Continuity + Change: Perspectives on Science and Religion
...t perspectives on the evolution/intelligent design controversy highlight the Metanexus Institute's annual international conference on science and religion, June 3-7 on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The conference, Continuity + Change: Perspectives on Science and Religion, presents...DNA conclusive yet still controversial, Carnegie Mellon professor says
...A of a person who was not there are infinitesimal, controversy continues about DNA identification and its use in ...iversity among people of different ancestry. Some controversy remains concerning the so-called "cold hit" technique, in which investigators search a DNA database ...JCI Table of Contents, April 13, 2006
EDITOR'S PICK Researchers resolve controversy over how COX inhibitors cause heart hazards, and offer alternative treatment strategy Inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) were developed to relieve inflammatory pain as effectively as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), but without on...Physics and biology team up to tackle protein folding debate
...ocation, settling at the same time a long-standing controversy over this process. Molecular chaperones are specialized proteins that help other proteins find their proper conformations and reach their proper places in the cell. For more than two decades, biologists and biochemists have debated how one of these c...Microbiology meeting focuses on myriad of topics
...vening of Sunday, May 21 will focus on the ongoing controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution in the classroom. The session will also feature Bruce Alberts, Past-President of the National Academy of Sciences and his proposal for a new approach to science education. More detailed information, including...JCI table of contents, March 23, 2006
EDITOR'S PICK Clarifying controversy in multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is ...nn Institute of Science in Israel help clarify the controversy by reporting that it is the mechanism by which the MGs are activated that determines whether they ar...Biggest physics meeting of the year
...ks. This hypothesis has generated a great deal of controversy in art-history circles. Falco (520-621-6771, falco@u.arizona.edu ) will summarize evidence in favor of the theory and his work with Hockney. He will also give a public lecture on this subject at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore on the Wednesday...AAAS denounces anti-evolution laws as hundreds of K-12 teachers convene for 'Front Line' event
...y". But, AAAS emphasized, "There is no significant controversy within the scientific community about the validity of evolution." Moreover, "Evolution is one of the most robust and widely accepted principles of modern science," the AAAS Board concluded, reconfirming its October 18, 2002 statement, as well as the...JCI table of contents, February 16, 2006
...der study in early human clinical trials. However, controversy exists as to whether autoimmune disease therapy should consist of blocking only BAFF (selective blockade) or BAFF and another molecule called APRIL (nonselective blockade), which binds only to the TAC1 and BCMA receptors. Now, researcher Anne Davidso...New measurements prove myosin VI can act as molecular transporter
... The new results have helped to resolve a research controversy and better explain how these little proteins perform their duties. "Myosin VI is a tiny molecule that converts chemical energy into mechanical motion and transports its load by 'stepping' along filaments of actin," said Paul Selvin, a John Bardeen Fa...JCI table of contents, February 1, 2006
...iated) effects on the liver. However, considerable controversy exists regarding the relative importance of these two effects. In a new study appearing in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Dale Edgerton and colleagues from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee report tha...Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute resolve 40-year eye movement, visibility controversy
For more than 40 years, a scientific controversy has raged over whether microsaccades, rapid eye movements that occur when a person's gaze is fixated, are responsible for visibility. Research conducted at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix has recently resolved the debate, establishing that ...Optimal adjuvant radiation therapy associated with improved survival, meta-analysis shows
...nal Cancer Institute . The finding helps resolve controversy over whether radiation therapy improves both survival and risk of recurrence in women with operable breast cancer. Past studies of radiation therapy in women with operable breast cancer have led to the conclusion that radiation therapy reduces the ri......eads people by claiming that there is a scientific controversy over evolution, even though it is accepted by scie...ontroversy!' -- even though there is no scientific controversy over the validity of evolution in biology," Scott says. "Calls to "teach both sides" of a controver...UC Davis expert writes key report on controversial UK badger killings
...sewhere in government. "In Britain, this is a huge controversy because TB genuinely affects farmers' livelihoods, but badgers are beloved by the public and protected by law," said Woodroffe, an associate professor of conservation biology and an authority on the biology of the European badger (Meles meles). "Imag......e to identify species. But this approach generated controversy from the start, with skeptics bristling at the notion that a single gene fragment could perform such a tall task. In a new study published in PLoS Biology, Christopher Meyer and Gustav Paulay revisit the issue with a diverse, extensively studied snai...New microscope allows scientists to track a functioning protein with atomic-level precision
...er." The Stanford group also weighed in on another controversy concerning the actual mechanism that allows RNAP to advance. "RNAP is a molecular motor that starts at one end of the DNA and walks down to the other end," Block explains. "It gets its energy from the chemical reaction that occurs when it copies A, T...From one cell, many possible cures
...ver, stem cell research has been slowed by ethical controversy -- as well as by the rarity of the extraordinary c...graduate student Warren Grayson. While much of the controversy surrounding stem cell research has centered around the use of cells derived from fetal or embryonic ...The WTO and sustainable development
... particularly controversial and there is much more controversy to come. "The WTO simply cannot ignore the need to promote and preserve the environment. The priority must be to re-balance the international trade system in favour of developing countries. [This book] is a crucial first step in identifying and expl...Finding rewrites the evolutionary history of the origin of potatoes
...d potatoes for millennia, but there has been great controversy about the ubiquitous vegetable's origins. This week, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, a team led by a USDA potato taxonomist stationed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has for the first time demonstrated a singl...