Improving police cars, recovering lost manuscripts: UH research day delivers
...heir work is a great advertisement for UH. I hope everyone takes some time to walk through the posters and appreciate this for themselves."...Diabetes research yielding breakthrough success
...ations in our bioreactors, we'll be able to supply everyone who needs them and dramatically improve their quality of life." About 10 per cent of Edmonton Protocol transplant recipients have been able to stay off insulin after five years, and patients are required to take anti-rejection drugs after receiving t...Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway
...amples. So, information booklets are being sent to everyone we invite and we have a freephone number that people can call to chat things through with a member of the study team. Participants and the public have been at the heart of UK Biobank all along the line. Every possible detail has been gone through wit...Scan of human genome reveals evidence of more than 700 recently evolving genes
... from now, if selection pressure remains the same, everyone will have [the selected mutation]." The team used the PANTHER (Protein ANalysis THrough Evolutionary Relationships) Classification System to classify all the genes in the genome by their biological functions into 222 categories. In the paper, the r...Mining the human genome for signs of recent selection
... from now, if selection pressure remains the same, everyone will have [the selected mutation]." Classifying all the genes by their biological functions, the researchers listed the top 16 categories that had the strongest signals, including olfaction (the sense of smell), reproduction-related processes and c...People want to be seen helping the climate
...en divides this money evenly among the players. If everyone gives everything they have, they all get double as much back. But if only an individual player donates and others do not, then she loses half her contribution, and other players profit without the risk of loss. Normally, no one pays voluntarily into ...Alcoholism, smoking and genetics among Plains American Indians
...ything you find in Caucasian men can be applied to everyone else,' but this study shows that you cannot."...A comparative institutional analysis of intellectual property
...sential to bringing biotechnology innovations from everyone -- not just well-funded corporations -- to the people," says F. Scott Kieff, J.D., associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. "Without patents, the biotech marketplace in basic science takes on the nature of something like an o...Besides food, farming can provide wildlife habitat and reduce global warming
...igating how farmers can manage their land to offer everyone more environmental benefits, and whether farmers could be paid for providing these benefits. "Agriculture, which includes planted forests, is the world's largest human-managed ecosystem," said Scott Swinton, professor of agricultural economics at Mic...Next good dinosaur news likely to come from small packages
... a deeper understanding of prehistoric life -- and everyone dreams of embellishing our understanding of dinosaurs."...Study finds drug may cut down involuntary movements
...aren't affected until their older years. Virtually everyone with the disease had a parent with the disease, and children of a person with Huntington's have a 50-percent chance of inheriting the disease. Thirteen years ago the gene that causes the disease was identified by scientists, and now a simple blood t...BioMed Central launches Biology Direct
...thors and reviewers, will be a major advantage for everyone involved - authors, readers, and reviewers alike." Biology Direct aims to provide authors and readers of research articles with a unique system of peer review. Authors must approach three Editorial Board members directly to gain their agreement to re...Pitt professor's article considers nature as a service provider
...th before and after the disaster. "Before Katrina, everyone was saying that there were not enough wetlands to protect the city. A crude 'rule of thumb' is that three miles of wetlands will reduce storm surges by one foot, and that an acre of wetlands provides roughly $20,000 worth of services. But that same a...Study using new imaging technology detects subtle brain changes in patients with Type 1 diabetes
...ousness. "This study definitely does not mean that everyone who gets type 1 diabetes will suffer from clinically significant brain damage," Dr. Jacobson emphasizes. Indeed, he explains that in fact they observed little difference in cognitive function when patients with diabetes were compared to the participa...Grant allows ASU archaeologist to study how environment influences evolution
...tween disciplines is very hard, but when you bring everyone together to interpret the same information, it gives you a lot more than if there was just that one specialist working on it." Researchers agree that modern humans evolved in Africa, but little is known about the ancient ecology at the time. Scientis...UCF, NIH study: Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants
Enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate everyone in the United States could be grown inexpensively and safely with only one acre of tobacco plants, a University of Central Florida molecular biologist has found. Mice immunized with a vaccine produced in UCF professor Henry Daniell's laboratory throu...Microbes under Greenland Ice may be preview of what scientists find under Mars' surface
...een found, and nowhere else," Price said. "I think everyone would agree that this is a smoking gun." Biologists at Pennsylvania State University had earlier analyzed ice several meters above bedrock that was dark gray in appearance because of its high silt content, and identified dozens of types of both aerob...New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinctions
...ites should be an urgent global priority involving everyone from national governments to local communities, the study's authors state. The United States ranks among the ten countries with the most sites. These include Torrey Pines in California, a cave in West Virginia, a pond in Mississippi, and six sites in...Eat your way to a better brain for your baby
...s results in a blockage in brain development which everyone has always thought was brain damage due to fluid accumulation," said Dr Jaleel Miyan, the University of Manchester scientist leading the research. "There is currently no unequivocal prenatal diagnosis test or satisfactory treatment other than surgica...First ever study to investigate impact of chronic wasting disease on humans
...tion of the people who ate the meat. "Although not everyone involved is particularly concerned or fearful, it is important for us to protect the health of all county residents,' said Ken Fanelli, OCHD representative. "Professor Garruto's study is a proactive response to determining what, if any, will be the l...