Carnegie Mellon's Peter Adams receives EPA research grant
...ric Particle Studies (CAPS). Particulate matter poses a serious health problem. Fifty thousand Americans are thought to die prematurely each year due to particle exposure and almost 70 million Americans live in areas that violate the federal standard. That standard was strengthened in September after sc...UF to lead research on life-threatening fungus
...bling blue cheese: Aspergillus, which increasingly poses a major health threat to cancer patients andtransplant recipients. The National Institutes of Health has awarded $9 million over the nextseven years to the effort. UF researchers are collaborating withcolleagues at Duke University, Brigham and Wome...Expert to provide update after 'worst tomato virus' hits California
...at as 100 percent have been reported. This disease poses a significant threat as California is one of the main producers of processing and fresh tomatoes in the United States. The telltale sign of TYLCV is the yellowing and upward curling of the leaves. As the virus progresses, the plant becomes stunted...Fruit fly research may 'clean up' conventional impressions of biology
...ological systems. In the second paper, the group poses a new question, never before asked by scientists studying embryos: How precisely can cells in the embryo read the blueprint" So precisely, the paper suggests, that a precious few molecules signaling a change can make a decisive difference. "I th...Aphids make 'chemical weapons' to fight off killer ladybirds
...th a powerful means of dispelling a predator which poses a risk to the entire colony. Unfortunately the nature of the mechanism with the chemical stored in the insects blood and the catalyst stored in its muscles means that in most cases the individual aphid responsible for seeing-off the ladybird predat...Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
...gs of passing insects. This simple social system poses an evolutionary conundrum for biologists; the members of the stalk give themselves up altruistically to support the colony, so what's to keep more selfish strains of D. discoideum from cheating the system, avoiding the stalk and out-reproducing their...The Cancer Genome Atlas awards funds for technology development
...vent, the earliest development of cancer. Cancer poses a very complex challenge. Each of the dozens of types of cancer likely will have a different genomic profile or set of profiles. We urgently need tools equal to this task, said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., whose institute led the N...New findings challenge established views on human genome
...ture paper, noting the network model of the genome poses some interesting mechanistic questions that have yet to be answered. Other surprises in the ENCODE data have major implications for our understanding of the evolution of genomes, particularly mammalian genomes. Until recently, researchers had thou...Nitrate in Lake Superior: On the rise
...h nitrate can reduce blood levels of oxygen, which poses a risk to infants and children or adults with lung or cardiovascular disease. Consuming excess nitrate over long periods of time is also suspected of causing cancer. A compound made from nitrogen and oxygen, nitrate is a component of agricultural f...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 30, 2007
...ions between nanowires and human cells The BBB poses daunting challenges to developing new brain medica...FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, June 4, 2007 The BBB poses daunting challenges to developing new brain medications Chemical & Engineering News When conside...Cornell lab confirms deadly fish virus spreading to new species
...in fish, has now been identified in 19 species and poses a potential threat to New Yorks $1.2 billion sport... related to the European or Japanese genotypes and poses no health threat to humans, said Bowser. However, as a general rule, people should avoid eating any ...Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems
...es economic zones or in international waters. This poses additional problems, because while a state has the right to exploit its own resources, international environmental law decrees that it cannot damage the environment beyond its boundaries. While studies of proposed undersea manganese mining in the e...Soy estrogens and breast cancer: Researcher offers overview
... is not as potent as HRT, Helferich said, it still poses a risk to midlife women because the amount consumed is much higher. The labels of many products that contain this and other isoflavones lack vital information about what is actually in their products, he said, and because these are natural products, ...MU researchers examine the environmental effects of silver nanoparticles
...souri-Columbia will examine whether the technology poses future problems for the environment. "Silver nanoparticles are emerging as one of the fastest growing nanomaterials with wide applications," said Zhiqiang Hu, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering...Creation of an international industrial chair in life cycle assessment
...net. "We understand that environmental degradation poses short-term and long-term threats to human health. Therefore, we feel a special responsibility to protect the environment by setting goals and implementing practices that help us to be among the most environmentally responsible companies in world", as...Lower IQ found in children of women who took epilepsy drug
...ent with other studies, which have shown valproate poses an increased risk for fetal death and birth defects, and have suggested the drug may harm cognitive development." The study also found children's IQ was related to their mother's IQ for every epilepsy drug except valproate. Meador is recommending...Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds
...'But our results show that a high blend of ethanol poses an equal or greater risk to public health than gasoline, which already causes significant health damage.'' Gasoline vs. ethanol For the study, Jacobson used a sophisticated computer model to simulate air quality in the year 2020, when ethanol-f...Gene that governs toxin production in deadly mold found
... by disease or treatment, the opportunistic fungus poses a serious risk. Now, however, scientists may have found a master switch, an ber gene, that seems to control the mold's ability to make poison. The new finding was reported today (April 12) in the journal Public Library of Science Pathogens by a tea...Anti-wrinkle compound causes pathological reaction in skin cells
...in serious research to determine whether or not it poses a health risk." DMAE is not a unique case in the world of beauty products, continues the researcher. "Several compounds found in cosmetics are just as complex as medicationthey are absorbed through the skin, flow through the bloodstream, are expell...Veterinary scientists explore poultry virus as cancer killer
...biah, the use of poultry viruses as cancer therapy poses no threat to humans and several other oncolytic viruses are currently being explored to treat cancer. However, Subbiahs work is the first to alter Newcastle disease virus through a reverse genetic system to target prostate cancer specifically. Rev...