New results show the RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate protects children for at least 18 months
...date, RTS,S/AS02A, in children. A follow-up to the landmark six-month efficacy study results published by The Lancet in 2004, today's findings show that RTS,S/AS02A remained efficacious over an 18-month observation period. The findings are published in the November 15, 2005 on-line edition of The Lancet and ...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
A landmark discussion paper, published by the Agricultural Institute of Canada, proposes that the GST or some other levy be applied to groceries to help achieve sustainable agriculture and staunch a potentially disastrous collapse of smaller sized farms. The p...International consortium completes map of human genetic variation
...omprehensive catalog of human genetic variation, a landmark achievement that is already accelerating the search for genes involved in common diseases, such as asthma, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. In a paper in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature, more than 200 researchers from Canada, China, Japan,...Valuing biodiversity services, including its insurance against disease
...rom 60 countries convening in Oaxaca, Mexico for a landmark conference dedicated to the convergence of all bio...ms to use. The DIVERSITAS conference represents a landmark event in policy-relevant science, showing how science is being harnessed to help develop conservatio...Carnegie Mellon study finds that facial expressions reveal how the body reacts to stress
...ntrol as well as optimistic perceptions of risk. A landmark study by Lerner found that Americans' initial emotional reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks predicted their risk perceptions two months later, those reacting with anger the most optimistic and the most likely to favor aggressive respons...International Council for Science launches International Polar Year 2007-8, an historical endeavour
...es developed during World War II and prompted such landmark achievements as the discovery of the Van Allen Radiation Belts encircling the world, the first estimates of the size of the Antarctica's ice mass and confirmed the theory of continental drift. ICSU scientists view IPY 2007-2008 as an opportunity to e...AAAS science literacy project 20th anniversary, Oct. 17-19
...what it means to be science literate." In its 1989 landmark publication, Science for All Americans, Project 2061 set out recommendations for what all students should know and be able to do in science, mathematics, and technology by the time they graduate from high school. A 1993 follow-up publication, Benchma...'EMBO Gold' goes to leading diabetes and cancer researcher
...l. Alessi receives the award in recognition of his landmark work in cell signalling. The young scientist's pioneering research on enzymes called "kinases" and their role in inherited disease has provided exciting new insights into conditions such as diabetes, cancer and hypertension. The EMBO Gold Medal is pr...Columbia wins major grant to examine genetic link to Alzheimer's Disease
...cted by Alzheimer's Disease are participating in a landmark study led by Columbia University Medical Center to find a genetic link to the disease. That number will now double to 1,000 under a new $10 million five-year grant from National Institute on Aging. The researchers hope to find a way to predict who ...Research center for National Children's Study to be based in Queens
...ool of Medicine. "We are proud to be part of this landmark study which holds so much promise for the children of Queens and our nation." "Many of the diseases that the Children's Study will examine obesity, injury, asthma, schizophrenia, autism and childhood cancer have reached epidemic proportions, and co...Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease
...X) today announced positive interim results of its landmark gene therapy clinical trial for patients with Parkinson's disease. Neurologix's 12-patient, dose-escalating Phase I trial is the world's first study to use a viral vector (the non-pathogenic adeno-associated virus, or AAV) for the treatment of an ad...Research on salmonella in the poultry industry may result in safer food for consumers
...t the consumer eats." "This research will become a landmark study that will provide the basic understanding of the spread of salmonella," said John Glisson, head, population health. "This is an important indicator of the prominent role that UGA has taken in food safety research in this country." The problem i...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
... late as 2004. The new numbers are presented in a landmark digest report, "Chernobyl's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts," just released by the Chernobyl Forum. The digest, based on a three-volume, 600-page report and incorporating the work of hundreds of scientists, economists and hea...New genome comparison finds chimps, humans very similar at DNA level
...National Institutes of Health (NIH), describes its landmark analysis comparing the genome of the chimp (Pan troglodytes) with that of human (Homo sapiens). "The sequencing of the chimp genome is a historic achievement that is destined to lead to many more exciting discoveries with implications for human heal...Human Y chromosome stays intact while chimp Y loses genes
...ith which to swap genes. In 2003, Page published a landmark paper in Nature challenging that claim by demonstrating how a certain region of the Y chromosome possessed a unique mechanism for repairing mutated genes. Through sequencing the Y, the Page lab and collaborators at Washington University School of Me...Pall systems play key role in landmark NIH study on cord blood
...aving therapy. The newly published results of the landmark COBLT (Cord Blood Transplantation) Study advance s... "Congratulations to the COBLT researchers on this landmark study which brings valuable information to the transplant community, cord blood banking community an...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
...en found thriving in the extreme cold, thanks to a landmark voyage during the brief polar summer aboard an Ame..., relatively unstirred for thousands of years, the landmark Census of Antarctic Marine Life ( www.caml.aq ) will explore Earth's other ice ocean literally a po...Women's health study finds vitamin E does not protect women from heart attack, stroke, or cancer
...ute of the National Institutes of Health. "This landmark trial has given women and their physicians important health information. We can now say that despite their initial promise, vitamin E supplements do not prevent heart attack and stroke. Instead, women should focus on well proven means of heart dise...North & South American researchers find architectural abnormalities in T. cruzi ribosome
...ome from a bacterium. He reported on the work in a landmark paper in 2000 in the journal Science. Other groups solved the structure of the small subunit as well. To date, however, no atomic-resolution image of eukaryotic ribosomes exists, and all images produced so far have been the result of Frank's electro......s, as a single agent. 8 The announcement of these landmark survey results coincides with other important data presented at the WCBP, which address the clinical benefits that SEROQUEL offers bipolar disorder consumers. The preliminary data show that patients with bipolar depression taking SEROQUEL: Showed ...