GI Caramba! Blue tortillas may help dieters and diabetics
..., DOI 10.1002/jsfa.3008). The glycmic index (GI) ranks carbohydrates according to their effects on blood glucose levels. Foods with a lower GI are considered healthier as they slowly release sugar into the bloodstream. This reduces fluctuations in our blood glucose and insulin levels, helping to maintain...Prenatal stress keeps infants, toddlers up at night, study says
... carry even more value for babies. For them, sleep ranks as one of the most highly regarded indexes of healthy development, and plays a critical role in consolidating memory and facilitating learning, regulating metabolism and appetite, promoting good moods and sustaining both cardiovascular health and a v......dangerous wheat rust diseases. Borlaug joins the ranks of the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Thomas Edison, Dr. Jonas Salk, Mother Theresa of India, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and more than 100 others who have been given Congressional Gold Medal of Honor....UF scientists work to develop simple bladder cancer test
...eople who dont have any symptoms. Bladder cancer ranks among the five most common malignancies. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2007 there will be about 67,160 new cases of bladder cancer diagnosed in the United States. Four times more men than women contract the disease, and smoking as wel......y nuclear test; a newly expanded rating scale that ranks nuclear incidents; and procedures for recovering "orphaned" nuclear sources. IF YOU CAN'T ATTEND THE MEETING The HPS meeting webpage ( http://hps.org/meetings/meeting7.html ) contains links to the full program. The site will contain a Virtual Pres...UD awarded $11M for osteoarthritis research and unique mentoring program for women scientists
...en continue to be underrepresented in the academic ranks of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. At UD, the percentages of all tenured/tenure-track women faculty are 17 percent in the natural sciences and 10 percent in engineering, according to Buchanan. Mechanical engineering, for example, ...UC Irvine awarded $3.9 million to upgrade stem cell research facilities, training
... million to educate new stem cell researchers. UCI ranks fourth among 23 institutions for total CIRM funding. UCI began its stem cell research program in the 1970s and moved into human stem cell research in 2000. Today, more than 60 UCI scientists use stem cells in current or planned studies. Now a hub f...Double honor recognises world-class science and spin-out success
...eaching. The current Times Good University Guide ranks it as the no.1 Pharmacy School in Britain. Professor Saul Tendler, Head of The School of Pharmacy, said: "The Queens Award acknowledges that the School of Pharmacy at The University of Nottingham is enhancing significantly the development of new me...American Association for Cancer Research provides support for promising cancer scientists
...ect research expenses as researchers move from the ranks of early-career scientists to faculty status. The AACR-Genentech BioOncology Career Development Award for Cancer Research on Angiogenesis provides a two-year grant of $100,000. Recipient: Dakun Wang, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester, Rochester...NIH selects Children's Hospital as Center of Excellence to train future generations of scientists
...ed to more than $24 million during his tenure, and ranks ninth nationally in NIH funding among all pediatric programs. ...'Bridge' protein spurs deadliest stages of breast cancer
...l Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, the study ranks among the first to more precisely define the cancer role for the protein known as Gab-2. These results, to be published in the journal Oncogene, have been made available to the worldwide medical research community by priority posting online at the jo...Old dinosaur research leads to new honor
...han 35 years of research excellence by joining the ranks of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The society will induct him as a fellow during its annual conference, being held from Feb. 15 to 19 in San Francisco. "I am humbled that they chose me, and I think it was because ...Scientific meeting on pulmonary hypertension, December 7-8
...ng disease, moving pulmonary hypertension from the ranks of diseases that once were considered to be untreatable to the growing list of conditions for which medical science offers hope of a better quality of life and more years to enjoy it." By improving understanding of the basic cellular and molecula...APS names UC Davis professor 'Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist'
...hysiologist at Davis and rose through the academic ranks to become professor of physiology in 1978. She was named distinguished professor in 2003. From 1991-1998 Horwitz was chair of UC, Davis Department of Animal Physiology, later named the Section of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior. In 2001, she ...Final of the 2005-06 Research Councils' Business Plan Competition
...h in science, engineering, technology and the arts ranks among the highest in the world. The aim of this competition is to help commercialise some of the best projects so that the whole of UK society can benefit. Members of the media are invited to the final judging and awards ceremony of the Research Cou...NSF awards $3.3 million grant to Cornell to bolster the percentage of women faculty members
...degrees to science and engineering majors. Cornell ranks third nationally where women engineering faculty were educated as undergraduates. Between 1997 and 2001, Cornell had the second highest number of female bachelor's degree recipients who later received doctorates in science or engineering. Martin poin...Mars mission Risk 29: Scientists research ways to reduce radiation-induced brain damage
Among the gravest risks of a manned flight to Mars ranks the possibility that massive amounts of solar and cosmic radiation will decimate the brains of astronauts, leaving them in a vegetative state, if they survive at all. Dubbed "Risk 29" by NASA's Mars scientists, the cosmic radiation risk remains a s...UT Southwestern scientist named Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research
...oldstein, chairman of molecular genetics. "Russell ranks among the very top in terms of his intelligence, creativity, judgment and technical prowess. He is following in the footsteps of other outstanding former fellows, such as Drs. David Russell [professor of molecular genetics], Thomas Sdhof [director of...Top Canadian superstring theorist, Rob Myers of PI, inducted into Royal Society
...d string theorist and places him among the highest ranks of string theorists around the world. His highly-cited groundbreaking contributions in gravitational physics and string theory include: Pioneering research on gravity in higher dimensions/black holes The discovery of the "Myers effect" in M-the......earch lab and in the clinic, are not lost from the ranks of research scientists," explained Peter J. Bruns, HHMI vice president of grants and special programs. ...