessation for sixteen years, sa...Researchers discover protein that dissolves amyloid fibers
...104 caused the same effect. That certainly made us want to figure out what was going on," says Lindquist, who is also a professor of biology at MIT. "It was hard to come up with a definitive experiment in a living cell that would explain this sort of thing." In this new study, Lindquist and postdoctoral r...20 May AAAS lecture: Computers that Respond to Human Emotion
...uter will be able to do the same for me. But do I want it to be able to make that choice?" DoSER seeks to help the public generally, and the religious communities particularly, understand advancements in science and technology, such as affective computing, and to use this understanding as the foundation...New research supports theory that indirect transmission of chronic wasting disease
...helping to slow thespread of CWD. "Ultimately, we want to develop models that predict the behaviorof the disease," Hobbs explained. "For example, we would like topredict how prevalence changes over time in different areas ofColorado." Hobbs said previous disease models have been based on animal-toanimal...Model shows long-held constant in ocean nutrient ratio may vary as ecological conditions change
...h is that there's a lot of natural variability. We want to explain the variability, not just the average number. So this problem turned out to be more complicated because of the variability." Klausmeier's findings have broader implications, as well, because of the roles phytoplankton play in the ocean ec...Dramatic decline of California native frog linked to introduced trout in mountain lakes
...hat approach, at least on a limited basis. "People want their trout, but they don't realize what they're g...-altitude lakes from the Central Valley. "We don't want to interfere with recreational fishing, but create reserves to help recover the species," added Haro...Busy sequencing technique saves money and time
...equences," said Brent. "It's a one way street. We want to integrate computational and experimental genomics, so that the parts of the process talk to each other."...Fire ant killing protozoa found in 120 Texas counties
...omass. But one thing is for certain. If you really want to disrupt the ecosystem, disrupt the ants," Mitchell said....Into the dead zone: Galveston researcher examines loss of marine life
... examine the bacterial communities," she says. "We want to determine what specific biological activities are going on there - and their interactions with the chemical and physical environment. Whatever is happening is causing a large amount of marine life to die." Studies by the United Nations Environment...Analysis uncovers critical stretches of human genome
...mber of the same gene family at this point. We may want to investigate further to see if these ultra-conserved elements that overlap RNA-processing genes are part self-regulating networks of RNA-processing activity," said Haussler. As to the function of the conserved regions that don't overlap genes, Haus...Sediments in many Central Valley streams contain toxic levels of pyrethroid pesticides
...eley post-doctoral researcher Erin Amweg. "I don't want to give the impression that pyrethroids are destroying the streams, since that has not yet been shown, but if we are serious about maintaining stream health, we have to consider the sediments and not limit our sampling just to the water above," said ...