Individuals with genetic conditions twice as likely to report health insurance denial
... conditions should be legitimately concerned about access to health insurance, but individuals with genetic ...ypes of medical conditions are quite worried about access to health insurance and make life changes in order to preserve their access to it," added Kass. "But...ACS News Service weekly PressPac -- Feb. 7, 2007
... science's horizons from astronomy to zoology. To access the ACS News Service's new electronic press center for the Chicago meeting, with media registration and housing www.acspresscenter.org . Special Event: Chicago News Media Tour/Briefing/Reception News media are invited to a special event at the Ar...Microsurgery and Super Glue show how antennae aid moth navigation
... variety of stimuli, something like a radio having access to the entire FM band, but the Johnston's organ sends signals to the brain on a narrower frequency, concentrated at roughly twice the speed of the insect's wing beats. The brain pays particular attention to those signals, the scientists found, like t...Study profiles rate of autism in Wisconsin
...o diagnose children, the Wisconsin team was denied access to school files on the grounds of the Family Educa...l records may miss children who have limited or no access to health care. If so, the actual prevalence of autism could be higher than their results indicate....BioMed Central announces winners of first open access research awards
...e world's largest publisher of peer-reviewed, open access research journals, is proud to announce the winner... that has been made universally accessible by open access publication in one of BioMed Central's journals. Award winners and honorable mentions will be offi...Plant-grazing fish boost resilience of coral reefs facing stress
By using cages to experimentally control the access of fish to coral reefs, researchers have assessed the role of fish "grazing" in the ability of reefs to successfully recover from potentially devastating coral-bleaching events related to rises in ocean temperatures. The findings, reported by a group......sequenced almost seven times over. Researchers can access the horse genome sequence data through the following public databases: GenBank ( www.ncbi.nih.gov/Genbank ) at NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI); NCBI's Map Viewer ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ); UCSC Genome Browser ( www.genome.gu...Major society publisher announces support for public access to scientific literature
...to Scientific Literature," calling for free public access to federally funded research within six months of publication. ASCB has provided free access (after a two-month embargo) to research published in its journals since 2001 and has experienced no ...Remicade therapy shown to improve productivity in patients treated for chronic plaque psoriasis
...ge continued research and stress the importance of access to effective therapies, which may help manage a disease that often interferes with work and life activities." In September 2006, REMICADE was approved in the U.S. for the treatment of adult patients with chronic severe (i.e. extensive and/or disa...... to complete and offers participants the chance to access receive more information about reducing their own risk. "This is a great way for people to take part in research and to really make the most of the Internet," said Professor Newton-Bishop. "With an on-line survey we can involve thousands of people ...Endangered shortnose sturgeon saved in Hudson River
... sturgeon's population since the mid-1990s and has access to data on the populations since the 1970s. "The nature of this species, its habitat and evidence for a large and secure population are an example of successful protected species management," said Bain. "Scientists and legislators have called for cha...How does your brain tell time?
...guage, yet how would we tell time if we didnt have access to the plethora of watches, clocks and cell phones at our disposal? For decades, scientists have believed that the brain possesses an internal clock that allows it to keep track of time. Now a UCLA study in the Feb. 1 edition of Neuron...Nonvenomous Asian snakes 'borrow' defensive poison from toxic toads
...ins in the snakes' neck glands depended upon their access to the toads. Snakes without the borrowed toxins were more likely to turn and flee from danger than to hold their ground and perform a toxin-releasing defensive maneuver. "Sequestration of toxins in a specialized [neck gland] structure in a verte...Central and peripheral signals set the circadian liver clock
...a new study published online this week in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Benot Kornmann, Ueli Schibler, and colleagues investigated circadian genes in the liver to try and answer this question. To determine whether genes were under local or systemic control, they generated a mouse strain with conditi...Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds
...e fights, the outcome of which determines who gets access to food and mates. "Males that repeatedly lose fights are unable to hold territories and consequently descend in social status," the authors wrote. "Success in aggressive bouts is therefore crucial to male reproductive fitness, and the ability to ...Common mechanisms for viral DNA replication
...nwind. In a new study published online in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Gretchen Meinke, Andrew Bohm, and colleagues report the crystal structure of the DNA-binding domain of SV40 T-ag on a DNA fragment derived from the viral origin of replication. The structure shows that although T-ag and its fu...Best practices for parenterals: From formulation to manufacturing
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...er. In a new study published online in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Laura Muzzolini, Alessandro Vindigni, and colleagues describe two structural forms of the human RECQ1 helicase, a large oligomeric complex composed of five or six subunits and a smaller form consistent with only one or two molec...Microtubule protein interactions visualized en masse
In a new study published online in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Philipp Niethammer, Eric Karsenti, and colleagues investigate the regulation of microtubule dynamics via application of their new method, called visual immunoprecipitation (VIP), which enables simultaneous visualization of multi......emical Society (ACS) News Service PressPac is your access point for discoveries in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, which are reported in the 35 peer-reviewed journals of the American Chemical Society. With more than 158,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society. Chemistry is the s...