Benefits of eating seafood outweigh risks
...ned the AAAS gathering that as seafood consumption continues to rise, the demand may overcome the supply. On a world scale, he said, there may be a shortfall of up to 10 million metric tons by 2010. And despite rapid growth, aquaculture has yet to fill the gap. Despite the demand, many groups particularly in ...Yale early stage ovarian cancer detection technology licensed by LabCorp
... Officer and Medical Director of LabCorp. "LabCorp continues to dedicate resources to identifying and commercializing tests to help discriminate earlier between disease-free and cancer patients."...Smallest Triceratops skull ever found provides clues to dinosaur's growth
...y and for Montana's Museum of the Rockies. Goodwin continues his excavations in Montana, concentrating on the dinosaurs of the Lower Hell Creek Formation that are slightly older than the T. rex and Triceratops fossils from the Upper Hell Creek Formation. His coauthors on the new paper are William A. Clemens, a...Magdalenian Girl is a woman and therefore has oldest recorded case of impacted wisdom teeth
...lenian Girl, also known as the Cap Blanc skeleton, continues to reveal significant information about our early human relatives and she may not be done yet. "Magdalenian Girl has once again proven the value of museum collections, which often contain unexpected secrets that are only revealed as new methods and...Independent panel to evaluate genistein or soy formula human development, reproduction risks
...son.com/alexandriava Why: Exposure to genistein continues to rise in the United States with estimated soy sales in 2003 approaching $4 billion. A form of genistein is a primary, naturally occurring estrogen in soybeans (estrogenic chemicals in plants are called phytoestrogens) and can mimic the effects of...For the first time: Longevity modulated without disrupting life-sustaining function
...IGF-1 is the main trigger for childhood growth but continues to exert growth stimulating effects throughout an individual's life. Insulin, which is best know for controlling blood glucose levels, has additional and equally important regulatory functions in the body. In worms, however, the chain of signals is s...Newly discovered small molecules
...ne response. As the importance of BoNT in medicine continues to expand, we need to find some way to counter these unintended immune responses. Compounds like the ones we discovered, which produced the greatest protease activation ever recorded, may point the way to a potential solution." Other authors of the s...Rare Chinese frogs communicate by means of ultrasonic sound
...e conducting a survey of amphibians in China. Feng continues to study frogs and bats to understand how the brain processes sound patterns, especially in sound-cluttered environments in which filtering is required to allow for communication. Feng and colleagues previously reported that males of the species make...Rhinos clinging to survival in the heart of Borneo, despite poaching
...s population of Sumatran rhinos, but a small group continues to survive in the "Heart of Borneo," a region covered with vast tracts of rain forest. The survey found evidence of at least 13 rhinos in the interior of the Malaysian state of Sabah in northeast Borneo. It was conducted in 2005 by teams of more tha...Amazon rainforest greens up in the dry season
..., there's a flush of green growth and the greening continues as the dry season progresses." The finding holds true only for the undisturbed portion of the rainforest. Areas where the primary forest has been converted to other uses or disturbed, "brown down" in the dry season, said Huete, a UA professor of soil...Electrical stimulation boosts stroke recovery
...phenomenon known as plasticity, and rehabilitation continues to encourage this rewiring activity. "The idea is you induce plasticity in the brain and once it's there, you can remove the hardware," Lutsep said. One study participant, June Wallace, 77, of Portland, said stimulation therapy helped her regain use ...Soil erosion threatens environment and human health
... the need for food and other agricultural products continues to soar. "Soil erosion is second only to population growth as the biggest environmental problem the world faces," said David Pimentel, professor of ecology at Cornell. "Yet, the problem, which is growing ever more critical, is being ignored because ...Natural products discovery and production
...hnologies to insure that natural product discovery continues to be a major force in the future of the pharmaceutical and other industries....Asleep or awake we retain memory
...alm or sleep to strengthen them. Rather, the brain continues to process them dynamically as soon as the learning episode has ended, even if it has to face an uninterrupted series of completely different cognitive activities....Alaska timber projection study reveals market trends
...pan in the last decade of the 20th century; Alaska continues to produce for home markets and for the lower 48 States. An overview of the four scenarios includes: Total sawmill capacity remains unchanged but production increases in response to export and domestic market demands. But timber supply is limited, ...Highlights of American Chemical Society meeting in Atlanta, March 26-30
...ace probe into a comet (called Tempel 1) last year continues to yield big findings regarding space chemistry and the origins of the solar system. Just last month, researchers for the historic project announced that they had found water ice on the surface of a comet for the first time. Michael AHearn, Ph.D., an...Salmon go veggie to save wild fish stocks
...te diets", says Professor Brauner, "As aquaculture continues to expand, fish oil will become increasingly more expensive because it is a limited resource, and canola oil will not only be more sustainable as a lipid source, but also will be consistently more cost effective too". Using canola oil instead of mari...Top federal officials to speak at 20-21 April AAAS policy forum
...ng President Bill Clinton's second term. The Forum continues Friday 21 April with breakfast remarks by John Hamre, president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a morning plenary session on responses by industry and U.S. policy makers to the global innovation challenge, chaired by Shirley An...First link of oral bacteria and preterm birth found in human
...c fluid found the Bergeyella bacteria. This study continues Han's research into the suspicion that oral bacteria, once entering the blood, can cause a host of health problems including preterm labor. She confirmed the harm oral bacteria can cause in a mice study in April 2004 when she injected the common oral...