Beef feeding research studies pasture vs. grain
...t in this study because it hopes the findings will benefit not only consumers, but also cattle producers so that they can provide a better and more efficiently raised animal for the market," he said. Each of the project's phases takes place at a specific organization. Virginia Tech is responsible for the spr...Consortium to create comprehensive tools for uncovering the functions of human, mouse genes
...igators. "In addition, the organizations will each benefit from sharing their expertise to advance the technology and to accelerate its systematic application in basic biomedical research and drug discovery." The members and principal investigators will work together over the three-year period to share exper......th it. We hope this community will be the first to benefit from these kinds of advances."...Bayer donates equipment to Children's Hospital, Oakland for infectious disease research
...y small amounts," Moe said. "We're very pleased to benefit from the generosity of Bayer BP. The gift is a significant enhancement to the CIVD and will benefit the research of many CHORI scientists." The CIVD at CHORI includes interactive laboratories and offi...UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders
... build upon the existing body of knowledge for the benefit of people worldwide." UCLA will provide $20 million over five years to launch the campuswide institute, which will enable teams of researchers to compete for state grants created by the passage of Proposition 71. The money will pay for recruitment fo...Highlights of chemical society national meeting in San Diego, March 13-17
... have found that the popular fruit may have a dual benefit on blood cholesterol. In a study using human liver cells, they showed that antioxidants found in apple extracts could potentially lower "bad" cholesterol (low density lipoprotein, or LDL) by stimulating the production of LDL receptors in the liver, w...NIH should take decisive steps to promote independence, originality
...ility to transform the status quo. "Science would benefit from a system that actively encourages new investigators to try out novel ideas and approaches," said committee chair Thomas R. Cech, president, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Md., and distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemis...ICPB locks in license to improve plastics with corn
...Efficiency and Renewable Energy. "The grower will benefit by creating new uses for corn and new jobs for rural economies. Isosorbide could consume another 30 to 40 million bushels of corn annually," said ICPB Director of Research and Regulatory Affairs, Rod Williamson. "We have made a commitment to devel...Wiley forms book publishing partnership with American Institute of Chemical Engineers
...be able to offer our members, who will continue to benefit from special member discounts, access to significantly expanded content." Also effective with this agreement, Wiley will distribute approximately 70 backlist titles published by AIChE, including the best-selling titles "Guidelines for Hazard Evalu...Regular exercise helps protect muscles in elderly from soreness, injury
...that the protective effect of aerobic training may benefit larger muscles more than smaller ones. "It also suggests that there was less post-exercise pain after the later workouts," he said, adding that the horses could run up to 24 percent longer by the end of the study. As expected, the masseter, or jaw mu...Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds
... Although it's not clear why losing the armor is a benefit to freshwater fish, Kingsley noted that the unarmored fish are lighter and faster than their more burdened marine cousins. In an effort to learn more about how the armor trait evolves so quickly, Kingsley and his colleagues sequenced that genetic reg...Researchers call for expanding the repertoire in studying birdsong
... been examined," said Beecher. "Researchers would benefit from looking at species that do things differently because there are very different learning patterns. There is no one typical way in which songbirds learn." "Some birds stick with what they learned the year before, others change," added Brenowitz....Earth's services in peril, report concludes
...nt were found to be increasing in their ability to benefit human populations, while 15 were in decline. Five more were found to be in a stable state overall. "Much of the increase in food and timber production we've seen over the last few decades has come at the expense of other key services needed for fut...Chemical compounds present in diet increase risk of colon cancer
...future to confirm the results. Those studies would benefit from the inclusion of additional organochlorines, which were not analysed this time, as well as by the inclusion of other compounds associated with cancer such as dioxins and furans. Organochlorines and colorectal cancer The organochlorine compou...Social stress boosts immune system's flu-fighting abilities
... adaptive advantage for this response it seems to benefit the body by enhancing immune memory in some way. "There may be some hormonal changes that actually promote the development of the memory T cells that are important in fighting of influenza," he continued. "The goal is to ultimately figure out what th...Statins, other cholesterol depletors, may disrupt hypertension development: UCSD study
...rovide more substantial, long-term and efficacious benefit to those that have IPAH." Patel is presenting the research at the 35th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences in San Diego, March 31 - April 5, 2005. *Paper presentation: "Cholesterol-depleting drugs, including statins, lower ...14 highlighted physiology papers from IUPS 2005: From 'genomics to functions'
...pies and might provide more substantial, long-term benefit to those with hypertension. "Cholesterol-depleting drugs, including statins, lower intracellular Ca2+ and inhibit proliferation in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells in primary pulmonary hypertension." Physiology 933.6. Hemal H. Patel, Fiona Murray...U. Iowa researchers improve Huntington's disease symptoms in mice
...ddressed is whether adult neurons can tolerate and benefit from a partial reduction of both the toxic and the...HD and similar neurodegenerative diseases. "If the benefit is confirmed in other mouse models of Huntington's disease, and it appears that we don't need to tar...Zinc supplementation improved mental performance of 7th-grade boys and girls
...function, and in particular memory, of adolescents benefit from increasing zinc intakes, says Dr. Penland, then this and other similar studies would provide information that could be used when revising dietary guidelines for zinc in this age group. Such guidelines ultimately affect school breakfast and lunch...Researchers peer inside embryonic/fetal hearts to discover causes of congenital heart disease
...the chances of doctors identifying fetuses who can benefit from intervention to treat congenital defects. Doctor's in the Heart Center at Children's are redefining what has typically been called early detection. With technologically advanced tools including echocardiography they are looking inside fetal hea...