US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
... hope." The full text of the article is available free on the journal's web site at http://www.nejm.org. Olshansky will also present the results of the paper at the Second International Conference on Healthy Ageing and Longevity in Brisbane, Australia on March 20. ...Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity
...fic publishers. The final rule ignores significant free access policies already existing in the not-for-pr...nt--not just NIH supported articles--available for free to the public within 12 months. Not-for-profit publishers believe that the public would be better se...GeneNotes - A novel information management software for biologists
...and (b) provide quick views of genes. GeneNotes is free for academic usage. The program and the tutorials are available at: http://bayes.fas.harvard.edu/genenotes/. GeneNotes provides a novel human-computer interface to assist researchers to collect and manage biological information. It also provides a p...Birds brains reveal source of songs
...ublished online in advance of the May issue of the free access journal, Public Library of Science Biology. "We've known there are several brain areas involved: a motor circuit for producing the song, and a learning circuit, called the AFP (for anterior forebrain pathway), that sends its output to the moto...Navigating an integrated yeast network
...005, 4:6 (1 June 2005). This article is available free of charge ...FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines
...: The Best Consumer is an Educated Consumer." This free session will allow members of the general public the opportunity to hear about the science behind personalized medicine, an issue of critical importance to both consumers and FDA. Presentations will be from experts in the field and there will be time...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
...ine trial, call the Vaccine Research Center's toll free number 1-866-833-LIFE, or visit the VRC Web site http://www.niaid.nih.gov/vrc/clintrials/clinstudies.htm. The vaccine in this study builds upon an experimental vaccine developed by CDC researcher Jeff Chang, D.V.M., Ph.D., of Fort Collins, CO, that ...Red delicious, Northern Spy apples have most antioxidants, chemists find
... scavenge and neutralize unstable molecules called free radicals. Free radicals, which can wreak havoc on cells and tissues, appear to play a role in the onset of heart disease and prostate, colon and other cancers. Polyphenols ?phytochemicals that act like astringents ?are major sources of antioxidants ...South African Tribunal Asks For Damages Estimates in GSK AIDS Drug Case
...‘Ithembalabantu?(Zulu for people’s hope) clinic, a free AIDS treatment clinic in Umlazi Township, KwaZulu ... SA), and a partner with AHF in the Ithembalabantu free AIDS treatment clinic in Durban. “So much so, that more than 100,000 South Africans recently signed ...Elephant seal pups suffer from ocean warming
...05, 3:9 (28 March 2005) This article is available free of charge, according to BMC Biology's Open Access policy at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/3/9 ...Scientists discover how Ebola virus infects cells
.... Once this protein is snipped apart, the virus is free to begin multiplying. The scientists applied broad-spectrum enzyme inhibitors to mammalian cells before exposing them to Ebola virus. When one specific cellular enzyme, cathepsin B, was inhibited, the infectivity of Ebola virus dropped to near zero. ......ompanies. PathwayStudio?Central is available for a free 20 day trial at www.ariadnegenomics.com. PathwayStudio?Central builds pathways from microarray data, identifies biomarkers, and models drug responses. The software comes with ResNet?database of 500,000+ functional relationships and MedScan?tool for ...Researchers find gene that may be at root of potato blight
...the few countries in the world that was previously free of the disease. Agricultural problems caused by oomycetes don't stop with P. infestans. Related Phytophthora species cause root rot in soybean plants as well as sudden oak death, which is devastating stands of oak trees along California 's coast and...Internet viruses help ecologists control invasive species
...leaving these lakes travel to lakes that are still free from the spiny water flea. Earlier work by the pair found that another lake in the network, Lake Muskoka in central Ontario, has served as the hub from which 39 other lakes have become infected since 1989. "It quickly developed into a regional hub f...Human Eggs Can Develop From Ovarian Surface Cells In Vitro
...2005, 3:17 (5 May 2005) This article is available free of charge, according to Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology's Open Access policy at: http:/?www.rbej.com/content/?/?/?7 ...Researchers test new therapy for advanced melanoma
...sappeared and the treated animals remained disease free for the full length of the study (100 days), Dr. Heller said. Furthermore, he said, even when melanoma cells were reinjected into the cured mice the tumors were rejected. This indicates the immune system formed a memory response that recognized the ...Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly
...e who answered that cars are greater killers win a free trip to the beach. It's really no contest, says a Texas A&M University professor. Your chances of being in a wreck are far greater than being a shark's lunch, says John McEachran, a professor of wildlife and fishery sciences who has studied shark...New HIV drug candidate developed in Sweden
...e who answered that cars are greater killers win a free trip to the beach. It's really no contest, says a Texas A&M University professor. Your chances of being in a wreck are far greater than being a shark's lunch, says John McEachran, a professor of wildlife and fishery sciences who has studied shark......e who answered that cars are greater killers win a free trip to the beach. It's really no contest, says a Texas A&M University professor. Your chances of being in a wreck are far greater than being a shark's lunch, says John McEachran, a professor of wildlife and fishery sciences who has studied shark...Computational Tool Predicts How Drugs Work In Cells, Advancing Efforts To Design Better Medicines
...d protein targets, eliciting therapeutic responses free of unwanted side effects. The research, which appears in the March 4 issue of Nature Biotechnology, reports on collaborative work by a team of biomedical engineers and chemists at Boston University. The team was led by Tim Gardner, an assistant prof...