ASPB opposes ban of GE crops in Butte County Ballot Measure D
...gh genetic engineering. A review of the scientific literature shows that genetically engineered foods are as safe as foods that are not genetically engineered. For example, the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies published a study this year which found no unique risk f...Defense provides additional $4.9 million for pathogen research tool
...s, analysis of genomic, transcriptomic and curated literature data, as well as the discovery of novel inter-data relationships. The client side of PathPort is ToolBus, a "bus" for connecting data and tools and viewing results through a single, consistent user interface. Sobral's cyberinfrastructure group is wor...Using fruitflies to examine alcohol tolerance
...d Crabbe. "This is interesting because the rodent literature suggests that rapid and chronic tolerance appear likely to represent early and later versions of the same set of brain adaptations to alcohol. The second finding of interest concerns mutant flies with a defective ability to produce octopamine. By ...Identifying genes that contribute to a low level of response to alcohol
...ause we have spent hundreds of hours reviewing the literature to try to find genes that might be contributing to the low response to alcohol in organisms, including humans." "We are at the very beginning of 'gene finding' for alcohol response," said Goldman, "when it is important to understand the potential s...ASPB opposes proposed ban of GMOs in Humboldt county ballot measure M
...rceable. A review of the scientific literature shows that genetically engineered foods are safe to eat. For example, the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies published a study this year which states that "To date, no adverse health effects attributed to g...Expert panel offers prelimary report on health effects of assisted reproductive technologies
...tematic review of studies published in the medical literature that reported on malformations and genetic anomalies, cancer, psychosocial and developmental outcomes, and health outcomes beyond one year. In addition, for neonatal outcomes, including premature birth, low birth weight and perinatal mortality, the ...Passage of GMO ban in San Luis Obispo would encourage use of harsh pesticides
...y. A review of the scientific literature shows that genetically engineered foods are safe to eat. For example, the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies published a study this year which states that "To date, no adverse health effects attributed to g...Passage of Marin County GMO ban would encourage widespread use of harsh pesticides
... agricultural research. A review of the scientific literature shows that genetically engineered foods are safe to eat. For example, the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies published a study this year which states that "To date, no adverse health effects attributed to g...Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
...Quantifying collection biases in bulk, museum, and literature based molluscan sample data," at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, in rooms 108/110/112 of the Colorado Convention Center. Co-authors are Michal Kowalewski, professor of geosciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, and museum curator Lauck War...World's largest population study on BRCA1/2
...dence in the general Swedish population. They used literature data to estimate the proportion of familial cancers unrelated to BRCA1/2 mutations. Dr. Lorenzo Bermejo, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, said: "The...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...lms are shielded from host defensemechanisms. "The literature indicates that 500 to 5,000 times higher levels ofantibiotics are needed to achieve the same antimicrobial effects onbiofilm organisms as on planktonic microorganisms," say the researchers. In the study researchers examined whether or not electric cu...A new species of amyloid peptide
...t in Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Xu explains that the literature indicates amyloid β-peptide itself could be toxic to synapses and the accumulation of amyloid β-peptide could initiate a series of events contributing to cell death, including activation of cell death programs, oxidation of lipids and disru...The logic of life brings order to our genes
...Peterson and his collaborators have primarily used literature knowledge from the foremost guinea pig of genetics: the fruit fly. More is known about the details of the genetic network here than in humans. "In the fruit fly one can find almost 200 rules that are canalyzing, and this property is most likely gener...Read your shampoo's label: Study finds common ingredient stunts developing neurons of rats
...ard of the chemical was when its name came up in a literature search for compounds with specific chemical properties that he thought would incite a particular cell death pathway he recently had identified. As it turned out, MIT activated a different, novel pathway, but Dr. Aizenman remained intrigued, in large ...New drug sidesteps Gleevec resistance in human trials
...pment of BMS-354825 is deeply rooted in scientific literature spanning several different fields, including molecular oncology and structural biology. In September 2000, HHMI investigator John Kuriyan , a structural biologist then at The Rockefeller University, who had studied the regulation of Abl kinases for ...Animal experiments more stressful than previously recognized
...ce, based on an extensive review of the scientific literature by ethologist Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). For example, a mouse who is picked up and briefly held experiences several physiological reactions. As stress-response hormones flood the bloodstream, th...AGI publishes 10th edition of GeoRef Thesaurus
...f Thesaurus to obtain the most useful and accurate literature searches of the GeoRef database. It is a guide to the index terms used by GeoRef, which contains over 2.6 million bibliographic citations and abstracts covering all of the geoscience disciplines and allied environmental sciences. For each term, the T...Novel approach yields predictions validated by experiments
... "We amassed an incredible amount of data from the literature and the lab on this particular metabolic pathway and integrated it all into one functioning entity -- the mathematical model," Voit explained. "This model now allows us to test 'what-if' scenarios and make predictions on experiments that have not be...Reviewing scientists say proposed conservation measures unlikely to help whales
...to capture by whalers. "There is a growing body of literature on marine reserves and empirical evidence about the effects of reserves from around the world. There is a general consensus among scientists that these are a really useful approach to conserve endangered species and to recover over-exploited populat...Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks
...cal, is committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource. "By injecting the luc gene that makes fireflies glow into our zebrafish, our bottom-line finding goes back to nature versus nurture," Cahill said. "We found that these per3-luc zebrafish contain something in their genetic makeu...