Studying the chemistry of drugs in wastewater
... a large audience at the American Chemical Society annual meeting last month, where NIST chemist Mary Bedner was one of several presenters. Among the concerns is possible damage to the environment, animals or people from bioactive compounds. NIST chemists selected four pharmaceuticals sometimes found in the...Yearling horse auction to benefit equine research
... and students to pursue the exercise research. The annual yearling auction is not only an opportunity to purchase one of the Thoroughbreds raised at the center but a chance to speak with Virginia Tech faculty and students about the latest in equine research....National Science Foundation awards $2 million grant to UC Riverside
...imarily from the Mediterranean region, and include annual grasses and flowering plants such as stork's bill and mustard. The grasses are problematic, Allen said, because they form a fine fuel that can help carry fire during the dry season, more so than any of the state's native species. The grass invasion a...New Stanford center probes nanoscale material
...more, nanotechnology may account for a $1 trillion annual market and employ 2 million people within 10 to 15 years, according to an NSF report. "There's a huge effort in this country in nanoscale research, but we don't have the tools," Moler said. "We want to engineer what's at the nanoscale. We need to be ...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...s technology improves. A portion of the center's annual budget will be used to partially support compelling genotyping research projects, to be selected by a steering committee. The first genotyping studies within the NCRR-funded Broad Institute genotyping center will be performed in early 2005. Researc...Low dose radiation evades cancer cells' protective 'radar'
...ess. DeWeese, who will present his evidence at the annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology on October 5 in Atlanta, explains. "DNA repair is not foolproof - it can lead to mistakes or mutations that are passed down to other generations of cells," explains DeWeese, chair...University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
...with children with disability will attend the 16th annual meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability, hosted by Child Life and Health, the University of Edinburgh. Conference organiser and consultant paediatrician Dr Anne O'Hare said: " We will look at advances in the field of childhood disabil...Forum at Virginia Tech to address issues of human cloning
...ges Project was founded in 1985, and has presented annual forums on issues of public concern involving science and technology. ...Old bones unearth new date for giant deer's last stand
... would have had to feed extensively to sustain the annual growth of their huge antlers. Indeed, it is thought that the antlers would have prevented males from entering even moderately dense woods, at least for part of the year, and one former theory for their extinction was that the seasonal nutrient requir...Society for Psychophysiology Research
The 44rd annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Res...e will be held at the LaFonda on the Plaza. SPR's annual meeting is widely regarded as a leading forum for presentations on cutting-edge research on the conn...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...per year as of 2015. This would 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 Innovatio...Drought in the West linked to warmer temperatures
...y of drought on this continent. The atlas contains annual maps of reconstructed droughts over North America, an animation of those maps showing aridity over time, and a time series plot of each reconstruction with associated plots of calibrated and verification statistics. The North American Drought Atlas C...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
...ogy, announced that it included Troyanskaya in its annual list of 100 top innovators from around the world. The magazine cited her for creating computing techniques that "allowed her to identify genes involved in a host of diseases, including lymphoma, lung cancer and gastric cancer." Troyanskaya and collea...Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
...r the American Anthropological Association's 103rd annual meeting. The conference theme is Magic, Science and Religion but included are multiple presentations on violence, aspects of health care including pharmaceuticals, sessions on food research and panels on Islam and the Middle East. There are also talk...Research into the sense of touch in worms wins Eppendorf/Science Prize
...he awardee and finalists will be recognized at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in October. Humans rely heavily on their sense of touch, and reduced touch sensation is common in people with diabetes and is a leading factor in lower-extremity amputation. However, scientists know very little...Oct. 22-24 Chinese-American frontiers of science meeting
The annual Chinese-American Frontiers of Science symposium, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, provides award-winning young scientists from the United States and China with the opportunity to interact and discuss their research. Topics of discussion...Horse auction raises $75,000 for research
...tered buyers and more than 100 people attended the annual event at which horses that have been a part of research programs at the center are sold with proceeds used to support continuing pasture-based equine nutrition research. The highest prices were for three yearlings that will likely be used for racing,...Combination hormone therapy doubles breast density and quadruples risk of abnormal mammograms
...enter, presented these findings today at the third annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research."I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect the doubling of breast density associated with combination-hormone therapy," s...High fiber intake reduces estrogen levels in Latina women, according to researchers
...rican Association for Cancer Research (AACR) third annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research in a poster presentation on Sunday, October 17th, and in a press conference entitled "Antioxidants, Food Extracts and Prevention," being held on Monday, October 18th. Although t...Scientists fear threat of second wave of 'mad cow' prion infection
...fusion-transmitted prions will be presented at the annual AABB blood conference in Baltimore. Experts convening for symposium at AABB on TSE and the blood supply will be available for interviews. WHO: David M. Asher, MD. Supervisory Medical Officer, Division of Emerging and Transfusion-Transmitt...