Scientists track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, climate change
...tith, a principal investigator on the project. "We want to determine how the various particles of dust and pollutants influence clouds and climate, and how far downwind those effects occur." "PACDEX comes at a crucial time in our efforts to understand the regional impacts of global warming," says V. Ram...Renowned nutrition experts tackle nation's obesity problem in new book on primary care nutrition
...mary care doctors and all health professionals who want to clearly understand all the important issues in ...lth professional program directors and faculty who want to improve nutrition training offerings and textbook choices....First systematic study of China's one-child policy reveals complexity, effectiveness
...res (districts comparable to U.S. counties). "We want to clear up confusion about the one-child policy," said Wang Feng, sociology professor at UC Irvine and a lead author of the study. "Despite what some say, the policy has not been 'relaxed' over the years." Published in the current issue of the jou...Carnegie Mellon University research shows how sensory-deprived brain compensates
...w an animal senses its environment. Ultimately, we want to understand at the molecular level the dynamic between sensory use and neural plasticity," Barth said....New imaging approach promises insights into multiple sclerosis
... great, but it's not enough," Cheng said. "We also want to study other molecules and see the interactions between cells." Researchers simultaneously took images of astroglial filaments, critical components of structures called astrocyte processes, which provide structural support for the nerve fibers in...University of Alberta researchers unravel intricate animal patterns
...er." The results of the model suggest that if we want to better understand the aggregations we see in nature, says Eftimie, we should take a look at how these animals communicate....Winter flounder on the fast track to recovery
...ised flounders' impact on the wild population. "We want to be sure we're not displacing or otherwise harming the wild fish," she says. "Targeted at the restoration of commercial and recreational fish and shellfish, enhancement is becoming a very important tool in NOAA's fishery management tool box," say...Health disparities -- Genetics, society and race play an important role in access to healthcare
...t in Caucasians that's the number one question we want to answer," Zanetti said. "Is it possible that this is actually an African American risk factor?" According to Zanetti, the PLCO study gives the researchers the high level of power needed to detect whether these associations really exist in Caucas...AAAS, National School Boards Asso. join in historic effort to improve science, math & tech education
...nity values for the school district, but they also want to advocate for students to the community. And for that, she said, they want the clearest, most current understanding of science-related curriculum and educational resources. ...Protein fragments sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex
...that when people make new discoveries now, if they want to get maximum information out, they have to immediately handle material in a way that first of all will avoid contamination and, second, ensure that whatever is there gets well preserved because it can be interrogated." The scraps of dinosaur prot...Third primate genome, the rhesus macaque, helps illuminate what makes us human
...key findings and four supplementary Reports. "We want to know what makes us human," Gibbs explained. The human genome, sequenced in 2001 began providing many clues, but researchers knew they would benefit by having other genomes for comparison. In 2005, the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) genome allowed sc...Milk beats soy for post-weighlifting muscle gain
...ON. April 9, 2007 -- Got milk? Weightlifters will want to raise a glass after a new study found that milk protein is significantly better than soy at building muscle mass. The study, conducted by a team of researchers at McMaster Universitys Department of Kinesiology, was recently published in the Am...Different approach needed to protect brains of premature infants
... tool for seeking out and testing new drugs, so we want to test a number of new pharmaceuticals to see if any can protect axons early in brain development," Goldberg says. ...Little lifesavers -- Nanoparticles improve delivery of medicines and diagnostics
...nd so the drugs stay inside our particles until we want them to leave," he said. Beyond using size alone to target cancer cells, the team is working with Princeton mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Wole Soboyejo to create nanoparticles that have specific linking molecules on their surfaces....India's biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
...cal needs, she says. Global health authorities want to take advantage of the capabilities of these firms to develop products as well as the social responsibility mandate on which these firms were founded to encourage them to develop products for so-called neglected diseases. We argue that yes, the...... turn the fusion gene on and off when and where we want it, says Capecchi. In less mature muscle cell precursors, the SYT-SSX2 gene disrupted normal development of mouse embryos, and they died, but there was no cancer. When the cancer gene was activated in mature muscle cells, cancer did not appear,...Disease can be our ally, not just our enemy, says new book by UCR evolutionary biologist
...s part of an effort to spread to other hosts. You want to encourage the former and squelch the latter. Take fever, for instance. Animals allowed to raise their body temperatures through fever recover more quickly than those given fever-reducing drugs. Children in particular are given fever reducers fa...Females do best if they wait a while
...tarting to breed late in life is a bad idea if you want to maximise the number of offspring that you produce - or so the theory goes. But doubt has now been cast on this hypothesis - one of the biggest assumptions in behavioural ecology - by researchers from the universities of Bristol and Cape Town and......human "wanted to domesticate a wolf and they didnt want to adopt a big sucker" due to confined quarters in...came in with a small dog and everyone said, Ooh, I want a dog like that! Can I use him to father my next dog?" Meanwhile, other people bred dogs to be la...Cold Spring Harbor Protocols highlights reliable methods for gene and protein analyses
...dy are virtually indistinguishable. Scientists who want to examine the properties and functions of specific proteins, as well as the activities of individual genes, must rely on chemical tags to manipulate and visualize them. This month's release of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols highlights methods for cr...