The 'driving' force behind electric vehicles
...posed for failing to meet targets. Subsidies were provided to encourage individuals to buy EVs. The diversity in the policies adopted reflect both practical and cultural differences between the USA and France. American cities are characterized by urban sprawl (which makes EVs difficult to use), the gasoli...Testosterone may help men with multiple sclerosis
...hl, which suggests the protection the testosterone provided may not be limited to MS, but may be applicable to other non-inflammatory neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinsons or Alzheimers disease. Four years ago Voskuhl conducted a pilot study in which 10 women with MS were given the female hormone e...Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem
...nd operated jointly by UNH and Cornell University, provided the ideal setting for such an experiment. While C. lingua infects approximately 10 percent of L. littorea living on the mainland, approximately half the snails on Appledore Island are infected. Thats because L. littorea is just one of three hosts in ...Childhood environment influences reproductive function
...Health information and body measurements were also provided by the subjects. Co-author Dr Gillian Bentley, UCL Department of Anthropology, who directed the project added: "The theory that early environmental factors may affect reproductive function has been suggested previously by anthropologists*, but thi...Joint research on poverty-related diseases
... joint research on infectious diseases. Funding is provided for projects that deal with infection-biological processes and for accompanying social scientific research into these frequently poverty-conditioned diseases. Among the objectives of the initiative are the long-term networking of German and African r...Climate policy: It's good to be in the 'RED'
...d continue to act as a "sink" by absorbing carbon, provided that emissions can be kept under control . The efficiency of the tropical forest as a carbon sink might in fact diminish over time, but the authors expect that it will not disappear completely. The political challenges to reducing deforestation in ...Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
...Jensen sincerely believed that natural surrounding provided healthful benefits. Of course, these natural spaces created so attentively a century later would let loose the pollen that bedevil modern allergy sufferers," Mitman says. To compound the problem, we were not content to modify only outdoor venues. ...New host species for avian influenza identified
...ubtypes. The ecological and epidemiological data provided on influenza A virus should assist both in assessing the risk of the virus spread by wild birds and with the design of new surveillance studies for high and low pathogenic avian influenza in migratory birds....NIST building software offers green product advice
...ications of the product at each of these stages is provided for each of 12 categories: global warming, acidification, eutrophication, fossil fuel depletion, indoor air quality, habitat alteration, human health, ecological toxicity, ozone depletion, smog, criteria air pollutants and water intake. The new conse...Creation of an international industrial chair in life cycle assessment
...tals $4.5 million over five years. Funding will be provided by industrial and financial partners such as Alcan...ategy for sustainable development, the methodology provided by the Chair will constitute a knowledge base of our impacts but more importantly provide a tool for...Global heartbeat control suggests therapy for beating heart failure
... levels of ERR are manipulated. That investigation provided evidence that ERR and control most aspects of the...nergy pathways." Further study of mice lacking ERR provided evidence that the receptor plays an important role in the cardiac energy-sensing machinery. Among ...World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'
...uary 2006, work has accelerated due to the support provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the recent discussion of the Encyclopedia of Life by renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson at the March 2007 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference. One of the worlds foremost scien...BEMA Fentanyl demonstrates substantial transmucosal delivery
...ical plasma concentrations (i.e. two 200 mcg discs provided nearly equivalent plasma concentrations as one 400 mcg disc, etc.) These findings follow the Companys April 25, 2007 announcement of statistically significant results with BEMA Fentanyl in treating cancer patients with breakthrough pain in the comp...New knowledge improves rice quality
...istics as well as higher levels of nutrition. Once provided to farmers, the new varieties are expected to command a higher price among consumers, especially those in Asia, who, as they become increasingly affluent, are seeking and paying for better quality food. "Much of this research would not have been ...Phillip A. Sharp to receive the 2007 Winthrop-Sears Award
...Sharp codiscovered RNA splicing in 1977. This work provided one of the first indications of the startling phenomenon of "discontinuous genes" in mammalian cells. The discovery that genes contain nonsense segments that are edited out by cells in the course of utilizing genetic information is important in under...Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers awarded $27M for TB research
... screened for latent M. tuberculosis infection and provided preventive therapy. Many Americans travel to TB e...le to contribute to this fight through the support provided by this large new NIH contract", says Boom....Study assesses lung treatments for premature babies
... population. Of the 24,883 babies in the data base provided by Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier Inc. 4,953 got poractant alfa, marketed as Curosurf; 12,653 got beractant marketed as Survanta; and 7,277 got calfactant, marketed as Infasurf....Is climate change likely to increase disease in corals?
...gh resolution dataset on ocean surface temperature provided by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and the University of Miami. They used the dataset to calculate w eekly sea surface temperature anomalies (WSSTAs), instances in which temperature was higher by 1C or more from mean re...March of Dimes awards $250K prize to stem cell research, reproductive biology pioneers
...ment and cell differentiation in mouse embryos has provided unique insight to the study of human birth defects and genetic predispositions to various human disorders, such as cancer," said Dr. Michael Katz, MD, acting medical director and senior vice president for Research and Global Program at the Foundation......tration (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation provided funding. The new findings may help fisheries decrease the number of turtles caught on lines, the researchers said. Most longlines deploy their hooks below the depths where turtles usually swim, so shading the lights to direct illumination downward ...