Los Alamos National Laboratory making progress in Groundwater Protection Program
...ds. LANL should add a sitewide perspective to its future groundwater monitoring plans. The laboratory also should drill more wells in and between canyons to increase the area of the regional aquifer to be monitored. Data quality issues should be addressed, too. DOE's site office at LANL should ensure t...University of Manchester researchers reveal clues to new genes behind rheumatoid arthritis
...y optimistic that it would be possible in the near future to study a thousand genetic variants in each of a thousand people," says Dr Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, the UK's largest medical research charity, which funded the study. "What has been achieved in this research is the analysis of h...New study finds genetically engineered crops could play a role in sustainable agriculture
...nificant for how we think about technology and the future of sustainable agriculture, said Peter Kareiva, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy. According to lead author, Michele Marvier, of Santa Clara University, We can now answer the question: Do Bt crops have effects on beneficial insects and wor...Turning the tables in chemistry
...te chemistry class demonstration that helps make a future in science a bright possibility, rather than a tot...ng Epstein outlines a gathering storm clouding the future of U.S. science and prescribes a series of strategies to help avert a looming national crisis. Epste...Dietary preferences and patterns may be linked to genes
...nderstanding these relationships may help to shape future recommendations for prevention of undesirable health outcomes, especially in populations that may be genetically vulnerable to certain dietary patterns or specific nutrients. More studies are needed in diverse populations to determine if APOA2 might ...Who needs environmental monitoring?
...for certain all the information a scientist in the future may need, good monitoring programs are still possi... the probability that a dataset will be useful for future environmental issues, say the researchers. The review concludes that environmental monitoring m...Energy and Agriculture Departments provide $8.3 million in funding for biofuels research
...en our commitment to developing a robust bioenergy future vital to Americas energy and economic security, Secretary Bodman said. To help meet President Bush's goal to reduce gasoline consumption by 20 percent in ten years, research and alternative fuel production needs to expand beyond corn ethanol, Secreta...Dartmouth professor makes case for ethically universal stem cell lines
...les that must be overcome in making them useful in future stem cell research. Even though none of these options is free from scientific challenges or ethical and political problems, Green feels that we should support research now to develop them as a supplement tobut not a replacement for existing methods o...Major study predicts grim future for Europe's seas
...th Europes human lifestyles or to examine what the future may hold for the seas. The project, European Lifes... activity. This situation will severely compromise future options for economic use of the sea and for the conservation of its biodiversity. The team explore...Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way
...46 to 23, says Dr. Emmi. That separation enables a future baby to get half his chromosomes from mom and half from dad. Fragile spindles, which line up chromosomes for division, are easily broken during freezing so chromosomes cant properly divide. Typically the resulting embryo dies. Plus, fertilization is ...2007 Image of the Year: Molecular imaging relates human brain chemistry to aggressive behavior
..., domestic violence), it could show promise in the future for pharmacological intervention against abnormal violence she added. ...SNM advances professional definition for 'molecular imaging'
...Sandler. Molecular imaging provides the key to the future of personalized medicine, which involves diagnosing, treating and monitoring patients based on their individual makeup, added the associate vice chancellor for hospital affairs for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. SNMs def...Organic Food Miles take toll on environment
...res or farmers markets when possible, and that any future government policy on the environment should consider the reduction of CO2 emissions associated with food transport. The study also found that a large gap between total costs to the consumer and the price paid in the store for organic produce indicate...Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial drug resistance
...larial drug resistance, providing insight into how future drugs might be designed to effectively kill the parasite," said Paul Roepe, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology as well as the Department of Chemistry. Any animal with red blood cells can develop m...Talcum powder stunts growth of lung tumors
...k will undoubtedly have a significant influence on future clinical trials dealing with the treatment of pleural malignancies, including lung cancer, mesothelioma and metastatic adenocarcinoma involving the pleural surfaces, Aelony said....Largest ever study of genetics of common diseases published today
...y optimistic that it would be possible in the near future to study a thousand genetic variants in each of a thousand people," says Dr Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, the UK's largest medical research charity, which funded the study. "What has been achieved in this research is the analysis of h...Crucial progress in understanding Fragile X mental retardation protein
...evelop more effective interventions. Huang said future studies will look more closely at how FMRP works with NXF2 to regulate its targets. She said, We expect to identify more targets which are regulated by FMRP and NXF2. This will be a new direction in the FMRP research field. ...Research team identifies new Alzheimer's gene
...nfirmed, this discovery could provide a target for future Alzheimers therapeutic drugs. We hope that this study, along with the genome-wide genetics studies to come, will contribute to the clarification of Alzheimers risk factors and disease mechanisms, the discovery of promising new disease-slowing and p...Study of underground lakes in Antarctica could be critical, prof says
... to sub-ice exploration that provides guidance for future lake penetration. Scientists from the countries involved, which include the U.S., France, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and others, have concluded that lake entry and sampling will ultimately be necessary to accomplish the ambitious rese...UC Irvine awarded $3.9 million to upgrade stem cell research facilities, training
...ities and trained scientists are key to developing future stem cell therapies. UCIs core laboratory is located within the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and is equipped with instruments critical to human embryonic stem cell research. Scientists use the laboratory to explore the biology of hu...