Scientific institute founded by Jonas Salk to host meeting for polio survivors on Oct. 27
...lk Institute for Biological Studies. The symposium coincides with this year's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first vaccine against polio, a disease that once paralyzed 13,000 to 20,000 people nationwide each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. In 1952, three years before the va...Biosafety facility to prepare first-responders for terrorist attacks
... United States. The opening of the Kent State lab coincides with a day-long Public Health Preparedness Symposium, where Dr. Ed Thompson Jr., chief of public health practice at the CDC, will address "The State of Public Health Preparedness in the U.S." For more information about the NEOCB or the symposium, go ...Three universities team up to enhance environmental engineering curricula
...nstraints into projects. The center's opening also coincides with a national conference that starts today at The University of Texas at Austin for the Engineers for a Sustainable World. More than 500 engineering students and faculty, representatives from U.S. non-governmental organizations and 12 members of th......se of Microcephalin, the origin of the new variant coincides with the emergence of culturally modern humans," s...And the ASPM new variant originated at a time that coincides with the spread of agriculture, settled cities, and the first record of written language. So, a majo...University of Chicago researchers find human brain still evolving
...e back to about 50,000 years ago. The ASPM variant coincides with the oldest-known civilization, Mesopotamia, which dates back to 7000 BC. "Microcephalin," the authors wrote in one of the papers, "has continued its trend of adaptive evolution beyond the emergence of anatomically modern humans. If selection ind...Ethical and scientific guidelines for study of captive great apes
... fact that the sequencing of the chimpanzee genome coincides with the potential demise of great apes in the wild. "Research on captive great apes will provide precious new knowledge," said Gagneux. "The future survival of these endangered species, however, will depend on conservation efforts in their natural ...New window into ancient ozone holes
...st mass extinction in the Earth's history and also coincides with the largest known eruption of lava and potentially ozone-destroying gases - the Siberian Traps. The latest results from the ongoing work will be presented by Lomax on Wednesday, 10 August, at Earth System Processes 2, a meeting co-convened by th...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
.... News of the marine discoveries in the far north coincides with announcement of seed funds for a matching effort in the Antarctic. The 30-day "Hidden Ocean" expedition ( http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov ), funded and coordinated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, an agency of ...Strong impact of wintering waterbirds on zebra mussel populations at Lake Constance, Germany
...issue of Freshwater Biology. This massive increase coincides with the major expansion of zebra mussels in the lake, originating in the Caspian-Aral basin, and a major pest in Europe and North America. The main avian population changes concerned the mussel-eating tufted duck, pochard and coot; which currently ...New bipolar survey: Patients' satisfaction influenced
... The announcement of these landmark survey results coincides with other important data presented at the WCBP, which address the clinical benefits that SEROQUEL offers bipolar disorder consumers. The preliminary data show that patients with bipolar depression taking SEROQUEL: Showed a statistically significa...Royal Society study on adaptability of fish to warming oceans
...sit feeding independently migrated off-shelf. This coincides with a marked increase in surface water productivity, and suggests that changes in the availability of food delivered to ocean basins over geological time had a more important role in controlling the colonization of deep-sea environments than deep-wa...New science sheds light on rebuilding fisheries
... spawning can also give the larvae a boost when it coincides with peaks in zooplankton. By removing the big, old fish, we lose the benefits of their fecundity and superior larvae, and we also shorten the spawning season all of which reduce the chances of a robust cohort of recruits the next year. "Without th...New DNA studies verify existence of three right whale species
...termining the status of North Pacific right whales coincides with a number of recent sightings of these rare cetaceans in the Bering Sea, where researchers working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration increased the record of known individuals from 13 to at least 25 individual animals. The su...Science to restore the nation's ecosystems
...osystem usually associated with human factors also coincides with the long-term African drought and a four-fold influx of dust that began impacting Florida in the early 1970s. African soil dust delivers arsenic, phosphorous, sulfates, pesticides, microbes, pollen, and probably seeds and insects to all south Fl...Green tea polyphenols thwart prostate cancer development at multiple levels
... GTP modulation of cell growth via the IGF-1 axis coincides with limited production or phosphorylation of key cell survival proteins, including PI3K, Akt and Erk1/2, the research indicated. The PI3K molecular pathway in cells, which includes Akt and Erk1/2, works to promote cell survival, rather than programm...