Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
... suffer a sudden tear in the lining of their bodys largest blood vessel, the aorta. Its often misdiagnosed, and it can kill if not treated immediately. Actor John Ritter died of such a tear in 2003. Better medical imaging and treatments such as medication, surgery and catheter-based procedures are now giv...Camera-shy deer caught for first time
...area forms most of the dam's watershed, and is the largest protected area in Laos or Vietnam. The camera traps were set and monitored by teams (including local villagers) trained by the Wildlife Conservation Society, which has been contracted by the WMPA to help establish a biodiversity monitoring program to...Breast cancer and hormone therapy -- A looking-glass mirror?
...mography screening program during that period. The largest group among HT users in most of the countries (excluding the USA) has always been women younger than 60 years. The Kaiser Permanente data show that, for women aged 4559, the 70% drop in HT use (defined as dispensation of at least one hormonal prescri...University of Leeds strengthens China links in membrane and neurobiology
The UKs largest academic group of membrane and neurobiologists is joining forces with leading scientists from the strongest research groups and institutions across China. This new initiative, between the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds an...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 18, 2007
... With more than 160,000 members, ACS is the worlds largest scientific society. Please cite the individual jou...n tire treads. Tires, however, remained one of the largest sources of zinc and an important source of cadmium. As Stockholm represents a rather average city in...N.C. A&T food scientist develops process for allergen-free peanuts
... and nutritionally important. Peanuts are the 12th largest crop in the United States, with a farm value of close to $1 billion a year. The Southeast is the main peanut producing region in the nation. Worldwide, the legume is even more important from an economic development standpoint. In developing nations, ...Identified main genetic variants involved in response to HIV
... This international collaboration has been the largest ever to have taken place in a large scale study on genetic differences between patients infected by HIV, and is the first study of this kind in the field of infectious disease. Catalan participants have been coordinated by Javier Martnez-Picado, ICRE...Elsevier partners with National Natural Science Foundation of China
...f Editor and Vice President of NSFC states: As the largest grant-giving institution of Chinese science, it is important for NSFC to have a voice in the world, in order to showcase the achievements of the researchers that we fund. We are happy to have found in Elsevier an international partner that is willing...Gene identified for Crohn's disease in children
...summer of 2006, the center is taking on one of the largest genotyping projects in the world, and is the largest one dedicated to genetic analysis of childhood diseases. This study is among the first that our ce...UK scientists lift lid on genetics of coronary artery disease
...coronary artery disease. Heart disease is the UK's largest killer, accounting for 105,000 deaths annually. ...ellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), the largest ever study of the genetics of common disease. The findings were then compared with the German MI Fam...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
... With more than 160,000 members, ACS is the worlds largest scientific society. Please cite the individual journal, or the American Chemical Society, as the source of this information. ACS NEWS SERVICE July 11, 2007 Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M....What determines the speed at which birds fly?
... range of flyers, from the smallest insects to the largest aircraft. In a paper published this week in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Thomas Alerstam, Mikael Rosen, and colleagues from the University of Lund in Sweden analyze the flight speeds of 138 bird species and overturn the general assumption th...New ACS podcast debuts with science news for broad general audience
... magazine. Those journals, published by the worlds largest scientific society, contain about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nutrition, energy, the environment and other fields that span sciences horizons from astronom...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...ck to 1966 when he visited Lake Baikal, the worlds largest lake (in volume), as part of a cultural exchange program. But it was an appeal from a Buddhist lama in Buryatia, an autonomous Russian republic next to Mongolia, that prompted Goulden to return to the sparsely populated, former Soviet-aligned country...Gene discovered for type 1 diabetes in children
...summer of 2006, the center is taking on one of the largest genotyping projects in the world, and is the largest one dedicated to genetic analysis of childhood diseases. This study is the first one that our cent...Kaposi sarcoma arises independently from multiple cells
...itut Pasteur in Paris and colleagues performed the largest study to date on the origins of advanced Kaposi sarcoma. Biopsies from 98 Kaposi sarcoma patients were analyzed using molecular diagnostic techniques to compare the viral DNA of the tumors, which often contain human herpesvirus 8. The researchers f......ake Proposal Homestake was the site of the single largest gold deposit ever found in the Western Hemisphere. Mining operations, which began in 1876 and continued until 2001, yielded 40 million ounces of gold. In 1965, nuclear physicist Raymond Davis, of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), set up the world...Biocontrol of invasive water hyacinth contributes to socioeconomic and health improvements in Africa
...ered by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya, is the second largest freshwater lake in the world in surface area. It is located in the same region as Africas Great Rift Valley System, an area of tectonic rifting and ancient volcanic activity, which is considered to be the cradle of human evolution. The lake itself ...Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers
... Martinez is currently sifting through what is the largest and best record of the states southern most bat population from the late Pleistocene Epoch (beginning two million years ago and ending approximately 10,000 years ago). The fossil deposits were uncovered by mining operations at Mt Etna, near Rockhampt......orldwide, from Germany to Japan. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed, general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million. And it continues to publish premier scientific research. Science's rigorous peer-review process defines the journal as a...