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National Academies advisory: Invasive aquatic species in the Great Lakes

On May 7, a National Research Council committee will hold a meeting in Toronto to gather information on trade in the Great Lakes region and ways to eliminate further introductions of nonindigenous aquatic species into the lakes by vessels traveling the St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee's final re...

New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology'

...versity of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-chair of the committee that wrote the report. "Shedding light on thousan...best to encourage its success. In particular, the committee was asked to recommend promising directions for future studies. It concluded that the most efficien...

Music genes and musical geniuses

...e Festival’s guest Country. Scientific advisory committee G. Barbujani (Ferrara-Italy), D. Drayna (Rockville-USA), T. Fitch (St. Andrews-UK), L. Lopez (Rome-Italy), I. Peretz (Montréal-Canada), D. Pettener (Bologna, Italy). ...

Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack

...ent of an epidemic. These findings emerge from a committee of smallpox experts ?including infectious-disease ...otect against a smallpox attack. None of us on the committee believed this was necessary, including D.A. Henderson, who intimately understands the natural histor...

Report focuses on the role good microbes play in future medicine

...nd Drug Administration, a co-chair of the steering committee that produced the report. Probiotics can help prevent and treat disease through a number of mechanisms. One way is by interacting directly with the disease-causing microbes, making it harder for them to cause disease. An example of this is the ing...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

...l for Human Genome Research, a federally chartered committee that advises NHGRI on program priorities and goals. It also consists of a set of organisms whose genome sequence will add to the comprehensive strategic list of priority targets for genomic sequencing by the NHGRI's Large-Scale Sequencing program. ...

Malignant melanoma cells secrete protein required for embryo formation

...g School of Medicine and a member of the executive committee of The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Jolanta M. Topczewska and Lynne-Marie Postovit, from Children's Memorial Research Center, co-led the study. Working with Brian Nickoloff of the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer C...

Anti-inflammatory drug's potentially deadly side effect found to be rare

... his colleagues formed an independent adjudication committee with its own charter. The committee's other member...tions of potential PML were detected, to the three committee members. Based on data from these tests and evaluations, researchers identified 44 "cases of concer...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...ing for GEI will be managed by an NIH coordinating committee under the usual government rules, subject to competition between research facilities, and begin in FY 2007. The research will lead directly to the identification of major genetic susceptibility factors for common diseases of substantial public heal...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

...an Genome Research, which is a federally chartered committee that advises NHGRI on program priorities and goals...he evolutionary biology of genomes. A coordinating committee then reviews the working groups' proposals, helping to fine-tune the suggestions and integrate them ...

Kenya halts first field trials of GM maize

...alidity of the trial's results. On 25 August, the committee ordered the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Servic...h. In July, IRMA staff had notified the biosafety committee that the maize had been sprayed with the insecticide Furadan. Stephen Mugo, IRMA's project coordina...

PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection

...IV infection by about 60% (95% CI: 32%?6%). The committee monitoring this study considered that the protecti... Peter Cleaton-Jones, chair of the ethics committee that approved the trial, looks at the ethical issues surrounding the trial. Nandi Siegfried...

Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now

...portant studies, ask its distinguished peer review committee to review its draft report so it could improve the final version. Arthur Upton, former director of the National Cancer Institute and chair of the CRESP Review Committee on behalf of its sub-committee on Amchitka said of that draft: "The methods were ...

A 'dimmer switch' for genes

... creates a necklace using similar beads and then a committee comes along and decorates it, putting a gold star here and a diamond there. These modifications give the protein different properties." The "decorations" that were studied were phosphate molecules, which previously had been shown to build up on prot...

Possible treatment found for 'chemobrain'

... Research (NACHGR), which is a federally chartered committee that advises NHGRI on program priorities and goals...he evolutionary biology of genomes. A coordinating committee then reviews the working groups?proposals, helping to fine-tune the suggestions and integrate them i...

NHGRI Selects 13 More Organisms for Genome Sequencing

... Research (NACHGR), which is a federally chartered committee that advises NHGRI on program priorities and goals...he evolutionary biology of genomes. A coordinating committee then reviews the working groups?proposals, helping to fine-tune the suggestions and integrate them i...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

...l meeting next week in South Korea. The scientific committee of the IWC includes many of the world's leading marine scientists, who last year endorsed the methodology of the WWF report. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy last year noted that bycatch is the greatest threat globally to whales, dolphins and por...

Novel targets found for the development of drugs to complement, or replace, statins

...l meeting next week in South Korea. The scientific committee of the IWC includes many of the world's leading marine scientists, who last year endorsed the methodology of the WWF report. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy last year noted that bycatch is the greatest threat globally to whales, dolphins and por...

Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines

...l meeting next week in South Korea. The scientific committee of the IWC includes many of the world's leading marine scientists, who last year endorsed the methodology of the WWF report. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy last year noted that bycatch is the greatest threat globally to whales, dolphins and por...

Leading scientists rank endangered dolphins, porpoises most in need of immediate action

...l meeting next week in South Korea. The scientific committee of the IWC includes many of the world's leading marine scientists, who last year endorsed the methodology of the WWF report. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy last year noted that bycatch is the greatest threat globally to whales, dolphins and por...

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