First Laos bacteraemia study highlights need for local knowledge
... causes of bacteraemia in Laos, and Lao colleagues expect that it will have an important impact on health policy," says Dr Paul Newton, a University of Oxford researcher based at Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos. "It will influence what the Ministry of Health and international organisations recommend as th...Drop in acid rain altering Appalachian stream water
...the weathering of minerals. You would not normally expect weathering rates to increase with reduced acid rain," DeWalle told attendees at the American Geophysical Union conference today (Dec. 12) in San Francisco. Appalachian forests play a crucial role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem, and support thousa...With fruit fly sex, researchers find mind-body connection
... behaviors are genetically controlled in humans, I expect that this system would be just as much, if not more, complicated."...Study suggests morning pollution pall for Manchester commuters
... The wind was much lighter than you would normally expect and it came largely from central Europe rather than the Atlantic. This led to unusually high levels of air pollution being recorded for that year but it could happen again any year in the future. Recent reports have also suggested that the level of ...DNA repair teams' motto: 'To protect and serve'
LA JOLLA, CA -- When you dial 911 you expect rescuers to pull up at your front door, unload and get busy--not park the truck down the street and eat donuts. It's the same for a cell--just before it divides, it recruits protein complexes that repair breakage that may have occurred along the l...Global warming increases species extinctions worldwide
...xtreme habitats are already being affected, and we expect that to continue." The studies Parmesan analyzed also show that some species--those with short generation times like insects--are evolving in response to climate change, but not in ways that could prevent extinction. "Some populations are adapti...Bright future for nuclear medicine technologists
...note that 6 out of 10 (60.5 percent) technologists expect to remain in their current positions for the next ...mpleted some college education, and nearly a third expect to pursue additional academic education (an acknowledgement of the rapid evolution of nuclear medici...Ludwig Fund donates $20 million to University of Chicago for cancer research
...Medical Affairs at the University of Chicago. "We expect each of the six centers to make major individual contributions, but the sum of their combined efforts should be even more impressive." The Ludwig Center at the University of Chicago under the direction of Ralph Weichselbaum, M.D., the Daniel K. Lu...What does the public really know about HPV?
...on, detection and the link to cervical cancer. We expect that media coverage over the past year and direct-to-consumer marketing efforts by the makers of the HPV DNA test and the HPV vaccine will increase awareness, and NCI is conducting studies to monitor this possible increase. We plan to track the diffu......ove 500 600 parts per million as many scientists expect to be the case by 2050, then the climate shifts an...ming 125,000 years ago gives us an idea of what to expect under the current phase," he said. "We should certainly be paying attention to what the corals are ...Researchers link ocean organisms with increased cloud cover and potential climate change
...s a huge signal," said Nenes. "You would normally expect to see a change of a couple of watts." The Southern Ocean is ideal for study because it is largely untouched by pollution and has relatively steady temperature and meteorological conditions during the seasons in which phytoplankton blooms appear. ...Novel experiment documents evolution of genome in near-real time
...rocesses of any cell," said Palsson. "You wouldn't expect that gene to change because a wide variety of cellular process would be affected; it's like replacing the wiring system in a building when a light bulb burns out. But we repeated the experiment more than 50 times and mutations in the RNA polymerase g...NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd
... a much better idea when to release wild bison and expect winter ranges to become accessible for the bison during the critical late winter period." "The National Park Service is not a traditional user of NASA information," said Watson. "But this is a great opportunity to use NASA technology to help the fo...Neuron cell stickiness may hold key to evolution of the human brain
...line. This is about 79-percent more than we would expect to see by chance at our assigned probability thres...ost distinct of all human attributes and we would expect these abilities to result from human-specific aspects of neuronal development. Our results also sugg...Some key laboratory breast cancer cell lines are, indeed, good models for the 'real' disease
...st. "These cell line models can be misused if you expect them to offer biological insights into how breast cancer behaves. That is where it gets controversial," Clarke said. In the study, which used a new method to gauge molecular similarities between tumor cells, the scientists compared the three estrog...Fossil is missing link in elephant lineage
...actly the sort of intermediate evolutionists would expect to bridge the gap between archaic and advanced proboscideans," Sanders said....Researchers determine why wolves not dispersing as fast as expected in Yellowstone
...they are dispersing into unchartered territory, we expect the population to continue spreading at the slow rate--about 10 km per year," said Lewis, the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology. The U of A researchers used radio tracking of wolves and computer simulation models to reach their conclus...Deadly hypoxic event finally concludes
...to how marine systems function and can recover. We expect some fish to return fairly quickly, but with other life forms, it's hard to say. And we have deadlines, we need to get a lot of this information before another possible hypoxic event starts next year." Funding is still inadequate for the types of vid...Interdisciplinary grant to Yale: Creating nanodevices for delivery of vaccines
...t the requirements of any particular vaccine. They expect this approach to be safer and more effective than current methods of co-administering an adjuvant or delivering live attenuated or killed bacteria or viruses to amplify the immune response. "We will specifically target antigen-presenting cells suc...... the use of RNA interference, Amdam and colleagues expect to be able to target the genes they have mapped and, by silencing them, precisely determine what aspects of social behavior they affect....