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Biodiesel study targets cleaner air, cleaner engines

...e of its kind in Canada. It involved six farms to evaluate the effectiveness of using biodiesel in agriculture. "This project was designed to accelerate the adoption of biodiesel use on Ontario farms through a series of on-farm evaluations," said Deanna Deaville, Special Project Coordinator with the Ontar...

NIAID expands capability for influenza research and surveillance

... identify new targets for antiviral medicines; and evaluate flu transmission between patients and physicians in the hospital emergency room setting. Emory will also offer a training program for postdoctoral fellows and veterinarians interested in influenza and other research performed in a biosafety level 3 l...

No magic tomato? Study breaks link between lycopene and prostate cancer prevention

...he researchers, the study is one of the largest to evaluate the role of blood concentrations of lycopene and o...ing, randomized National Cancer Institute trial to evaluate cancer screening methods and to investigate early markers of cancer. "It is disappointing, sinc...

Cow protein aids in treatment of gastrointestinal disorder

...f resistance. “Various studies are under way to evaluate new antibiotics and different therapeutic methods to increase the efficacy of H. pylori therapy,?says lead author Nicola de Bortoli, M.D., Ph.D., adding that “data suggest that antibiotic resistance is frequent and clinicians are realizing that use o...

Better health twice as likely for nonsmokers who live and work with smoking restrictions

In the first study of its kind to evaluate how smoking restrictions in the workplace and at home affect health status, researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health found that nonsmokers who live under both a total household and total workplace smoking ban are over two and a half times m...

DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis

...DOE JGI Genome Biology Program Head, said that, to evaluate the magnitude of this problem and identify the inh... proposed by Mavrommatis and his colleagues was to evaluate and compare the existing methods to see which performs best for the particular environmental samples...

High-dose anticlotting drug cuts heart attack, death risk in half

...ed to prop open the clogged coronary artery. To evaluate the effect of the clopidogrel loading dose, researchers from University of Turin and Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, performed a meta-analysis of data from 10 studies involving more than 1,500 patients. Roughly half of the patients wer...

HIV survival improves if patients stay in care

...ple who are newly diagnosed with HIV in Houston to evaluate the effects of knowledge about the disease socioeconomics, and other factors on retention in care. ...

Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch

...ics announced it had initiated a Phase II trial to evaluate intravenous administration of Reolysin in patients with sarcomas that have metastasized to the lung. For patients with deadly soft tissue sarcoma, the lungs are the most common site of metastatic disease. To date, surgery has been the only effective ...

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement safe, successful in high-risk patients

...c valve and in the severity of heart failure. To evaluate the CoreValve system, Anita Asgar, M.D., and her colleagues at Montreal Heart Institute recruited 17 elderly patients with a severely narrowed aortic valve, all of whom had been turned down for surgery because of other health problems. In severe narr...

DNA repair proteins monitored at double-strand break

...ir proteins arrived at or around the DNA break and evaluate its repair—even when particular proteins shifted away from the break to make room for others. A report on this work appears in the May 7 online issue of "Nature Cell Biology." The findings are important because disruption of the precise movemen...

Novel system developed to turn data into real-time, interactive 3-D images

...de doctors with a dramatically improved ability to evaluate medical images that are commonly used. This patent-pending technology allows for interactive viewing of large image data sets from virtually any medical imaging device and has led to a licensing agreement with Northeast-Ohio-based Standing Rock Imagi...

Gene expression patterns predict rapid decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients

... disease progression and, more importantly, better evaluate the effectiveness of potential therapies," added Talmadge E. King Jr., M.D., chief of medicine at San Francisco General Hospital and an internationally renowned expert in research and management of pulmonary fibrosis....

Mutating the entire genome

...ne DNA sequences, and this new method allows us to evaluate what these sequences do,” says Mario Capecchi, distinguished professor and co-chair of human genetics at the University of Utah and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The new method “is significant because it makes it...

New study finds genetically engineered crops could play a role in sustainable agriculture

... groundbreaking study and the first of its kind to evaluate the current science surrounding genetically modified crops. The results are significant for how we think about technology and the future of sustainable agriculture,” said Peter Kareiva, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy. According to lea...

The insect vector always bites twice

...nsible. They called on immunological techniques to evaluate qualitatively and quantitatively, in the serum sam... of human subjects, or be used in endemic areas to evaluate the efficacy of existing vector control strategies, such as the use of impregnated mosquito nets. An...

Agent slows aging in mice

...ding that the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t evaluate the safety of such herbal remedies....

FDA sees nanotech challenges in every product category it regulates

...er regulatory agencies—have the means necessary to evaluate which nanomaterials are harmful and which are not. This is an issue that Congressional leaders from both parties have called on the federal government to address urgently,” said Maynard....

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