First FDA clearance of sterile field cord blood collection bag
... the U.S. and its collection sets were used in the landmark Cord Blood Transplantation (COBLT) study which defines the standards on the use of stem cells from umbilical cord blood....Tyler Environmental Prize winners announced
...our Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. In a series of landmark experiments during the 1970s and 1980s, Schindler showed that acid rain could begin destroying freshwater lakes at far lower levels than previously thought, and that phosphorus was the major cause of eutrophication, or uncontrolled algal growth. Schi...SNM issues first procedure guideline for imaging cancer in adults and children with PET/CT
...May issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. This landmark document, "Procedure Guideline for Tumor Imaging With 18F-FDG PET/CT 1.0," will assist molecular and nuclear imaging physicians and technologists "in recommending, performing, integrating and reporting the results of PET/CT imaging with the radiophar...Next phase reached in definition of Mars Sample Return mission
...for participation in Mars Sample Return (MSR), the landmark mission to return samples from the Red Planet, wit...y, Europe not only aims to play a key role in this landmark mission, but is also pro-actively addressing the necessary steps to take in order to achieve its amb...Crucial site for endangered frogs and birds saved
...in ProAves. "Not only is creation of the reserve a landmark for Colombian conservation, it is a fine example of international collaboration." In late December, Fundacin ProAves learned of the impending sale of plots from the site for construction of vacation homes. It alerted the Alliance for Zero Extinction ...Genentech donates $2.5 million to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
...der of the biotechnology industry, has announced a landmark gift of $2.5 million to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) to seed the establishment of the Genentech Center for the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in CSHL's historic Carnegie Building, where genetics research began in the United St...No place like home: Ant navigation skills used in robot navigation
...ging trips. "Knowledge about path integration and landmark learning gained from our experiments with ants has...group plan to study other ant species that live in landmark rich areas. "Maybe we will find that such ants rate landmarks more highly and use them, not the nest...Researchers reverse juvenile diabetes in animal model; Clinical trial FDA approved
...Dr. Trucco and his team are able to continue their landmark research into improving the prediction of type 1 diabetes and understanding and managing its complications. Building on his discovery in 1994 that type 1 diabetes susceptibility may be genetic in nature and triggered by viruses, Dr. Trucco's discover...Harvard Six Cities Study follow up: Reducing soot particles is associated with longer lives
An eight-year follow up to the landmark Harvard Six Cities Study has found an association between people living longer and cities reducing the amount of fine particulate matter, or soot, in their air. The study has been published in the March 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory...Nature, nurture and the risk of depression
... others, given similar circumstances, according to landmark research from Brain Sciences UNSW (University of New South Wales). The paper, which has just been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, has found more than a fifth of the population has a genetic predisposition to depression, in response to...JCI table of contents: March 1, 2006
...versity of Copenhagen in Denmark notes, "These are landmark studies, as they for the first time clearly demons... Medical Center in Ohio writes that, "As with most landmark studies, this study raises a number of important issues. Thus, the results of this convincing resear......etle in Pacific Northwest forests. Last year, in a landmark paper, he helped document how commercial salmon farms off Canada's British Columbia coast are a breeding ground for sea lice, a parasite that then infects young wild Pacific salmon. The research was the first to document the parasitic impact of comme...Study suggests that publicly available genome data may contain small but significant errors
...ue in the target organism's genome and serves as a landmark in that genome. These probes can then be ordered in the correct sequence in which they occur in the target genome in much the same way as a mapmaker can locate landmarks at the correct coordinates by consulting a three-dimensional rendering of a geog...Researchers make elusive discovery and capture prestigious AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
...rded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1990 for their landmark publication which first introduced microarray technology to the scientific community. "Receiving the Newcomb Cleveland Award in 1990 was the first important public acknowledgment of our invention," said Fodor. "Today, the award remains one of our mos...Landmark FSU study of hepatitis C virus solves mystery that has stymied quest for cure
...ection system for experimental research. Now, in a landmark study by Florida State University biologists that could bolster the development of anti-viral therapies for HCV as well as for related RNA viruses such as West Nile and influenza Assistant Professor Hengli Tang and doctoral student/co-author Heathe...Study of tropical forests worldwide reveals that nature encourages diversity
...ng for less common trees as the trees mature. The landmark study, which was conducted by 33 ecologists from 12 countries and published in the January 27 issue of the journal Science, conclusively demonstrates that diversity matters and has ecological importance to tropical forests. "Ecologists have debated ...Underdogs in the understory: Study suggests nature favors rarer trees
...y by favoring the growth of less common trees. The landmark study, conducted by 33 ecologists from 12 countries and published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, conclusively demonstrates that diversity matters and has ecological importance to tropical forests. Helene Muller-Landau, an assistant prof...Scientists find unusual lung-cancer tumor-suppressor gene
...ome region using a technology known as restriction landmark genome scanning, which identifies methylated genes. The researchers examined the region in about 50 tumor samples from patients with head and neck squamous-cell carcinomas and with non-small-cell lung cancer, which is responsible for about 85 percen...Membrane research opens window to benefits for plants, humans
...d. The work taken together, Tajkhorshid said, is a landmark study in membrane channels. It addresses the mechanism of gating and regulation of plasma membrane proteins in full detail. "We could see how every single atom moves and how collective motions of a large number of atoms resulted in the opening of the......omised" said Snchez Alvarado. The study follows a landmark work that he and Reddien published last spring in Developmental Cell, in which, using a method of gene silencing called RNA interference (RNAi), the researchers silenced more than 1,000 planarian genes, some of which they identified as essential for ...