Road salt affects mitigation wetlands
...e, the Behrend College. In November 2003, PennDOT completed a four-lane highway connecting Interstate 90 with the Erie waterfront. A portion of the road crossed the Penn State Erie campus. PennDOT asked researchers if they wanted to use the road building as an opportunity to do research. "PennDOT has really ...OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies
... III clinical trial for visceral leishmaniasis was completed in November 2004 by OneWorld Health in collaboration with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO/TDR). The clinical trial used the injectable form of paromomycin in 667 patients in I...15-year hunt finds cause of pseudothalidomide syndrome
..., the United States and elsewhere has successfully completed a 15-year-plus search for the genetic problems behind the very rare Roberts syndrome, whose physical manifestations often include cleft lip and palate and shortened limbs that resemble those of babies whose mothers took thalidomide during pregnancy. ...Penn Researchers Use Robotic Surgery
...of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, have completed two studies ?the most comprehensive and largest to date ?that demonstrate the effective use of the daVinci Surgical Robotic System to perform Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery (TORS) which greatly reduces surgical trauma for patients. Their initial findings...Two new retroviruses—transmitted from animals—identified
...of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, have completed two studies ?the most comprehensive and largest to date ?that demonstrate the effective use of the daVinci Surgical Robotic System to perform Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery (TORS) which greatly reduces surgical trauma for patients. Their initial findings...'EuroVacc 02' HIV Vaccine Trial Begins
... same clinical centres in Lausanne and London. The completed phase I study showed that the NYVAC-HIV-C is safe and immunogenic. The DNA-HIV-C vaccine was developed by Professors Hans Wolf and Ralf Wagner at the University of Regensburg based on a representative Chinese subtype C isolate CN54 jointly developed ...$5.1 billion would save 6 million children
...hild mortality by two-thirds by 2015. Past studies completed by Black and his colleagues found that two-thirds of the almost 11 million child deaths worldwide could be prevented with existing knowledge and treatments. In order to decrease child death rates, adequate funding must be available to provide compreh...Tamoxifen-like drug suggests new ways to selectively block estrogen
...of tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer. The drug has completed initial phase I clinical testing and has garnered significant interest from the pharmaceutical industry. ...New study: Sexually transmitted disease treatment can be effectively administered by sex partners
... treatment arms. Nearly 80 percent of the patients completed a follow-up interview four weeks later, and 38 percent were re-tested for STDs. The researchers found that about 70 percent of men in the patient-delivered partner treatment arm gave the intervention to their partners (giving antibiotics), compared ...Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
... treatment arms. Nearly 80 percent of the patients completed a follow-up interview four weeks later, and 38 percent were re-tested for STDs. The researchers found that about 70 percent of men in the patient-delivered partner treatment arm gave the intervention to their partners (giving antibiotics), compared ...New Finding May Aid Adult Stem Cell Collection
... treatment arms. Nearly 80 percent of the patients completed a follow-up interview four weeks later, and 38 percent were re-tested for STDs. The researchers found that about 70 percent of men in the patient-delivered partner treatment arm gave the intervention to their partners (giving antibiotics), compared ...Assessing the Amazon River's sensitivity to deforestation
...e University of Viçosa in Minas Gerais, Brazil and completed in 2002, put together an enormous collection of data describing the physical characteristics of the Amazon River Basin. The data included the first detailed representation of the stream network throughout the 6 and 1/2 million km2 basin, and by itsel...Scientists discover that three molecules may be developed into new Alzheimer's drugs
... by pharmaceutical companies, but in this case was completed in an academic environment. ...Scientists at Galileo Pharmaceuticals confirm inflammatory response linked to glucose levels
... by pharmaceutical companies, but in this case was completed in an academic environment. ...Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to develop into eggs and sperm in the laboratory
...f this technique at the moment. We would then have completed the circle of making HESCs from eggs that came from HESCs ?what came first the chicken or the egg?!" ...Sandia completes depleted uranium study
Sandia National Laboratories has completed a two-year study of the potential health effects associated with accidental exposure to depleted uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf War. The study, "An Analysis of Uranium Dispersal and Health Effects Using a Gulf War Case Study," performed by Sandia...Multi-species genome comparison sheds new light on evolutionary processes, cancer mutations
...rat genome sequence data generated by the recently completed Human Genome Project." Chromosomes are the threadlike "packages" of DNA located in the nucleus of each cell. When cells divide, a chromosome occasionally breaks and the fragment can get stuck onto another chromosome. In addition, fragments may break...Female volunteers prepare for a second 'bedrest'
Twelve women recently completed 60 days of voluntary bedrest in order to simulate the physiological effects of weightlessness on the human body. The research team in Toulouse, France, is now actively seeking twelve new volunteers to enable them to continue and enhance the research....Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record
...across time and space, the authors used a recently completed archival database (which they also built) that integrates the geographic data with fossil datasets, called the Miocene Mammal Mapping Project (MIOMAP). MIOMAP includes all western North American mammals from 5-30 million years ago - 3,100 localities ...Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases
...tide sequence databases allow researchers to share completed genomes, the genetic make-up of entire ecosystems, and sequences associated with patents. The INSDC has realized the vision of the researchers who initiated the sequence database projects, by making the global sharing of nucleotide sequence informati...