Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment
...food production will outweigh the effects on water quality and biodiversity by giving them the information they need to make tough decisions. A substantial body of work addressing specific aspects of the assessment will follow this month's release of the global synthesis report. A report on global biodiversi...New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows
.... "This is an important issue in terms of patient quality of life. Do you want to go through seven weeks of treatment only to find two months later that it had no effect? Using MRI tumor diffusion values to accurately predict the treatment response early on could allow some patients to switch to a more bene...Gene variations explain drug dose required to control seizures
...uch a way as to reduce trial and error and improve quality of life for patients," he added. Epilepsy and seizures affect 2.5 million Americans of all ages, with approximately 181,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Phenytoin and carbamazepine are important first-line anti-epileptic drugs that are widely presc...AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner registers 'strong concerns' over suppression of science films
...centers to remain true to the mission of providing quality science programming for all. Further, we encourage all centers to follow the example of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, which reversed an earlier decision and will show "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" after all. Sincerely, Alan I. Leshner...Europe faces brain drain and declining patient care unless cancer research funding is doubled
...ose correlation between research activity and high quality service delivery, this is also likely to have an effect, ultimately, on the overall care of cancer patients. "Secondly, Europe needs to develop a broad portfolio for cancer research, and more funding needs to go to translational, clinical and prevent...Gladstone building honored with San Francisco Business Times award
...mmunity impact, transit impact, financial backing, quality of design and suitability of land use. For 25 years, Gladstone's approximately 325 staff members were scattered across several buildings at San Francisco General Hospital and the surrounding neighborhood. Following the decision by Gladstone's Irvine-...Puberty onset influence of nutritional, environmental and endogenous regulators?
...d well-being of European citizens through a higher quality of their food, improved control of food production and of related environmental factors. Identification of environmental factors that are detrimental to health, and better understanding of the mechanisms involved are necessary to determine how to pre...JCI table of contents April 1, 2005
...therapeutic tools to abate disease and improve the quality of life of our patients." TITLE: Systemic lupus erythematosus serum IgG increases CREM binding to the IL-2 promoter and suppresses IL-2 production through CaMKIV AUTHOR CONTACT: George C. Tsokos Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring,...NASH clinical research network launches new trial for treatment of liver disease
...nt NASH from progressing, ultimately improving the quality of life of patients with this liver disease," says Jay Hoofnagle, M.D., director, NIDDK Liver Disease Research Branch. The eight clinical centers of the NASH Clinical Research Network recruiting patients include: Case Western Reserve University in Cl......therapeutic tools to abate disease and improve the quality of life of our patients."...New study documents the detrimental impact of teen beverage choices
...ink intake among teenagers has been linked to poor quality diets and excess weight. That's one reason why a growing number of schools are stocking vending machines with milk instead of soft drinks. Additionally, several states have introduced legislation to limit the availability of soft drinks in schools....Satellite images give a better picture of sediment transport
...spersing materials brought by the rivers, and also quality analysis on the sea water (dissolved elements, suspensions). Turbidity is a factor that limits the development of corals because it reduces light penetration into the water. Moreover, the fine suspended particles carry in metals that can pollute aqua...Alcohol consumption disrupts breastfeeding hormones
...f a mother is drinking alcohol just to improve the quality or quantity of her milk, she needs to know that there is no evidence to support this claim. In fact, what happens is quite the opposite, as alcohol disrupts the hormonal milieu of lactation in a way that could impede successful breastfeeding." For ce...Why do amyloid diseases strike different tissues?
...ed that this process was somewhat analogous to the quality control checks that might exist on an assembly-lin...ng favorably to wild-type stability would not pass quality control and would be degraded. Scientists have long assumed that thermodynamic stability would dete...Arsenic removal from drinking water is focus of new projects
...'t the only focus of the center's research. "Water quality at surface water intakes is being evaluated with watershed modeling," Smothers said. "Comparative performance measures being developed will improve technical, managerial, and financial capacity of small systems. Drought planning for small systems is ...PNAS highlights for the week of April 11 - 15
.... The researchers also examined more than 100 meat quality criteria, of which 90% showed no noteworthyvariations. But about 8 variables related to the amount of fat and fatty acids in the meat were significantly higher in the meat from theclones. The authors say these higher fat levels are within beef indust...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher receives NSF CAREER award
...structures that will enable the generation of high quality structural information on much shorter time scales than traditional methodologies," Lazar said. "The flexible and disposable format of the microchip platform will provide an optimum instrumentation for automated high-throughput mass spectrometric ana...Three researchers recognized for advancing the Navy's environmental efforts
...vings, increased military capability, or increased quality of life of Navy personnel resulting from the patented invention are all taken into account in determining which patents qualify for the award....Society of Nuclear Medicine announces recipient of Mark Tetalman Award
...ation methods for physical factors affecting image quality in SPECT and PET for estimation and detection tasks; optimization of acquisition and processing techniques for lesion detection in whole-body oncologic PET imaging; and simultaneous dynamic dual isotope imaging (I-123/Tc-99m) in brain and cardiac SPE...Report proposes structure for national network of cord blood stem cell banks
... "The lack of centralized organization, universal quality standards, and uniform matching mechanisms makes i...nks for donated cells. By increasing the size and quality of the cord blood inventory, nearly 90 percent of all patients who need a transplant should be able ...