Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...okine levels. Levels were highest when the subject presented at the emergency room, tapered down over the first few days, but remained elevated throughout the first week of hospitalization even after the clinical signs of infection had subsided. Levels were highest in those with fatal severe sepsis, lowest in...Risk of common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears higher for blacks
... University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study presented today at the 34th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Boston. When a pregnant woman has bacterial vaginosis, her risk of preterm birth goes up, said Hyagriv Simhan, M.D., M.S.C.R., assistant professor ...Female gender provides an advantage in renal diseases
...oad-based preliminary data from this 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 Pathophysiolo...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
... the Geological Society of America Bulletin, Payne presented evidence that a massive, rapid release of carbon may have triggered this extinction. "People point to the fossil record as a place where we can learn about how our actions today may affect the future course of evolution," Payne said. "That's certai...Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...r, ears, neck, shoulders or clothing visible, were presented side by side. The participants were asked to select which face they thought was more of a particular trait and how much more so by clicking on a point of the scale. Traits selected for judgement were dominance, ambition, wealth, faithfulness, commi...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...ibutions to science. The awards will officially be presented at the Experimental Biology 2008 meeting, April 5-...ton (University of California, San Diego) will be presented with the Avanti Award in Lipids. Newton has worked for over two decades on molecular aspects of lipi...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
... August 8, 2007, the new graphics research will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinerys SIGGRA.... Some of the inspiration for their model being presented at SIGGRAPH 2007 came from equations that physicists studying coated soot particles derived to deal ...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
...asked to categorize objects that were subsequently presented on a screen either as familiar or unfamiliar during the registration of their brain waves (EEG). Unfamiliar objects represented complex visual patterns, physically resembling the familiar ones in every possible way, except for familiarity. Familiar ...ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
...in association communication campaigns and will be presented at special ceremony during ASAEs annual meeting on August 11 in Chicago. MicrobeWorld Radio, which won the Podcast category, is a daily 90 second audio series designed to increase public understanding of the science of microbiology. Each episode in...Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported in Science
...ure from digs in remote areas across this arc were presented last month at a meeting in Ravenna, Italy of the International Association for the Study of Early Civilizations in the Middle Asian Intercultural Space. The meeting was the first time that many archaeologists from more than a dozen countries gathered...Orangutans' communication resembles a game of 'charades'
...ted to chimpanzeesErica Cartmill and Richard Byrne presented six captive orangutans with situations in which one tempting and one not-so-tempting food item had to be reached with human help. But to test the orangutans strategy, the researchers provided a catch. Rather than play along all the time, the experi...ESA announces 2007 award recipients
...inners for ecological achievement. Awards will be presented during a ceremony at the ESA-Society for Ecologica... given to a student for the outstanding oral paper presented at the ESA Annual Meeting. The 2006 recipient is Carolyn Kurle (University of California, Santa Cruz...2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...me 6. The 2007 Awardees will receive a diploma, presented by the Nobel-laureate Dr Tim Hunt, at a special ceremony being organised in Helsinki, Finland. Press invitations and more detailed information about the awards will be circulated in due time. ...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
...ests that these men prefer very young girls, often presented as virgins, due to fear of HIV and other infection, as well as to the widespread myth that sex with a virgin will cure such illnesses. As a result of client demand and of the relatively high profits earned from prostituting these very young girls, br...ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference
...ogether more than 1400 participants. ESA personnel presented Earth Explorer missions, particularly the upcoming...ogether more than 1400 participants. ESA personnel presented Earth Explorer missions, particularly the upcoming Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission aimed at...Jan Lwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
...MBO Gold Medal and an award of 10,000 euro will be presented to Jan on 27 October 2007 at the EMBO Members Meeting, Frontiers of Molecular Biology, in Barcelona, Spain. ...Wild weather forces farmers to adapt
...ournal. The results from the study were originally presented at the 2005 ASA-CSSA-SSSA annual meeting. Becau...for the USDA research effort. In the six papers presented by the USDA highlight: Crops and crop sequences that optimize precipitation-use efficiency ...Study finds contaminated water reaching Florida's offshore keys
... human health might be harmed. The findings were presented Tuesday at a meeting of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Water Quality Protection Program Steering Committee in Marathon, Fla. Lipp and doctoral student Carrie Futch, along with Dale Griffin of the U.S. Geological Survey in Tallahassee, s...1 in 4 NYC adults has elevated blood mercury levels
...ls from NYC-HANES Todays findings are the latest presented from New York Citys Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC-HANES), the first such survey ever conducted by a U.S. city. Its possible that other cities have similarly high levels, or higher ones, but havent yet documented them. Because mercury i......ling new biological research. The RoboSwift team presented the design on the yearly Design Synthesis symposium at TU Delft. The team will build the high-tech micro airplane in the following months; it is expected to fly in January 2008. The student team will build three RoboSwifts to participate in March 200...