Panel discusses effect of individualized diets on chronic disease risk
...ience, " it is possible and necessary to apply our emerging understanding of an individual's health status to individualize their diet and match specific foods and their components to health needs." He discussed the need for a new definition of health that encompasses not just freedom from disease but protec...New technology, new approach to help heart and lung patients awaiting transplants
...l needed." LUNG DEVICES Several devices are also emerging to help people with lung disease. An estimated 4,000 Americans were on a lung transplant waiting list in 2004 and demand outpaced donor organ availability by approximately 75 percent. Research related to lung devices will be discussed during the afte...Clearing the air on airplane cabin air
...ins heightens whenever the possibility of a new or emerging infection, such as SARS or avian (bird) flu, appears in the headlines. Each new report of an avian flu outbreak raises questions about whether airplane cabin air can transmit the virus, which some scientists predict could be the source of the next m...Owl genomics presents a HEPATOCHIP for diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
...increase and therefore, this disease has become an emerging public issue in United States as well as in other developed countries The HEPATOCHIP presented at the mentioned forum, has been developed in collaboration with the Hepatology Services of the Clinic Hospital in Barcelona and Prncipe de Asturias Hospit...Stem-cell, cancer test and black hole breakthroughs to be revealed at UK physics conference
...America and Europe, will present new research from emerging fields in physics at Physics 2005, the largest gathering of physicists in the UK during Einstein Year. NEW research being presented will include: Scientists announce world's most sensitive cancer test Unlike existing techniques which rely on expert...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher receives NSF CAREER award
...st proteomic investigations. "Microfabrication is emerging as one of the most significant trends in analytical chemistry instrumentation," Lazar said. "Microfluidic devices present unique opportunities for integration and multiplexing capabilities to handle small sample amounts and represent an optimal platf...Talking robots, green buildings, and shockwave healing
...Wednesday evening, May 18). Major new studies are emerging that suggest the importance of a quiet listening environment for students. Steven Stansfeld of the Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry in London will report on the RANCH (Road Traffic and Aircraft Noise Exposure and Children's Cognition and...New strategies to reduce hospital-acquired infections
...L) presented the latest information on water as an emerging threat in the healthcare environment. "Infections acquired in hospitals and healthcare institutions affect approximately two million people resulting in about 98,000 deaths at a cost of $29 billion in the United States each year," said Dr. Cervia. "...Winners of AIBS Media Awards announced
...ny of Meersman's stories involve new science about emerging issues, especially in natural resource management and in public health. Broadcast Journalism: DIANE TOOMEY, for "A Little Known Planet," which was broadcast on NPR's Living on Earth on December 12, 2003. The judges said that the story, which exam...NYU chemist wins Watson Young Investigator award
...intends to address this challenge by employing the emerging capabilities of modern computational methods, which would allow a greater understanding of the inner workings of enzymes....New EMBO/NPG journal - A first in systems biology publishing
...y levels. The first journal to be dedicated to the emerging fields of molecular systems biology and synthetic biology, it is also the first publication to use pioneering new systems biology technologies in the presentation of articles and data. The journal is also open access another first for EMBO and NPG a...Biomarkers isolated from saliva successfully predict oral and breast cancer
...stalled until recently with the advance of several emerging technologies including improved methods to identify, collect, preserve and amplify genetic material and proteins. In this study, the UCLA team found they could isolate messenger RNA from saliva and blood sera that might have diagnostic value for dete...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...vironmental Microbiology. Antibiotic resistance to emerging strains of Staphylococci is of major concern among today's medical community. These bacteria are responsible for a wide variety of human infections ranging from minor abscesses to fatal sepsis. Statistics show that over 95 percent of Staphylococcus...New tumor suppressor gene linked to cancer predisposition
...g cancer, but only a little. "ARLTS1 is one of an emerging set of genes whose effects are subtle, but which still play an important and predictable role in the development of cancer in some people." Researchers have known for years that a handful of well-known genes (like BRCA1 and BRCA2, for example) can, ...Whale bones and farm soil: Sequencing biodiversity
...rown by standard techniques in the laboratory. The emerging field of "metagenomics" is rapidly giving researchers a view of how diverse microbial life really is. Instead of analyzing the genome of a specific organism, scientists sequence the DNA from environmental samples such as the ocean or soil. For the fi...A healthy internal clock keeps weight off
...ts, the researchers found signs of further trouble emerging in the mice's early adult months. The circadian-ch...ts, the researchers found signs of further trouble emerging in the mice's early adult months. The circadian-challenged mice developed high cholesterol, high tri...Brain scans reveal how gene may boost schizophrenia risk
... may slightly increase risk for schizophrenia* are emerging from a brain imaging study by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The gene variant produced a telltale pattern of activity linked to production of a key brain messenger chemical. The study found that...Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs
...cted basic information about weather, lake levels, emerging insects, zooplankton levels and other fish species and juvenile salmon growth, which distinguishes the data set from other salmon monitoring records....Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers
..., represents an important proof-of-principle in an emerging field known as "synthetic biology," which aims to harness living cells as workhorses that detect hazards, build structures or repair tissues and organs within the body. "We are really moving beyond the ability to program individual cells to programmi......ak the cycle between summer hosts and winter wheat emerging inthe fall." No chemical application is available to treat the disease and miticideshaven't proven effective, he said. The best control method is to destroyvolunteer wheat, so the curl mite can't survive. The information Jones hopes to get will...