High blood pressure medication strategy proves effective in Hispanic women
...ses in Hispanic patients. High blood pressure is becoming more prevalent in women across all ethnic groups, Cooper-DeHoff said. And although it is thought to actually be less common in Hispanic women, fewer Hispanics have been included in hypertension studies. The INVEST findings are important because the...QUT's top researchers honored with fellowships
...no-technology to purify water. "Water is rapidly becoming Australia's most critical natural resource and there is an urgent need to re-use and recycle water from domestic grey-water and industry waste," he said. Dr Martens said his work aimed to develop photocatalytic water treatment technologies to break...Scientists find brown fat master switch
... and overfeed them to see if they are resistant to becoming obese. "Brown fat is present in mice and in human infants, where it keeps them warm by dissipating food energy as heat, instead of storing it as white fat," said Spiegelman, senior author of the paper. "Human adults don't have much brown fat, but t...Nearly 90 percent of babies receive recommended newborn screening tests
...d then given treatment as soon as possible, before becoming seriously ill from the condition. ...Insulin sensitizer also serves as energy-conserving signal to the brain
...hat action, in turn, made the animals resistant to becoming obese even on a high-fat diet. Moreover, animals lacking adiponectin lost more fat after 12 hours of fasting than normal mice did. Blood levels of another fat hormone, leptin, are regulated inversely in relation to serum adiponectin levels, the res...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates pollen collection by bees
...res new pollinators. This type of information is becoming ever more critical as we struggle to understand, maintain, and modify the plant and pollinator systems that we depend on for life. Evo-Devo, or the linking of evolution and development is a shift in the paradigm of how organisms evolved and diversi...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates
...uires new pollinators. This type of information is becoming ever more critical as we struggle to understand, maintain, and modify the plant and pollinator systems that we depend on for life. Evo-Devo, or the linking of evolution and development is a shift in the paradigm of how organisms evolved and diversi...Sea anemone genome provides new view of our multi-celled ancestors
...the United States and in the British Isles, and is becoming an increasingly important model system for the study of development, evolution, genomics, reproductive biology and ecology, thanks in large part to the urging of late marine biologist and UC Berkeley zoology professor Cadet Hand Jr. All animals com...Science earns top honor from Spain's Crown Prince
...borders is essential as science and technology are becoming increasingly integral to global prosperity, yet also increasingly politicized in certain regions," said Science Editor-in-Chief Dr. Donald Kennedy. "We are delighted and deeply honored that our journal's contributions to public discourse on science...Investigating Life in Extreme Environments report gives hints on facts of life
...decades have turned some environments setting into becoming extreme conditions for the normal ecosystems (e.g. acidification of the oceans). Therefore the understanding of tolerance/adaptation/non-adaptation to extreme conditions and ecosystem functioning are able to help predicting the impact of global chang...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...icial reefs built along coastlines.The animals are becoming nuisances, clogging water intakes at nuclear and conventional power plants, for instance, and researchers are seeking ways to cover the cost of removing huge masses of jellyfish from the environment. In the new study, they describe a process for ex...Researchers discover method for identifying how cancer evades the immune system
...y when we look at all the immunotherapies that are becoming available or are beginning to emerge from research. In time, Epstein believes, it will be possible to study the immune signatures for most, if not all, forms of cancer. In addition, rtPCR technology allows for a relatively inexpensive and rapid ana...Stressed-out African naked mole-rats may provide clues about human infertility
...ttle it out for dominance, with the winner rapidly becoming reproductively active. Studies of dominance within colonies have revealed that breeding animals have the highest social rank. Furthermore, concentrations of urinary testosterone, a hormone associated with aggression, in the queen and non-breeders o...MIT tool determines landslide risk in tropics
...r Baguio City between 1991 and 2004. The area is becoming increasingly more populous and built-up, in part because it sits at a higher elevation and has cooler temperatures than most of the country, making it a popular tourist destination. The average annual rainfall for the city on the South China Sea is 1...Omega-3 fatty acids protect eyes against retinopathy, study finds
... progress to a severe form of ROP are in danger of becoming permanently blind. There are also aspects of the disease process that may apply to diabetic retinopathy, a disease in which blood vessels swell and leak fluid or grow abnormally on the surface of the retina, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...2 MSU professors spearhead international water project
...was motivated by the recognition that the world is becoming increasingly more global and that for American graduates to successfully compete with researchers from other countries, they have to be better prepared for the challenges of working in the global marketplace. The teams strength, said Tarabara, is t...UN issues analysis of global investors' sustainable energy 'gold rush'
... vagaries of rising and falling oil pricesthey are becoming generating systems of choice for increasing number...though one report conclusion is that the sector is becoming more independent of the price of oil). Growing consumer awareness of renewable energy and energy e...Promising protein may prevent eye damage in premature babies
...o cope with the first phases of their life without becoming blind. Retinopathy of prematurity affects infants weighing less than 2.75 pounds who are born within the first 31 weeks of pregnancy, according to the National Eye Institute. More than 1,000 require medical treatment and about 500 become legally bl...How 'memory' T cells curb the spread of viruses throughout the body
...st the spread of an invading virus occurs. After becoming sick from many viruses, the body becomes immune (protected) from recurrence of the same disease. This is why before vaccines were developed, childhood diseases such as measles and mumps occurred only once in a lifetime. The immunity occurs when the...University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers develop 'off-the-shelf' vascular grafts
... preferred conduits because they are less prone to becoming obstructed. However, they are in very limited supply, as many patients require multiple grafts. Thus, there is an ongoing search for the ideal small-caliber arterial substitute for revascularization procedures. The University of Pittsburgh team, le...