American Society for Microbiology to host 105th General Meeting in Atlanta
...2:00 noon on Sunday, June 5. Programs, abstracts, news releases and information about daily press conferences will be available. All media representatives must be registered to attend sessions; registration is limited to a maximum of three individuals from a single outlet. Please note that videotaping ...Fish oil holds promise in Alzheimer's fight
...h, based on scores of previous studies. "The good news from this study is that we can buy the therapy at a supermarket or drug store," said Cole. "DHA has a tremendous safety profile--essentially no side effects--and clinical trial evidence supports giving DHA supplements to people at risk for cardiovasc...BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route
...ult: ovarian cancer. This finding is actually good news for scientists and physicians trying to figure out new ways to treat ovarian cancer. If the cancer had arisen in the same cells that had the BRCA1 mutation, the only way to interfere would be to correct the mutation. In this case, however, there's a ...Europe faces brain drain and declining patient care unless cancer research funding is doubled
...h Managers Forum that conducted the survey, told a news conference at the Royal College of Surgeons in Lon... and the Netherlands. The independent chair of the news conference, Professor Gordon McVie, senior consultant to the European Institute of Oncology in Milan...Gladstone building honored with San Francisco Business Times award
... of local business activities, including financial news and real estate and construction acquisitions, along with national and international trade and marketing information....Inexpensive treatment stops multi-drug resistant TB in its tracks
...ol drug-resistant tuberculosis is some of the best news in recent years for the field of TB control," she added. "It is also an urgent call for the world to do more with the cost-effective interventions already at our disposal." Fewer people may catch the drug-resistant form of the deadly infectious dise...Legendary Siberian tiger, Olga, killed by poachers
.... Locally, she was also a type of celebrity, with news of her activities often appearing in the local newspaper of Terney, and talk of her whereabouts and activities a popular topic of conversation, especially among those who lived and worked in the forests where she lived. A survey to assess numbers of ...Positive air pressure chamber started with patients quickly after surgery
... Orthopaedic Surgery lab, he feels as if he's in a news reel of astronauts walking on the moon, feet barely touching the ground, freed of gravitational pull. The Orthopaedics Surgery resident weighs 240 pounds, but the scale on the treadmill only senses 40 of them, thanks to the buoyancy created by the c...National Academies advisory: April 6 conference call on spent nuclear fuel storage
...eport will be released during a one-hour telephone news conference. The study was congressionally mandated and sponsored by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Homeland Security. A classified version of this report was delivered in July 2004 to these agencies and to the congressional...Research shows smoking adds a decade to reproductive age of IVF patients
...rsity Nijmegen Medical Centre, said: "The positive news from our results, however, is that they suggest that couples in particular, women with unexplained subfertility may be able to improve the success of IVF treatment by quitting smoking and losing weight." The research was a collaboration by doctors...Talking robots, green buildings, and shockwave healing
...TS Full abstracts of the papers mentioned in this news release can be viewed at the Meeting Abstracts Database ( http://asa.aip.org/asasearch.html ) by typing in the last name of the author or the appropriate paper code. Entire sessions can be viewed by simply typing in the session code followed by a sta...Winners of AIBS Media Awards announced
...ur years as science editor for NPR's environmental news show, Living On Earth. Toomey is now working on a...nian Magazine. She previously worked for Science's news department, where she wrote about neuroscience research and edited life sciences stories. She starte...Next-era targeted therapy overcoming Gleevec's shortcomings
...e results were equally impressive. "This is great news for patients. We believe that having several safe and effective drugs available is the key to controlling acquired drug resistance in CML." AMN107 Rescues Gleevec-Resistant Patients in Clinical Trial Conducted by Researchers at UT M. D. Anderson: Ab...Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
Click here to view a video news release . BRINKLEY, Ark. - Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird - the ivory-billed woodpecker - has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas. More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the species in the United ...Project shows need for better monitoring of river restoration
...o determine their ecological success. But the good news is that a variety of solutions exist to vastly inc...t's tough to rate the ecological success, the good news is that there are many ways to improve the way project managers carry out and evaluate ecological re...Science, AAAS select two for new minority internship
...Ornelas will help reporters gather information for news stories; attend scientific meetings, congressional...the journal or for Science Now , the daily online news service of Science . The internship is part of a wider effort by AAAS and the general scientific c...Ocean climate predicts elk population in Canadian Rockies
...nd snowier conditions than usual. More snow is bad news for elk, which have heavy bodies and long, narrow legs and small hooves. The deeper the snow, the further they sink. Conversely, wolves have relatively light, sleek bodies and big, wide paws that act like snowshoes. In the Canadian Rockies, wolves re......ly from the physician-researchers who are diabetes news makers helping to reshape the understanding of Type 2 diabetes. Leading endocrinologists will explain the latest research in the emerging field of incretin hormones and their potential role in diabetes treatment. New therapies currently under investi...Man, chimp difference may have made us prone to cancer
...owing sites provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or availability. PloS Biology: http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html Rasmus Nielsen's homepage: http://ww...Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought
...parisons revealed inconsistencies." "This is good news for many people," said Forrest Spencer, Ph.D., associate professor at Johns Hopkins' McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. "Given appropriate and careful analysis, it should be possible to compare historical data to future experiments, eve...