Fat horses face health problems
...esity are heat stress, increased bone, tendon, and joint injuries, and reduced performance levels. After surveying the academic literature, the researchers discovered that only one documented study on equine obesity existed prior to this research, according to Thatcher. It was an owner-reported survey do...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates pollen collection by bees
...ms evolved and diversified. In a symposium at the joint annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Bi...standing of development. In his presentation at a joint ASPB and BSA symposium on evolutionary development at the annual meeting in Chicago (July 9, 2007, 2...U-M, Israeli scientists report major advance in search for genes associated with colon cancer
...ncer, he says. The specific genetic cause for this joint susceptibility to three different cancers has not yet been discovered, but several groups are working to close in on the mechanism that might cause these cancers. Gruber is an associate professor of internal medicine and of human genetics in the U-...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates
...sms evolved and diversified. In a symposium at the joint annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Bi...rstanding of development. In his presentation at a joint ASPB and BSA symposium on evolutionary development at the annual meeting in Chicago (July 9, 2007, 2...Scientists find endangered grey-shanked doucs in Vietnam
... establishment of a new protected area. Two recent joint surveys in adjacent areas involving scientists from WWFs Greater Mekong Program and Conservation Internationals Indo-Burma Office revealed the significance of the find. Tran Khanh Duong, who led the most recent surveys, was trained through CIs Pri...Bright future for nano-sized light source
...ect, and a leading nanoscience authority who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Labs Molecular Foundry ...cuitry. Jan Liphardt, a biophysicist who holds a joint appointment with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and UC Berkeleys Physics Department, w...Energy department selects 3 Bioenergy Research Centers for $375 million in federal funding
...gy. In July 2006, DOEs Office of Science issued a joint biofuels research agenda with the Departments Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy titled Breaking the Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Ethanol. The report provides a detailed roadmap for cellulosic ethanol research, identifying key roa...New $1.16 million study investigates how dietary iron is used by cells
...k of tumor development, infection, cardiomyopathy, joint disorders and several endocrine and neurodegenerative disorders. And third, we now have an increasingly sophisticated knowledge and understanding of iron metabolic pathways, the proteins involved in these pathways and how these pathways are regulat...Developer of new method for treating bone defects wins WPI Entrepreneurship Award
... (temporomandibular joint) disorders, degenerative joint disease, bone disease, fractures, and more, using proprietary polymer technology. These state-of-the-art polymers are used to treat chronic and acute pain, along with controlled release/drug delivery products. The company has received a Phase I SBIR ...UD awarded $11M for osteoarthritis research and unique mentoring program for women scientists
...n be used to improve knee function without further joint damage and aid in developing screening tools to identify patients who will benefit from rehabilitation programs....Book makes case for using evolution in everyday life
...tinguished professor of biological sciences with a joint appointment in anthropology at Binghamton University, is convinced that evolution can become more widely accepted once its consequences for human welfare are appropriately understood. "When evolution is presented as unthreatening, explanatory, and ...New findings challenge established views about human genome
...ed up to the entire genome. The Ensembl project, a joint EMBL-EBI and Sanger Institute project, jointly headed by Ewan Birney, has already generated some initial genome wide datasets with early full scale datasets. This integration has lead to the identification of just over 110,000 regulatory elements acr...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
...trong measures to conserve and manage them through joint efforts at all levels. The Southern Sudan region was last surveyed in1982 by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Civil war broke out in the region in 1983. Based on experiences in other war-torn regions such as Mozambique and Angola, where wildlife va...Breakthrough developments in rheumatoid arthritis reported
...ritis, an autoimmune disease that leads to painful joint swelling. Scientists are cracking the genetic code that makes the immune system wage an attack on a persons joints. Over the last decade, Dr. Gregersen and his colleagues have been amassing a genetic database complete with siblings with rheumatoid ar...Food safety begins as vegetables grow
... spinach. The symposium will be held during the joint meeting of The American Phytopathological Society (APS) and the Society of Nematologists (SON). The meeting will take place July 28 August 1, 2007, at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. A news conference on pla...Methodist, University of Houston, Cornell combine biomedical imaging expertise
...the sciences of biomedical imaging and will foster joint training programs to produce the next generation of basic and applied scientists. Biomedical imaging includes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), CAT scans and other high technologies ranging from molecular imaging to nanotechnology to computer scienc...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
... no reason to expect that the muscles would turn a joint during drying. She found no post-mortem movement. She also pinned beef tendons as they dried, and though they shrank a bit, they did not shrink enough even to dislodge the pins. Given these observations, it is hard to imagine how shrinking tendons or...Energy and Agriculture Departments provide $8.3 million in funding for biofuels research
...projects; one project will receive $1.3 million in joint funding from both agencies. Initial funding will support research projects for up to three years. Awards have been selected for: University of Minnesota, $715,000 South Dakota State University, $420,000 Mississippi State University, $1,300,000 Uni...Washington University in St. Louis to invest $55 million for renewable energy research
... at Washington University. We will actively pursue joint initiatives that enlist key research strengths and... Washington University-based proposals, as well as joint proposals, to seek funding." According to Wrighton, I-CARES will coordinate research efforts at the ...Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Geisinger launch new environmental research group
...E, PA. Two national leaders in health announced a joint institute to investigate some of this countrys most pressing environmental health problems with the intention of developing real-world sustainable solutions to those problems. The Geisinger Center for Health Research and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sc...