Report proposes structure for national network of cord blood stem cell banks
...nization, universal quality standards, and uniform matching mechanisms makes it more difficult than it has to be for physicians to provide patients with suitable cells in a timely way," said Kristine Gebbie, associate professor of nursing and director of the Center for Health Policy and Doctoral Studies Colum...Hawaiian soils reveal clues to cultural history
...hat had enough rain, a 'sweet spot' with a perfect matching of natural processes to human need," said Chadwick. One question of interest is whether or not the Hawiians used this land sustainably, or if they depeleted the nutrients over time. To try to find out, the researchers sampled the open field as well...Royal Society study on adaptability of fish to warming oceans
...ements. This suggests that monkeys might recognise matching motor movements, but they do not understand the intentional aspects of the imitator's behaviour. Contact: Dr Annika Paukner, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, STIRLING, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom Selective foraging of fungi by col...Rutgers' Tabasco Sauce connection
...products. With $1.4 million from the NIH grant and matching funds from Rutgers, research will be conducted in the laboratory of Ilya Raskin at the Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment on Rutgers' Cook College campus. "We will grow most of the plants and use biochemistry to isolate the bio...Killer dinosaurs turned vegetarian
...el to the Utah Geological Survey, which provided a matching $100,000. A Place to Eat and a Place to Die Falcarius means sickle-maker, so named because later plant-eating therizinosaurs had 3-foot-long, sickle-like claws. The species name, utahensis, comes from the fact the new species was discovered in eas...PNAS highlights for the week of May 9 - 13
...thematical model that accounts for difficulties in matching poor-quality images. The authors' model suggests t...ng policies, the probability of the current system matching an illegal visitor's poor-quality prints to the correct database prints is 52.6%. If the requirement...Double triumph in stem cell quest
...n inherited immune condition. The work proves that matching ESCs can be derived via therapeutic cloning from d...and up, there might be a much easier way to create matching ESCs. His method starts with an existing human ESC line. The nuclei containing the DNA of the ESCs a...Grasping metaphors: UC San Diego research ties brain area to figures of speech
...might get robbed. The patients were equally bad at matching a bulbous, amoeboid shape to the sound "booba" and a jagged shape to "kiki." Whereas more than 90 percent of ordinary respondents succeed at this task of translating one sort of sensory information into another patients with damage to the angular g...First frozen egg baby born in Canada
...women. Finally, current egg donor programs require matching the menstrual cycle of egg recipients; this problem can be eliminated with egg freezing....Genetic variation alters response to common anti-clotting drug
...rn up the gene or turn it down," said Rieder. By matching the genetic variations to actual warfarin doses, the scientists discovered that people with a particular variation of the VKORC1 gene generally took similar doses of warfarin. The genetic variations divided patients into three main groups: low, hig...Hurricane hazard briefing on Capitol Hill
...tlantic hurricanes this year, with as many as five matching Ivan's destructive force. An unprecedented four hurricanes struck Florida in rapid succession during the fall of 2004. Since 1900, tropical storms making landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast have caused more than $100 billion in damages (adjusted to 2004 ...Deep thinking: Scientists sequence a cold-loving marine microbe
... similar proteins among the diverse bacteria. Like matching up blueprints, this strategy allowed the team to spot any striking distinctions in C. psychrerythraea's amino acid composition, highlighting differences unique to the cold-loving organism. Together, these analyses offer a picture of evolution in acti...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
...th coincides with announcement of seed funds for a matching effort in the Antarctic. The 30-day "Hidden Ocean" expedition ( http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov ), funded and coordinated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, an agency of the US Department of Commerce) sailed aboard th...Pall systems play key role in landmark NIH study on cord blood
...50,000 cord blood units, and an efficient means of matching cord blood stems cells with patients of all ethnic backgrounds who require a transplant. Pall's cord blood sets for collection, processing and cryopreservation are used by the New York Blood Center's (NYBC) National Cord Blood Program, the world's ol...Virginia Tech experts available to speak on the possible discovery of Asian Soybean Rust spores
...was identified by morphological characteristics as matching the description of the fungus. "The spores in question appear to resemble the causal agent of Asian Soybean Rust, Phakopsora pachyrhizi, said Erik Stromberg, interim head of the Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science in Virginia T...Human Y chromosome preserves itself better than the chimp Y
...tosomal chromosomes, the swapping of genes between matching pairs from parents is considered important to maintain the health of the genome. This process gets rid of mutant genes and provides new gene combinations to improve the overall genetic "vigor" of the species. The Y chromosome genes the researchers st...UQ researchers honoured for research excellence
... sums in key projects and had been able to attract matching financial support from government and external donors. This approach has been extremely fruitful, particularly in projects related to bioscience, nanotechnology and neuroscience. Funding for the winning researchers was provided by the UQ Foundation...NHGRI's large-scale sequencing research network sets its sights on disease targets
...-linked disorders. The human genome consists of 22 matching pairs of chromosome, referred to as autosomal chromosomes, plus a non-matching pair referred to as the sex chromosomes. The sex chromosomes, which are called X and Y, determine whether a person is female (XX) or male (XY). Any defects in genes on the...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
...e size of farms and appear to have more to do with matching government monitoring resources than with effective agri-environmental management," says the AIC paper. "Regulations need to be adjusted to reflect the particular situation of individual farms and support variable applicability (on a farm-by-farm ba......rson received either 0.5 or 3.0 mg of melatonin or matching placebo. The study ended with a final phase assessment on day 14. The researchers found that those given melatonin experienced significantly larger phase advances -- the 0.5 mg group at 2.5 hours and the 3.0 mg group at 2.6 hours versus the placebo g...