American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...r personal use in news gathering and reporting and should not be distributed to others. Anyone using advance PressPac information for stocks or securities dealing may be guilty of insider trading under the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toward prevention o...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...osystems in this important part of the world, and should prove valuable to Saudi environmental resource managers. The proposed coral reef systems research project will focus on corals and reef fishes and provide critical information for the protection and sustainable use of coral reef ecosystems al...New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
...ausing climate change, these forest-rich countries should be at the forefront of worldwide efforts to seques...sources. CI believes any carbon credit mechanism should include full representation, participation and consultation by indigenous and local communities of t...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...r of Pediatrics, OHSU School of Medicine."His work should lead to real breakthroughs for patients struggling withthese debilitating disorders. OHSU and Doernbecher are fortunate to havea scientist of his caliber." "The Javits Investigator Award for Dr. Back is a recognition of hisseminal contributions to ...Risk of common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears higher for blacks
...ot as simple as just looking at the woman. We also should consider her partner. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) i...e contribution of BV to adverse pregnancy outcomes should consider paternal race as an important factor. A recent study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Co...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
... dynamic systems such as crowds or plasmas and it should be particularly good at picking up the phase transitions from disorder to order in such complicated systems. Initially the researchers were stumped as to how to test this theory. The very complexity (and often inaccessibility) that caused the o...No evidence that widely prescribed statins protect against prostate cancer
...estosterone in the blood, although further studies should be done, said study author, Susan A. Hall, Ph.D., a research scientist at the New England Research Institutes. That doesnt mean that statins may be lowering prostate cancer risk through one or more alternative pathways, but it doesnt appear to be wor...Tropical insects 'go the distance' to inform rainforest conservation
...imals in small reserves tend to go extinct, you should plan for one large area instead of having a lot of small and distant areas to manage and conserve. Cognato and Hulcr expect similar patterns in other tropical lowland rain forests, as they are typically situated in the extensive low basins of majo...OHSU turns mouse into factory for human liver cells
...e said. "It's an easy system that any research lab should be able to set up, which is very different from what's around now." In fact, the human liver cells from the repopulated mouse livers are indistinguishable from normal human liver cells, according to the study. "The healthy human liver cells take ov...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...s, the ESF has recognised the scientific community should play a more active role. In accordance with this a...sents a vision of how the field of Systems Biology should develop in the European life sciences area. The result is a set of specific recommendations that aim...Brain blood flow gives clues to treating depression
...nvulsive therapy, explained Bonne. Future research should also examine the differences in brain blood flow in patients at later time points, he said. ...Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...ere are some philosophical questions that our data should be useful to address, Miller said. If you can preserve 10,000 hectares of forest, is it better to preserve it as 10 small 1,000 hectare plots or one large 10,000 hectare plot" Strategies for preserving high and low beta diversity forests might no......farming than traditional row crops. These findings should be a boost to companies hoping to establish themselves in this emerging field. Two researchers working at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University set out to compare the capital and operating costs of generating fuel from s...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...entral Sabah, under the Heart of Borneo agreement, should ensure that the majority of the herds have a home ...plantations, WWF says. Logging in elephant habitat should only take place if there is a long-term forest management plan in place, and oil palm plantations sh......e organism has to spend energy doing something, it should shorten the animals life, said co-author and USC biologist Steven Finkel. A research team led by John Tower, associate professor of molecular and computational biology at USC, compared normal fruit flies to ones kept in an axenic (bacteria-free) en......ations of variants, a recent transition to selfing should have left afootprint in the LD pattern for A. thaliana. Specifically, the researchers expected to find a relatively high level ofLD, because after the transition to selfing the disruption of variantcombinations would have slowed dramatically. But...Penn researchers discover how key protein stops inflammation
...id Carmody. Since Bcl-3 acts on specific genes, we should be able to target a subset of dangerous regulatory genes without disrupting other important immune responses. Such drugs could benefit patients with chronic inflammation and transplant recipients as well as those suffering with inflammatory diseases....UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
... disease found in a certain part of the brain, you should use a human embryonic stem cell line that produces...or example, is a forebrain disease, so the neurons should be differentiated from a cell line that is biased to produce neurons from the forebrain. Sun said...Taking a supplement of glycine helps prevent degenerative diseases such as arthrosis or osteoporosis
... de Paz belongs, demonstrated that this amino acid should be considered an essential amino acid. The doctoral thesis carried out at the CMI and the UGR has shown that the capacity of the metabolism to synthesise glycine is very limited. The conclusion of this study is that glycine, administered in daily......r personal use in news gathering and reporting and should not be distributed to others. Anyone using advance PressPac information for stocks or securities dealing may be guilty of insider trading under the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Potato chip flavoring...