Rescuing injured hearts by enhancing regeneration
...sion with a naturally occurring growth factor that encourages blood vessel growth (angiogenesis). Together, these two agents enabled heart-muscle cells to multiply and the heart to regain its function after a simulated myocardial infarction. The study will appear in the October 17 issue of the Proceedings of th...UCR-led research team receives $5 million grant to study interaction of ecology and evolution
...ses major questions in the biological sciences. It encourages investigators to identify major understudied or unanswered questions in biology and to use innovative approaches to address them by integrating the scientific concepts and research tools from across disciplines, including biology, mathematics and the...Identifying the 'nuclear' in nuclear medicine as high benefit
...revention and the Department of Homeland Security, encourages nuclear medicine professionals to contact local authorities and become identified as subject matter experts. "All preparedness starts locally," said Links. "Nuclear medicine professionals should actively seek out such collaboration and be part of pla...EMBO honors triple talents of UK scientist, author, broadcaster
...ience. And it is deeply gratifying to know that it encourages scientists to tell the public about their work." A prize of 5,000 euro and a handcrafted medal will be presented to Armand Leroi on 3 November 2006 at the EMBL/EMBO Science & Society Conference in Heidelberg, Germany....Urgent call to action issued to protect world's most vulnerable populations from influenza pandemic
...rs participated in the Bellagio Meeting. The group encourages policymakers to download the Bellagio Statement of Principles and the checklists at www.bioethicsinstitute.org . The materials are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Since the meeting of experts was held July 24-28, ....... Elephants are needed to create disturbance which encourages bamboo regeneration. However, on Kilimanjaro the lower slopes of the mountain are covered in cultivation preventing elephants from ascending into the forest "There are elephants on the dry side of the mountain" says Hemp "but the valleys are too stee...Long acting insulin makes the grade
...ils are yet to be released, but Diabetes Australia encourages those people living with diabetes to discuss this management option with their GP and/or Diabetes Specialist over the coming months." "This is a real victory for Diabetes Australia, our member organisations and the people with diabetes that we repr...New textbook uses real disease outbreaks to teach undergraduate microbiology
...es information relevant to the study questions and encourages students to apply the reference content to the case being studied. An additional appendix provides handy information about antimicrobial agents in table format. Each of the nine sections of the book features a college perspective and a global persp...Transgenic goat's milk offers hope for tackling children's intestinal disease
...that cause intestinal infections and diarrhea, and encourages the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria, lysozyme is considered to be one of the main components of human milk that contribute to the health and well-being of breast-fed infants. For more than a decade, UC Davis researchers have been looking f...... like a male's call respond with a long "hum" that encourages him to look for her. The active role of females in pair formation allows discovering what they prefer in a call and how strongly they care. Comparing four closely related Enchenopa species, we found that species differ in their preferences and calls,...Study pinpoints how genetic glitch could keep some people from feeling full
...n find a way to treat the problem, Haskell-Luevano encourages people to be a little less judgmental of obese children and adults, who may be struggling with a problem they cannot control. "Genetics is a very strong component of obesity," she said. "As a scientist and a researcher, what I like to focus on is s...UT Southwestern scientist named Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research
...t UT Southwestern in general. "This institution encourages young scientists, and provides tremendously talented mentors. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the leadership of Dr. Brown and Dr. Goldstein," he said. Drs. Brown and Goldstein received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1985 for thei...U of M researchers discover genetic key to treating deadly fungal infections
...s, rather than kill, C. albicans. This suppression encourages the organism to evolve resistance to the drug in order to survive. ...Saving the planet from a mathematical perspective
... MathWorks, this free lecture, instituted in 1995, encourages public appreciation of the excitement and vitality of applied mathematics by reaching out as broadly as possible to students, teachers, and members of the local community, as well as to SIAM members, researchers, and practitioners in fields related t...New phase for Global Biodiversity Information Facility
... query many databases at once. GBIF also strongly encourages and promotes increases in the amount and quality of biodiversity data available to users on the Internet. Input from communities of users for the data that GBIF makes available is considered essential in GBIF operations. During its first 5 years,...Over-use of antibiotics in fish-for-food industry encourages bacterial resistance and disease
...ls and humans, a recent report says. This practice encourages bacterial resistance and could lead to the evoluti...culture environment for long periods of time. This encourages the growth of bacteria which can survive in the presence of antibiotics - antibiotic resistant bacte...Dan David Prize awarded to two leading American cancer researchers
...d at Tel Aviv University, the prize recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy and progress and to promote the scientific, technological and humanistic...Growth factor-promoting angiogenesis expressed in tumor cells and normal neurons
...tly linked to tumor cell proliferation but instead encourages the growth of blood vessels needed to support the expanding tumor. Importantly, these findings provide definitive evidence that factors promoting tumor progression extend beyond the tumor itself and involve a complex interaction between the cancer ce...Wetland banking yields low return on urban interests
...mitigation themselves. In fact, federal policy now encourages agencies to use mitigation banking to compensate for wetland impacts. While advocates say that banking is far more successful than any other means of compensating for wetland losses, critics say that banks do not adequately replace wetland values and...UCI receives major grant to help create national methods and standards for functional brain imaging
...ilable electronic infrastructure that supports and encourages collaborative biomedical research in a broad range of diseases. The UCI-based consortium is called Function BIRN (FBIRN) and is focused on understanding the hallucinations and abnormal emotional responses characteristic of schizophrenia. In the first...