New risks for bladder cancer identified by MIT team
...ious cousins, they could potentially lead to safer alternatives for the latter. Authors of the paper from MIT are Tannenbaum, Paul L. Skipper, a BE principal research scientist, and Jinping Gan, a former graduate student. Their colleagues Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Kazuko Arakawa, Ronald K. Ross, and Mimi C. Yu ...Health, food, new technologies featured during ACS meeting Oct. 17-20 in Peoria, Ill.
...l discuss the development of potentially healthier alternatives to the oils as well as nutritional and regulatory aspects. ( AGFD/AOCS 316-321 , Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1:30-5:00 p.m., Illinois Central College, Classroom 306) Emerging Technologies for the 21 st Century James Shoffner, Ph.D., adjunct professor o...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...ustrial conditions better than currently available alternatives and lasts thousands of times longer. R&D Magazine declared the isolation and production of the enzyme -- named the Ultrastable Catalase Enzyme by the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory researchers who found...Declining fish supply linked to wildlife consumption in West Africa, Science study reports
...e need for ecologically sound, inexpensive protein alternatives to wildlife and better conservation measures to protect remaining wild animal populations. The researchers analyzed records of fish supply, fish abundance, wildlife hunting pressure and wildlife abundance. They found that years of poor fish supply c...Reduced fish stocks linked to increased bushmeat trade, wildlife declines in W. Africa
...e needed to develop local sources of cheap protein alternatives to offset demand for wildlife harvest. But, he adds, until the larger issue of international fish export agreements, increased populations and increased demand for food is addressed, local-level efforts to prevent the extinction of wildlife species ...Growing cities in arid regions
...' urbanism Transportation and ecological mobility alternatives Building technology: Sustainable technologies and materials for city building Approaches for establishing institutional bridges for effective change Notables at the conference include Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano; Bob Walkup, mayor of Tucson; Je...Genetic polymorphisms, antidepressant use may be associated with altered tamoxifen activity
...ikely to gain increasing importance as therapeutic alternatives to estrogen for the treatment of hot flashes in patients with breast cancer as well as in unaffected women, in addition to their already established role in treatment of depression and other psychiatric illnesses. It is possible that testing of CYP2D...National Academy news: Water quality improvement in southwestern Pennsylvania
...rs should investigate decentralized and innovative alternatives such as storing and treating overflows at remote locations or in nearby abandoned mines -- as is currently being evaluated by the Township of Upper St. Clair. A first step toward any of these options would be development of a system for real-time co...Queen's discovery sheds new light on ancient temperatures
...ally enclosed in ice. The Queen's discovery offers alternatives to this hypothesis. Glaciers wax and wane according to how the earth's orbit changes relative to the sun and how much solar radiation reaches the earth over a given time, says James. Was there a major celestial change that allowed the oceans to becom...Weight-loss and exercise study compares center- and home-based programs
... weight loss in postmenopausal women." Dennis said alternatives to traditional medical center or office visits are needed for those who want to lose weight under medical supervision. "In a nation with an unrelenting epidemic of obesity, the need for treatment far exceeds the capacity of the health-care system to ...PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay
...TON--If you're an organization dedicated to humane alternatives to the use of animals in research and you want to ...ng to make the effort, there are effective, humane alternatives to animal-based assays and other testing procedures--alternatives that could help save the lives of ...Cardiologist to testify at FDA hearing: Animal tests implicated in Vioxx tragedy
...oses unethical human experimentation, and promotes alternatives to animal research....El Nino forecasting could aid fisheries management, disease control, marine species protection
...hether fishermen could be productively directed to alternatives sites, Barber suggested. And naval ships planning sonar exercises could avoid maneuvering in range of vulnerable marine mammals. Barber's talk will be delivered at a symposium entitled "Biological Perturbations in the Melting World's Oceans: Impacts ...Stealth worms may improve insect pest control
...the local insects. Using native biological control alternatives is more environmentally friendly than importing other pest control agents." Known as entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN), the juvenile stage of these tiny worms travels with bacteria in its intestine that specifically kill certain insect species. Nemato...NJIT researcher creates opportunities for studying chiral ionic liquids
...onic liquids offer other substantial advantages as alternatives to conventional solvents. Their greatest promise is as a superior medium to test for the presence of organophosphates. These compounds, common in many insecticides and pesticides, are also key ingredients of less benign chemical warfare agents. Ma...In asthma, it's not the drugs but the inflammation that increases cardiovascular risk, damage
...herapeutic targets should provide better, specific alternatives for patients symptomatic for both asthma and cardiovascular disease, or CVD," Hazarika predicted. Study shows asthma "helps" heart attract damaging inflammatory cells The results of the studies indicate that "inflammatory responses associated with ...Schizophrenic antifungal bacteria
.... Scientists worldwide are looking for biological alternatives to chemical pesticides in order to protect crops against pathogens. One of these is the use of bacteria which protect plants, for example, by producing antifungal substances. Danil van den Broek investigated how to improve the reliability of crop pro...The evolution of phenotypic polymorphism
...redation risk, genetic determination of phenotypic alternatives can function as this kind of advantageous prediction, since natural selection will make genes for the protected type more common in local environments with high predation risk and less common in those with low risk. Conceptually, this is the same as...Penn researchers determine structure of binding site of colon-cancer drug and its protein target
... "Understanding the structure could help us design alternatives to Erbitux that would be easier to deliver in small-molecule medications to be taken as a pill," as opposed to the current intravenous administration of the drug, Ferguson adds. The researchers' hope is that with these new insights into Erbitux's act...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2005
...ology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory may lead to alternatives to traditional diesel and spark ignition engine combustion processes that would result in cleaner emissions and improve engine efficiency more than 50 percent. ORNL researchers are working in partnership with Detroit Diesel Corp. and Cummins Engine C...