Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
...oring. Into the future, Professor Burrows and his team have also proposed the Geostationary Scanning Imaging Absorption spectrometer (GeoSCIA) an instrument which would - if selected for flight - provide the high temporal and spatial sampling required for a truly representative picture of tropospheric sc...Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
...can Physical Society meeting in Los Angeles. The team sought to investigate the role the body's internal clock, the circadian pacemaker, might have on heart performance either directly, through influencing cardiac dynamics such as heartbeat, or indirectly, through its influence on motor activity control...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
...ested in cell culture, is a polymer developed by a team of chemists at The University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Texas A&M University. If successful in future studies, it could lead to new, more effective drugs for treating the disease, they say. The polymer also holds potential as a marker for diag...Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
...ren younger than five years. The Atlanta research team studied pneumococcal isolates and demographic data from patients with invasive disease. They calculated cumulative incidence rates for invasive pneumonia from 1994 to 2002 using population estimates and census data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The d...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
A team of researchers led by University of Illinois at Chicago professor S. Jay Olshansky is predicting a decline in life expectancy in the United States later this century. That prediction, which is based on the dramatic rise in obesity, especially among y...Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
...inkston for three years. Zheng recently joined the team and is studying how the additive allows the experiment to be successful. The company is providing her with a fellowship for spring and summer 2005....Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...the face and take its pulse. The medical research team will make the first ever measurements of blood oxygen in the 'death zone', at altitudes above 8,000 metres where the human body has struggled - and frequently failed - to survive. The Centre for Aviation, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (CASE...Compound may help prevent diabetes in fast-food fans
...ated. Over a four-week period, Yokoyama's research team fed a group of hamsters a high-fat diet about 38 ...g special analytical techniques, the investigative team also studied metabolic changes in the test animals at the genetic level. They found significant diff...Multi-center study shows direct link between residential radon exposure and lung cancer
...es. Field and Lynch were part of an international team of researchers, who performed the combined analysis of the original residential radon studies, conducted in Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Utah-South Idaho, as well as Winnipeg, Canada. The original studies were funded from several fede...Newly discovered pathway might help in design of cancer drugs
...ing the DNA itself." In the lab, Greenberg and his team used organic chemistry to create a synthetic, double-stranded DNA with special chemical characteristics and exposed it to long wavelength light that selectively switches on the DNA damage process. He said that the synthetic DNA is very similar to t...Orchestra pit no danger to hearing
...f there is a risk to their hearing." Behar and his team first determined through the personnel manager that the musicians play for 300 work hours per year, including performances and rehearsals. They then tested 67 volunteers who were requested to wear a noise dosimeter a small cigarette-sized instrument...Teen tooth trauma prevalent in Ontario
...$250,000 for four teeth." Locker and his research team examined a random sample of 14-year-olds in schools served by six Ontario public health departments: Durham region, Halton region, Hamilton, Simcoe County, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph and York region. Overall, 18.5 per cent of the teens almost one in...Brain imaging studies investigate pain reduction by hypnosis
...added. In addition to Schulz-Stubner, the research team included Timo Krings, M.D., Ingo Meister, M.D., Stefen Rex, M.D., Armin Thron, M.D., Ph.D. and Rolf Rossaint, M.D., Ph.D., from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany....Dental practitioners can be instrumental in preventing their patients' eating disorders
...ations of disordered-eating behavior. A research team from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) conducted a study was to assess dentists' readiness and capacity to prevent disordered eating. Reporting their findings today during the 83rd General Session of the...'Speaker's cramp', a new type of involuntary mouth-, lip-muscle movement
...sound distortion, has been diagnosed by a research team in Copenhagen, Denmark, and termed "Speaker's Cramp". Symptoms were reduced when the affected muscles were treated with Botox injections. Patients rated their speech difficulties on visual analogue scales, and video recordings for dystonia scores and...Study finds direct association between cardiovascular disease and periodontal bacteria
...ictor of stroke and heart attack. An investigative team of researchers from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and Columbia University (New York City) presented their findings today at the 83rd General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, convening at the Baltimore Conventi...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
.... "The school and the Glenn Laboratories research team thank Mr. Glenn and the Glenn Foundation for their...rie restriction. In the summer of 2003, Sinclair's team showed in a paper published in Nature that a compound found in red wine called resveratrol could sti...Growth hormone treatment improves symptoms of metabolic disorder in postmenopausal women
...organs. Dr. Gudmundur Johannsson and his research team at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden i...at content and size of the thigh muscle area. The team discovered that the GH treatment in postmenopausal women significantly reduced their intra-abdominal...Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
...ith the same variant in the CFH gene. Hoh and her team used new genetic analysis and microscopic imaging technologies to find the genetic variant of the AMD gene. "What sets our study apart from previous research is that we used many more genetic markers to find the specific gene and variation," said Hoh......expensive HRGs to gain extra revenue. The research team examined hospital episode statistics to determine whether foundation hospitals showed a change in numbers of emergency admissions and coding patterns compared with those providers still under the old block contracts. Foundation trusts showed a greate...