Invasive sea squirt alive and well on Georges Bank
....-Canada boundary, a joint research team announced today following a research cruise that concluded last week. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the University of Rhode Island estimate that mats made of thousands of individual...How the battle of Waterloo could help doctors fight death from multiple organ failure
...one killer of patients in intensive care. Speaking today at a public lecture held in London, Professor Mervyn Singer from UCL's Institute of Intensive Care Medicine said the impressive survival statistics of injured soldiers at the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar serve as a reminder of how we underestima...Studies in Royal Society journals include stress in birds and depletion of medieval fish stocks
...uces, or discounts, value in the same way that $10 today is worth more than $10 next month. We explain how impulsiveness can be beneficial without discounting. Many natural choice situations have a structure that can reduce or eliminate the long-term costs of impulsiveness.In addition, impulsive rules ha...Isotron licenses ORNL cancer treatment technology
...with cancer, including brain tumors, some of which today have five-year survival rates of less than 1 percent," said Manfred Sandler, a cardiologist and chief executive officer of Isotron. "So we see this as an extremely significant development in the race to cure cancer." Sandler hopes the treatment, w...Scientists generate human islet precursor cells in culture
...for diabetes treatment. The study appears on-line today in Science Express, the rapid publication web site of the journal Science. Insulin-producing beta cells exist in spherical clusters, called islets, in the pancreas. Research shows that beta cells are born, die, and are replaced by other beta cells t...Science survey ranks top biopharma employers
...tech, Inc, of San Francisco, CA, earned top honors today in a ranking of the world's most respected biopharmaceutical employers. The ranking, determined from a survey conducted by an independent research firm commissioned by the business office of the journal, Science , will appear in a special supplement...Patients' own stem cells used to cure incontinence
...he first clinical study of its kind were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). "Urinary incontinence is a major problem for women, and for an increasing number of men," said Ferdinand Frauscher, M.D., associate professor of radiology at the Medical Univ...NIH makes award to UNC for Genome Fingerprint Scanning program
...the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today it will provide more than $1 million over three years to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to further develop and make more widely available a Genome Fingerprint Scanning (GFS) program. The tool allows researchers to match mass spectro...Thyroid treatment can trigger homeland security detectors
...hs after treatment, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures, including FDG PET scans, bone scans and cardiac scans, can have a similar effect, although for shorter periods. "The nuclear medi...Researchers reconstruct parts of the genome of a common mammalian ancestor
... All of the placental mammals living today are descended from an early species that lived tens of millions of years before the final demise of the dinosaurs. This species underwent a rapid diversification, splitting into the evolutionary lineages that have led to today's placental mammals. Be...Stem cells may hold promise as multiple sclerosis cure
...le sclerosis (MS), according to research presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor the cells' progress through the affected brain regions. "Cell therapies are a promising true alternative in the...NU researcher finds missing atmospheric carbon dioxide
...OSTON, Mass. A Northeastern University researcher today announced that he has found that the soil below oak trees exposed to elevated levels of carbon dioxide had significantly higher carbon levels than those exposed to ambient carbon levels. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that elevated c...Study suggests nutrient decline in garden crops over past 50 years
...planation was changes in cultivated varieties used today compared to 50 years ago," Davis said. "During those 50 years, there have been intensive efforts to breed new varieties that have greater yield, or resistance to pests, or adaptability to different climates. But the dominant effort is for higher yiel...A complex agricultural society in Uruguay's La Plata basin, 4,800-4,200 years ago
...0 years ago, the climate was much drier than it is today and "Wetlands became biotic magnets for human habitation providing an abundant, reliable, and a resource-rich supply of foods and water. Furthermore, wetland margins offered an ideal place for the experimentation, adoption, and intensification of agr...Study gives US a 'C' for lagging support of international reproductive health and population efforts
.... (December 2) - In a comprehensive study released today by Population Action International (PAI) - an independent policy and research organization based in Washington, D.C. - the United States ranks 16th and receives a "C" on a list of 21 donor countries graded according to their financial and political s...Common lineage suggested for viruses that infect hosts from all three domains of life
...on of its kind in the nation, The Wistar Institute today is a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center -- one of only eight focused on basic research. Discoveries at Wistar have led to the development of vaccines for such diseases as rabies and rubella, the identification of genes associated with...New study discovers why 'persister' cells never say die
Northeastern University today announced that biologist Kim Lewis has discovered the gene that prevents antibiotics from successfully destroying infections within biofilm. For years, scientists have struggled to understand why a certain type of infection known as biofilms are ...Wolfgang Heckl awarded Descartes Prize for Science Communication
...f the Deutsches Museum in Munich on 1 October, was today awarded the European Commission's new Descartes Prize for Science Communication. This is the first time that this 50,000 prize has been awarded. Wolfgang Heckl received the prize in the "Professional Scientists engaged in Science Communication to the...Read your shampoo's label: Study finds common ingredient stunts developing neurons of rats
...ding to a University of Pittsburgh study presented today at Cell Biology 2004, the 44th annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. The meeting is being held Dec. 4 8 at the Washington Convention Center. Prolonged exposure to low levels of methylisothiazolinone (MIT) restricted growth of axon...... RNA expression, according to an article published today in Journal of Biology. This challenges the conventional view that tissue-specificity is the best predictor of function, and could speed up the quest to understand whole genomes, in humans and other mammals, by decades. The authors have made their mo...