Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...term partners, new research suggests. Conversely, the psychologists from Durham and St Andrews Universit...cheat on their partners. The study, published in the current edition of Personality and Individual Differences, asked over 400 British men and women to j...Role of thyroid hormones in slumber under investigation at Rutgers
CAMDEN While the thyroid has long been linked to metabolism, cuttin...erway at Rutgers UniversityCamden is investigating the possibility that thyroid hormones have an important role in sleep regulation. Thanks to a $415,36...Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
Just when you thought it was safer to stay out of the water. Microbes that result in beach closures an...ealth advisories when detected at unsafe levels in the ocean also have been detected in the sand, according to a recent study by a team of Stanford scienti...Penn researchers discover how key protein stops inflammation
PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine rece...a regulatory protein called Bcl-3 helps to control the bodys inflammation response to infection by interfering a critical biochemical process called ubiqui...Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing more rapidly than expected
CHAPEL HILL Corals in the central and western Pacific ocean are dying faste...uare miles of reef have disappeared per year since the late 1960s, twice the rate of rainforest loss. The reefs are disappearing at a rate of one perce...American Chemical Society meets Aug. 19-23 in Boston
... set to unfold in Boston Aug. 19-23. For one of the meetings early highlights, ACS President Catherine...s in biotechnology and nanotechnology. It supports the meetings overall theme, Biotechnology for Health and Wellness. In addition, the ACS News Service h...AAAS analysis finds Congress would add billions to FY 2008 R&D investment
...entatives are poised to add billions of dollars to the fiscal year 2008 research and development (R&D) budget, with much of the proposed new funding targeted for environmental, energy and biomedical initiatives, according to a n...UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
Scientists with the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCL...hers previously had been able to produce neurons - the impulse-conducting cells in the brain and spinal cord - from human embryonic stem cells. However, th...Growing food and fiber entails the use of fertilizer and irrigation systems and resul...products increases, and demand for biofuels grows, the pressure on agricultural systems is mounting. The challenge is to figure out how to meet these dema...Taking a supplement of glycine helps prevent degenerative diseases such as arthrosis or osteoporosis
.... Glycine is a non-essential amino acid used by the organism to synthesise proteins and is present in ... meat or dairy products. The study, carried out at the Cellular Metabolism Institute in Tenerife and at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biolog...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...mistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has announced the recipients of its annual awards competition. Eight...cience. The awards will officially be presented at the Experimental Biology 2008 meeting, April 5-9, in San Diego, Calif. I. Robert Lehman (Stanford Un...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
Here is the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) News Servic...als and Chemical & Engineering News. Please credit the individual journal or the American Chemical Society as the source for this information. ACS NEWS...Pregnant mothers join search for causes of autism
... will join UC Davis researchers and officials from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as they announce funding of $7.5 million for UC Davis autism re...Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
...to more accurately determine maintenance needs for the systems and anticipate equipment failures. Such ca... costly outages for equipment repairs. Funding for the projects came from the Department of Energys Industrial Technology Program and private dollars from ...Gene variant is associated with brain anatomy, clinical course of ADHD
A variant of the dopamine receptor gene may be associated with atte...isorder (ADHD) and with thinner tissue in areas of the brain that handle attention, but also appears associated with better clinical outcomes among individ...Genetic factors strongly shape how peers are chosen
RICHMOND, Va. (Aug. 6, 2007) As we develop, the company we keep may be increasingly influenced by ...ent becomes more and more important in influencing the kinds of friends we like to hang out with, said Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., a professor of psychiatry ...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
UK scientists have shown for the first time that key proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease are also implicated in glaucoma, the major cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Research carried out at the UCL Institute of Ophtha...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...pable of generating realistic milk images based on the fat and protein content will likely push the field of computer graphics into the realms of diagnostic medicine, food safety and atmospheric scien......ht be avoided one day by a better understanding of the reasons for this disease. Coordinated by the geneticist Ronald Roepman from Nijemegen, an important step has now been made in this direction by a......er conditions indicate potential for leaching from the use of atrazine-based herbicides in corn crops. Sc...niversity of Florida conducted studies to evaluate the specific groundwater risk from atrazine use by focusing on a specific cover crop that seems to have ...