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Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...chnology development program to devise new ways of monitoring personal environmental exposures that interact wit...ion, NIH expects to develop four new environmental monitoring devices a year. "This initiative would not have been possible a year or two ago," said Elias A. Ze...

Oops! Researchers publish new findings on the brain's response to costly mistakes

...vious U-M studies using a different brain-activity monitoring technique and led by senior author William Gehring, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology in the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and director of the U-M Human Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory. For more than a decade, Ge...

New test to detect rare proteins in blood

...rom much smaller sample volumes, as well as aid in monitoring marker levels at much earlier stages of disease. "The importance of FACTT is that we can still get an accurate description of the number of molecules that cause disease even when other assays cannot," says Greene. The researchers surmise that FACTT...

Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion

...Biological Invasions, recommends that a nationwide monitoring and trapping system for the crab should be introdu...ded: "This study demonstrates the importance of a monitoring programme for the mitten crab, even if its appearance is just a rare occurrence in an estuary. Reco...

Outsmarting the smartie bug

...hildren from many of the most common serotypes but monitoring is needed to check whether other serotypes start t...will help in the development of new techniques for monitoring changes in capsule type so researchers can look out for such capsule switching. "The new vaccine th...

Liquid crystals show promise in controlling embryonic stem cells

...." Currently, researchers have several methods of monitoring cell differentiation. The easiest, says Palecek, is to just look at the cells and use cell morphology as a cue. A more accurate method uses molecular markers. Antibodies are placed against these markers to determine if they bind to the cell. That sys...

Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle

...cessions don't even incorporate compulsory bycatch monitoring programmes. Scientists from the University of Exeter's Cornwall Campus are working with a consortium of partners in Gabon (Aventures Sans Frontieres, Parcs Gabon and Wildlife Conservation Society) and the USA (Duke University, SEATURTLE.org ) to t...

Illegal trade is propelling rare turtle toward extinction, new report

...2001. The report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of WWF and IUCN, "Trade of the Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle Chelodina mccordi," can be found in English and Bahasa Indonesian at www.traffic.org. WWF has worked for decades to stem the illegal trade in wildlife which is the second largest...

Stem cell transplants improve recovery in animal models for stroke, cerebral palsy

..., we are going to be very cautious and thorough in monitoring for any safety issues." Researchers also are working toward delivering the stem cells intravenously, an approach they believe will work because the cells naturally migrate to an injury site. Other co-authors include Dr. James E. Carroll, chief of ...

Salmon go veggie to save wild fish stocks

...epartment of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, has been monitoring changes in fish growth, exercise capacity and hypoxia tolerance to investigate whether there are any negative consequences on the fish's growth performance and health from a change in diet. Their results, to be presented at the Society for Experiment...

Biomarkers may hone anti-aging therapies

...biomarkers we've characterized could be useful for monitoring laboratory-simulated aging as well as potential drugs or therapies that alter the aging process." The new biomarkers are changes to the DNA of cellular organelles called mitochondria. Mitochondria, which have their own DNA that is distinct from the ...

Afghanistan to protect wildlife and wild lands

...r natural resource base; and setting up a wildlife monitoring program. "Conserving Afghanistan's unique biological diversity is an important element of USAID's overall reconstruction program in the country," said Alonzo Fulgham, Mission Director, USAID/Afghanistan. "We are pleased that one of the premier cons...

In-home sensors spot dementia signs in elderly

...rders in Madrid, show that continuous, unobtrusive monitoring of in-home activity may be a reliable way of assessing changes in motor behaviors that may occur along with changes in memory. "To see a trend over time, you need multiple measures - good days and bad days - and it often takes years to see that tre...

Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading

...Decadal Oscillation. The lack of wide-scale ocean monitoring makes determining the size and movement of the dea...estigator for PISCO, also said that the biological monitoring of species health and impacts in the nearshore Pacific Ocean is "grossly inadequate," making it diff...

Creating a window on 'oceans in motion'

...guins ?and priority areas for ocean floor acoustic monitoring arrays. "These are key questions: which species do we want to track and exactly where do we wire up the world to create an effective global system of watching the oceans in motion," says Dr. O'Dor. Continental shelves average about 80 km (50 mi) wi...

Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons

...an neurons; the researchers are now working toward monitoring signaling among larger networks of nerve cells. Lieber says the devices could also eventually be configured to measure or detect neurotransmitters, the chemicals that leap synapses to carry electrical impulses from one neuron to another. "This work...

Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures

... enhance the sensitivity of Raman spectroscopy for monitoring the onset of infection or the course of therapy. The cells also localize proteins at the cellular interface. Assistant Professor Graham Timmins of UNM's College of Pharmacy notes that the encapsulated cells' unusual longevity may serve as a model f...

Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast

...e. Since 1996, CI-Brazil has conducted biological monitoring at Abrolhos National Marine Park, including assessments of the effects of oil and gas exploration and possible oil spills that helped motivate the effort by IBAMA to get the buffer zone declared. Under the government declaration, oil and gas activit...

Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety

...d into a public environment. It also could improve monitoring systems in factories and other industrial operations where potentially hazardous chemicals are in use. The research can accelerate the development of microfluidic devices that would, for instance, allow as many as 20 to 30 various tests to be perfo...

Bird flu study highlights need to vaccinate flocks effectively

...vaccinated 'sentinel' birds in poultry flocks. By monitoring birds carefully, silent spread could be reduced (though not completely eliminated) because sentinels allow for the rapid detection of bird flu, irrespective of the level of vaccine protection in a flock. Dr Nick Savill, of the University of Edinb...

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