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Study shows hope for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...ancial ability to access research hospitals, where expert neuropsychologists continuously interview patients and caregivers over six to 12 months to make a diagnosis,?said Polikar, principal investigator on the project at Rowan. “But most people don’t have access to such facilities and instead go to communi...

Why aren't humans furry? Stone-Age moms could be the answer

...d Horrobin, the renowned researcher, biotechnology expert and founder of Medical Hypotheses ( http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/623059/description#description ), who died in 2003. Harris' paper describes Stone Age societies in which the mother of a newborn had to decide whether ...

Manipulating nature: Scientists query wildlife birth-control method

...ome politicians and animal-welfare agencies. An expert in mammal reproduction, Professor Cooper, of the UNSW School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, questions immuno-contraception on three grounds. "Firstly, immuno-contraceptives are ineffective against substantial minorities of animal...

Does God answer prayer? ASU research says 'yes'

...e benefit of another person,?said Hodge, a leading expert on spirituality and religion. “Some have found positive results for prayer. Others have found no effect. Conducting a meta-analysis takes into account the entire body of empirical research on intercessory prayer. Using this procedure, we find that p...

Mystery of fossilized trees is solved

... in Dr Christopher Berry of Cardiff University, an expert who has studied tree fossils around the world for the last 17 years. Dr Berry was able to identify the trunks as being of the genus Wattieza, a tree fern-like plant. Small fragments of Wattieza have been found in the past, but there was no direct ...

Boosting brain power -- with chocolate

...st to cognitive skills, a University of Nottingham expert has found. A study led by Professor Ian Macdonald found that consumption of a cocoa drink rich in flavanols ?a key ingredient of dark chocolate ?boosts blood flow to key areas of the brain for two to three hours. Increased blood flow to these are...

Billions of dollars saved in US by polio vaccination

...Global Immunization Division Senior Advisor and an expert on polio said, "This study documents the extraordinary power of vaccines not only as highly effective tools to prevent disease, disability, and death, but to provide enormous economic savings to society." Although the last case of paralytic polio...

Lower carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled power plants possible with technology development

...the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. Rochelle is an expert on reducing industrial emissions. For these studies, he will draw upon two decades of experience developing and testing similar technology to remove hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from natural gas. Rochelle will share one third of the TXU fu...

Stem cell therapy shows promise for rescuing deteriorating vision

...und, an author of the new study and an eye disease expert at the University of Utah and the Oregon Health and Sciences University. The neural progenitor cells, which arise from stem cells and further differentiate into different types of cells found in the central nervous system, were being tested for their...

ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays

...y mineralogy. Haydel is an assistant professor and expert in tuberculosis in the School of Life Sciences and with the Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccinology in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. "People are interested in natural cures and I think that there is a lot of nature tha...

NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd

...mation to park officials," said landscape dynamics expert Fred Watson, principal investigator of the project and an assistant professor of science and environmental policy at CSUMB. "Ecologists try to best understand how animal populations respond to the changing conditions of the landscape where they live....

Antibiotic inhibits cancer gene activity

... Senthil Radhakrishnan, a visiting bioinformatics expert at UIC, is first author of the paper. Uppoor Bhat, Douglas Hughes and I-Ching Wang also contributed to the study. ...

Tearing down the fungal cell wall

...University of Wisconsin, Madison and international expert in fungal secondary metabolism, commented: "The finding that a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase is integral to conidial morphology further illustrates the versatile and essential role of these secondary metabolites in fungal biology. For years long i...

Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology

...eller is a third member of the UCSD team. He is an expert on using electric fields to actively manipulate biomolecules and assemblies of nanostructures. His expertise will be utilized to accelerate and enhance the sequencing process. The UCSD team will use an experimental method for DNA sequencing aimed ...

Finding an answer to Darwin's Dilemma

...eans, says Queen’s paleontologist Guy Narbonne, an expert in the early evolution of animals and their ecosystems. In 2002, Dr. Narbonne and his research team found the world’s oldest complex life forms between layers of sandstone on the southeastern coast of Newfoundland. This pushed back the age of Earth...

New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

... Its recommendations are endorsed by a blue-ribbon expert advisory panel of some 30 African-American leaders that includes, among others, Julian Bond (chairman, NAACP), Dr. Louis Sullivan (former Secretary of Health and Human Services), Dr. David Satcher (former U.S. Surgeon General), Marian Wright Edelman ...

Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases

...Peter Hotez, Editor-in-Chief of the journal and an expert on tropical diseases at George Washington University. "For centuries, these have been forgotten diseases among forgotten people. We hope this journal will help to turn back the tide of neglect." Dr. Hotez will discuss the journal during a panel d...

Researchers examine why food tastes bad to chemotherapy recipients

..., the principal investigator on the project, is an expert on water quality and treatment, as well as its taste and odor assessment. In fact there are some 33 identified flavors of drinking water acknowledged by the American Water Works Association and Research Foundation (AwwaRF). They range in description...

Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry

...he alternative medicines industry, argues a cancer expert in this week’s BMJ. It is estimated that up to 80% of all patients with cancer take a complementary treatment or follow a dietary programme to help treat their cancer, writes Jonathan Waxman, Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London. Yet ...

Second opinion yields treatment changes for half of patients

...tive effort of multiple medical specialties allows expert opinion and recommendations based on the most recent research findings. Meanwhile, the patients come to only one setting, with no need to visit multiple specialists individually,?says study author Michael Sabel, M.D., assistant professor of surgery a...

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