Researchers address the meaning of the genomic revolution
...iology and ecology, the biosciences are generating claims that society needs to analyse and understand," Professor Griffiths said. "This means more than reflecting on the moral and technological implications of certain biological facts. "We need to understand how specific experimental findings come togeth...New approach to ensure challenges to data access and management don't slow scientific progress
...to license and user fees and intellectual property claims on data that become impediments to research. The report recommends that data produced commercially or through public-private partnership be provided for research and education purposes either free or at nominal cost. Price and other access barriers ...Haplotype map offers new insights into human disease, evolution
...he human genome as well as to re-evaluate previous claims for such selection. Pardis Sabeti, Eric Lander and... In addition to its power in re-examining previous claims of selection, the HapMap data also give scientists new ability to identify novel candidates for natu...Pall tells FDA panel about blood filtering technology
...of the Advisory Committee's discussion on labeling claims for TSE clearance studies for blood component filters, is a continuation of Pall Corporation's dialogue with U.S. regulatory and health authorities on protecting the blood supply from prions that can cause vCJD. Studies Validating Filter Performance......ter diagnose breast cancer. The aggressive disease claims the lives of more than 40,000 American women each year -- so a diagnostic tool that will allow patients to begin a course of treatment as early as possible is urgently needed. Meyer-Baese hopes to utilize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- which hol...Abalones along Pacific coast may owe their huge, dinner-plate size to sea otters
... Paleobiology. Lindberg has always been puzzled by claims that the otters are driving the abalones to extinction, since it is known that sea otters and abalones have shared coastal waters for the past 5 million years. The newcomers to the area, he said, are humans. Middens or refuse piles along the coast sh...Researchers devise dinosaur classification method
...terra firma many millions of years ago. Smith, who claims he's "not very good at math," and his coauthors, D...or classification. The mathematical tedium Smith claims to have spared while devising the methods was not lost on tooth examination: Smith collected measure...Scholar uncovers the story behind the 'obesity epidemic'
...t of deaths attributable to obesity and made false claims that obesity was soon to be America's number one cause of preventable death. Oliver argues that by making body weight a barometer of wellness, public health officials and doctors are sending the wrong message that being heavy, even if you exercis......he vaccine, there were approximately 100 WorkCover claims made annually in NSW alone. A single settlement of over a million dollars was made in the NSW Supreme Court in 1997 to a meat inspector suffering prolonged illness after Q-Fever," said Professor Lloyd. Professor Lloyd said approximately one in three......isease affects about 35,000 infants each year, and claims the lives of "nearly twice as many children" annually in the United States "as die from all forms of childhood cancer". Symptoms may arise at birth, during childhood, and sometimes not until adulthood. Working with Drosophilia melanogaster, also k...Tomato juice keeps emphysema from developing in new model; Lycopene cited
...tomato products to carry highly-qualified labeling claims linking men's eating tomato products with a reduced incidence of prostate cancer. In reaching its decision, the FDA noted that it's unclear whether lycopene alone is responsible for the tomato products' effect. Similarly, the Japanese researchers no...Oh, rats! Designer animals reveal possible heart disease genes
Every year, heart disease claims an estimated 7 million lives, according to the World Health Organization. Scientists have struggled to pinpoint the precise genes behind this complex disease. Now, however, they have a new research ally: the designer rat. In a four-year study publi...Three neuronal growth factors may be key to understanding alcohol's effects
... explained that this line of research was based on claims that a compound called ibogaine, derived from the African shrub iboga, could stop all drug craving for several weeks in humans who had taken the drug. Ibogaine has dangerous side effects, however, including hallucinations and death of brain cells in...Growing evidence of sex-based differences in lung cancer highlighted at roundtable meeting
...the underserved population of women." Lung cancer claims the lives of more American women and men than the three most common cancers combined (colon, breast, and prostate) yet it receives a disproportionately low amount of media attention and government research funding. Approximately 350,000 people in th...Research into soy will continue but soy is not a solution for heart disease
Many soy food products carry health claims stating that they reduce the risk of heart disease. A review of the evidence, however, suggests that soy's cardiovascular benefits may have been overestimated by the early studies that formed the basis for its health claim. According to the Nutritio...SNM opposes new payment caps on imaging services detailed in Federal Deficit Reduction Act
...n, the act eliminates the 4.4 percent reduction in claims payments for physicians' services, freezing the payment at 2005 rates. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services indicate that the freeze will be applied retroactively to services paid between Jan. 1 and the date of the bill's enact...Escapee farmed salmon infiltrate fitter wild populations
...ally differently to wild salmon, therefore backing claims that any integration of farmed salmon back into the wild through escapees could have a negative impact on the health of wild salmon populations. Christian Roberge and Louis Bernatchez, two of the co-authors on this research paper explain: "Using a 3,...AAAS honors scientist's commitment to justice for workers and scientific integrity in public policy
... now-aging workers were required to litigate their claims on a case-by-case basis, a process that could take years to reach a resolution. Although they were experiencing life-threatening occupational illnesses at a higher-than-expected rate, the government insisted on keeping secret the very information tha......s from a new observational study of administrative claims data from the Georgia State Medicaid program showe...hs following birth, identified from administrative claims of the Georgia Department of Community Health. Infants who were eligible for the study were distrib...New DNA 'fingerprinting' technique separates hemp from marijuana
...It also could be used in criminal defenses against claims of conspiracy." The technique chops up DNA and generates numerous fragments of DNA, each defined by particular "marker" DNA sequences that act like bookends. The lengths of the fragments within the bookends were found to vary according to the cultiva...