Pacific Northwest National Lab unveils most complete human blood-plasma proteome map to date
...ir utility as biomarkers for different diseases, I want to emphasize the large numbers of proteins now identified in plasma," said Smith, a Battelle Fellow at PNNL and director of the National Institutes of Health Proteomics Research Resource Center at PNNL's Richland, Wash., campus. "The large coverage i...Lake restrictions make lakeshore property more valuable
...ing and being acted upon by their environment. "We want to be able to understand the causes of long-term changes observed in ecological systems, and we want to develop effective mitigation or management strategies," says Kratz. "We will have little chance o...Applying results of women's health initiative study to individual patients
... WHI researcher Garnet Anderson noted, women might want to consider that the results released to the public were often the most conservative ones, particularly regarding breast cancer. "In releasing these results in July 2002, a generally conservative statistical view of the data was given through use of...Major U.S. environmental policy bears scrutiny in midlife
...Bronstein said. "We give advice when asked, and we want it to be good advice."...Unlocking the genetics and evolution of the dog could prove beneficial for humans
...'t run as fast as Greyhounds, but Greyhounds don't want to be in a dog fight," Lark says. Lark also will ...them for health insurance reasons, "breeders don't want people to know that their dogs have diseases," Lark explained....Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...ere are some who don't buy the entire approach and want to maintain a single investigator way of working. Our argument is that won't work any more because the scales at which we're working are too large." Another issue is persuading the separate communities of oceanographers and marine biologists to colle...European researchers launch 10 million euro collaborative technology project
... "but today, researchers from all walks of biology want to solve molecular structures at the synchrotrons. The new platform will make this process very user-friendly; it will even allow them to send us their samples and work remotely, from their own institutions." "This grant from the EC will definitely ...New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna
...ve been unattainable in the past. "On land, if you want to drive somewhere for vacation, you can pull out the map, find the highway to get you there and the natural landmarks along the way. But in the ocean, the roads and attractions don't always sit still. It's not just the animals, but the environment...Mind Science Foundation announces Rare Consciousness Research Awards
...an mind has tremendous, unexplored potential and I want to go about the discovery and development of that potential in a scientific way," said Slick four years before his untimely death. "We initiated the Tom Slick Research Awards in Consciousness this year to fulfill his vision of studying the mind as a ...Patients give nod to kidney dialysis at home
... in a hemodialysis center, and others may just not want to bother with peritoneal dialysis," says Powe. "But I think some hemodialysis patients would switch if they knew more about peritoneal dialysis, because they would appreciate being more satisfied with their care."......, would like to change the recipient, or no longer want to receive it, please email bkinerney@usgs.gov . Included this month: Polar Bears Fight For Survival USGS Geologists Help in Understanding Mars Chesapeake Bay Recovery Process Slowed Getting to the Heart of Geography LEADS: Polar Bears Figh......ought that seed. That's my seed and I'll do what I want with it.' "But they know it's a protected variety.... is. If they tell me it's a protected variety they want to clean and sell to somebody else, I tell them I won't process it. They'll have to go somewhere els...Pacifying bacteria prevents lethal post-op infections
...f you can't beat them -- and you can't -- then you want to indulge them," says John Alverdy, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago and director of the study. "An unhappy parasite is programmed to kill the host and move on. So we decided to look for ways to gratify them, to pl...Want a side of algae with that? Hawaiian farmers sell seaweed by the seashore
...olokai residents cherish their rural lifestyle and want to continue traditional Hawaiian ways of life, rather than converting the island's economy to one dependent on tourism, Glenn says. However, Molokai also has limited opportunities for employment. An aquaculture project that focuses on growing long og...Rare ant may help solve some mysteries of social evolution
...s relationship with their host," Herbers said. "We want to know what separates the behavior of one species from another, what makes one more ruthless than another, and to see if we can get more insight into the key evolutionary differences between these parasitic ants."...Findings could aid efforts to harness nature for making drugs
...thesized before. "From a scientific standpoint, we want to better understand precisely how organisms make ... compounds, and from an engineering standpoint, we want to devise a strategy for manipulating the organism so that it makes the chemicals we want it to make...'Elves' makes protein crystallography easier
...ser to type in simple sentences such as, "Elves, I want you to process the data in my folder." It does this by using a search engine to search free-format text input by the user and associate numbers with program variables. The program restates what it will do, setting up a conversation with the user abou...Simple sugars make cell walls like steel
...expansion and then to retie them." The scientists want to find out how to control cell wall formation by determining the function of all the genes in their formation, development and growth. This may allow them to improve many everyday products from food to chairs. The other researchers involved in thi...Fat cells fight disease, Purdue University researchers find
...ating obesity," Spurlock said. "The key is that we want plenty of adipocytes to meet whatever immunologica... endocrinological needs they fulfill, but we don't want them to overaccumulate lipid." In the January issue of The American Journal of Physiology, Spurlock...Scientists at Scripps Research describe new strategy for the synthesis of glycoproteins
...cosylated proteins are important to scientists who want to understand the role of carbohydrates in protein structure and function, since the human body contains many heavily glycosylated proteins, including antibodies, hormones, and immune system proteins like cytokines and interleukins. These methods are...