New treatment options for patients with prostate cancer
..., enabling physicians to be more targeted in their selection of appropriate treatments. These data show that men with localised disease gain no significant benefit while men with locally advanced disease derive significant benefit from addition of bicalutamide therapy." In an ongoing study, a new immunotherapy...Virginia Tech geobiologist wins Schuchert Award
...ey may reflect more than 500 million years of menu selection errors." Kowalewski and his students have used more recent shells to student the past and present health of rivers and estuaries. "This award is a truly overwhelming honor," Kowalewski said. "However, it really belongs to my many friends and colleag...Central Americans save plant diversity through local cultivations
...ntinually "weed out" genetic diversity through the selection process. "Many of the crops are so highly domesticated that they don't have much genetic variation, and we are kind of looking at them after they've been highly domesticated and produced these elite varieties," Schaal explained. In a paper published...The ethics of selecting for existence
...s the difference between seemingly benign forms of selection and objectionable choices, pointing out that those who maintain it is no detriment to be disabled must also accept the implausible view that there is no basis for objection to deliberate inflictions of prenatal injury rendering a person disabled....'Creationism is not science' making the case for Darwin at UCL
..." He added: "There is massive evidence of natural selection leading to evolution. Today if you have an infection you need massive amounts of penicillin compared to that needed in the 1940s. The simple reason is that the bugs you are fighting have evolved." Commenting on whether this turn towards the Intellige...Study of domesticated foxes reveals changes in gene expression as a basis for tame behavior
... in the process of domestication in mammals is the selection for tame individuals that can adapt to life with humans and to frequent handling. To investigate the changes in gene activity that accompany tameness, in the present study the authors compared two groups of farm-raised silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes). O...The first laugh: New study posits evolutionary origins of two distinct types of laughter
...r neurons, evolutionary psychology, and multilevel selection theory, the researchers detail the evolutionary trajectory of laughter over the last 7 million years. Evolutionarily elaborated from ape play-panting sometime between 4 million years ago and 2 million years ago, laughter arising from non-serious soci...Slight increased risk of major birth defects associated with IVF
...l limits of the Iowa study, Van Voorhis noted that selection of the control group of naturally conceived babies was restricted to counties from which patients treated in the UI infertility clinic delivered their babies. Thus, it is possible that a small number of the "naturally conceived" controls were actuall...Picking particles faster than one at a time
...fly. Although an initial comparison between manual selection and automatic selection indicated that 15 percent of the program's nominations were false positives, when the program was ru...The World Economic Forum announces new class of technology pioneers for 2006: Ossur selected
...rum nominate Technology Pioneers. The criteria for selection include: Innovation. The company's technology must be truly innovative. A new version or repackaging of an already well-accepted technological solution does not qualify as an innovation. The innovation should be recent not more than two years old....The end of aging? New study examines evolutionary explanations for 'biological immortality'
... that late life arises after the forces of natural selection affecting both fertility and mortality cease to have an impact....A 2002 disease threat offers lessons for avian flu preparedness
...nd public budgeting. In particular, he studies the selection and implementation of public management reforms. He is working on a book entitled "Rethinking Performance Management," to be published by Georgetown University Press. Like bird flu, Newcastle Disease is lethal to poultry and transfers via bird feces,...Scientists fetch useful information from dog genome publications
...s females became smaller than males due to natural selection for optimal size," Lark explains. "This is consistent with our finding that a variant on the X chromosome plays a role in skeletal size determination."...Plants, too, have ways to manage freeloaders
...imms said. "Mutualism is a paradox because natural selection acts on individuals, so why would an individual do something costly that benefits another individual?" she said. "Such a system is also vulnerable to exploitation - one species taking advantage of another. What mechanisms could prevent this?" She and...Agronomy, crop, soil science societies present awards, scholarships
Dozens of awards and scholarships, including the selection of 2005 Fellows were presented as part of the 2005 International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) held on Nov. 6 to 10 in Salt Lake City, UT....Key brain regulatory gene shows evolution in humans
...w pathway of exploring how the pressure of natural selection influenced evolution of other genes. They also sai...y a statistical method as being likely to be under selection actually do something important in terms of function," said Wray. "The human version increases expre...UC Santa Barbara researcher tapped by Europeans for design of instrument to test soil on Mars
...y. These proportions will also be reflected in the selection of the industrial consortium that ESA will task to... the Aurora program are represented in the initial selection of instruments. The U.S. is included through the MOMA and one other organic detection instrument. Th...Chromosome four contains genes that affect drinking behaviors in smokers
...ssive drinking and alcoholism, which have been the selection traits in previous linkage studies," said Swan. "Furthermore, the consistency of this result across study samples strongly suggests that variations in genes for alcohol metabolism play a role in determining who will go on to regular consumption of a...Fish gene sheds light on human skin color variation
...ative of a "selective sweep," which is a signal of selection for a particular gene variant. Either a variant i...ting, or the variant is sexually selected. Sexual selection occurs because individuals choose mates with certain characteristics that are more attractive or tha...Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food
... from a wider range of seabirds and from a greater selection of time periods to get a clearer picture of impacts of oceanic conditions and fishing pressure throughout the past century....