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Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones

...attend. "It is particularly important that we are meeting in Bangkok because the number of people suffering from osteoporosis is growing fastest in the Asian region," noted IOF Chief Executive Officer Daniel Navid. The "IOF Beauties and the Bones" participants included: Australia Belinda Green. Miss A...

A new molecule discovered in the battle between plants and disease

...gs will be presented July 20, at 11:20 at the ASPB meeting at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, WA. The abstract, #9183, is below: Authors: Presenter: Huffaker, Alisa Authors: Huffaker, Alisa (A) alisamari@yahoo.com; Pearce, Gregory (A) pearceg@mail.wsu.edu; Ryan, Clarence, A (A) ...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

...ow the threshold of 2,000 considered a minimum for meeting human needs), is expected to fall further due to a combination of pressures in and around the drylands including population growth, reduced freshwater availability due to global warming and drought, and economic growth. As well, inappropriate econom...

More animals join the learning circle

...earch this month at the US Animal Behavior Society meeting in Snowbird, Utah. Wild dolphins off the west coast of Australia were the first marine mammals in which cultural learning was observed. They apparently learn from group-mates how to use sponges to protect their snouts while scavenging (New Scientist...

Study: Harmless virus kills some cancers

...dy was presented June 20, 2005, at the 24th annual meeting of the American Society for Virology held June 18-22 at Penn State, University Park campus. Although the reason why remains unclear, population-based studies have shown that people who carry AAV2 tend not to develop human papillomavirus- (HPV-) asso...

Novel compounds show promise as safer, more potent insecticides

...escribed their studies today at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. Many of the most widely used insecticides today act on only a handful of exploited targets, including the organophosphates, which block acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that he...

Bad aftertaste? New sensory on/off switch may 'cure' bane of artificial sweetener search

...t the American Chemical Society (ACS) 230th annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28 through Sept. 1 to explain their discoveries and applications. Many scientists are racing to create ways to deliver cancer-killing drugs to tumors without harming surrounding tissue. At ACS meetings in August 2004 and Ma...

Virginia Tech group adds tools to DNA-targeted anti-cancer drugs

...t the American Chemical Society (ACS) 230th annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28 through Sept. 1 to explain their discoveries and applications. Many scientists are racing to create ways to deliver cancer-killing drugs to tumors without harming surrounding tissue. At ACS meetings in August 2004 and Ma...

Self-assembled DNA buckyballs for drug delivery

...e amphiphiles" Sunday, Aug. 28, at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. They reminded the audience that although the geometry of solid truncated icosahedrons was first described by Archimedes on paper more than 2,000 years ago, the skeletal, hollow-faced version of buc...

Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance

...er Feldman presented this work at an international meeting last September, he said, "Several physicians indicated they were now considering the diagnosis of NSIAD as an explanation for low sodium levels in their pediatric patients." MEDICAL MYSTERY The discovery of NSIAD began in 2003 after two unrelated b...

Green catalyst destroys pesticides and munitions toxins, finds Carnegie Mellon University

...ting his findings on Sunday, Aug. 28, at the 230th meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, D.C. (Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Convention Center Hall A). "We found an efficient, rapid and environmentally friendly means of completely destroying these compounds," said...

Unusual antibiotics show promise against deadly 'superbugs'

...sentation in Washington, D.C., at the 230th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. His team also published a paper on the work earlier this year in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The research focuses on the human body's most common protein. Collagen promotes blood clotting and provi...

Modified collagen could yield important medical applications

...sentation in Washington, D.C., at the 230th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. His team also published a paper on the work earlier this year in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The research focuses on the human body's most common protein. Collagen promotes blood clotting and provi...

Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees

...nce to save these animals." The Brazzaville meeting was organized by the Centre International de Recherches M�dicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Conservation International (CI), the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF), and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Additional funding came from the Great Ape C...

It's electric: Cows show promise as powerplants

... on August 31 in Washington, D.C., at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society. Christy and Rismani-Yazdi conducted the work with Ohio State colleagues Olli Tuovinen, a professor of microbiology, and Burk Dehority, a professor of animal sciences. The researchers extracted rumen fluid from a liv...

Bioinformatics reveals new gene regulation system

...resenting the work on June 24, 2005, at the annual meeting of HHMI international research scholars in Mérida, Mexico. Gelfand and Rodionov started their search using a technique called phylogenetic footprinting to review the upstream DNA sequences of a group of genes that code for ribonucleotide reductase e...

Research on antibiotics receives historical recognition

...the ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting. The MARM meeting is being held on the nearby Busch Campus of Rutgers in Piscataway, New Jersey, May 22-25. Selman Waksman was born in Russia in 1888. He immigrated to the United States in 1910 and entered Rutgers University a few years later. After completing gradua...

Map of life on Earth could be used on Mars

...recently presented her research at the 2004 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. Microorganisms can be divided into haves and have-nots: cells of eukaryotes contain a nucleus, while prokaryotic organisms cells do not. Prokaryotic organisms encompass archeal and bacterial domains of life. Arch...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...African continent, as many promised at the January meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and as promoted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the recent G-8 summit." "If the rapid urbanization continues - and all signs indicate that it will - then the trend is going to be toward grea...

Grass makes environmentally friendly biofuel

...or affordable, unsubsidized fuel source capable of meeting home and small business heating requirements at less cost than all available alternatives." ...

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