Report proposes structure for national network of cord blood stem cell banks
...blood cells. Transplants of these stem cells have saved the lives of roughly 20,000 Americans with leukemia, lymphoma, sickle cell anemia, and several other illnesses in recent years, the report notes. But thousands of patients who might benefit from a transplant die every year waiting for a match. Alth...Europe faces brain drain and declining patient care unless cancer research funding is doubled
...estimate that 10,000 to 20,000 more lives would be saved each year through better patient care if funding for cancer research was increased[1]." The Survey shows that the EU concentrates a large proportion of its spending on basic scientific research at the expense of preventative and clinical research. B...World's largest scientific society backs green chemistry bill
...ologies have eliminated waste, improved safety and saved industry money," according to ACS President William F. Carroll, Ph.D. "From redesigning pharmaceutical synthesis to reducing waste, to developing catalysts that improve energy efficiency, green chemistry techniques lead to technology that can be envi...Kids with chronic illness face difficult transition to adult care
...ness, leaving behind the pediatrician who may have saved their lives can be a tough transition. More than half a million children with special health-care needs will turn 18 this year, the first generation to reach adulthood since sweeping medical advances ensured an unprecedented number would survive con...USGS featured at AAAS - Nation's largest science meeting
...ng time spans have strengthened building codes and saved untold numbers of lives and property in the U.S. But what about the prospects for a more immediate warning? It remains unclear whether intermediate- and short-term earthquake predictions are feasible, but the number and scope of prediction efforts i...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2005 inductees
...viation safety devices GPWS and Enhanced GPWS have saved countless lives by warning pilots of impending cra...l Morgan's gas mask was a device that saved lives, aiding firefighters and others exposed to dangerous fumes. His three-way traffic signal prov...BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy
...or additional work from them. Researchers are thus saved the time and effort of going through the deposition process themselves. This significant benefit is in addition to the rapid and high quality peer review, fast publication and high visibility of BioMed Central'sOpen Access journals. BioMed Central ur...Study shows stem cells can preserve vision
...ed cells were secreting a factor or substance that saved these fragile cells. (There is growing evidence that rod cells keep cone cells alive by secreting a special factor) To test whether the mice with transplanted stem cells could see better, the team then placed them and the control mice (without the tr...2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals 15,589 species at risk of extinction
...A points out that species can (and many have) been saved from extinction, although the majority of threatened species require much more action to improve their status. In this sense, the IUCN Red List can serve as an effective tool to guide conservation practitioners with conservation planning and priority...Chimpanzee 'workshop' discovered in Congo
...overed that a remote rainforest in Central Africa, saved from logging by a collaboration among the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, a timber company and the Republic of Congo, is home to a population of innovative, tool-making chimpanzees that "fish" for termite dinners. According to a study ...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...s of one year of healthy life to disease) could be saved for every 8 million deaths prevented, generating economic benefit of US$186 billion per year as of 2015. This would require additional annual health outlays, for all low-income countries and selected middle-income countries, of US $57 billion by 2007...HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
...rt through thousands more genes," said Axel. "This saved several years of drudgery." Buck recalls that "I had tried so many things and had been working so hard for years, with nothing to show for it. So when I finally found the genes in 1991, I couldn't believe it! None of them had ever been seen before. T...