Yale scientists confirm how crystals form
...eam monitored real-time images taken at two-second intervals while they heated crystallizing samples of nickel-titanium within a transmission electron microscope. They directly determined the rate of crystal assembly (nucleation), and the rate that the crystals grew, by measuring the number of crystals and the...Electronic nose could spell the end of landfill pongs
... the air. Air is sucked into the device at regular intervals and then profiled. The chemical profile of the air is then sent in real-time via a built-in GPS modem to a remote computer. Based on the concentration of various chemicals, the system is able to determine whether the methane gases or odours have reac...BiovaxID produces long term clinical remission and 95 percent overall survival
...uxan therapy is typically repeated as necessary at intervals in order to control the lymphoma. Annual sales for Rituxan are about $1.5B. BiovaxID is an active immunotherapeutic which stimulates the production of anti-tumor antibodies and induces a cell-mediated immune response to cancerous B-lymphocytes but no...Women pregnant with girls experience more severe asthma symptoms
...e trained to assess their lung function for 10-day intervals at selected points in pregnancy. Lung function and a large number of other factors that might influence severity of the mother's asthma were recorded automatically. Asthma worsened in mothers with either male or female fetuses until about 30 weeks g......natal rivers. The infection rates were measured in intervals before and for 60 kilometres after they passed a commercial salmon farm. "Our research shows that the impact of a single salmon farm is far reaching," says Krkosek. "Sea lice production from the farm we studied was 30,000 times higher than natural. ...SNM Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment program modules approved by ABNM, ABR for CME credit
...ans must now pass recertification exams at regular intervals and demonstrate involvement in continuing medical education. With SNM's LLSAP program, molecular imaging/nuclear medicine professionals can satisfy one of four components of maintenance of certification, as required by the American Board of Medical S...New research shows bats have complex skills to deal with 'clutter'
...kground clutter," Moss says. "They also varied the intervals between pulses in the strobe group, depending on the distance between the prey and clutter." "Most importantly," says Moss, "the results of this study clearly show that bats control the timing of their calls to directly influence the patterns of echo...With a sense of timing, hummingbirds know when they've last emptied a flower
...wn that animals can learn to time one or two short intervals (on the order of seconds to 1 hours). However, alm...taking the nectar. Thus, accurate measures of time intervals would support efficient harvesting of nectar. In the new work, the researchers found that free-livin...Intrahepatic cholestasis during pregnancy associated with later liver disease
...s and calculated rates, rate ratios and confidence intervals for both ICP cases and controls. The researchers found statistically significant differences in the incidence of several liver and biliary diseases. Women who had ICP were significantly more likely to later be diagnosed with hepatitis C, non-alcoholi...New mechanism found for neurodegenerative effects of amphetamines in mice
...e major metabolite of ecstasy) or METH at two-hour intervals to young adult mice. In the case of MDA, before the first drug injection an additional group of mice was given a single dose of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), which is known to inhibit PHS and block its ability to convert drugs to free radical produ...Whole-genome study at Johns Hopkins reveals a new gene associated with abnormal heart rhythm
...frequently in people who have longer or shorter QT intervals than in those with normal QT intervals. To do this, they examined the DNA sequences of both long and short QT people. The human genome contains 3 billion letters, known as nucleotides. Each person's genome differs from the next person's by as many as...Children's Hospital Boston presents at the 2006 Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting
...t detailed interviews at enrollment and at 3-month intervals for 2 years, giving data on clinic visits, contraception, infant health care, education, relationships, family history, social risk factors, and social supports. Two predictors were found: Adolescents who engaged in a new relationship or did not live...Physicians and engineers pool resources to prevent stroke
...ic mesh, and then there are 700 steps representing intervals of time over the cycle of each heart beat." Requiring extremely fast computers, the group uses the Beowolf cluster at UH's Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) to significantly improve the visualizations created by the simulations. "The c...NYU algorithm enhances ability to detect cancer genes
... new algorithm computes a multipoint score for all intervals of consecutive probes, and the score reflects how well the deletion of that genomic interval may explain the cancer in these patients. In other words, the computed score measures how likely it is for a particular genomic interval to be a tumor suppre...New method for dating art prints and early books borrows know-how from genetic science
...umbers of events that do not each occur at regular intervals but that, as a group, can be used to gauge the average rate of those events over time. "Genetic mutations -- like the deterioration of a printer's wood blocks and copperplates -- occur sporadically at random intervals, but if you have enough of them...Movie spies on malaria parasite's sneaky behavior
... series of images inside living mice at one-second intervals to track the parasites' journey. By using parasites labeled with a green fluorescent marker and staining the mouse's blood vessels with a red fluorescent marker, Amino was able to record microscopic images inside the animal's liver. He found that not...Bumble bees can estimate time intervals
...d ability to estimate the duration of shorter time intervals had previously been known only in humans and other...wo different intervals, bees could often time both intervals simultaneously. This research shows that the biological foundations of time perception may be found ...Evolution of Old World fruit flies on three continents mirrors climate change
...so looked at shifts in weather patterns during the intervals between sample collections. At nearly all sites, t... a warming climate. However, organisms with longer intervals between new generations, humans or sequoia trees for example, probably can't adapt nearly as readily...Study shows fruit and vegetable juice consumption may reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease
...tia in 1992-1994, and were followed at 2-year time intervals until the end of 2001. Dietary consumption of fruit and vegetable juices was determined from self-administered questionnaires developed for Asian populations. Cognitive function was assessed by trained interviewers using a standardized test, with cli......ver time, becoming statistically insignificant for intervals over 45,000 years. Overall, island species evolved...species--a phenomenon that was most pronounced for intervals between 21 years through 20,000 years. The finding that mammals evolve faster on islands, Millien a...