Erectile dysfunction in diabetes is due to selective defect in the brain
...hypothalamus, located in the brain, an integration center between the central and peripheral nervous systems. The site is involved in numerous functions, including erectile function and sexual behavior, and is a primary site within the forebrain that has been implicated in penile erection. The investigators...First new waterborne aquaculture drug in 20 years approved
...val Partnership Project. Dr. Michael Jawson, UMESC center director, said that this approval is a critical step forward in helping control diseases in commercially and publicly raised fishes. He noted that the broad use approval is unique and significant for U.S. aquaculture in that it covers two fish life s...These legs were made for fighting
... you are going to die. Short legs would lower your center of mass and make you more stable." Yet Carrier ...australopiths fight because "with short legs, your center of mass is closer to the ground. It's going to make you more stable so that you can't be knocked off...Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid
...osalia, a coastal Baja California town that is the center of Mexicos jumbo squid fishery. During six days at sea, the research team identified 74 individual sperm whales in a 27-square-mile area. To locate whales, researchers towed an array of hydrophones from the back of a boat and listened for the anim...After scrutiny, preemie lung treatments turn out to be safe, effective
... Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical center and author of the study. "These findings may give us back a tool to help give these fragile babies a better chance of survival." Before concerns arose in 2000 about safety of multiple courses of steroids, many mothers in on-and-off preterm labor r...NC research campus and UNC universities host major symposium on nutritional biotechnology
...rolina Research Campus which is planned as a world center for nutrition-related biotechnology research. The ...struction in Kannapolis, North Carolina, a former center for the textile industry, just north of Charlotte. A cooperative venture between six North Carolina ...NIST 'micro-rack' measures cell mechanical properties
... connective tissue cell, the cell is placed on the center of the platform, allowed to spread and adhere for several hours, and then pulled slowly apart until it detaches. In NIST experiments, the cells let go of the substrate at a force of about 1500 nanonewtons. (One nanonewton is the approximate amount of...NIH selects Children's Hospital as Center of Excellence to train future generations of scientists
...n interest in basic science research. Children's center will be led by principal investigator David H. Perlmutter, MD, physician-in-chief at Children's and the Vira I. Heinz Professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "This program will serve a...Irish potato famine disease came from South America
...e a number of camps on the issue of the pathogen's center of origin. While 19th century scientists believed ...n the 20th century, Ristaino says, Toluca became a center for plant breeding studies, as scientists there collected potato seed from all over the world and te...Lessons in wood formation from Arabidopsis
...lulose. In addition, heartwood (darker wood at the center of the trunk) forms in many tree species through a highly regulated process of programmed cell death. Although herbaceous plants by definition do not form wood as in trees and shrubs, they nonetheless form secondary xylem tissue that is in many respe...Mellow in Europe, crazy in America
...nd her students collected plants from the both the center and edge of the native range in Europe, getting in...ublic. They also collected from the invasive range center in Vermont and the edge in North Carolina. They discovered that the grass in its native Europe sho...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 21, 2007
...access the ACS News Service's new electronic press center for the Chicago meeting, with media registration and housing, go to: www.acspresscenter.org . Special Event: Chicago News Media Tour/Briefing/Reception News media are invited to a special event at the Art Institute of Chicago, scheduled during...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
...ith various guest societies. Full-day conferences center on mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease and emerging infectious diseases and include the keynote lecture on defining critical neuropathology in neurodegenerative disorders by Dr. Floyd E. Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute. Other symposia, lec...AGU Journal highlights -- February 23, 2007
...ian Ridge (off Alaska), the Hawaiian Ridge (in the center of the Pacific Ocean), and the Izu-Ogasawara Ridge (off Japan)--where previous modeling indicated that internal tides should be strong. Through analysis of vertical profiles of microscale velocity distribution, the authors detect intense, turbulent m...Study to look at aspirin as aid to conception, healthy pregnancy
...s spring and will continue for five years. The UB center will enroll 535 women. Another 1,070 will be recruited by investigators at the University of Utah, for a total enrollment of 1,600 women. Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 40, have had one miscarriage in the year prior to entering the ...2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible
...lestone of 2,000 genomes, the microbial sequencing center will continue to rapidly sequence more influenza strains and isolates and will make all the sequence data freely available to the scientific community and the public through GenBank, an Internet-accessible database of genetic sequences maintained by ...Researchers begin 'Project 3000,' a recipe for hope through genetic research
...of Engineering and Carver College of Medicine. The center develops computer-based approaches for accessing, interpreting and understanding genetic information as it applies to basic biological science and applied medical research. Among collaborative research projects with the Genetic Testing Laboratory and...Nanotech leaders explore paths from research lab to marketplace
...oost Arizonas burgeoning reputation as a promising center for science and technology innovation, said Stephen Goodnick, ASU associate vice president of research. "It will showcase ASUs nanotechnology program and bring visibility to a broad range of microelectronics and biotech industries in the Valley. It...Researchers identify cell pathway in colon cancer
...cancers begin as polypsa growth of tissue into the center of the colon or rectum and when typed as adenoma, can become cancerous. The mortality rates have been declining, this in part due to earlier screenings, awareness of symptoms, removing polyps and improved treatments through advances in research disco...MUHC-led research identifies risk-factor genes for type 2 diabetes
... the research arm of the MUHC, a university health center affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The institute supports over 500 researchers, nearly 1000 graduate and post-doctoral students and operates more than 300 laboratories devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and clinical...