K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...ic locales in Finland -- which at times during the year have just three hours of sunlight -- to the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain, Welch said. Sites also will be located in Germany and England. In addition, the K-State team is working with two private companies to build and package sensors that ...USC study links historical increases in life span to lower childhood exposure to infection
...n Sweden from 1751 to 1940. Grouping them by birth year into what are called birth cohorts the researchers found that as public health efforts led to less exposure to infectious diseases during childhood, people started living longer and better. "Most people have been looking for an explanation fo...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...aining folic acid in 2004, up from 32 percent last year and the highest level since the March of Dimes began surveying women in the 1990s, according to the organization's latest survey, which was published today in Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. "Frankly, we're surprised at this increase, but it's...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
... of the search itself were minor. After the first year of surveillance, of the 97 deployed dogs enrolled ... The serum globulins were also higher in the first year in deployed dogs, suggesting activation of the immune system. As the study progressed, however, the...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...gy of Infectious Diseases (EID) program, the fifth year of funding in this multi-year effort. The joint program supports efforts to understand the ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships between human -induced environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious di...Proteins show promise for mosquito control
...ethods for screening the compounds. It will take a year to screen another 20,000 chemicals. After that, they will be looking for companies to develop the compounds into chemical inhibitors for widespread mosquito control. "Four years ago (when Lan joined the faculty of UW-Madison) I couldn't imagine hav...PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
...Institutes of Health grant or contract in the past year and the second for Richard D. Smith, principal investigator and a Battelle Fellow at PNNL. Besides monkey pox, which serves as a close viral analog to deadly smallpox, two species from the genus Salmonella will be examined: typhimurium (which causes ...Zoonotic diseases - European scientists unite to fight diseases
...naturally transmitted from animals to man and each year cause 14m deaths worldwide (WHO). Such diseases include salmonella, rabies and cryptosporidia. In addition to the human pain and misery caused by these diseases the cost to the EU, is well in excess of 6bn/yr....Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
... Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for the year 2003. The awards were presented by John Marburger, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Torn, a biogeochemist, is honored for her innovative research on climate change and the terrestrial carbon cycle. She is one of four research...NJIT professor receives Presidential Award for breakthrough research with adult stem cells
...rated by the cells. Perhaps most importantly, last year Arinzeh published another paper in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery proving that adult stem cells taken from one patient can be successfully implanted in another. Researchers originally thought such a transfer might be rejected. And it's not jus...New research shows air pollution can reduce children's lung function
...ities outside the Los Angeles area. Over the eight year period, researchers found that children living in ...ults begin to lose lung function by 1 percent each year after age 20. "Lung development in teenagers determines their breathing capacity and health for the ...The birth of reproductive health: A difficult delivery
This week marks the 10 year anniversary of the landmark "Cairo Conference" on ...erts and activists from 179 countries drew up a 20 year plan to deliver reproductive health care for all. But the plan is being threatened, says Dr Shereen...Ventilation in bars, casinos doesn't control health risk for hospitality workers
...er, he estimated that 5,000 lung cancer deaths per year in the U.S. were caused by passive smoking, in a seminal study. Innovators Combating Substance Abuse is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that recognizes and rewards those who have made substantial, innovative contributions of ...Reducing allergens in the home helps inner-city children with asthma
...ys of symptoms than the control group in the first year and an average of 16 fewer days during the second,...'s asthma every few months during the intervention year and one year after. ...Second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator Award
...ountries participating in the programme for a five year period. This is intended to support the career development of the next generation of leading researchers and, at the same time, to increase the attractiveness of the European Research Area on an international level for the long term. A EURYI Award wi...Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
...of 15 are diagnosed with leukaemia in Britain each year and about 100 die from it. It accounts for about a third of all cancers in children. The number of new cases diagnosed annually has been rising for at least 40 years, particularly in children under the age of five, he said. Importantly, by analysing ...Single isolated mouse skin cell can generate into variety of epidermal tissues
... contrast to recent methods published earlier this year by Fuchs's Rockefeller team and George Cotsarelis's group at the University of Pennsylvania, this new methodology for isolating skin stem cells does not require genetic manipulation. "This opens the door for applying this method for isolating human c...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...xistent. Today we see dozens and dozens of cases a year in the regions contaminated by the disaster, and t...d.For his contributions to the field, earlier this year Davis became the first foreign epidemiologist elected to the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Th...Study reveals first genetic step necessary for prostate cancer growth
...a, characterized by precancerous growths. Nearly a year after they formed, the growths did not become cancerous. "This suggests to us that loss of a single copy of Rb can initiate this excess cell growth but is not sufficient for cancer to develop," Greenberg said. "Perhaps the most significant finding wa...Anti-cancer compound in vegetables found to block late-stage breast-cancer cell growth
...to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer this year will account for 15 percent of all cancer deaths in women, and approximately 275,000 new breast cancer cases of various forms will be diagnosed. Improvements in treatments such as chemotherapy have led to an 88 percent survival rate in Caucasian wome...