Genetics experts join together to support efforts to identify remaining hurricane Katrina victims
...art of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is supporting efforts to identify more than 70 bodies still unid...s, clinical geneticists and genetic counselors are supporting Louisiana state officials in the task of collecting data on family relationships, which is a key ste...New beginning of 'natural spring' announced by UNH scientist, group
...te imagery of vegetative cover," both observations supporting the findings. Markham noted that we don't know "where this kind of interference with the climate system will lead us. But we have already begun to see disruptions in traditional economies like maple sugaring and ski tourism, and it's likely these are...Copernicus Award to be conferred by the DFG for the first time
...DFG reached an agreement with the FNP last year on supporting cooperation between outstanding young researchers from all disciplines. Thus these research funding organisations made a significant step towards intensifying cooperation in research funding during 2005, a year that was dedicated to German-Polish rel...Warming trend may contribute to malaria's rise
...tance. This is a very polarized field, in terms of supporting or not supporting the role of climate versus other factors. We don't want to contribute to the polarization, which I t......t virtually absent in the lungs of healthy people, supporting recent findings in mice showing a direct causative role for NKT cells. "Our findings were unexpected," says Dale Umetsu, MD, PhD, an immunologist at Children's Hospital Boston and senior investigator on both the human and mouse studies. "They sugges...The Green Revolution comes to Laos
.... "IRRI is very proud of the role it has played in supporting this achievement, but the real credit must go the Lao rice research community and the Swiss government for providing the financial support," Dr. Zeigler added. "Fifteen years ago, most Laotians were subsistence rice farmers and Laos was a net importe...New 'stars' in formation of nerve cell insulation
...ported in the March 16, 2006, issue of Neuron that supporting cells called astrocytes in the central nervous sys...e of their star-like shape, are the most prominent supporting cells in the nervous system. They provide critical regulatory molecules that enable nerve cells to d...ICCL and CI launch global mapping project to protect sensitive marine areas
...The full list of recommendations, as well as other supporting material developed by the science panel can be found online at www.celb.org and www.iccl.org . "The industry is grateful that these scientists have volunteered their time to aid the industry in identifying practices that will lead to a cleaner ma...Study explores why some individuals sacrifice to help others reproduce
...er wasps long considered one of the best examples supporting this theory the researchers found that not only was there cooperation and shared reproduction between sisters but also between distantly related or unrelated wasps. "This result strongly rejects the unique TS prediction that the level of cooperat...20 of world's top women scientists honored in Paris for groundbreaking research in life sciences
... 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine, "For her efforts in supporting highly qualified women with children to facilitate their progress in science". The Tribute was accompanied by a $100,000 donation to the Christiane Nsslein-Volhard Foundation.......t this hypothesis. The research suggests that, by supporting blooms of harmful seaweed, increasing nutrient pollution levels are reducing the areas where reef-building coral can survive, a result the team believes it is directly observing in Florida waters. On Mon., Feb. 20, Brian Lapointe, a marine ecologist...UQ researchers help lead the way in bird flu research
...ia. The project will look at ways of managing and supporting the responses of frontline health workers to an infectious disease outbreak. The research will expand current public health disease surveillance and triage strategies so emergency personnel can manage increased workloads within a highly infectious e...Bringing the zoos to the zebras
...t, and other speakers described their partnerships supporting conservation efforts in Nicaragua, Galapagos, and Madagascar. Earthwatch engages people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. 2006 marks the 35th anniver...Microsoft funds new high-performance computing institute at CU
...C researchers then led the development of software supporting Windows cluster computing, which has made supercomputing capabilities available to business and academia at relatively low cost. CTC consultants have helped develop cluster-computing facilities for several business and academic users. CBSU was create...Antioxidant supplementation not associated with decreased risk of prostate cancer
...general population; however, there are strong data supporting smoking cessation to reduce cancer incidence. The authors write, "Now and in the future, regardless of the eventual findings on vitamin E supplementation and prostate cancer risk, an important course of action for overall cancer prevention is to cont...Red grapefruit appears to lower cholesterol, fight heart disease
...tudy, which strengthens a growing body of evidence supporting the heart-healthy benefits of eating citrus fruit, was published Feb. 3 on the website of the American Chemical Societys Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry . The findings come at an appropriate time: The month of February has been designate...2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting: Press Conference Schedule
...ies. Topics to be presented include: 1) mechanisms supporting high biodiversity in the deep sea; 2) food web interactions among the organisms of the deep; and 3) recent advances in deep-sea observing technology. Synopses of ongoing international exploration efforts (e.g. MAR-ECO, Census of Marine Life) will be ...Pritzker gift to fund possible solutions for child obesity including testing YMCA programs
...rred to another exceptional junior faculty member, supporting his/her early work in the childhood and adult obesity field. Over time, the gift will seed the field with young faculty from a wide variety of disciplines -- from laboratory science to nutrition to social and behavioral sciences and epidemiology an...Thousands of Scots families to help scientists improve nation's health
..." The lecture Generation Scotland: genomic science supporting public health will be delivered this evening at the Royal College of Surgeons by Professor Andrew Morris, University of Dundee and Professor David Porteous, University of Edinburgh. The lecture will be chaired by Andy Kerr MSP, Minister for Health an......e the formation of blood vessel lesions in part by supporting the survival of endothelial cells that would otherwise die during arterial injury, and that agents that stimulate Akt activity may be beneficial in slowing arterial lesion formation and cardiovascular disease. TITLE : Decreased vascular lesion forma...