Monash University doctor awarded prestigious national fellowship
...eral practitioners to increase the number of women taking folate during the periconceptual period so that th...Victoria, only 30 per cent of women are aware that taking folate can reduce the incidence of NTD and national figures are no better. The key lies with educati...Researcher examines polymers created with poultry feathers
...ments is a challenge, Barone explains. Barone is taking his lead from nature to find potential solutions to these performance requirements. He is investigating the properties of polymers created from poultry feather keratin. The protein, keratin, is a major component of hair, nails, and feathers and makes...OneWorld Health selects Odyssey Research for phase 4 study in India
...of the remotest areas of Bihar. We look forward to taking up this unique challenge and contributing productively towards the success of this study," he continued. Gland Pharma Limited, the Hyderabad, India -based drug manufacturer, working in collaboration with OneWorld Health, received regulatory approva...Evolutionary Medicine Meeting will advance a new scientific discipline
...ct scenario to study evolutionary changes that are taking place at the genomic, physiological and morphological levels among individuals, families and populations, and to extend these results to prescribe medications based on natural relationships of individuals based on evolutionary principles." By catal...Think herbal supplements are safe? Think again, book by Saint Louis University doctor says
... patient had changed anything perhaps had started taking a new medication. No new medicine. Then the pat... enhance memory. Both husband and wife had started taking the herbal memory enhancer, which largely contained ginkgo biloba "One of the side effects of gink...Ewwwww! UCLA anthropologist studies evolution's disgusting side
...ep it from fighting the "foreign" genetic material taking shape in the womb. Because the consequences of infection are also greatest for the fetus during this period, Fessler reasoned that natural selection may have armed pregnant women with an emotional response that helped compensate for their suppressed ...Bacterial response to oxidation studied as toxin barometer
...aleimide, as a constant, Ikuma and Rzigalinski are taking measurements and seeing correlations of GGKE response to mitochondrial damage in cell cultures. If we can create a library of cellular response, we might have either a generic or a specific predictor, said Brian Love, professor of materials science...Researchers figure out what makes a simple biological clock tick
... KaiB and KaiC when they began analyzing what was taking place in the test tube they discovered a lot more was going on than they had imagined. "The coolest part is that a simple biological machine can do such an astounding thing as keeping time," says Williams. "It is the most fascinating biological puzzl...Bacteria from patient's dental plaque causes ventilator-associated pneumonia
... prevent opportunistic, hospital-acquired disease, taking care of teeth and gums while hospitalized might be especially important." ...The Parkinson's Institute to conduct Phase III Clinical Trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease
...are still early in the disease process but already taking medications for their symptoms. Not only does this allow more patients to participate, it also generates data that is applicable to a wider range of PD patients. Another measure designed to broaden the applicability of the findings is the minority re...Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu
...ill host some U.S. students and researchers, while taking responsibility for specific tasks: JLU will support the scheduling of multiple clusters (CSF4) to distribute jobs transparently at multiple sites around the region; AIST will support the deployment of Gfarm in conjunction with researchers at the ...Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection
...ial Pathogenesis and Immunology. "You should start taking an antibiotic the moment you come down with the viral infection to prevent the secondary infection, but physicians are reluctant to do this for fear of increasing resistance to antibiotics. So were really in a catch-22 situation." Fischettis lab ha...Winner of Tyler Environmental Prize announced
...avings in carbon dioxide emissions would amount to taking 200,000 to 400,000 cars off the road, according to van Lier. Lettinga said that anaerobic treatment "is becoming the method of choice for the treatment of practically any type of wastewater. We foresee that in due course the same will happen for s...PNNL becomes DOE flagship for incentive-based waste management practices
...g the Gold Standard for our laboratories, which is taking that next step beyond just complying with the environmental requirements, said Arnold Edelman, acting associate director for Safety, Security and Infrastructure for the DOE Office of Science. He noted that PNNL is the first DOE facility to receive su...Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
...region's genetic resources by simply gathering and taking ownership over almost everything in their path," says Aroha Mead, Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, and co-editor of the book, Pacific Genes and Life Patents, launched at the university March 20. An absence of regulat...Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria
...ron, invading bacteria are tricked, in a way, into taking it up. Unfortunately for the bacteria, gallium can't function like iron once it's inside bacterial cells." The researchers showed that gallium killed microbes, and prevented the formation of biofilms. Importantly, gallium's action was intensifie...Researchers create artificial enzyme that mimics the body's internal engine
...hat happens." He said that single turnover is like taking a single photograph of an event, while steady turnover is like shooting a movie. Damaged enzymes Once Collman's group had solved the continuous electron supply problem, the scientists systematically removed each of the three active centers-phen...Smithsonian scientists report new carbon dioxide study
...ill respond to higher CO2 by increasing growth and taking upmuch of the excess carbon. This has led some to speculate that plantsmay be able to mitigate increases in atmospheric CO2 and that soils,which represent the largest and most stable terrestrial carbon pool,also may serve as a sink for excess carbon....Iowa State University botanists identify new species of North American bamboo
...rate bamboos are related to each other. That means taking inventory of what exists, then comparing notes," Clark said. They already know that the closest relatives of native North American bamboos are not in Central or South America, but are in East Asia. "That's a well-known pattern of diversity in p......end to have shorter legs, humans excepted. Without taking that into account, the correlation between body size and aggression indicators might be false. Another analysis corrected for the fact different primate species are related. For example, if three closely related species all have short legs, it mig...