Don't stand so close to me: A new view on how species coexist
...t age. Trade offs in life histories are thought to prevent Darwinian demons from evolving. Rather, similar species are allowed to coexist....32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...eriophages and phage-produced enzymes to treat and prevent major bacterial diseases that threaten commercial aquaculture. Language Weaver, Inc. (Marina del Ray, Calif.) Syntax- and Rule-Based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation SystemsDevelop an integrated, statistical phrase-based and syntac...How roots control plant shoots
... gene and then demonstrated that it is required to prevent a plant from constantly producing the carotenoid byproduct that turns off leaf growth. First, they grew thale cress plants with the mutant form of BPS1 known as bps1. Normal seedlings produce an increasing number of flat, broad, round leaves as th...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
...g candidates cannot be tested for their ability to prevent or treat smallpox in humans. Thus, licensing of future medical countermeasures for smallpox will depend upon animal studies. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established an animal efficacy rule to facilitate the approval of vaccines a...University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
...ity research is employed to understand how best to prevent impairment, minimise disability, maximise function and improve the quality of life for affected children." Keynote lectures will include: cell mechanisms of language and learning; genetics, understanding and communication; motor disorders; optimising...Brain circuit may permit scientists to eavesdrop on memory formation
..., lesions of the hippocampus prior to training can prevent the formation of some kinds of short-term memory. Second, if one delays the hippocampal lesion to days after training, one can observe that as the delay increases, the memory deficit decreases. These data suggest that the importance of the neocortex ...Viruses found in untreated city water
...ts and pumping schedules specific to each well and prevent viruses from entering the drinking water supply. "We know from our previous studies on groundwater flow in La Crosse that some city wells have high levels of Mississippi River infiltration, other wells have intermediate levels and the remaining wells......s to support humanitarian operations, to study and prevent environmental risks and to plan sustainable reconstruction and rehabilitation of areas affected by natural phenomena. The UNOSAT development group is hosted by CERN. Sharing is in the mandate and in the culture of CERN. Sharing knowledge is essential...ASPB opposes ban of GE crops in Butte County Ballot Measure D
...ping world. This enhanced Golden Rice promises to prevent millions of cases of blindness among children of poor nations and help avert many childhood deaths. The progress of science using modern technologies, such as biotechnology, is leading to genetically engineered foods that will be safer, more nutriti...New risks for bladder cancer identified by MIT team
...artment of Chemistry. "It's much more effective to prevent cancer rather than treat it." The team also identified six chemicals in the same chemical family that do not appear to be human carcinogens. Because they are chemically similar to their three noxious cousins, they could potentially lead to safer ...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...eveloped and advanced systematic ways to reduce or prevent the consequences of tobacco use and obesity and diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Through his leadership, CDC and public health have achieved for chronic disease prevention the kind of recognition and support that the previous cen...Sedentary overweight people get insulin boost from short term exercise; CVD risks trend down
...s, Braun noted, is "both in the use of exercise to prevent or delay the transition from insulin resistance (prediabetes) to overt type-2 diabetes, and in the optimal use of exercise to manage blood sugar in people who already have diabetes." Positive CVD trend in concurrent study Both th...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...losses, mitigate damage to natural ecosystems, and prevent contamination of food and water supplies. "The program will be designed around Regional IPM Centers of Excellence and cross-cutting global IPM themes, such as invasive species, insect-transmitted viruses, regional diagnostic laboratories, IPM informa...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...ulosis or malaria, or provide women a way they can prevent HIV-AIDS; where bad water is made safe again. This report is about the pathways to get there," says report co-author Peter Singer, MD, Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. The list of top 10 of biotechnologies for improv...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
.... "But after replication, CDT1 must be degraded to prevent re-replication before the cell finishes dividing. ...ll must find a way to very rapidly degrade CDT1 to prevent continued replication. And that job is carried out by the ubiquitin ligases." The new study for the ...Cooperation to create a new tuberculosis vaccine
...nts will take about 18 months. The objective is to prevent the disease in the lung (pulmonary TB). To prevent the outbreak of TB after an infection, a complex cellular immune response against the pathogen has t...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
...shaped like a giant, twisted doughnut -- will help prevent plasma disruption, sustain longer fusion reactions and confine the plasma more securely so that it does not lose particles and energy. NCSX is a PPPL-ORNL partnership. Construction for the experimental facility is scheduled to begin in October. First...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...y (megahertz) sound waves to remove impurities and prevent the formation of defects. Gary W. Ferrell of SEZ California Research Center, SEZ America, Inc. ( gferrell@us.sez.com ) will describe how multi-bubble sonoluminescence, which can occur as a byproduct of the megasonic cleaning process, yields light t...Gladstone researchers resolve key Huntington's disease mystery in Nature cover story
...iseases, help neurons cope with toxic proteins and prevent neurodegeneration. The approach developed by the Finkbeiner group -- combining the use of a robotic microscope with powerful techniques of statistical analysis -- could also be used in studies of other neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the ...Study using robotic microscope shows how mutant Huntington's protein affects neurons
...neurons from people with Huntington's disease (HD) prevent cell death. The finding helps to resolve a longstanding debate about the role of these inclusion bodies in HD and other disorders and may help investigators find effective treatments for these diseases. The study was funded primarily by the NIH's N...