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Indias First condom Bar Inaugurated by AIDS Patient

...ir told IANS. Chandigarh's AIDS control society project director Sonia Trikha appreciated the move by CITCO to spread awareness about the use of condoms through a regular bar. "Those visiting the bar will not be under any compulsion to be part of this awareness campaign. But this is a positive beginnin...

ISRO Chief Concerned About River Pollution

...e observatory system, he said. Another milestone project will be Chandrayan-1, said Nair, who is leading a team of scientists to give it shape. Under this project, a satellite would be placed in the moon's orbit to transmit data about its structure and look for indications of extra-terrestrial life. ...

Preserving Kidneys on a Pump May Promote More Organ Sharing

...In addition, Stratta said, the pump can be used to project the kidneys initial function allowing for more appropriate matching of donor organs and recipients. While machine preservation, or pulsatile perfusion, is not new, it is not widely used because it is more costly and labor-intensive. According to t...

Genetic Variation is Linked to Substantial Risk in Heart Attack

...parent), found on chromosome 9p21. The research project was led by the Icelandic genomics company deCODE Genetics, along with U.S. researchers at Emory University School of Medicine, Duke University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Myocardial infarction is the death of heart tissue that results whe...

Abu Dhabi to Have Worlds First Zero-carbon City

...rding to WAM news agency, the multi-billion-dollar project to create an eco friendly city was officially launched Monday here. Spread on an area of six square kilometres, the city - housing energy, science and technology communities and launched by Masdar and the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC) -...

Cataloging the Structural Variations in Human Genetics

...ase pair changes versus structural changes? The project Eichler and his colleagues describe in their paper will help answer this question. Using DNA from 62 people who were studied as part of the International HapMap Project, they are creating bacterial libraries of DNA segments for each person. The ends ...

Study Confirms Health Benefits of Whole Grains

...orldwide, there is evidence that whole grains also project against diabetes and other chronic conditions. "Years ago, scientists hypothesized that the higher rates of chronic diseases we have in the West, including heart disease, are due, in part, to a diet full of processed foods," Mellen said. "Subsequen...

Biotechnology Will Dominate The 21st Century

...so implementing a World Bank GEF capacity building project on bio-safety which includes strengthening the national capacity for effective legislative frame-work, operational mechanism, establishing bio-safety data base and supporting a network for research in the area of risk assessment and monitoring. The...

Biometric Passports For Indians

... be issued for diplomats and officials as a pilot project by the end of 2007. Based on the experience gained from this pilot project, it is proposed to start issuance of e-passports in the ordinary category by the end of 2008. A Technical Committee has been constituted to finalize the technical specifica...

Use of Swedish 'snus' is Linked to a Doubled Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

...o snus. "Were actually not that surprised," says project leader Professor Olof Nyrn of the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. "Pancreatic cancer has been under discussion in several earlier epidemiological studies on humans, both regarding Scandinavian snus and American smoke-free tobacc...

National Rural Health Mission Project Requires 200,000 Nurses

... said that under the National Rural Health Mission project (NRHM), the country requires about 200,000 nursing personnel to provide comprehensive health care. In order to achieve the requirements of NRHM, State Governments have been advised to enhance the capacity by establishing additional nursing trainin...

Singapore to Import Eggs, Fish from Andhra Pradesh

...n. Reddy advised them to immediately take up the project in right earnest and prepare a proper action plan with definite milestones. He promised to extend all support. He told them that they could start purchase of land from the farmers directly without involvement of middlemen. Setting aside the protoco...

NIH Awards Emory $3.6 Million for Schizophrenia Gene Research

...ntly discovered variation in the human genome. The project is led by Stephen T. Warren, PhD, Timmie Professor...le to only a few major research centers, the Emory project will screen a collection of 500 schizophrenic patients and 500 controls (individuals without schizop...

Female Reproductive Function Influenced by Childhood Environment

..., UCL Department of Anthropology, who directed the project added: "The theory that early environmental factors may affect reproductive function has been suggested previously by anthropologists, but this field study is the first to use measurements of hormone levels to demonstrate a link between childhood env...

Modest Increase in Urban Parks Could Equalize Global Warming Until 2080s

...g drier months, he added. Dr Ennos worked on the project with Professor John Handley and Dr Susannah Gill in the School of Environment and Development. The findings appear in the journal Built Environment....

New Substance Use Prevention Program Being Developed

...University has received letters of support for the project from 20 Rhode Island middle schools and is now meeting with schools to arrange for their participation in September. One of the unique features of these interventions is that they are tailored to each student. They are also fully interactive, makin...

Investigating Coral Reefs to Help Understand Past and Future Climate Change

...d another technique. This became possible during a project where the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) provided Camoin with the technology to drill down to 1100m recovering more than 600m of reef cores from 37 holes at depths ranging from 40 117m from the area around the island of Tahiti....

UC Regents Approve Fundraised Campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

...nts. The first phase of the Mission Bay hospital project is estimated to cost about $1.3 billion. State support for these facilities is expected to be limited; therefore, any new hospital construction must be financed through a combination of medical center reserves, debt financing and private support. T...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

... and district levels? asks Arajmand Hussain Talib, project manager at Action Aid International, Srinagar. Shaheena from Bijbehara was brought to the psychiatric hospital in 2000, seven years after the incident that caused her her trauma. Her elder brother was among the 43 killed in Bijbehara on October 22,...

Scientists Map Genome Sequence Dengue Mosquito

...enes in Ae. aegypti. "An important part of this project is gene annotation which predicts numbers and locations of mosquito genes in the genome. In parallel to sequencing DNA in chromosomes, scientists have also sequenced large amounts of messenger RNAs collected from different mosquito tissues at distinc...

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