Tyrannosaur survivorship -- tough times for teens
...o predation alone subside once a threshold size is reached and it appears that such a threshold was reached by age two in Albertosaurus sarcophagus, say the research team. The mortality rates remained low unt...Natural vitamin E tocotrienol reaches blood at protective levels
...ers determined that a moderate dose of tocotrienol reached concentrations in human blood plasma that would be more than adequate to protect against neurological damage that follows stroke. These findings were published in the May issue of the journal Antioxidants & Redox Signaling. In a separate study, th...Effects of nutrition on learning
...ficantly more than their normally fed siblings and reached the same adult size. The extent to which birds' growth was depressed during the poor nutrition phase of the experiment varied considerably, as did the degree of accelerated growth after the switch to a normal diet. As it happened, birds with the mo...Mutations point the way to new leukemia drugs
... growth--whether or not the appropriate signal has reached the cell. Thus, the end result is the same as that of a mutation that activates JAK2 directly: uncontrolled growth and an imbalance of blood cells. "Now we have two targets that may be useful in the search for drug treatments to control chronic le...Whether in mice or men, all cells age the same, Stanford study finds
...es provide a way of detecting the point a cell has reached in its life span. In the study, Kim and his colleagues looked at which genes were actively producing protein and at what level in flies and mice in a range of ages and in tissue taken from the muscle, brain and kidney of 81 people ranging in age fr...Constant din of barking causes stress, behavior changes in dogs in shelters
...The dogs have not yet begun to acclimate, and have reached their tolerance level of responding to unpredictable surroundings." Extra human contact was influential in reducing the stressful effects of shelter housing, Coppola said. "Keeping dogs behaviorally healthy helps keep them physically healthy. And h...Nanotechnology enables low-dose treatment of atherosclerotic plaques
... nanoparticles, a physician can confirm a drug has reached the desired location, measure the amount of drug at the site, and later check to see if the drug has affected the disease. In the current study, the researchers fed rabbits a high-cholesterol diet for 80 days before treatment with fumagillin nanopar...Iowa State researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil
Nevada, Iowa Samy Sadaka reached into a garbage bag, picked up a mixture of cow manure and corn stalks, let it run through his fingers and invited a visitor to do the same. It wasn't that bad. That mix of manure and corn stalks had spent 27 days breaking down in a special drying......t the end of larval life, when the caterpillar has reached it final weight and is about to metamorphose into a moth. In a study published today in the open access journal Journal of Biology, Frederik Nijhout, from Duke University in Durham, USA and colleagues built a new mathematical model that allows them t...SNM expands mission to improve patient care by advancing molecular imaging and therapy
...vancing molecular imaging and therapy." "We have reached a defining moment--one where molecular imaging and nuclear medicine merge into one at SNM--and one that will impact the evolution of molecular medicine and current practitioners and those of generations to come," noted SNM President Martin P. Sandler...ACRUS broadens contraceptive spray strategy
...drugs across the skin, today announced that it has reached agreement withPopulation Council, Inc., to amend the Licence Agreement signed in February 2006. Under the Licence Agreement, Acrux is developing a contraceptive spray, combining Acrux's patented MDTS spray delivery technology with Population Counci...New research examines genetics of successful aging
...y ways, however, we focused on individuals who had reached at least 90 without significant decline in mental capacity," said lead researcher George S. Zubenko, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and biological sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. "While this is a goal that many of us share, such a def...Biophysical Society names 2007 award recipients
...romise in the field of biophysics, who has not yet reached a position of high recognition within the structures of academic society. The award also honors he memory of Dr. Margaret Dayhoff, former President of the Biophysical Society, Professor of Biophysics at Georgetown University, and Director of Researc...Long acting insulin makes the grade
...t of Health and Ageing, agreement has finally been reached that will see the long acting insulin products madeavailable at a reasonable price to people with diabetes who require insulin. People with diabetes who require insulin are either people with type 1 diabetes in which the person stops making insulin...Biophysical Society names 2007 award recipients
...romise in the field of biophysics, who has not yet reached a position of high recognition within the structures of academic society. The award also honors the memory of Dr. Margaret Dayhoff, former President of the Biophysical Society, Professor of Biophysics at Georgetown University, and Director of Resear...UA strengthens commitment to Arctic research
...charter donations to UA. The charter agreement was reached in 1999 between the state of Alaska under former Gov. Tony Knowles and BP and Arco, later ConocoPhillips. It includes a formula for charitable contributions to UA and other community organizations. Donations to the university since the state and oil ...Who gives stem cells their marching orders?
...re to move and what to become, once the embryo has reached a critical size. "Whole blocks of chemical "programs" are triggered in a cascading fashion, with Nodal there to maintain the source of a concentration gradient," explains EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne) professor Daniel Constam, lead re...Virus may control Australia's "river rabbit"
...ndonesia. So far the virus does not appear to have reached Australia. Supported with $355,000 from the newly formed Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, the two-year project will investigate the effectiveness of Koi herpesvirus in controlling strains of carp p...Frank Uhlmann of London Research Institute wins 'EMBO Gold'
...ope, the Gold Medal highlights the standards being reached by European researchers bringing the very best of these to the attention of a global audience. German-born Frank Uhlmann is a perfect example of the "golden" career that sets apart all EMBO medal winners. After completing his PhD at the Memorial ......a manufacturing plant near Las Vegas, for example, reached the Colorado River and spread throughout the Southwest. Cleanup could take decades."Perchlorate has been recognized as a significant environmental contaminant in U.S. water supplies, and its physical and chemical properties pose a serious challenge f...