Could plain soap and probiotics beat hospital bugs?
...here we use the most advanced antibiotics and most rigorous antiseptic measures. Why is this? More of the same does not seem to be working new antibiotics and antibacterial soaps have not stopped MRSA. "The idea may sound absurd, but I believe that a probiotic cleaning procedure is an avenue worth exploring...'Good' bacteria could save patients from infection infection by deadlier ones
...UK -- where the most advanced antibiotics and most rigorous antiseptic measures are taken. One must ask, says Spigelman, "why more of the same does not seem to be working?" The approach he suggests is that "we ought to begin treating the cause and not the consequence of this disease"....Researchers develop new method to help find deadly malaria parasite's Achilles heel
...he Nov. 3 issue of Nature. Ideker's team applied a rigorous statistical analysis approach to the Fields group's Plasmodium data, focusing on interacting proteins that have homologs in other species. While the genomes of hundreds of species are filled with homologous proteins, Ideker and his colleagues are eag...Researchers devise dinosaur classification method
...ed by the teeth. The result was a preliminary but rigorous method of classifying theropod teeth with establis...shapes of theropod teeth have complicated previous rigorous attempts to use them for classification. The mathematical tedium Smith claims to have spared while...Lateral thinking produces first map of gene transmission
... few years, but what was missing was a good, hard, rigorous look at it," Professor Ragan said. "Previous studies have either been small scale, or used statistical shortcut methods." The study is believed to be the largest biologically inspired computation carried out in Australia, with over 500, 000 hours o...Central European scientists awarded EMBO/HHMI startup grants
...elective and applications were subject to the same rigorous scientific criteria as the EMBO Young Investigators. "HHMI already has an ongoing program in support of established science in Central Europe, but we recognize that for science to flourish, fresh new ideas often come from fresh new scientists," said...Six Central European scientists awarded EMBO/HHMI startup grants
...elective and applications were subject to the same rigorous scientific criteria as the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. "HHMI already has an ongoing programme in support of established science in Central Europe, but we recognise that for science to flourish, fresh new ideas often come from fresh new scient...Researchers quantify more noise in gene expression
...er," said Hasty. "However, this study is the first rigorous description of this variability, which will be very helpful to researchers eager to account for variations in gene expression as they build rigorous, comprehensive models of this and other types of cells."...John Templeton Foundation awards $2.8 million to examine origins of biological complexity
...e process of evolution have always been subject to rigorous scientific debate. Growing in intensity and scope, this debate currently spans a broad range of disciplines including archaeology, biochemistry, computer modeling, genetics & development and philosophy. A recent $2.8 million grant from the John ...Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science
...field of cognitive or behavioral science that uses rigorous formal and empirical methods to advance our understanding of issues relating to the risk of nuclear war goes to ROBERT JERVIS, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, department of political science, Columbia University, New York Cit...New Zealand tops environmental scorecard at World Economic Forum in Davos
...Index aims to promote data-driven and analytically rigorous environmental decision making. Yet, serious data gaps limit the ability to measure performance on a number of important issues. Incomplete data excluded 60 countries from the 2006 EPI. "A more empirically grounded, fact-based approach to environmenta...HHMI awards $10 million to graduate programs that combine science and medicine
... and pre-clinical biology. These students receive rigorous training in the basic biomedical sciences and are introduced to human health and disease issues through dual clinician-Ph.D. mentorship, new medically related courses, medical conferences, and participation in clinical rounds. Case Western Universit...Mathematics in fact and fiction discussed at AAAS Annual Meeting
...fort, which he calls Project Flyspeck, to create a rigorous verification of his proof in which all intermediate logical steps are supplied. As a practical matter, it has meant more reliance on computers to verify the previous computer-assisted work. The verification project could take many more years. Some m...Immunoblot agent misses altered heart cell kinase, points to possible therapeutic opening
...missed had her laboratory not been engaged in very rigorous studies of PKC-delta and its regulation through phosphorylation. She said that "in trying to understand unanticipated properties of certain antibodies, which would introduce antibody artifacts if not recognized, these studies have exposed complex reg...Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway
...tail has been gone through with a fine-tooth comb rigorous scientific assessment, review by an independent ethics and governance council, Data Protection Act compliance, stringent security measures to prevent unauthorised access to participant's data -- and this scrutiny will be ongoing."...The American Association for Cancer Research provides support for promising cancer scientists
...s to assistant professors, were selected through a rigorous and highly competitive process and will be recognized during the AACR's 97th Annual Meeting, to be held April 1-5, 2006, in Washington, D.C. AACR-GERTRUDE B. ELION CANCER RESEARCH AWARD The AACRGertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award was establishe...NJIT students present leading research during Provost's Student Research Showcase
...th undergraduates and graduates, had to first meet rigorous requirements. Their research must have been previously presented at technical conferences or meetings. Each student was nominated by a professor and their research reviewed by an academic committee. Only the top 45 student researchers were selected. ...Yale's Strobel named 'million-dollar professor' for science teaching innovation
...ciated microbes. Upon return students will spend a rigorous summer session classifying their finds -- true "unknowns" -- and will begin to identify new bioactive compounds. The program is designed to have students face the questions and issues of handling specimens, and designing and using the procedures to c...UCSF receives funding for training grant from stem cell institute
...human disease and transplantation, training in the rigorous ethics required to carry out the basic research and regenerative medicine, and a mentored research program under the guidance of leading basic science and/or clinical stem cell investigators. The goal of the program, says Reijo Pera, is "to train ste...Stronger evidence found linking Epstein-Barr virus and risk of multiple sclerosis
...with the evidence of immune dysfunction in MS, but rigorous work remains to be done to unravel the molecular mechanisms. The authors note that the mounting evidence that relates EBV infection to other autoimmune diseases, particularly systemic lupus, suggests that EBV may have a broad role in predisposing ge...