Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...Driving and Dementia in Older Adults: Ultimately, all persons suffering from dementing illnesses need to...ikely because of minimal functional decline across all groups. A brief overview of the study design and primary outcomes will be presented. November 2...Taking the next step toward growing our own fuel
...tries in Illinois," Blaschek said, "but ultimately all of us will benefit as consumers of energy." He believes that renewable fuel made from corn is the direction we need to go in order to be free from our dependence on petroleum products. This program will focus on an integrated multidisciplinary approa...Sedentary overweight people get insulin boost from short term exercise; CVD risks trend down
...oted, "in the negative energy balance group (NEG), all of the markers were trending in a favorable direct... and controls, especially the last three days when all subjects were provided with all their food needs. During exercise the ZERO group had to finish a spo...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...ities, International Agricultural Research Centers all over the world, organizations, and private sector groups supported Virginia Tech's application. OIRED is part of Outreach and International Affairs (OIA) at Virginia Tech, which links the university to businesses, government agencies, in...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...ould require additional annual health outlays, for all low-income countries and selected middle-income countries, of US $57 billion by 2007 and US $94 billion by 2015." Harvard University professor Calestous Juma, Co-ordinator of the Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation of the UN Millennium P...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...tual equivalent of a lightning rod for physics and all its unfolding 21st-century ramifications--in terms...rtyard's terracotta concrete floor does not extend all the way to the top and bottom bars of the old "E." Plants will grow in those spaces. Trellises to ...Emory chemists develop bacteria that may help decaffeinate coffee
...rvive. "At the end of the day, we will know that all of the surviving bacteria have 'learned' to convert caffeine to theophylline, and thus have the enzyme that we're interested in. We can then learn about the enzyme and how it works," Gallivan says. "We hope to use a process known as 'directed evoluti...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
... disease is characterized by severe sensitivity to all sources of UV radiation, especially sunlight."CDT1 controls DNA replication, making sure DNA replicates once and only once," said Xiong. "But after replication, CDT1 must be degraded to prevent re-replication before the cell finishes dividing. "And w...New Jersey Institute of Technology professor to develop supersized virtual library
... will enable users to conduct the same search over all library resources at once. We already have gotten inquiries from other college libraries, so I believe the project will be helpful to many people when it's completed."...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
... opinion almost nothing has been accomplished with all that investment. Individual niche programs are a B... baby is born too: 58 percent of white infants get all recommended well-child care, compared to 35 percent of black infants. Further, previous studies have...Electronics recycling made easy
...changing regulations. "The federal government and all 50 states have enacted regulations that govern the...ly-integrated environmental solutions to virtually all industrial, commercial, municipal and residential sectors. Onyx North America's services include: en...VitalSense(R) - Wireless vital signs monitoring
...ogical status of Canadian triathletes training for all three legs (swimming, biking and running) of their event in the 2004 summer Olympics. In another athletic related study, Nike is using VitalSense to test heat dissipation in clothing. Since receiving 510K clearance from the FDA on April 22, 2004 Vi...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
...a method for quickly analyzing an entire genome -- all the genes contained in a cell -- and producing a r...ten look for a master regulator that controls them all at once. "They can write whole papers about how interesting it is that they are regulated together, ...Rice engineer wins prestigious Annunzio Award
...y and labor designed to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind." Governed by a Presidential appointed Board of Trustees, the Foundation seeks to nurture and recognize pioneering individuals and programs that reflect the visionary spirit and pioneering heritage of Chr...Environmental exposures before and after birth can harm children's lungs
...303 pregnant Dominican and African-American women, all nonsmokers, who were enrolled as part of a large prospective cohort study following mothers and their children for several years after delivery to examine effects of environmental pollutants. The researchers measured each woman's prenatal exposure t...Support groups aid women with 'breast cancer gene mutations'
...p therapy." The researchers say 67 women completed all 12 sessions. Those who participated in psychosocial-focused group therapy showed improvements in several psychosocial factors, including general anxiety, cancer anxiety, and depression. They add the group therapy appears to have helped women decide w...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...ances bottlenose dolphins should be able to detect all the enhanced nets, and that increasing the stiffne...While the three words "boy," "found," and "dollar" all carry stressed syllables, the stressed syllable in "boy" and "dollar" receives a greater degree of s...Mitochondria findings may help beat wide range of disease
...gested that mitochondria contain within themselves all the proteins necessary for fusion. This stands in stark contrast to the process of single-membrane fusion, which requires many additional cellular proteins to carry out this important function. "We observed two distinct stages, with the first involvi...Rutgers-led research offers new clues in the genetic mysteries of maize
...al instability in the genome," said Messing. "With all the maize genes moving around by themselves in nature, perhaps conveying some selective advantage in doing so, this argument is unfounded." Through sophisticated computational analysis, the researchers concluded that today's corn is the product of tw......female aorta developed an aneurysm. "The fact that all the male and female aortas developed aneurysms when transplanted into male rats, compared to only 17 percent of the female aortas in female rats, suggests that host environment is the critical factor in aneurysm formation," Upchurch says. In the thir...