American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
... farmed sea bass, the researchers cite the need to verify the findings on larger samples of different fish. ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Discrimination of Wild and Cultured European Sea Bass (Dicentarchus labrax) Using Chemical and Isotopic Analyses DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample...Contributing membership in the biomarkers consortium surges to 30 companies and nonprofits
...onize approaches to identifying viable biomarkers, verify their individual value, and formalize their use in research and regulatory approval. The overall aim of The Biomarkers Consortium is to accelerate delivery of technologies, medicines, and therapies for successful prevention, early detection, diagno...Universal flu vaccine being tested on humans
...red to a small group of healthy people in order to verify the safety of the product and to provide an initial insight into the vaccines effect on the human immune system. Promising outlook Xavier Saelens, Prof. Emeritus Willy Min Jou, and Prof. Emeritus Walter Fiers are leading the fundamental research ...Gene's activity points to more lethal subtype of AML
... chromosomes. The present study was designed to verify that finding in a separate group of 76 AML patients under 60 years of age. It also took into consideration other genetic markers that signal whether the disease will respond well or poorly to standard therapy. We showed very similar results in thi...Satellite images reveal link between urban growth and changing rainfall patterns
...ess than $5,000. This technique could be used to verify compliance with other environmental agreements, added Ron Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Oregon and an expert on multi-national environmental treaties. ''Too often in the past policymakers have been at a loss as to how to e...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
...d been estimated to roam in the past. The team did verify the presence of the largest antelope on earth, the Derby eland, in Southern National Park. This species has gone extinct over much of its former range, so it is very good news that what we believe is a viable population has survived in Southern Natio...Cells re-energize to come back from the brink of death
...esent a basic, reproducible event. But in order to verify that hypothesis, well need to study it in the body, especially as we try to develop ways to force cancer cells without caspase to undergo CICD, Green said. Our goal is to find better ways to treat these diseases....Before selling carbon credits, read this
...l carbon credits, however, they need to be able to verify that changing soil management has increased the so...this model, farmers and landowners will be able to verify soil carbon change for carbon trading. Scientists report their findings on the reliability of the Ce...Investigating coral reefs to help understand past and future climate change
...es, from ice cores to ocean and lake sediments, to verify datasets. "The project has just started and we are trying to get a good chronological frame to make sure where we are. The ice core records are well advanced and we will go back to compare our data to theirs in a year of two. We also have geophysi...Scientists identify prion's infectious secret
...hogenic fungi cells, and vice versa. To further verify these results, Tessier accessed a synthetic yeast prion, one that another research group had assembled from pieces of both the bakers yeast and the pathogenic fungi prion. Earlier studies had shown that this synthetic prion could cross the species ba...'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus
...nsulator in the virus structure," Zhou says. To verify that it was an insulator at work, the researchers then inserted copies of the structure into fruit fly embryos to see if they could block the activity driven by gene-activating elements called "enhancers" during development. "If the element we wer...Tree rings show elevated tungsten coincides with Nevada leukemia cluster
...l rings then were analyzed for heavy metals. To verify that differences in airborne tungsten could be detected using tree rings, the team tested trees close to and distant from a known source of airborne tungsten in Oregon. Cores taken from trees close to that tungsten source had more tungsten than co...US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK
...cative of a global trend. We need more research to verify this, but the results from this study are very encouraging."...US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK
...cative of a global trend. We need more research to verify this, but the results from this study are very encouraging....Penn study finds ICD devices offer heart patients life-saving benefits
...udden cardiac death. It is also among the first to verify the effectiveness of ICDs in patients who were not...r implantation today, it is extremely important to verify that ICDs deliver value on par with the health care dollars expended in most heart patients, even am...These legs were made for fighting
... Carrier conducted various statistical analyses to verify his findings. First, he corrected for each species' limb lengths relative to their body size. Primates with larger body sizes tend to have shorter legs, humans excepted. Without taking that into account, the correlation between body size and aggressi...Novel salamander robot crawls its way up the evolutionary ladder
... demonstration that robots can be used to test and verify biological concepts, and that very often nature he...nical "body" to be properly evaluated and also to verify that the generated movements are close to those of a real salamander." This research may ultimatel...Insights into osteosarcoma in cats and dogs may improve palliative care
...ancer patients. The researchers are the first to verify that the expression of this protein, which worsens the effects of bone cancer in humans, also occurs in cats and dogs with skeletal tumors. Their study appears in the January-February issue of the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. "Osteosarc...New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
...rence library, enabling scientists to re-check and verify any puzzling results. The Smithsonian has barcoded an Ivory-billed woodpecker preserved from decades ago, "so if birdwatchers now find a fresh feather, we could strongly confirm the bird still survives," says Dr. Hebert. The researchers are looki...Study verifies more hazardous waste facilities located in minority areas
...retation of the findings, Mohai said, is that they verify what the environmental justice movement has argued for decades, that poorer minority neighborhoods are more often chosen for hazardous waste facilities than more affluent white neighborhoods. Therefore, policies that intervene in the siting process a...