Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
...s really efficient, actually," says Ghadiri. "This addresses a very important question that we did not have a real good answer for." Life--What We Know, and What We Don't The question of how life originated is one of the most interesting gaps in our knowledge--interesting perhaps because we know appr...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
...bines the lab's expertise in a number of areas and addresses the problem of having too much information for trained personnel to analyze. Consequently, much of the staggering collection of data is not effectively utilized, said ORNL's Budhu Bhaduri, co-principal investigator for the project. With the ORNL syst...Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
... Health Issues Among Latinos in the US: this panel addresses cultural diversity and health disparities. (10.15-Noon) What's All the Fuss About Same-Sex Marriage? A roundtable discussion asks what are the myths about marriage, family and civilization that fueled the attack. (1.45-3.30 p.m.) ...Two UT Southwestern physicians elected to National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
...members elected in 2004 to the organization, which addresses national health issues. Drs. Hobbs and McConnell bring the total number of current UT Southwestern faculty members inducted into the institute to 17, the largest representation in Texas and surrounding states. Members of the Institute of Medici...UGA scientist Moran receives $2.6 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for marine research
...b and the sulfur cycle of the ocean. Her research addresses issues ranging from marine biodiversity to global climate control. Moran is the first UGA scientist to receive an award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which was started in 2000 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, and his wife, Bett...Investigating the Columbia River and Estuary: A primary focus of research
...olumbia River from Hanford groundwater. The study addresses survival, differences in development and growth from eyed-egg stage to swim-up stage. The presentations will be conducted in Rooms B113 and B114, Portland Convention Center between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on November 18. Details regarding the Four...JCI table of contents, November 15 2004
... Ling and colleagues from Lund University, Sweden, addresses whether the dysregulation of PGC-1 expression is due to environmental or genetic factors. The authors examined the effects of insulin on muscle PGC levels in young and old, identical and fraternal, non-diabetic twins. The authors de...Aging affects susceptibility to type 2 diabetes
... Ling and colleagues from Lund University, Sweden, addresses whether the dysregulation of PGC-1 expression is due to environmental or genetic factors. The authors examined the effects of insulin on muscle PGC levels in young and old, identical and fraternal, non-diabetic twins. The authors demonstrate that ...Livestock grazing study finds moderate grazing beneficial to Great Basin plant communities
...greater variety of plants. The study specifically addresses the view that rangelands are irreparably damaged by domestic grazing in the Great Basin and should subsequently be off-limits to livestock. Perryman said that the study has the potential to help resolve the sometimes bitter debate between ranchers--w...Study gives US a 'C' for lagging support of international reproductive health and population efforts
...ion and Development (ICPD) in 1994. The study also addresses donors" growing focus on HIV/AIDS and the importance of linking HIV/AIDS services with other aspects of sexual and reproductive health care. Donor countries - including the United States - agreed to provide one-third of the annual costs to implement......cessfully treat constipation. The article further addresses the myths behind chronic use of laxatives and whether these drugs can be linked to nerve damage and risks of colorectal or other cancers. Data shows that those on the market today are safe when appropriate drugs are prescribed and taken at recommend...MSI releases 'moleculizer' - a new approach to simulation of intracellular biochemical networks
...is strengths, but the work is important because it addresses a problem arising directly from the biology." Dr. Daniel Gillespie, a pioneer in stochastic methods for modeling chemical kinetics stated, "Dr. Lok has succeeded in adapting and creatively extending earlier developed techniques for stochastically sim...FDA approves ABRAXANE(TM) for metastatic breast cancer
...ough since it is an active new class of drugs that addresses the toxicities associated with solvents in taxane-based chemotherapy, namely hypersensitivity reactions, severe myelosuppression, prolonged peripheral neuropathy and severe edema," said Edith Perez, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of...AGI publishes 10th edition of GeoRef Thesaurus
...g costs in the contiguous United States. Orders to addresses in Maryland and Virginia are subject to sales tax. All orders must be prepaid. Please make your check or money order drawn on a U.S. bank in funds payable to the American Geological Institute. AGI also accepts VISA and MasterCard. Orders are sent by ...UCI researchers create new technique for speeding development of vaccines
...in UCI's Center for Virus Research. "Our technique addresses and removes this bottleneck. Remarkably, in only ten weeks, we can make every protein of an organism such as the tuberculosis bacterium which has 3,900 genes." The researchers used their technique to identify a unique set of 11 proteins among a tot...ASU students host first annual Western Regional Bioethics Conference
...participate in the evolving academic dialogue that addresses these issues." Co-hosted by the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, the ASU Bioethics Program and the Center for Biology & Society, the conference is dedicated to fostering discussion and debate of the most pressing social and ethical issues in the b...Preparing for the inevitable: New book for nurses guides patient care during a disaster
...s says. "Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management" addresses the issues nurses face in caring for patients from newborns to the elderly -- during any natural or man-made disaster. The textbook includes an extensive list of procedures nurses can follow, personal anecdotes from nurses who have dealt with disast...Open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems
... Such a theory has now been developed. This theory addresses the strong capillary forces between substrate material and liquid and takes the ‘freedom TM of contact angles at pinned contact lines into account. Such a contact line is visible in the upper right image in Figure 1. In such a situation, the contact...Experts gather at Mount Holyoke to consider water's crucial role in human life
...ework of visual renditions of water, the symposium addresses the following questions: What is the place of water in our physical and metaphysical lives? How do sacred and profane uses of water flow together or diverge in the world? "We want to inspire the Mount Holyoke community to see water differently," said...Puberty onset influence of nutritional, environmental and endogenous regulators?
...dverse effects. The new research project, PIONEER, addresses the phenomenon of precocious puberty (early onset of puberty), observed in humans in Europe and other parts of the world, and suspected to be linked with environmental, including nutritional factors. It should be pointed out that besides the environm...