Northern forests less effective than tropical forests in reducing global warming
...tact tropical forests are removing an unexpectedly high proportion of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, ...ably because trees and other plants were absorbing high amounts. Conversely, scientists had assumed a large amount of carbon was coming out of the tropics...Paving the way toward a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease
...riple in the United States and to be four times as high worldwide. Although no cure for the disease is available yet, scientists are actively looking for new treatments. One of the main goals of such treatments is to destroy clumps of a protein called beta amyloid, which are found in the brains of peop...Pregnancy nausea/vomiting may indicate lower risk of breast cancer
...ion, preeclampsia/eclampsia, gestational diabetes, high weight gain during pregnancy, and nausea and vomit...ain pregnancy-related outcomes may emerge, such as high blood pressure, glucose intolerance and gestational diabetes, eclamptic conditions with seizures and...CSHL awarded Pre-College Science Education Grant by HHMI
...daily commitment to public education for middle to high school students and teachers as well as the general public, said CSHL President Bruce Stillman, Ph.D....MU maps course for improving pre-college science education
...ill be among the first to benefit from innovative, high tech mapping tools and concepts developed at the U...rs, strengthened interest in science among at-risk high school students and the development of innovative educational materials that can be disseminated nat...Researchers isolate new risk marker for overweight children
...ommon aside from being heavy: each one of them has high levels of apoB48, a structural protein found in intestinal cholesterol. The children displayed high levels of apoB48 even as their LDL cholesterol levels, which are typically high in overweight adults...Mathematics reveals genetic pattern of tumor growth
...mpediment. This explains why many tumors exhibit a high level of instability at first, and become stable later in their development....JCI table of contents: June 21, 2007
...e authors found that a nutritionally balanced diet high in omega-3 fatty acid reduced prostate tumor growt...n heart's poor response to stress As a result of high blood pressure or cardiac injury the heart may compensate by increasing in size and mass a process k...Rutgers, Penn researchers capture research dollars to improve prostate cancer diagnostic methods
...University of Pennsylvania physicians use powerful high resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and co... Physicians who suspect prostate cancer based on high levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in the blood typically order a needle biopsy, because comm...Researchers pit novel version of common virus against cancer
...d cancer cells. Cancer cells are known to have a high concentration of dNTP, a building block of DNA. In fact, cancer cells require high dNTP concentrations in order to replicate their chromosomes fast enough to continually divide and in...Hepatitis B drug can compromise HIV treatment
...a very low concentrationmeaning that it has a very high affinity for reverse transcriptase, much better than the drugs that we currently useit is actually not a very good HIV drug. The inhibition doesn't increase with dosage; it just plateaus. So the overall effect is that entecavir is actually a very pot...UN issues analysis of global investors' sustainable energy 'gold rush'
Climate change worries coupled with high oil prices and increasing government support top a...rring the sectors growth has been the persistently high price of oil averaging more than $60 a barrel in 2006 (although one report conclusion is that the s....... Chemical analysis of Baltimores soils revealed high chemical variability, while physical measurements... Service researcher and lead author of study. The high calcium levels are probably related to the presence in urban environments of calcium-rich structural...Scripps research scientists show protein accelerates breast cancer progression in animal models
...a-a hard, fibrous tumor-were found to express very high levels of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)-Ptn transgene along with increases in collagen, elastin, tumor angiogenesis, and increased size of new blood vessels within the breast cancers-all markers for breast cancer. Our study suggests the poss...A faster way to recover from chemotherapy and marrow transplant
..., leaving them with diminished immune function and high risk for infections. Zon and colleagues Trista North, PhD, and Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD, both also of Childrens Stem Cell Program, zeroed in on dmPGE2 by screening more than 2,500 chemicals in zebrafish. Knowing that two genes, runx1 and cmyb, ar...St. Jude shows gene test not needed if cancer drug given in low doses
...k as well and allow SN-38 to remain in the body at high levels for an extended period of time, causing sid... of the UGT1A1*28 gene variation received a single high dose of irinotecan, they suffered severe diarrhea or neutropenia, said Clinton Stewart, Pharm.D., as...Dietary calcium is better than supplements at protecting bone health
... this could be another reason that women who got a high percentage of calcium in their food had higher bone densities." Although dairy foods are excellent sources of calcium, Armamento-Villareal suggests that individuals with dairy sensitivities could consume other calcium-rich food sources such as calc...NJIT professor says certain home shapes and roofs hold up best in hurricane
...rtain home shapes and roof types can better resist high winds and hurricanes, according to a researcher at...that such a home would be far more efficient under high winds and hurricane conditions than a typical structure. CSTB is working with a builder to construct...Turn-ons and turn-offs for neurons
...ult brain can be avoided by making neurons produce high levels of gene-specific activators which facilitate un-silencing of previously silenced genes. These findings have important implications in experimental research that makes use of reversible gene expression tools to switch genes on and off. Neurosci...Bee researcher at Arizona State University is 1 of 20 new Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences
...s disease, and development of novel treatments has high priority in biomedical research, says Amdam. Although she describes this line of discovery as risky, its prospective contribution is of considerable relevance for human health....