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Rearing an army to save wheat

...l. Pallipparambil-Robert's work, as part of his completed master's degree, used large cages placed over whea...nsas. The late summer and autumn efforts are being completed by Frazier. It became her job to tend the cages of parasitic wasps every few days, after Palliparamb...

Sequencing of the oyster mushroom genome

... of the project, the reading of the genome will be completed and the annotation of the genes perfected. In the end, all the information will be placed at the disposal of the scientific community free of charge. ...

NASA satellite data helps assess the health of Florida's coral reef

...da's coral reef as part of a field research effort completed this August and September. The project was the first comprehensive assessment of the resiliency of reefs along the entire National Marine Sanctuary that stretches about 300 miles from Martin County to the Dry Tortugas in the Florida Keys. Scientist...

New study: Preterm birth causes one-third of all infant deaths

... that in 2002 preterm birth, birth at less than 37 completed weeks gestation, contributed to more than one-third of infant deaths within the first year of life. "We have long known that babies born too soon face many challenges ?even death," said Joann Petrini, Ph.D., director of the March of Dimes Perinatal...

Researchers show that veins stiffen as we age

...he Journal of Applied Physiology. Young recently completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at UD, with Farquhar as his adviser, and is now pursuing a doctorate in physiology and pharmacology at the University of Missouri. Stillabower is a cardiologist and director of cardiovascular research at Christiana...

Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

...ing smooth muscle in the airways. The procedure is completed in three treatment sessions, each lasting less than one hour, and spaced apart by about three weeks. The procedure, like many other flexible endoscopy procedures, is done under light anesthesia, and the patient returns home the same day. The objec...

MIT's ocean model precisely mimics microbes' life cycles

...y particular area. What emerged after the model completed its 10-year virtual evolution -which took four to five days on a cluster of parallel computers-is a phytoplankton community with members that are characteristic of observed phytoplankton communities, including plants similar to prochlorococcus that a...

A revolution in the monitoring of unborn babies

...n October this year. “To date we have successfully completed over 33 per cent of the clinical trial. We expect to complete clinical trials in July 2007. This represents a tremendous achievement to turn a research device into a medically approved product in only two years ?an experience which will place us in g...

2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible

...uses taken from samples around the world have been completed and the sequence data made available in a public database. "This information will help scientists understand how influenza viruses evolve and spread," says NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., "and it will aid in the development of new flu vaccine...

Adding radiation decreases breast cancer recurrence

...lop additional breast tumors compared to women who completed the recommended five year course. Based on these study findings, the authors "recommend that mastectomy or breast conserving surgery with radiation therapy, along with adequate duration of adjuvant hormonal therapy for hormone-responsive tumors, b...

Lead-'scrubbing' drug may also improve muscle function in lead-exposed children

...rformed only after each child—then 5 years old—had completed the succimer or placebo therapy. Tests were designed to eliminate or challenge factors that help maintain postural balance, such as eyesight and visual context. “Our statistical analysis revealed that subjects who received succimer therapy show...

A steady, high-fat diet is bad, but the news gets worse

...rmed a mathematical test designed to be stressful, completed a public speaking exercise about something emotionally provocative, held an arm in ice water, and had a blood pressure cuff inflated around an arm, which gradually causes a dull ache. "Regardless of the task, we recorded greater reactivity am...

Napoleon's mysterious death unmasked, UT Southwestern researcher says

...ve been dead within a year," he said. Dr. Genta completed some of the work for this report while at the University of Geneva. Researchers from the Aarau Cantonal Hospital and the Institute of Pathology at the University Hospital of Basel, both in Switzerland, and McGill University in Montreal also contribut...

Eating less salt could prevent cardiovascular disease

...searchers followed up participants from two trials completed in the nineties which had been conducted to analys...e first Trial of Hypertension Prevention which was completed in 1990, 2382 in the second, which ended in 1995. In both trials participants reduced their sodium i...

Producing medicines in plant seeds

... However, the production of proteins in plants is completed in a different way than in humans. Therefore, to be certain that this different completion process does not affect the effectiveness of the potential medicine; the scientists have subjected the action of the antibody variant to an exhaustive battery ...

Iowa State University botanists identify new species of North American bamboo

...appalachiana. Clark, Triplett and Weakley recently completed the intricate process botanists are obliged to follow to officially name and describe a newfound species. Following rules laid out in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, they prepared a short description of the plant in Latin and a long...

New technologies coming too fast for Indian farmers

...iences, at Washington University in St. Louis, has completed the first detailed anthropological fieldwork on these crops and the way they impact ?and are impacted by ?local culture. The study, published in the February 2007 issue of Current Anthropology, focuses on cotton production in the Warangal District ...

Africa's first large-scale HIV vaccine study launches

...ls that are infected with HIV. The studies already completed with this vaccine suggest that it is generally well tolerated and that the response of the immune system or immunogenicity is high. In South Africa, the vaccine trial is called "Phambili," which means "moving forward" in the Xhosa language. Volu...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

...d a valley," Knight noted. Once recordings were completed at one site in the muscle, the electrode was repositioned to sample from other motor units within the muscle. Knight and graduate student Dhiraj Poojari and undergraduate researchers Maria Bellumori and Christopher Martens then analyzed the firing...

New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza

...tional Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists have completed the most comprehensive analysis to date of published influenza A virus epitopes--the critical sites on the virus that are recognized by the immune system. The findings, reported by researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIA...

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