Latest buzz: Marijuana may slow progression of Alzheimer's disease
...pically found in large quantities in the brains of former Alzheimer's patients. They found that the marijuana-like compound decreased inflammation in the brains of young and old rats, and that the treated animals in both age groups could find the platform in the water faster than the non-treated animals. ...Gene linked to autism in families with more than one affected child
...ing the link with the MET gene variant only in the former 'multiplex' families strengthens its candidacy." The researchers propose that in some individuals with autism spectrum disorders who also develop digestive and immune system or non-specific neurological problems, the MET gene variant might play a r...USC groups present at Neuroscience 2006
... collaborators on the study were Yoshie Sugiura (a former research assistant professor at USC) and graduate students Sonia Ming-Yi Lin and Young-eun Yoo. The group is preparing its results for publication. In a related presentation, Sugiura described the potential of testoterone therapy for improved motor...Dartmouth researchers find a neural signature of bilingualism
... tasks. Authors of the study are Mark Shalinsky, former post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth now a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital; Ioulia Kovelman, formerly a Dartmouth graduate student currently a post-doctoral fellow at MIT; Melody Berens, currently a post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth; a...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- October 11, 2006
...moving to help solve the problem, Crispin Tickell, former British ambassador to the United Nations warned, "We are now at a point where mitigation will not solve all the problems. Some adaptation to climate change will be necessary." ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AT 9:30 A.M., OCT. 16, 2006 "Climate Ch...Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack
...isticians and clinicians who were commissioned by former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson to evaluate a variety of intervention strategies to determine whether the United States could contain a large-scale smallpox bioterrorist attack and, if so, how. Specifically, the researchers were...Vax and Pax: Taking turns to build an eye
...lopment in both mouse and chick tissues, Lemke and former postdoctoral fellow Jin Woo Kim, Ph.D., solved the mystery. Stina Mui, a former graduate student in the Lemke lab had originally observed Vax2 in the cytoplasm of cultured cell lin...Women's Bioethics Project unveils 'The Scientist & the Ethicist' podcast series
...rth Carolina at Charlotte Michael Yesley, J.D., former staff director, National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research and Los Alamos National Laboratory....Symposium at Yale to honor Mary Helen Goldsmith and auxin research
... The featured speakers of the symposium include former students, research associates and colleagues of Goldsmith. The symposium will begin with opening remarks by Timothy Nelson, professor of molecular cellular and developmental biology at Yale. The morning session includes talks by Gus Speth, dean of...OHSU eye doctor says laser surgery safer than contacts
...ith a strong background in contact lens issues and former president of the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists. "It's not that contacts aren't good. They're better than they've ever been. But one cannot assume contacts are safer." The risks associated with laser surgery versus contact lenses can ...Venomous cone snail biologist named to Institute of Medicine
...e honor makes Olivera at least the 30th present or former University of Utah researcher to have been elected...ies Below are lists of other present or former University of Utah faculty elected to one or more of the National Academies. Note that some were ele...Genes and diet linked to risk factors for heart disease
...am Heart Study, and first author Roberto Elosua, a former Fulbright-Generalitat de Catalua fellow who works with Ordovas, found that while most variants of the APOA5 gene were not associated with carotid intimal medial thickness (IMT), a surrogate measure of atherosclerosis burden, particular gene variants ......h remedy as fast as it is developed. "Based on the former soviet model, it takes three to four years to engineer a drug-resistant or more virulent pathogen," he says. "It takes 10 to 15 years to develop a vaccine and have it approved." Jonathan tucker of the Center for Nonproliferation studies, a think tank...Identifying the 'nuclear' in nuclear medicine as high benefit
...highly beneficial to life, said Jonathan M. Links, former SNM president, who has written an overview on understanding radiological and nuclear terrorism in the October issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. "When people hear the words radiation and radioactivity, they initially think negative thoug...Rising temperatures will lead to loss of trout habitat in the southern Appalachians
...irginia Tech Conservation Management Institute and former FS employee Jennifer Bruggink produced a regional map of wild trout habitat based on information from stream samples, expert knowledge, and suitable land cover. They then developed a model that uses elevation and latitude as surrogates for temperatur......ed egg to fertilized embryo. Think about it: The former is and will remain an egg if left alone, while the latter has within it the means to unleash the dazzling cascade of events needed to create a viable organism. What's already in the egg that enables it to make the transition? How is it the same and h...'1491' wins 2006 Best Book Award from the National Academies
...ir and member, Institute of Medicine), journalist, former deputy editor, Nature, and former news editor, Science Donald Kennedy (committee vice chair and member, National Academy of Scienc...IU, Purdue selected for major NCI biomarker tools initiative
...emmer, Ph.D., the firm's scientific co-founder and former chairman of the IU Department of Chemistry, and Clemmer's team at IU Bloomington to provide ion mobility spectrometry evaluation. This proprietary technology adds several orders of magnitude increased dynamic range for cancer biomarker proteomics stu...NIH funds Berkeley Lab research on defense against radiological attack
...adioactive waste from the environment. Raymond, former Chair of the Department of Chemistry of UC Berkeley, is the Director of CSD's Glenn T. Seaborg Center, which studies heavy element chemistry at the molecular level. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has won numerous major awards,...Groundbreaking study by Field Museum scientists explains mane variation in lions
...ific venue in 1833 in this very journal (under its former name): Smee, Capt. W. "On the maneless lion of Gujerat," Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London; part 1, page 140, 1833. The Journal of Zoology is published by the Zoological Society or London. This study has just been published on the j...