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Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...l. (4aAA3). The LDS Conference Center contains the largest theater-style auditorium in the world (21,333 seats). In a special session at the Conference Center on Wednesday morning (June 6), John Longhurst, senior organist for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir ( longhurstjt@ldschurch.org ) will discuss and demonst...

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

...ording to the researchers, the study is one of the largest to evaluate the role of blood concentrations of lycopene and other carotenoid antioxidants in preventing prostate cancer. Study data were derived from over 28,000 men enrolled in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Tri...

Rare soft-shell turtle, nesting ground found in Cambodia

One of the world’s largest and least studied freshwater turtles has been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction. Scientists from Conservation International (CI), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Cambodian Fisheri...

City ants take the heat

...rchers discovered that ants within South America's largest city—São Paulo, Brazil—could tolerate heat better than ants from outside this city. Their findings, to be published in the online journal PLoS ONE, suggest that ants have adjusted their physiology in response to urban warming. "We don't know wheth...

Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system

...from the W.M. Keck Foundation, one of the nation's largest philanthropic organizations and a major supporter of pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research. The system will fill a void in medical and scientific imaging. Right now, researchers trying to understand the complex ...

Study examines genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease

... for Alzheimer's Disease. "This is one of the largest studies of its kind and involves many Welsh families " said Professor Julie Williams. “It is by virtue of the support given to us by Alzheimer's sufferers and their carers that we are able to understand factors involved in the disease process. Many ...

Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again

...ow defunct World Stem Cell Hub by building Korea's largest stem cell institute on land provided by the Korean government. ...

Gene found for rare disorder may reveal new pathway in mental retardation

.... Krantz and Jackson together maintain the world's largest database of patients with CdLS. The current study screened 115 patients who did not have mutations in the NIPBL gene, but who were judged to have CdLS or a milder variant of the disease, based on evaluations by clinical geneticists. Of the 115 pa...

Human's ecological footprint in 2015 and Amazonia revealed

...esearchers projected 20 nations that will have the largest ecological footprints in 2015, with the United States, China and India, topping the list. According to the study, the greatest absolute increase will occur with China and India, where both population and economic growth, represent 37 percent of the ...

Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans, C&EN reports

...stopped using the compound, including the nation’s largest poultry producer, Tyson Foods, according to the article. Still, about 70 percent of the 9 billion broiler chickens produced annually in the U.S. are fed a diet containing roxarsone, the article points out. Complicating the issue is the fact that ...

Researchers identify ovarian cancer biomarkers

...conducted this research. The study analyzed the largest number of samples to date in tumor vasculature, or blood vessel, profiling. While many of the genes identified in this analysis have been shown previously to be involved in tumor vasculatures for other cancer types, several of the markers appear to b...

Brown cancer biologists identify major player in cell growth

...cal oncology research for Lifespan, Rhode Island's largest health care system. "This discovery not only adds to our basic understanding of cell division, it could lead to better cancer drugs. And they're needed. Cancer touches everyone." During the cell cycle, the four-phase process of cell division, ther...

MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development

...She found that the coarse folds, equivalent to the largest folds in a crumpled piece of paper, develop earlier and more slowly than fine-grained folds. In addition to providing insights into cortical development, the team is now comparing the images to those being collected from patients with autism. “W...

New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza

...on of the extensive database, which has become the largest single collection of such information anywhere in the world. It includes data from thousands of separate articles published over several decades, providing extensive dossiers on dozens of pathogens. "The purpose of the database is to provide a cata...

LIAI completes world's most comprehensive analysis on influenza virus data

...chers developed the database ?which is the world's largest repository of scientific data on how the body's immune system responds to infectious agents -- under a $25 million contract awarded by the NIAID in 2004. The database places particular emphasis on emerging infectious diseases, such as West Nile v...

Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid

...at spend much of their lives in one of the world’s largest ecosystems, the mesopelagic zone [650 to 3,300 fee..., it reaches from Alaska to Chile and supports the largest cephalopod fishery in the world," said Gilly, an authority on squid who is based at Stanford’s Hopki...

Study calculates patient time costs associated with cancer care

...,388 for ovarian cancer. Hospitalizations were the largest component of patient time costs in both the initial year after diagnosis and in the last year of life. "For 2005, the estimated cost for the initial phase of care alone was approximately $2.3 billion," the authors write. These estimates could be co...

Chlamydia vaccine a step closer to reality

...r Timms said Sanofi-Pasteur was one of the world's largest companies devoted to the development of human vaccines. "The fact that such a large vaccine company as Sanofi-Pasteur has selected QUT to help develop Chlamydia vaccines points to the value of the work being done here," he said. "Despite this c...

New species of snapper discovered in Brazil

...udes the Abrolhos area which contains the nation's largest concentration of coral reefs. The new species is named for 18th century naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, whose extensive work in the Brazilian interior remains largely unknown. Moura and Lindeman spent five years observing Lutjanus alexand...

Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes

...o squeeze as much information as possible from the largest metagenomic dataset ever collected. For more information about the expedition, please go to: the J. Craig Venter Institute (URL: www.sorcerer2expedition.org and www.venterinstitute.org ) ...

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