Chickens dieting to help Delaware waterways
...University; and Wendy Powers, a swine nutritionist who formerly was at Iowa State University and now is a... company has 600 growers across the Eastern Shore, who produce 150 million broiler chickens a year. Miller serves on an advisory committee in UD's Colleg...Parents seeking sex abandon 1 in 3 offspring
...d Dr Tamas Szkely from the University of Bath (UK) who worked with colleagues from Etvs University (Hungary) and University of Groningen (Netherlands). But whilst this is great for you, for your partner it is not so good. They end up having to stick around and rear the kids, which means they miss out o...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...scientists from academia, government, and industry who are working to address growing concerns about misu...e molecules that they make, states Roald Hoffmann, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Hoffmann has chosen to address this issue in an usual wa...Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...erapeutics that could help the thousands of people who suffer from ALS. In the diseases early stage, symptoms may be so hard to detect that the disease gets overlooked. But by the end stages of the disease, the patients are totally paralyzed. ALS is a terrible disease, Gerhard says. Your brain is fin...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
... Jorge Oksenberg, PhD, a UCSF neurology professor who has been involved in the development of the UCSF collection for more than a decade, said that it wasnt until scientists were able to combine the potential of both repositories with the intellectual and financial resources of previously competing rese...Reading ability protects brain from lead exposure
ST. PAUL, MN Lead smelter workers who are better readers have more protection against the effect of lead exposure on the brain than those who do not read as well, according to a study on the impact of cognitive reserve published in the July 3...Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
... roots in ideas proposed by James Baldwin in 1896, who made the counter-intuitive argument that learning within each generation could guide evolution of innate behaviour over future generations. It now seems that Baldwin may have been more right than he could have guessed, even though concepts such as ar...Injection drug use and HIV and HCV infections among Ontario prison inmates
...re highest among inmates aged 30 or more and those who reported a history of injection drug use. A history of injection drug use was reported by 30.3% (477/1576) of the adults and 4.7% (14/299) of the young offenders. Two percent of the adults tested positive for HIV antibodies and 17.6% tested positive ...MIT team building robotic fin for submarines
...replicate exactly what nature does, said Tangorra, who will soon be joining the faculty of Drexel University. We want to figure out what parts are important for propulsion and copy those. So far, the team has built several prototypes that successfully mimic the sunfish fin. They reported the successful...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
... better treatment choices for individual patients, who often respond differently to the same drug, and could help drug developers identify the ideal compounds on which to focus their research. In addition, the model could help test the effectiveness of drugs for a wide range of diseases, including vari...Insulin grown in plants relieves diabetes in mice; UCF study holds promise for humans
... to produce insulin and help millions of Americans who suffer from insulin-dependent diabetes, according to University of Central Florida biomedical researchers. Professor Henry Daniells research team genetically engineered tobacco plants with the insulin gene and then administered freeze-dried plant c...First new multiple sclerosis gene found in 30 years
...the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who spearheaded the collection of multiple sclerosis p...Silke Schmidt, Ph.D., co-first author of the paper who is also at the Duke Center for Human Genetics. We showed that the exact same genetic change in IL-7R...After a decades-long search, scientists identify new genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis
...otential treatments for at least 350,000 Americans who have the disease. "These studies describe the fi...to create a large risk, he said. The researchers who conducted the candidate gene search also think they know how variation in the IL7R-alpha gene affect...Nottingham biosciences million pound injection
... work and creativity of a large team of scientists who have worked at the University of Nottingham and within Regentec over the past five years. They are pioneers in terms of their science, but also in ensuring that the expertise and knowledge honed in a research-intensive university can be translated ...New research identifies anti-viral protein that may predict who might be at risk to develop lupus
...f their healthy relatives. Specifically, Dr. Crow, who is director of Rheumatology Research and associate... known that a characteristic of patients with SLE, who are mainly women in their childbearing years, was an abnormally high blood level of interferon-alpha...Prenatal stress keeps infants, toddlers up at night, study says
...ers-to-be are at increased risk of having children who will experience sleep problems in infancy and todd..., assessed pregnant women living in Avon, England, who were due to give birth in a 21-month window. More than 14,000 women an estimated 85 to 90 percent o...Strength of connections between brain regions may affect an adolescent's response to peer influence
...ity between these regions was stronger in children who were marked as less vulnerable to peer influence. These children were also found to have more activity in the prefrontal cortex, an area important for decision making and inhibition of socially inappropriate behavior. This is important if we are t...Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone
...microbe is the discovery of a lifetime for someone who has studied bacterial photosynthesis for as long as I have (35 years)," says Bryant. "I wouldn't have been as excited if I had reached into that mat and pulled out a gold nugget the size of my fist!" He adds, "I am really grateful to Dave Ward for ...Innovative research technique reveals another natural wonder in Yellowstone Park
...microbe is the discovery of a lifetime for someone who has studied bacterial photosynthesis for as long as I have (35 years)," says Bryant. "I wouldn't have been as excited if I had reached into that mat and pulled out a gold nugget the size of my fist!" Yellowstone habitats have been explored since th......nhance the education experience for undergraduates who are involved. The project, Resilience and Vulner...ind those federal programs is to help universities who may have gotten a late start, like ours, kind of play catchup, Jones said. We really have done a go...