A close-up on pancreatic disease: How do we improve the odds?
...ound that antioxidant supplementation was the only independent predictor of response. "We continue to find new beneficial properties of antioxidants and studies like these offer clinical evidence of their important role in maintaining health among patients who have experienced oxidative stress," said Payal B...Spotlight on liver disease: Improving today's treatments
...d predict coronary atherosclerotic disease that is independent of the metabolic syndrome and serum C-reactive protein concentration," said Peyman Adibi, M.D., of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, and lead investigator for this study. "Therefore, further diagnostic and therapeutic inter...Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems
...eigh the benefits, says Halfar, there have been no independent impact assessment studies of the proposed massive sulphide mining sites. "Over 250 active and fossil deposits have already been found. And the company operating in Papua New Guinea has already staked claims off the coast of Tonga and Fiji," he says. ...IMS updated recommendations on postmenopausal hormone therapy
...ussions. Looking at global perspectives, and being independent of local or regional constraints imposed by official health authorities, this IMS Statement called for a more balanced approach in the interpretation of the scientific data on hormone use that were available in 2003. Since then, additional informatio...Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells
.... Spherical in shape, the particles have arrays of independent porous channels. The channels form a honeycomb-like structure that can be filled with chemicals or molecules. "One gram of this kind of material can have a total surface area of a football field, making it possible to carry a large payload," Trewyn...Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize
...nnot stack multiple genes on a separate chromosome independent of the others. By stacking genes on minichromosomes, scientists could create crops that have multiple beneficial traits, such as resistance to drought, certain viruses and insects, or other stresses. In addition, minichromosomes could be used for t...Burroughs Wellcome Fund awards $14M to support physician-scientists
...lcome Fund's signature program since BWF became an independent and private foundation in 1994. Until 2006, 241 a...e poised to go on to promising academic careers as independent researchers. BWF invested more than $100 million into the award program. The program was so succe...2007 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award winner announced
... The New York Times Magazine; Jon Palfreman, independent documentary film producer; and Nancy Shute, senior writer for U.S. News & World Report. The Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award honors annually the most insightful and enterprising reporting on the basic biomedical sciences in print or broadc......region. As the culmination in the study of several independent bat groups, this article shows that reverse colonization is a feature of the entire Caribbean bat community, encompassing groups of bats as different from each other as aerial insectivores, nectarivores, and frugivores. The evolution of Caribbean ...Gene malfunctions cause schizophrenia, depression symptoms in mice
...al illness," they wrote. "We have shown that two independent missense mutations in mouse Disc1 elicit distinct physiological, pharmacological, neuroanatomical, and behavioral phenotypes, which when taken together are strikingly consistent with the emerging picture from clinical and basic studies of DISC1 as a ...Salk researchers discover first gene that specifically links calorie restriction to longevity
...ngevity effect was enhanced. PHA-4 acts completely independent of insulin/IGF-1 signaling and turns out to be essential for CR-mediated longevity, says Panowski. So far, only one other gene, called sir-2, has been implicated in the life- and health-prolonging response to calorie restriction. Increased amounts ...'War Between the Sexes': The coevolution of genitalia in waterfowl
...one another. According to the study, in various independent lineages of ducks females developed more elaborate oviducts as males evolved longer phalluses. In other lineages females lost oviduct complexity as the phallus evolved toward smaller size. Why all this dynamic evolution? Brennan hypothesizes that ...University of Texas researcher earns APS Bowditch award
...She removed him from the class and assigned him an independent research project to work on instead. He loved doing the independent project and headed to a career in research. Dr. Stockand attended Texas A&M as an undergrad, did his......m (2) of Dutch scientists to re-examine this in an independent study. Reporting in New Phytologist, Tom Dueck and...ffer from zero. To our knowledge this is the first independent test which has been published since the controversy last year. Conscious of the fact that a small ...Genome-wide search unearths surprising clues for diabetes and triglycerides
...rned to replicating the most promising findings in independent samples a critical aspect of the genomic method. ...advance of publication to establish priorities for independent follow-up studies. By virtue of their close collaboration, DGI, WTCCC/UKT2D and FUSION researchers i...Replacement warhead program poses challenges for weapons complex
An independent study group, convened by AAASs Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy, has issued a report on the proposed Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) and its role in the future U.S. nuclear weapons program. Bruce Tarter, head of the study group...FSU researcher's award will fund study into cardiovascular grafts
...o support young scientists as they transition into independent research careers, will provide Zhao with two years of fellowship support at the rate of $75,000 per year. If she obtains a university faculty appointment during that time, she will be eligible to receive up to three years of additional funding at $10...Researchers identify key gene that may be a marker of breast cancer metastasis
...stance to the drug and are able to grow and spread independent of estrogen," said Fox Chase Cancer Center biochemist Joan S. Lewis-Wambi, Ph.D, who presented the results of the study of aggressive AI-resistant breast cancer cells. "Our laboratory has developed several AI-resistant breast cancer cell lines and ha...Genes and biomarkers that allow doctors to choose the right therapy for the right patient
...esearchers also determined that KRAS mutations are independent of another predictive marker of cetuximab response, skin toxicity, which appears through a variety of forms including rashes, eczema and fissures. Skin toxicity also indicates a poor response to cetuximab. The study indicated that median survival i......ted to the presence of antigen in the blood but is independent of the presence of diarrhea. The finding of infectious rotavirus in the blood suggests that the disease is not limited to just the intestine. A related perspective by David Candy discusses the study’s findings further....