European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...p://www.esf.org/activities/forward-looks.html for more information on the Forward Look scheme) Future ... recognised the scientific community should play a more active role. In accordance with this approach a new set of selection procedures for Forward Look top...New test improves detection of liver cancer
...The new test succeeds in detecting liver cancer in more than half of the patients with cirrhosis of the liver for which the AFP test provides no answer. This test would allow frequent and non-invasive analyses to be carried out on cirrhosis patients, which would enable scientists to detect liver cancer in...Brain blood flow gives clues to treating depression
...ession and its treatment, said Bonne. There may be more than one mechanism responsible for the development of depression and for mediating response to its treatment, he added. Additional research could examine whether its possible to use functional imaging techniques to determine which patients would bene...Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
...ayer of soil using a method called disking, is far more sustainable, he said. "Soil loss through conven...ation," he said. Montgomery looked at data from more than 1,650 measurements published in more than 200 studies examining various aspects of farming prac......avior. Such may be the case with an ape that lived more than nine million years ago. A study published in the latest journal issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences reports on the structure of the hand of Hispanopithecus, a critically important fossil from an ape that lived dur...Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
... rainforests are not the same. Biodiversity may be more evenly distributed in some forests than in others ...ites separated by as much as 500 kilometers shared more than half of their species. For fruit flies, the species makeup remained virtually constant for dist...Acute sleep deprivation leads to changes in nighttime urine production for men and women
...ack of sleep leads to increased urinary output and more salt in urine. The findings were found to be more prevalent in males than females. The Study The study team is comprised of Birgitte Mahler, Kos...Carnegie Mellon's Peter Adams receives EPA research grant
..., and improve our understanding of the potentially more harmful particulate matter from sources such as ca...rse. This means we need to cut pollution emissions more than if there were no climate change. In our future research, we will see if the same is true for pa...Study finds gender differences in renal and other genes contributing to blood pressure
...ibuting to Blood Pressure." The research is one of more than 100 presentations being offered at the confer... blood pressure against blood pressure measured in more than 53,000 people during routine health exams in a major health maintenance program in Southern Cal...Cardio exercise benefits in male vs. female hearts
... study finds that exercise appears to help females more than males. The findings bring us a step closer to explaining the sex bias in physical activity that protects the heart....Study suggests estrogen deficiency can lead to obesity-induced high blood pressure after menopause
...ve. With increased life expectancy, women spend more than a third of their life in menopause. In addition, obesity is increasing dramatically in all populations and is a major cardiovascular risk factor in women after menopause. Despite the controversial data about estrogen therapy in clinical studies,...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
... elephants prefer lowland forests because there is more food of better quality on fertile lowland soils. ...ata gathered so far reveals there are probably not more than 1,000 pygmy elephants left in Sabah less than the 1,600 or so estimated previously. And, one...Edible fish feasts beats malaria
...l BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish more commonly served up to Kenyan diners, is a valuable weapon against malaria mosquitoes. Annabel Howard and Francois Omlin from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi, Kenya, introduced Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus...Testosterone replacement therapy: How safe for aging men?
...re levels. Testosterone supplemented SHR excreted more urinary protein than intact rats, and castration reduced proteinuria (urinary protein). The results suggest that testosterone supplementation of aging male SHR promotes renal injury and thereby exacerbates hypertension. The results also show tha...Female gender provides an advantage in renal diseases
...is study will be presented at the APS meeting, but more specific data will be held until the study results are published. Presentation in Austin, TX Dr. Silbiger is discussing her work at the conference, Sex and Gender in Cardiovascular-Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology, being held August 9-12, 2...Sugar and spice and everything nice: Health differences in newborn girls and boys
...in the heart may help explain why infant girls are more likely to die following heart surgery. The other s...fferences. In this study they considered whether a more rapid development of tissue acidity (acidosis) in the heart during a lack of blood flow (ischemia) m...Research aims to identify markers for menopausal women at risk for deadly blood clot
... of hormones whether platelet microvesicles occur more frequently as a result, if a change is triggered by infection, and what may account for thrombotic risk in one woman over another. The study design takes into account the researchers belief that three forces an injury, a platelet effect at the in...The 'female advantage' in kidney disease does not extend to diabetic women
...n effort to understand why women with diabetes are more likely to get kidney disease than their non-diabet...sence of the hormone testosterone contributes to a more rapid progression of kidney disease when diabetes is present. More severe renal damage can be found ...Grapes, soy and kudzu blunt some menopausal side effects
...ually enhanced by grape polyphenols. However, a more formal test of this hypothesis, using other indices of these forms of memory, is needed before the effect can be fully interpreted. The researchers also tested the hypothesis that grape seed polyphenols reduced salt-sensitive hypertension in young,...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
...centuries." Coral reefs Payne plans to learn more about the causes and consequences of this massive extinction event this summer. Three students left Aug. 1 to join him in southern China for four weeks of field studies. If volcanic activity released sufficient quantities of carbon into the air wit...