American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...bacco may be bad for human health, but a new study reports that a genetically engineered tobacco plant may be...cientific society, contain about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nut...Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...t. The researchers plan to release several other reports from the GenIMS study in the coming months, which they hope will provide more clues to the condition. ...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...ations and strategies at the European level. These reports are aware that the Forward Look is part of a broad... Area. Moreover, the priorities suggested by these reports are more explicit in the sense that they are not just seen as new emerging themes but as frameworks ......edings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences reports on the structure of the hand of Hispanopithecus, a critically important fossil from an ape that lived during the late Miocene of Spain. While the authors ponder that the fossil may be from a direct ancestor of living great apes (especially the orangu...Preclinical study links gene to brain aneurysm formation
...gger formation of an aneurysm, he adds. Abruzzo reports these findings in the August 2007 issue of Current Neurovascular Research. The UC-led team analyzed 30 female mice bred to suppress (knock out) one of three genes and molecular pathways associated with vascular disease: inducible nitric oxide synt...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
... long as the light continues to shine. The study reports successful laboratory tests of the system in the c...cientific society, contain about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nut...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
...an interest in gene doping in 2004, when the first reports of muscle-boosting therapies in mice were published by University of Pennsylvania researchers. Since then, several potential targets of gene doping have emerged, including the gene for erythropoietin, or EPO. A bioengineered version of the hormone...MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
...nline edition of Nature Neuroscience, the MIT team reports that children rival adults in forming basic memories, but adults do better at remembering the rich, contextual details of that information. The MIT study provides new insights into how children learn that are not only theoretically important, but cou...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
...interaction between brain areas in greater detail, reports Alois Schlgl, expert for biomedical signal processing at the University of Technology Graz, Austria and at the Fraunhofer Institute Berlin. He has made this new type of coupling analysis freely available for the scientific community in his open-sourc...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
...e bluefin by-catch is high. Together these new reports help define where bluefin spawn and provide evidence for their trans-oceanic migrations. A fisherman from the Scandinavian Tuna Club might have chased the same giant bluefin as a Cuban fisherman, says Dr. ODor, a Dalhousie University professor and s...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
...d levels greater than the 2010 objective. Research reports also provide evidence of adverse effects at an even lower lead blood level than that of the 2010 target among children younger than 72 months. SRM 955c is packaged as four vials of frozen blood at four progressively elevated lead concentration lev...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
...roducts in California to submit detailed, frequent reports on their activities. And the California Public Utility Commission will have to grapple with tricky questions of how regulated local electricity providers should compete with the highly competitive global oil industry. Scientists and policy ana...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...ed in several types of cancer. The Nature paper reports on five additional genes that fuse with ERG or ETV1 to cause prostate cancer. Gene fusions were involved in 60 percent to 70 percent of the prostate cancer cell lines the researchers looked at. The genes involved are all controlled by a different mec...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
... Department of State. The State Department further reports that the majority of transnational victims are females trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. An estimated 150,000 women and girls are trafficked annually within and across South Asia, with the majority destined for major Indian cities, acco...MGH researchers confirm that bone marrow restores fertility in female mice
...contained GFP-marked cells. Among the published reports raising objections to the previous work of Tillys group none of which actually attempted to duplicate those experiments one theorized that GFP-marked cells observed in recipient ovaries in the 2005 Cell paper might be donor immune cells rather than...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
... News Service Weekly press package (PressPac) with reports selected from ACS 35 peer-reviewed journals and Ch...cientific society, contain about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nut...Research shows NPD1 protects a key component of vision
...uced cell death in RPE cells. One of these papers reports also the discovery that the daily interaction of photoreceptors and RPE cells balance against damage is maintained by NPD1. The regulation of these proteins involved in cell survival or death shown by this research will help us define NPD1 survival ...Strains of laboratory mice more varied than previously thought
... design of studies past and future. Our article reports the first comprehensive analysis of such variation with an emphasis in evolutionary origin of the variation and its implications for biomedical research. We have rejected many long-held assumptions about the origin and relationships among mouse strai......ainst the effects of the deadly nerve agent sarin, reports Cath ODriscoll in the Society of Chemical Industrys magazine Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI. The US military is funding a three-year study to evaluate the effectiveness of the enzyme, known as GOT, in protecting animals against the dam......ements and powering environmentally friendly cars, reports Nina Morgan in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI. The value of instant steam lies in creating truly portable steam that can be generated intermittently on demand, says Dave Wardle, business development director at Oxford Catalysts. The ...