MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
... billionths of a meter, but the team is working on improving the resolution. We are confident that we can attain 150 nanometers, and perhaps higher resolution is possible, Feld said. We expect this new technique to serve as a complement to electron microscopy, which has a resolution of approximately 10 nanomet...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...rts research organisations to identify agendas for improving science policies on national and European levels, commented Dr. Christoph Ettl, Associate Director of the ESF, who is engaged in the selection process for Forward Look topics. (Click http://www.esf.org/publications.html for Looking Beyond, a conc......agement of them has tended to focus exclusively on improving one type of ecosystem service (e.g. food production, fiber production, biofuels production) at the cost of all others, explains Bennett. She notes that agriculture is now one of the main driving forces of global environmental change. Bennett and...UCF research links proteins, stem cells and potential Alzheimer's treatment
...Alzheimers. Increasing neurons may be important in improving brain function, especially in people with neurodegenerative diseases. Sugaya tempers his enthusiasm with the caveat that more research, including clinical trials, will be needed should the next set of research benchmarks be met. Its one thing to...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...an $10,000. To meet their goal, they will continue improving the quality of sequencing data and further develop the computational tools needed to assemble a human genome sequence. Jingyue Ju, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York (Two Grants) $644,000 (2 years) 3-O-Modified Nucleotide Reversible Terminator...UF to lead research on life-threatening fungus
...e ones. While more potent treatment regimens are improving prospects forpatients, so-called emerging pathogens -- viruses, bacteria and fungi -- are a growing medical problem, Wingard said. "With advancing medical technology and more powerful antibiotics,patients are living longer," he said. "We have a gro...Parents seeking sex abandon 1 in 3 offspring
... parents to produce a greater number of offspring, improving their reproductive success over those more willing to stay home. Interestingly, however, the sexes play the same strategy; whatever is good for the male is harmful for his female, and vice versa. Neither the males nor females are saints. Responsi...Smithsonian's National Zoo researchers use electronic eggs to help save threatened species
...the normal activities of breeding is essential for improving husbandry practices for a species. But much of this basic biological information remains unknown for many threatened and endangered species. Temperatures and turning frequencies for artificially incubating eggs can sometimes rely as much on guesswork...Adult survivors of childhood leukemia exercise less, worsening high risk for obesity and illness
...ll, incremental steps can make a big difference in improving health outcomes. Dr. Oeffinger and his colleagues compared the physical activity levels of over 2,600 adult survivors of ALL, ages 18 to 44, as reported by patients in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) in 2003, to physical activity of age...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 18, 2007
...t new fingerprinting method that shows promise for improving the collection and analysis of fingerprints from crime scenes. The finding is scheduled for publication in the August 1 issue of ACS Analytical Chemistry , a semi-monthly journal. Standard methods for collecting fingerprints at crime scenes, such ...Losing weight after pregnancy -- diet and exercise better than diet alone
...e body weight, exercise has the added advantage of improving the womens cardiovascular fitness and preserves fat-free mass dieting alone reduces fat-free mass, says Amanda Amorim, an epidemiologist working in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....New ACS podcast debuts with science news for broad general audience
... these podcasts as part of a broader commitment to improving public understanding of chemistry, Showalter said. He also works toward that goal as a member of the ACS Committee on Public Relations and Communications and as a councilor for the Central NM Section, ACS. Podcasting is an increasingly popular way...Nearly 90 percent of babies receive recommended newborn screening tests
...creating a snapshot of the nations progress toward improving the health of newborns. The March of Dimes contra...nfants, provide assistance to states expanding and improving their newborn screening programs and develop new screening tools for additional life-threatening dis...Fat horses face health problems
...sture forages have been fortified with the goal of improving weight gain and productivity of cattle and other food animals, with little thought given to how these forages might affect horses, which often share the same types of pastures. In addition, the majority of the horses studied were under-exercised. The...VIB scientist receives major research grant
...wledge of these mechanisms will play a key role in improving and developing therapeutic treatments....Tomorrow's green nanofactories
... nanotechnology in a variety of ways, ranging from improving the efficiency of production, storage, and transmission of energy to overcoming many of the obstacles to a hydrogen-based transportation system based on fuel-cell powered cars and trucks, according to Rejeski. ...Penn researchers discover how microRNAs control protein synthesis
...mal initiation process of protein synthesis. By improving understanding about how miRNAs control protein synthesis under normal conditions, the researchers hope to identify how miRNA-mediated gene expression regulation fails in human diseases. Many studies show that miRNAs are differentially expressed in...Highlights from the July 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...essionals should focus their counseling efforts on improving diets of young girls, particularly those who are African-American, Additional research articles in the July Journal of the American Dietetic Association include: Beverage Patterns, Diet Quality and Body Mass Index of U.S. Preschool and School-A...Common environmental chemicals in diet affect fetal ovarian development
...agricultural industries to find safer chemicals by improving how they assess fetal development effects. If such measures helped to reduce the rates of cancer, obesity and infertility, there would be considerable benefits in terms of the costs of healthcare.......g the food borne bacterium C. botulinum, and (iii) improving the efficiency of the production of the biofuel butanol by C. acetobutylicum using metabolic engineering. Official figures show that 5000 people die from a healthcare-associated infection every year in the UK and tackling the super bugs costs the N...