Forum at Virginia Tech to address issues of human cloning
...provide an opportunity for public participation in debate on this topic. The main panel discussion will take place at 11 a.m. and feature a number of nationally-recognized experts on issues of human cloning, representing a range of views and areas of expertise: Wendy Goldman Rohm is an investigative jou...Gladstone researchers resolve key Huntington's disease mystery in Nature cover story
...mechanisms. Will the results reported here end the debate on the pathogenic role of inclusion bodies in the polyglutamine diseases? If not, one wonders what would." Huntington's disease is a hereditary, progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the development of emotional, behavioral, and psy...Study using robotic microscope shows how mutant Huntington's protein affects neurons
...eath. The finding helps to resolve a longstanding debate about the role of these inclusion bodies in HD and other disorders and may help investigators find effective treatments for these diseases. The study was funded primarily by the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) a...Study identifies target for preventing sexual transmission of HIV
...Dr. Lederman said. "But there has been substantial debate as to how the virus actually gets into cells at these sites of transmission, called mucosal sites. HIV can use certain cell surface molecules such as CCR5 to gain entry into immune system cells called CD4. We knew that people with a mutation whose C...Study confirms link between head and neck cancer and common Asian nut
... "Recent findings have spurred a great debate about whether the government should curb the expansion of domestic betel quid cultivation," said Dr. Chiun Hsu, from the Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital. "It is our hope that these findings will prove helpful in shaping fu...Study in Royal Society journal on how relationship status influences sex ratios
...e much cooler solar surface. There is considerable debate among scientists over the process by which the atmosphere is heated. In this article we investigate one of the more likely heating mechanisms: Movement of the solar surface sends waves travelling along the magnetic field lines (like waves on a slinky...Leading scientists to discuss research applications for therapeutic cloning
...N. delegates on the issue in June, is close to the debate because he has been trying to clone primates, which belong to the same overall species classification as humans. The implications of any success for the prospects of human cloning are clear, and Dr. Schatten is exploring ways to make sure that if he ...AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner statement on the UN cloning debate
... executive publisher ofthe journal Science, on the debate over researchcloning that is scheduled to begin at the UnitedNations on Thursday 21 October 2004: "We realize that this issue generates intensedebate. We have long opposed human cloning toproduce babies as dangerous and irresponsible. Butwe believ...Solutions to stop fishermen returning dead and dying marine animals back into sea - study
...f data sources, including industry communications, debate transcripts and scientific and technical texts. The team, from Newcastle University's School of Marine Science and Technology and the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, estimate that discarding will have severe long-term economic consequenc...Diabetic damage to eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys may be explained by controversial theory
...November issue of Diabetes. At stake in the heated debate over the theory are researchers' efforts to find new ways to reduce loss of vision, kidney failure, heart damage and other side effects of diabetes. The American Diabetes Association estimates that 18.2 million Americans have diabetes. Diabetes' link...New studies regarding the efficacy of antioxidants and their impact on standard cancer treatment
...nd Oaks, CA, USA November 12, 2004 There is much debate in the medical community about whether antioxidants interfere with cancer treatment by providing tumor protection or whether they improve the efficacy of treatment by mitigating toxicity and side effects. The December 2004 issue of the journal Integ...Researchers probe marine mysteries off the Alaskan coast
...ed deep-sea habitats, the researchers have stirred debate about the causes and characteristics of a devastating 1946 tsunami. The Pacific Ocean-wide event led to more than 150 deaths and widespread destruction as it pounded shorelines from Alaska to Antarctica. The July research cruise, aboard the Scrip...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...ve been described by scientists and there is great debate about how many more exist, but it will be several times this number, perhaps ten times. As part of the Census, the undersea race is on to discover these unknown species using old and new technologies in all the world's oceans. OBIS captures and fre...Livestock grazing study finds moderate grazing beneficial to Great Basin plant communities
...the potential to help resolve the sometimes bitter debate between ranchers--who have legal authorization to graze livestock--and those who believe that grazing does harm. "From an ecological standpoint we can argue that if we remove the grazing infrastructure from public rangelands, we would see some adver...How the battle of Waterloo could help doctors fight death from multiple organ failure
Waterloo's battlefield is reigniting the debate about whether modern medicine is always good for you, according to University College London (UCL) scientists who are launching a study of why some critically ill patients recover and others die from multiple organ failure - the number one killer of ...Eating red meat may increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis
...Such associations, however, are still wide open to debate and further research. Recently, a team of British researchers found that a diet lacking in fruit, especially varieties high in vitamin C, increases the risk of inflammatory arthritis, a common early sign of RA, as much as three-fold. Building on ...JCI table of contents, December 15 2004
...s diseases such as septicemia and pneumonia, and a debate has long raged about the existence of S. aureus "superbugs" more dangerous strains that may be associated with particularly invasive disease. In the December 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation , Damian Melles and colleagues from ......entific contribution to the objectification of the debate on environmentally friendly genetic engineering. Christian Jung studied agricultural sciences in Gttingen and worked at the University of Munich after obtaining his doctorate, where he qualified as a professor in 1992 with his thesis on the molecular...National study finds second cesarean section safer than normal delivery
...Development. The issue is important because of the debate about the overuse of cesarean sections, which reached 26 percent of all births in 2002. The U.S. Public Health Service has been seeking a reduction in the rate of cesareans to 15 percent; and had set a goal that 37 percent of women who previously had...