Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene
...ts of our children by allowing us to devise better strategies to enhance fruit and vegetable acceptance in children who are sensitive to bitter taste," comments Mennella. "It may be that childhood represents a time of heightened bitter taste sensitivity in some children, which lessens with age. Such a scenari...Joslin scientists show knocking out two key signals will cause diabetes
... cells. Their findings in mice may someday lead to strategies in humans to boost these two different signals, providing a powerful new way to treat the different metabolic components present in the most common form of diabetes. "By lowering the level of two key insulin signaling proteins in liver cells, we bega...Alcohol's effects on gene expression in the central nervous system
...ould aid in the development of selective treatment strategies for different subgroups of alcoholics." McBride added that, despite recent advances, researchers need further developments in microarray technologies and bioinformatic approaches to better understand the complex neurobiological mechanisms underlying ...Chemical analysis of mushrooms shows their nutritional benefits
... food scientists to search for optimum preparation strategies for using the various products....From Mars to Maryland: 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting spotlights
...The World Bank in 2000, will discuss science-based strategies for improving human welfare. S. James Gates, Jr., the John S. Toll Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland, will discuss string theory and efforts to describe all four forces of nat...Anita Roberts to deliver Excellence in Science lecture
...roles it plays in disease, and several therapeutic strategies based on the growth factor. Dr. Roberts was recently named the 49th most cited scientist, worldwide, for the period 1982-2002 by the Institute for Scientific Information, making her the second most highly cited woman scientist. She was also among t...Bishop named winner of National Medal of Science
...ises from damage to normal genes, and provided new strategies for the detection and treatment of cancer. Bishop has devoted his research to the study of proto-oncogenes -- their functions in normal cells and the manner in which they become cancer genes. Bishop and Varmus won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology o...AAAS honors recombinant DNA advisory committee at NIH, citing 30 years of leadership
... inside a living cell, might someday result in new strategies for curing or treating various diseases by correcting genetic errors. When the field was in its infancy in the 1970s, Teich explained, there was widespread public concern about potential hazards; the RAC was established in response to those concerns....Biotech science thriving but the business needs intensive care
... devoting sufficient resources to the new business strategies needed to bring the science to the consumers. Mana...he endowment of a chair of innovation and industry strategies in genomics and the life sciences. Further issues addressed at the conference include the global imp...Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
...ert them into crucial messages. Similarly, mapping strategies described in the Science paper seem to bring aspects of the human genomic sequence into sharper focus. Hinds, Cox and colleagues used a special mathematical algorithm, based on the principle of linkage disequilibrium, to characterize the structure ...Methodist, UH system joining forces for biomedical research, clinical care
...omedical science into new therapies and prevention strategies for patients." "This collaborative relationship is unlike any other in the state," added Vailas. "This will lead to more efficacious patient care and increases the probability of making greater discoveries that can be applied to medical care throu...Plants become green Mr. Clean to combat toxic messes
...oratory at Norwich Research Park, U.K., to work on strategies to have plants produce biological detergent compounds called biosurfactants that target the thorny environmental problems of hydrophobic pollutants. Hydrophobic pollutants present some of the most difficult remediation challenges. These are chemica...New study highlights universality of public views toward science and technology
...ption of science could help develop more efficient strategies for mass communication, with the goal of having more and better science." For background information on public perceptions of science: The National Science Foundation 2001 Survey of Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technol...New science sheds light on rebuilding fisheries
...iology, and evolutionary science that point to new strategies for maintaining fisheries. As a former leader in t...objectives," says Berkeley. Crowder calls for new strategies that address cumulative impacts on fish populations and protect entire segments of struggling popula...K-State professor to discuss feeding the world's population without poison
...worldwide must continue to ensure these management strategies are available to the world's population." The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the word by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professio...New Georgia Tech micro-CT imaging technique to help tissue engineers improve bone regeneration
...y of Rochester, for example, have explored various strategies to revitalize dead allograft bone. Wrapping allografts with biomaterials containing living marrow cells or delivering bioactive genes has resulted in significantly accelerated repair and integration of allograft implants. While a traditional bone sc...Georgia Tech research indicates immune complications associated with combination medical devices
...sible into the patient. Babensee's work focuses on strategies for designing biomaterials and devices that can best integrate into the body by controlling host responses. In some combination products, biomaterials (in the form of polymer sponges) are used in the medical device to provide sites for transplanted c...'Blinding' an insect's sense of smell may be the best repellent
... vulnerability, this makes them very vulnerable to strategies that would block their sense of smell. If we could use this to chemically interrupt the transport of the odorant receptors, we could make mosquitoes 'blind' to humans. That in turn would be a good way to prevent disease transmission." First author ...Genome of deadly amoeba shows surprising complexity, evidence of lateral gene transfer
...ymes that form the basis of these shared metabolic strategies are substantially different from human enzymes, making them potential targets of inhibitors that could form the basis of new drug therapies," says TIGR President Claire M. Fraser, who supervised the Institute's role in the project. E. histolytic...Kids with chronic illness face difficult transition to adult care
...atricians about patients' conditions and treatment strategies at the time they switch practices, Reiss said. Elizabeth Tong, M.S., a clinical research nurse at the University of California, San Francisco's division of pediatric cardiology and an associate clinical professor at UCSF's School of Nursing, said Re...