Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
... leaders in 2000 for achievement by 2015. It then predicts the extent to which the new science will drive progress towards five of the eight globally agreed objectives: Promote gender equality and empower women; Reduce child mortality; Improve maternal health; Combat HIV, malaria and other diseases; and...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...e familiar flora and fauna in the wild. The theory predicts how the movement of individuals between different populations of a species influences evolutionary change in those populations, particularly with respect to coevolutionary interactions between species. This is an important issue in understanding the...Identifying genes that contribute to a low level of response to alcohol
...th data indicating that LR relates to risk status, predicts future alcoholism, and has a heritability as high as 60 percent. A review in the October issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research examines previous research, seeking to identify those genes that may contribute to a low LR to alcohol. ...NIH funds new bioinformatics resources at UT Southwestern
...and proteins that lead to disease. Dr. Scheuermann predicts that such a database will enhance the development of novel treatment strategies for diseases like autoimmunity. Researchers will be able to access the ImmPort database and other scientists' data and relate that work to their own. This will help them ...Predicting infection risk of mosquito-borne disease
...ematical model that Smith and colleagues developed predicts that human biting rate is highest shortly after mosquito population density peaks, typically either near breeding sites or where human density is highest. The proportion of infectious mosquitoes, on the other hand, reflects the age of the mosquito po...Grants target better predictors for type 1 diabetes
...steps to look for other markers." Dr. She predicts that the better treatment and potential cure that ideally result from the studies will be as multidimensional as Dr. Podolsky's model."I think there are going to be different interventions for different people," Dr. She says. "People do not develop d...New Royal Society journal studies
...e producer in social insects. Theory paradoxically predicts that workers prefer to produce sons in colonies headed by a once-mated queen. Using behavioural observation and genetic method, we evaluated the fate of eggs by workers in colonies of a paper wasp. Our results showed that the workers produced eggs ac...Community living causes bacteria to diversify
...dea is known as the 'insurance hypothesis', and it predicts that diversity will improve community functioning because the likelihood is increased that some subpopulation will thrive as environmental conditions change." The insurance hypothesis springs from observations in natural ecosystems. For example, for......is partial owner of a patent for a blood test that predicts susceptibility to diabetic vascular disease based on haptoglobin type. ...Studies in Royal Society journals include stress in birds and depletion of medieval fish stocks
...ded without negative effects? Evolutionary theory predicts that extending lifespan will lead to reduced fitness. However, some mutants of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans have a doubled lifespan without obvious side effects on development and fertility. We made such long-lived worms directly compete wit...Injectable gel could speed repair of torn cartilage
...f ligament repair surgery, he says. Burdick predicts that it might one day be possible to use the technique to repair worn cartilage covering the large surface area of joints, as occurs in arthritis. The same material, he says, also can be used as clay to custom-mold new cartilage outside the body for ...NASA finds trees and insect outbreaks affect carbon dioxide levels
...ists report a satellite-driven computer model that predicts forest re-growth conservatively projects that 0.3 billion metric tons of carbon could be 'stored' each year in trees growing on relatively low-production crop or rangeland areas in the United States. The second study involves large-scale disturbances...JCI table of contents, 3 January 2005
.../1/13 . Breast cancer's genetic signature predicts likelihood and location of spread Cancer metastas... Production of IgM antibodies predicts aggressive development of multiple sclerosis It has been postulated that the demyelinating disease ...Genetic polymorphisms, antidepressant use may be associated with altered tamoxifen activity
...tions about which SSRI to use and whether genotype predicts clinical response of tamoxifen must await results from definitive clinical trials," the authors write....Study finds more than one-third of human genome regulated by RNA
...d that even more genes are targeted by microRNAs," predicts Lewis. In addition, the team discovered some hints about how microRNAs find their targets. To produce a protein, the cell first makes a template for that protein by constructing a molecule called messenger RNA. MicroRNAs inhibit protein productio...How many comparative genomes are enough?
... nucleotide evolution patterns. It also accurately predicts results derived from existing genome comparisons. "No one had actually written out the case for why we are proposing to sequence the koala and the bat and the platypus," Eddy said. "This is one way of showing that, yes, you need a fair amount of sta.......jci.org/cgi/content/full/115/2/348 . Molecule predicts colon cancer patient survival TITLE: Transcriptional activation of integrin b6 during the epithelial-mesenchymal transition defines a novel prognostic indicator of aggressive colon carcinoma AUTHOR CONTACT: Richard C. Bates Department of Pathology,...The secret to longevity in tubeworms
...sulfide. Without this return of sulfate, the model predicts an average lifespan of only 39 years in a colony of 1,000 individuals; with it, survival increases to over 250 years, matching the longevity of actual living tubeworms. To date, the proposed return of sulfate to the sediments through the roots is o...Radio-tracking associated with 'dramatic shift' in water vole sex ratio
...f the local resource competition hypothesis, which predicts that mothers with access to poor resources will produce offspring of the sex most likely to disperse and therefore reduce local competition for resources. "Radio-collars clearly have the potential to cause some stress to water voles, and it is possib...Researchers develop mouse model for studying blinding diseases in humans
...rsity's Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. Zhang predicts human clinical trials for treatments of the disease could be available in the next three to four years. "By engineering how much of the gene mutation is expressed in the eyes of a mouse, we can create many different ways of the disease presentation a...