Premature births may be linked to seasonal levels of pesticides and nitrates in surface water
...efects, and preterm births, and I think we need to face up to environmental causes," said Dr Winchester, who is also director of Newborn Intensive Care Services at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis. "Preterm births in the United States vary month to month in a recurrent and seasonal manner. Pesticide...Nearly 28,000 US infants died in 2004
...mated. "We have long known babies born too soon face many developmental challenges even death," said J... than 30 percent since 1981. Babies who do survive face risks of lifelong health and developmental challenges. ...Gene mutation linked to increased athletic performance in whippets
...tural or perhaps artificial means could change the face of competitive human and canine athletics." However, the authors stress that: "Extreme caution should be exercised when acting upon these results because we do not know the consequences for overall health associated with myostatin mutations."...Global survey of lizards reveals greater abundance of animals on islands than on mainland ecosystems
...ds are likely to become more common as the islands face increasing pressures from population growth, tourism, development, and climate change, says Jetz. The consequences of island vulnerability have already been observed as island species account for half of known animal extinctions and a full 90 percen...Generic biologic drugs unlikely to offer significant savings
...aracteristics, however, generic biologics probably face higher clinical, manufacturing and marketing costs to enter the market, according to the researchers. Another barrier for generic biologics is that they probably will not be approved by the FDA as therapeutically equivalent to the reference brand, ...Climate change a threat to Indonesian agriculture, study says
...rrent El Nio pattern, Indonesian rice growers will face a significantly shortened rainy season. In the abs...ge What adaptive measures could be taken in the face of harmful short-term variability and long-term change in climate? "In the short run, the science ...Amphibians in losing race with environmental change
...e of environmental changes than other species must face they have permeable skin, live on both land and water, their eggs have no shells. In the face of these challenges, amphibians appear to be losing the battle of 5,743 known species of amphibians...Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
...and there are always two sheets, the sheets can be face to face, or face to back. If the molecular zipper is universal in amyloid fibrils, as Eisenberg believes, is it pos...Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline announce partnership to target drug-resistant hospital infections
...reative ways to address antibiotic development, or face the spectre of being confronted with untreatable infections. ...Satellites shed light on global warming
...Larsen Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula in the face of this warming through radar images acquired by ESAs ERS and Envisat satellites. The retreat has been accelerating since 1992 and has culminated in two collapse events: Larsen-A in January 1995 and Larsen-B in March 2002. Envisat captured the di...Better risk management could cut MRSA infection rates
...tals attaining higher risk management levels could face lower MRSA infection rates The study, led by Paul Fenn, Norwich Union Professor of Insurance Studies in the Nottingham University Business School, involved Professor Alastair Gray from the University of Oxford and Professor Neil Rickman from the Un...Researchers identify new genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes
... who have a parent or sibling with type 2 diabetes face a 3.5-times greater risk than people without a family history of the disease. However, researchers have only recently begun to zero in on particular genetic variants that increase or decrease susceptibility to the disease. To make their discoveries...Mosquito genes explain response to climate change
...us genome maps are being completed, scientists now face the task of determining how genes interact and how they produce specific phenotypes (observable traits), which include photoperiodic response and dormancy. "Climate changes already are extending the growing seasons," Holzapfel said. "We know that ...How to manage forests in hurricane impact zones
..., GA. "But those adaptations only go so far in the face of a major hurricane. Forest owners and natural resource managers need strategies to deal with hurricane damage to coastal forests." In early fall 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused what may be the most costly natural disaster in U.S. histor...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 18, 2007
..., especially in areas such as the Middle East that face severe water shortages and produce drinking water by desalination of sea water. A related C&EN story focuses on global chemical industry efforts to make safe, secure sources of drinking water more widely available. ARTICLE # 5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M...University of Alberta researchers unravel intricate animal patterns
...the signals received from those con-specifics that face towards this individual," said Eftimie. "Based on these observations, we come up with some simple rules that can describe the different ways animals communicate. Then we incorporate these rules into the mathematical model, and check what kind of move......and spokes of their webs and to rappel away in the face of danger is made of two different proteins. The Munich team has now successfully used genetic engineering to produce one of the spider silk proteins of the European garden spider (Araneus daidematus). While purifying the protein by dialysis, the res...Scientists decode genome of oral pathogen
... S. sanguinis the ability to survive better in the face of good oral hygiene. If so, this could explain the recent emergence of S. sanguinis as an important pathogen. "The sequence of the S. sanguinis genome gives us a comprehensive view of the biological potential of this important pathogen," said Greg...Study shows isolation of stem cells may lead to a treatment for hearing loss
...ot replaced and people exposed to these conditions face permanent hearing loss. Identification of the stem cells from the adult cochlea would be a major step forward to develop new therapeutic approaches to hearing loss. Members of the National Center for Regenerative Medicine research team, Dr. Robert ......ng natural conifer regeneration, but managers must face the challenge of long regeneration periods, and be able to accommodate high levels of variation across the landscape of a fire."...