Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
...gest organization of anthropologists, representing all specialties within the profession from cultural, physical/biological, archeology, linguistics and applied anthropology. Below is a sampling of sessions with potential media interest. Full programs with speakers and room assignments as well as abst...Texas universities expanding new information network
...le scientific instruments and sensor networks will all be available and linked by TIGRE over LEARN. TIGRE access to the state's rich set of distributed resources will enable Texas researchers, educators and industrial partners to address the most challenging and important problems in areas such as biom...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
We all know the power of touch: A whack on the skull or ....D., Michael King, Ph.D., and Philip Knauf, Ph.D., all of the University; and Daniel Hammer, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania. Since its birth in ...Effort to control trade in great white sharks gets teeth from international community
...s far been listed: the whale shark, the largest of all fish species, growing up to eighteen meters in len...mmunity to be the most aggressive and dangerous of all shark species. This assumption was elevated to the public level by Steven Spielberg's 1975 film "Jaw...Gladstone researchers resolve key Huntington's disease mystery in Nature cover story
... huntingtin protein, which appear in the brains of all Huntington's disease patients, aren't the cause of...or a major one? These are questions that recur in all aspects of cell biology. As Professor Harry T. Orr of the University of Minnesota explains in a comp...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...ror," Jones says. "We sat down and thought through all the possible problems and things that could go wrong. Then we designed the flaws out from the start." Faced with a 1960s-era nuclear waste site that they needed to sample directly, Jones and his team set about in 1999 to build new tools for the clean...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...e developed wastewater treatment options -- though all have come with extra cost or environmental problems. One hydrogen peroxide treatment dilutes wastewater with pure water, but this drives up cost and produces even more waste. Another solution treats wastewater chemically with salts, but its harmful ...Johns Hopkins team wins British biotech business plan competition
... hard at honing our strategy and in the end we are all very excited to have won." Following workshops presented by leading figures in the UK biotechnology industry, proposals were judged on criteria including research and development strategy, commercial potential and financial planning. The Hopkins te...Coke versus Pepsi: It's all in the head
...a growing crisis in obesity, type II diabetes, and all their sequelae that result directly from or are exacerbated by overconsumption of calories. It is now strongly suspected that one major culprit is sugared colas," they wrote. Besides the health implications of studying soft drink preference, the rese...Experimental drug prevents vaginal simian HIV transmission in monkeys Science study says
...in SF162. The highest dose of PSC-RANTES protected all five recipients from SHIV infection. This dose con...far. The concentration that prevented infection in all five monkeys is far greater than the concentrations sufficient to block infection in cells grown in ...Muscling in on a deadly cancer
.... Recent experiments show nearly all the mice develop muscle cancer when the scientists... mature muscle] cell not be proliferating and then all of a sudden to be able to proliferate" to form tumors, Capecchi adds. Keller sa...Ancient Chinese folk remedy packs anti-cancer punch
...aceuticals, its U.S. subsidiary. The compounds, all developed through the research of UW scientists Henry Lai and Narendra Singh of the Department of Bioengineering and Tomikazu Sasaki of the Department of Chemistry, make use of a substance known as artemisinin, found in the wormwood plant and used t......nd to FGF and are key to their function. Levels of all of the mRNAs encoding these proteins were lower in...ot show the decreased FGF gene activity. "This was all the more remarkable since both groups of individuals were severely depressed at the time of death," ...Amphibians in dramatic decline; Up to 122 extinct since 1980
...alyzed the distribution and conservation status of all 5,743 known amphibian species which include frogs...atened with extinction, representing 32 percent of all species. By comparison, only 12 percent of all bird species and 23 percent of all mammal species are...Surgeon General's report underscores the importance of new thinking on bone health
...on General"--has warned will be a risk for half of all Americans older than 50 by 2020. The Surgeon General called for a coordinated public health approach that brings together a variety of public and private stakeholders in a collaborative effort to improve bone health. "The greatest challenge always h...Arctic mystery no longer: Dinosaurs walked Canada's great north
...with pounding sun and drinking bad water. Yet it's all worth it. "The fact that I may bring new perspectives on ancient life is what keeps me going," he says. Larsson, who teaches biology and is curator of vertebrate palaeontology at McGill's Redpath Museum, is most interested in discovering unknown spec...The CF Foundation urges all states to include newborn screening for cystic fibrosis in test panels
...ation of routine cystic fibrosis (CF) screening in all newborns. In addition, the Centers for Disease Con... Report (MMWR) Reports and Recommendations that all states should consider routine screening for CF in all newborns. CF Foundation-supported research a...Researchers find protein that makes long-term memory possible
...f the long-term memories needed to learn these and all other disciplines, according to a team of researchers led by scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. Their findings appear in the October 15 issue of Science. The protein i...Using fruitflies to examine alcohol tolerance
...s and pathways, they could settle for once and for all whether these are simply way stations on a single continuum of neural adaptation, or three different sets of brain adaptations of alcohol. In the end, the goal is to move beyond our current understanding, that is, that some humans possess a genetica...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
...h a mass spectrometer that can fit in a backpack - all by creating a wand that can gather the samples fro...in the field. With luck, this research will change all that." The research, which appears in today's (Friday, Oct. 15) issue of the journal Science, was...