UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
...France drug violations and with the 2008 Olympics looming the need to stay ahead of the game has never been more evident. Thats why the Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA, charged with monitoring the conduct of athletes, is working with investigators around the globe to develop a test that wo...Turning the tables in chemistry
... prescribes a series of strategies to help avert a looming national crisis. Epstein says the continued success of U.S. science is seriously threatened by the fact that increasing numbers of undergraduates, particularly the disadvantaged, are writing off a career in science. Why? Many students find introdu...Study warns climate change and deforestation will lead to declines in global bird diversity
...ecessary research and development to deal with the looming biodiversity crisis, and its multi-fold effects on human well-being, remains at abysmal levels. Drastically increased support for field surveys and impartial biodiversity research is needed to avoid future generations rightfully asking uneasy questio...Getting to the core of an emergent public health threat
...will apply to a variety of diseases, including the looming specter of pandemic flu. Hogue and her Biodesign Institute colleagues have produced several insights into coronavirus biology that may also help pinpoint future weaknesses in the viral armament. In a recent paper published in the Journal of Virolo...Genome-wide search unearths surprising clues for diabetes and triglycerides
...e 2 diabetes and cardiac risk factors constitute a looming threat to human health, particularly in industrialized nations. Solutions to this burgeoning problem must include new, more effective treatments and the ability to identify "at risk" individuals each of which requires innovative directions for futur...Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck
...ults on the cover. A convergence of factors from looming global warming to unstable international oil supplies is driving a surge in renewable biofuels such as ethanol, with worldwide ethanol production more than doubling between 2000 and 2005. To date, corn has been the favorite ethanol source. While good...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March. 14, 2007
...and Food Chemistry With critical water shortages looming in some parts of the world, scientists in Italy are reporting that diluted seawater can be used to grow tomatoes and actually results in fruit with significantly higher levels of healthful antioxidant compounds. The controlled use of alternative wa...Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas
...ically less resilient to illegal hunting and other looming threats. Just as troubling are recent studies showing that the Ebola infection wave is spreading rapidly towards several of the remaining large protected areas in the region. Results from the new study suggest that protecting these remaining ape po...Stormy days ahead for coral reefs
...ess of whether we think of more severe storms as a looming threat or just the ramping up of a natural cycle, one thing is certain," says Dr Connolly. "To predict how coral reefs will look under different future scenarios, and to plan accordingly, we needed to know exactly how wave forces impact who lives and...Your genes may hold key to how sick you get from the flu
...andemic in the rearview mirror and the avian flu a looming obstacle in the road ahead, researchers from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine are trying to understand why a flu virus kills some people but not others. With the help of some high tech equipment, well-defined mouse models and lots of...Report: Canada's Yellowstone too small for wildlife
... species will decline due to development pressures looming outside of the park. "Unfortunately, wildlife do not recognize park boundaries, and this is particularly true in the case of Nahanni National Park Reserve" said Weaver, who has studied North American wildlife for more than three decades. "If we do...Historic Colorado River streamflows reconstructed back to 1490
... provided by tree-ring reconstructions points to a looming conflict between water demand and supply in the upper Colorado River basin," the researchers wrote in their report. Woodhouse and Meko collaborated with Stephen T. Gray of the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson, Ariz., and Jeffrey Lukas of the Institut...Bird flu poses threat to international security, Illinois scholar says
...th infected birds. But, Palmore said, the greatest looming threat to international security is a scenario in which the virus mutates in an abrupt manner, resulting in human-to-human transmission. If that occurred, he said, the number of human deaths tallied would likely be "on a wider scale than any attack ...Moderate exercise may delay congestive heart failure, CU-Boulder study suggests
... heart disease, he said. "The biggest issue still looming out there is which molecular switches govern healthy growth of hearts at the cellular level," said Moore. "The question is whether there are therapeutic ways to positive, as opposed to pathological, growth of the heart." The study involved the work......e solution to the acknowledged problem of the UK's looming Energy Gap. The report, written by John Loughhead, (Executive Director, UK Energy Research Centre) is the result of a multidisciplinary consensus meeting between 150 scientific, technical, economic and sociological experts at Burlington House on Oct...Leptin: A 'missing link' between obesity and diabetes?
...ltimately help humankind's struggle to contain two looming health epidemics....Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases
...inction of species around the world is more than a looming environmental catastrophe, warns a Canadian zoologist. This ecological damage also endangers human health by turning parasites into "evolutionary land mines." Dr. Daniel (Dan) Brooks, a parasitologist at the University of Toronto, says the decline of......ividuality and identity that are stirred up by the looming possibility of cloning. It will be performed at 5 and 8 p.m. in the Squires Student Center Studio Theatre Oct. 27-29. "We are very fortunate to have an acclaimed play by a world-class playwright that is a perfect fit with the themes of the forum,...