Carnegie Mellon's Peter Adams receives EPA research grant
...researchers Allen L. Robinson and Neil M. Donahue, who recently published a paper in Science that revolutionized our understanding of major sources of organic particulate matter. A fleet of new coal-powered plants is supposed to be coming over the horizon. As recently as May, U.S. power companies announ...Edible fish feasts beats malaria
... findings present a win-win situation for Kenyans, who can use the fish to limit mosquito populations and gain food and income from them too. "O. niloticus fish were so effective in reducing immature mosquito populations that there is likely to be a noticeable effect on the adult mosquito population in t...Sugar and spice and everything nice: Health differences in newborn girls and boys
...ion shows that the outcomes are worse for children who receive organs from female donors. Clinical studies have shown that, compared to males receiving male livers, males receiving female livers experience a higher incidence of early complications and almost twice the amount of graft losses. During li...Weizmann Institute scientists discover a control mechanism for metastasis
...th factor receptors on the cell walls. In patients who received these drugs, the harmful 'plug' proteins had disappeared from the cancer cells. Prof. Yarden: 'The mechanism we identified is clinically important. It can predict the development of metastasis and possibly how the cancer will respond to trea...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
... signature to identify the subset of DCIS patients who are likely to suffer a recurrence, he added. T... therefore be used to aid those remaining patients who have been identified as unlikely to suffer a recurrence to choose to undergo breast conserving surge...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
...nd environmental sciences. Payne, a paleobiologist who joined the Stanford faculty in 2005, studies the Permian-Triassic extinction and the following 4 million years of instability in the global carbon cycle. In the July issue of the Geological Society of America Bulletin, Payne presented evidence that a...Ecologists work to link kids with nature
...lth, and economic data also indicate that children who connect with nature perform better in school and exhibit fewer behavioral challenges. Lowman and her colleagues in the symposium hope that other ecological scientists will join them in seeking creative activities to link kids with their environment. ...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
... diagnosis. Separate comparisons were made for men who were diagnosed with testicular cancer between 1973...rison group. But men treated between 1973 and 1979 who later developed cancer in the lung and several sites below the diaphragm (areas exposed during radia...Lost forest yields several new species
...e most substantial threat. Further, survey members who met with the leaders of local villages have found ... a park while supporting the livelihoods of people who live in the landscape....Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
...s not associated with sunspots. The researchers, who represent five institutions from the United States and Great Britain, offered several reasons why sunspot peaks may affect rainfall. The increased solar energy associated with sunspots, they suggest, heats both land and sea, forcing moist air to rise...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
...on power, and by groups of doctors and specialists who want to examine patient scans simultaneously at multiple sites, enriching diagnostics. For example, a modified version of the Access Grid enabled epidemiologists and immunologists to treat patients without exposing others to infection during the SAR...Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...ess warm, compared to their feminine counterparts, who had finer facial features with fuller lips, wide e... terms of all personality traits compared to those who looked unhealthy. Similarly, older faces were generally viewed more positively compared to younger o......underpin productivity working. So say researchers who will participate in a symposium, Tipping points in the biosphere: Agriculture, water, and resilience during the Ecological Society of Americas Annual Meeting. Tipping points occur when an ecosystem is overwhelmed by the demands placed on it and can...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...gulation. The Merck Award is given to a researcher who makes outstanding contributions to research in bio... Service Award. The Award recognizes an individual who best demonstrates dedication to public service in support of biomedical science. Castle was selected...Pregnant mothers join search for causes of autism
What: Pregnant women and new mothers who already have one child with autism will join UC Da...m Teleconference: Reporters outside of the area who are unable to attend can participate by teleconference:Phone number: 1-866-650-4885 Conference ID:...Gene variant is associated with brain anatomy, clinical course of ADHD
...ers, the authors write. Analyses of the children who participated in the follow-up revealed that the di...ppeared by late adolescence. Individuals with ADHD who carried the DRD4 7-repeat allele had better clinical outcomes and regained thickness in their right ...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...Francesca Cordeiro from University College London, who led the study. Dr Cordeiro is also a consultant ophthalmologist at the Western Eye Hospital, London, specialising in glaucoma. "However, this doesn't mean that everyone with Alzheimer's will develop glaucoma or vice versa. Glaucoma has a number of ri...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...and absorb light could be important to the doctors who are using light to treat skin cancer and other ski...o see how others implement our model, said Jensen, who is making the model available to other researchers....Research team enlightens the reasons for severe blindness
...Marius Ueffing (GSF Institute for Human Genetics), who leads the project at GSF. The LCA5 gene encodes ...has been already successfully implemented for dogs who naturally suffer from LCA: the treated dogs regained their permanent eyesight due to this therapy. A...UCF research links proteins, stem cells and potential Alzheimer's treatment
...ive hope to patients and their families. Sugaya, who is the founder of the International Brain Conference at UCF, has been spent his entire career studying the brain. Six years ago, he reported that brain stem cells transplanted into aged rats seemed to become functional neurons and improved age-associ...