NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
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...dology and isometric handgrip (IHG) exercise three times a week for eight weeks at 30% of maximal voluntary contraction. IHG's effect on carotid distensibility Adrienne Visocchi led a group studying whether arterial distensibility (AD, or the ability of arteries to stretch) contributed to the reduction ...Society for Psychophysiology Research
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...s scheduled for the five-day conference. Dates and times of the sessions described are in italics. Members of the press may register and customize their own schedule by visiting http://www.eshow2000.com/geron/about_the_meeting.cfm . Promoting The Health of an Aging Population: Experts Present New Resear...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Black women are three times more likely than white women to die during pregnancy, and twice as many black babies as white babies die in infancy. Yet researchers know little about why pregnancy and infant health differ by race, despite massive efforts to address this persistent ...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...ng the fluorescent signal hundreds to thousands of times brighter. Enhancing the fluorescent signal also eliminates a time-consuming part of the current bacteria detection process. Small amounts of bacteria are difficult to detect and to count how many bacteria are in a sample, scientists often have to "p...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...ylene, dichloromethane, and phenol, at rates 2.5-7 times greater than previous designs (2pPA4). In the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry, there has been no reliable way to monitor silicon wafers as they undergo dozens of crucial "megasonic" cleaning steps, in which the wafer is immersed in a liqui...Estrogen protects male rats from aortic aneurysms
... muscle cells from aortas of male rats contain 2.5 times more destructive MMP-9 protein and 10 times the level of MMP-9 gene expression compared to the same cells from female rat aortas. Known to be in...Study in Royal Society journals presents evidence for inherited factors in homosexuality
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...that the snapshots are not only taken at different times but also each image is of a completely different population of cells than the other. Scientists have tried to use these images to piece together theories of disease progression, but have had great difficulty interpreting their results because of the ...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
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...pe of fluorescent dye called Venus, which glows 20 times brighter than other dyes, and tagged the microtubules of a type of mouse neuron called a granule cell. Rockefeller scientist Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D., an expert on the centrosome and on techniques for visualizing microtubules, collaborated with Hatten and...Ancient Chinese folk remedy packs anti-cancer punch
...mwood plant and used throughout Asia since ancient times to treat malaria. Although the compounds are pr...that the artemisinin-tagged transferrin was 34,000 times more effective in selecting and killing the cancer cells than normal cells," Lai said. "Artemisinin ......ch aimed at sequencing a human-sized genome at 100 times lower cost than is possible today. There is strong potential that, five years from now, some of these technologies will be at or near commercial availability. Grant recipients and their approximate total funding are: Stevan B. Jovanovich, Ph.D., Micr...