Other highlights in the March 15 JNCI
... Men and women whose dietary intake of folate was equal to or above 350 micrograms a day had a lower incidence of pancreatic cancer than men and women whose dietary intake of folate was less than 200 micrograms a day. They calculated that there would be 41 cases per 100,000 people who consumed the lowest ...Biggest physics meeting of the year
...nal theory says that superconductivity requires an equal number of spin-up and spin-down particles, similar to requiring an equal number of men and women at a dance hall. Using ultracold atomic gases consisting of spin-up and spin...Copernicus Award to be conferred by the DFG for the first time
...ney of 50,000 is donated by the DFG and the FNP in equal shares. This is divided evenly between the winners, who may use the prize money for any scientific purpose that is within the scope of the funding programmes of both organisations. The emphasis should, however, be on further advancing the joint promo...Age is an independent risk factor in young women with breast cancer
...val probability of a 30-year old patient (85%) was equal to that of a 60-year old, indicating a considerably reduced life expectancy in young patients. S. Aebi, leading author of the study comments, "These findings suggest that age in young women, more than any other factor affects the chances of survival....Cortex matures faster in youth with highest IQ
...vals. The resulting scans were divided into three equal groups and analyzed based on IQ test scores: superior (121-145), high (109-120), and average (83-108). The researchers found that the relationship between cortex thickness and IQ varied with age, particularly in the prefrontal cortex, seat of abstra...Gov't data: 100 percent juice consumption linked to healthier diet, no link to obesity in kids
... the group of 100 percent juice consumers also had equal or lower bodyweights and body mass indexes (BMI) than the non-juice consumers, adding to the scientific evidence which shows that 100 percent juices play a role in a healthful diet and are not associated with overweight. The research is being presen...Resident birds display migratory restlessness
...he duration of a migratory period under the nearly equal light and dark conditions of their native habitat, and a subset remained under these conditions for a year and a half. A control group was exposed to the natural seasonal light fluctuations of southern Germany. Helm and Gwinner recorded the birds' no...Vitamin D and flavonoids examined for impact on breast and ovarian cancers
...g to the pooled analysis, Vitamin D in blood serum equal to 52 nanograms per milliliter was associated with a 50 percent reduced risk of breast cancer. To move closer to a serum concentration of 52 nanograms/milliliter, a typical individual would have to consume no less than 1,000 International Units (IU) ...Fish on acid: Hagfish cope with high levels of CO2
...plains Baker. Just as cold-blooded animals have an equal body temperature to their surrounding environment, the Hagfish has the same concentration of salt in its blood as the surrounding seawater. This trait previously led scientists to believe that these fish (known as osmoconformers) could only poorly re...MIT, Brigham: Nanoparticles armed to combat cancer
...ers in size: a thousand sitting side by side might equal the width of a human hair....SNM issues first procedure guideline for imaging cancer in adults and children with PET/CT
...nd a report generation and scoring system may have equal or greater validity. In addition, to be eligible for the recertification examination of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine, diplomates will need to participate in a maintenance of certification program and continue training in PET, CT and PET/CT...Economic benefit of NINDS-supported clinical trials estimated at more than $15 billion
...re, a year of life in perfect health is considered equal to 1 QALY, and years of sub-optimal health are assigned numerical values between 0 and 1 based on the severity of impairment. The value of a single QALY was estimated at $40,310, which was the average economic productivity of a U.S. resident in 2004...CRed calls for radical rethink of UK energy policy
...ing with our nuclear legacy should be matched with equal support for renewables and resource efficiency. As for nuclear power, building nuclear power stations is a slow and expensive way to generate electricity. It is far cheaper to stop wasting electricity and other forms of energy and more beneficial lon...Attention shoppers: Researchers find neurons that encode the value of different goods
...nkey assigns to one drop of grape juice is roughly equal to the value the monkey assigns to three drops of apple juice. On the basis of such choice pattern, Padoa-Schioppa could correlate the activity of neurons in the OFC directly with the value assigned to the two juices. For example, the activity of on...Natural selection at single gene demonstrated
...on structure, such as assigning each individual an equal chance of reproducing. Co-author Magnus Nordborg, associate professor of molecular and computational biology in USC College, predicted that earlier research would need to be revisited because the model makes it too easy to infer selection at any give...... low concentration until the concentrations become equal all around. However, in some cancers, even though the material "wants" to spread out evenly, fluids inside the tumor may be exerting pressure to prevent this. When the internal pressure created by these fluids rises above a certain level, it acts as ...Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center marks end of sequencing effort with chromosome 3
...rk continued, more than 700 researchers working an equal number at collaborating institutions painstakingly determined the exact order of genetic letter sin the human genetic doe and how they spell out the genes of mankind," said Weinstock. Sequencing chromosome 3, which contained 199 million bases (or che...New findings help pinpoint autism's genetic roots
...nimate object and another mouse, they showed about equal interest in each echoing the way children with autism prefer toys to people while the normal mice preferred the other mouse. When given raw material for nesting, the mutants ignored it, while the normal mice teamed up to build nests. And the pups o...Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...in the older age groups (2aPPb5). Does noise pose equal risks to all listeners? "After 40+ years of study, we can conclude that there is a great range of individual differences in susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL)," says Donald Henderson of the Center for Hearing and Deafness at the Stat...Acetaminophen safe to use after heart attack but doesn't protect the heart
...its to a group that received acetaminophen, and an equal number of sheep and rabbits to a control group that did not receive any drug. The researchers surgically induced the heart attack and then restored blood flow 30 minutes later for rabbits and 60 minutes later for sheep. They found that acetaminophen...