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Bacterial response to oxidation studied as toxin barometer

...h threats. At the 233rd American Chemical Society national meeting in Chicago March 25-29, researchers from Virginia Tech and the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) will report their work on a bacteria biosensor prototype and correlations to brain tissue damage. Many environmental ...

Williams College biologist explores photosynthetic apparatus

...field of study and have a chance to participate in national scientific meetings. Recently the Woodrow Wilson Foundation also has recognized Ting. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty for 2006-07 for her effectiveness as a college ...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

... are implemented, but feedback is not mentioned in national guidelines as a way of addressing prescribing behaviour," says Dr Stone. The team, working at the Royal Free Hospital in London, studied prescribing and CDI rates in three wards for acute care of the elderly where CD was endemic. When the study be...

Florida Tech explores microalgae for biofuel

... is desperately needed for sustaining the economy, national security and to respond to environmental concerns. Microalgae cultivation is an attractive alternative and the warm Florida climate makes large-scale production a possibility," said Lin. ...

Army research mission focused on autism

... the ASD research community, along with leaders of national advocacy organizations were invited to shape the focus of the ASDRP. "This is a very unique opportunity to allow the scientists and advocates to focus on a common cause, improving the lives of children with autism, to produce research that will le...

Targeting tumors the natural way

...strategy, presented today (March 25) at the annual national meeting of the American Chemical Society, cleverly harnesses one of the body's natural antibodies and immune responses. "The killing agent we chose is already in us," says UW-Madison chemistry professor Laura Kiessling, who led the work with postdoct...

Bacteria could steady buildings against earthquakes

...otechnical Modeling. The centrifuge is part of the national Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, funded by the National Science Foundation....

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...reasing frequency of biological events relevant to national security, and current disease surveillance systems in the United States (U.S.) require an integrated computational environment to support easy access to a set of universal tools, novel algorithmic approaches and tracking mechanisms for reproducibilit...

Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage

...e living with MS today," said Dr. William McIlroy, national medical advisor for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. "It represents a new insight of how we might be able to reverse some of the effects of the disease and improve the quality of life for those who live under its influence." ...

Update on census of world's most endangered cat -- Female Amur leopard found dead

...e desperate need for a unified protected area with national park status if the leopard is to survive in the wild.? In February and March, World Wildlife Fund, along with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Science, conducted a routine snow-track...

New test for most virulent HPV strains under study

...,?says Dr. Ferris, a principal investigator on the national study evaluating the assay. The NCI study follo...ommon sexually transmitted disease. The current national study is giving the new HPV test and the type-specific assay to 1,500 women age 30 and older with a ...

New sensor detects gaseous chemical weapon surrogates in 45 seconds

...and field testing. PNNL, a Department of Energy national laboratory, has demonstrated QPAS's ability to detect gaseous nerve agent surrogates. In one test, researchers used diisopropyl methyl phosphonate (DIMP), which is a chemical compound that's similar to sarin. QPAS detected DIMP at the sub-part-per-bi...

Stem cell transplants explored at Stanford as a possible treatment for hearing loss

...m the devil is in the details." But even at the national level, those in the research community remain hopeful that Heller's work will reap successes sooner rather than later. Heller will discuss his stem cell research during a panel discussion Feb. 17 in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the Amer...

Amur leopard still on the brink of extinction, scientists say

...xtinction. And still a unified protected area with national park status has not been established, which is the most important thing for the leopards' survival." At least four leopard litters were encountered during the census. This is a good sign because it means that the population is not completely depre...

Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest

...f leadership in stepping out and saying, this is a national crisis, it's a matter of dignity, and I'm going to...ivities, she noted. Myanmar example At the national level, economic development strategies, such as attracting foreign investment and tourism, often rel...

Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs

A national workplace ban on smoking in Ireland resulted in an...ssociates examined the effect of the world's first national smoking ban on environmental tobacco smoke exposure in 42 Dublin pubs and among 73 male bar staff me...

Vasectomy may put men at risk for type of dementia

...t step in Weintraub's research will be to launch a national study to see if her results will be confirmed in a larger population. "I don't want to scare anyone away from getting a vasectomy," Weintraub stressed. "It's obviously a major birth control alternative. This is just a correlational observation," ...

Autism gene identified by researchers at Yale working with a global research consortium

...sceptibility genes. Funded by Autism Speaks, a national non-profit dedicated to increasing awareness of autism and raising money to research the disorder, and the National Institutes of Health, these are the preliminary findings from the AGP’s first phase. The consortium used "gene chip" technology to...

Are we killing the world's oceans?

...dual Canadian universities, where thorny issues of national concern can be critically examined and policy approaches explored. Experts from Canada, Chile, Germany, Scotland and the US will speak on such issues as climate change, ocean acidification and coral reefs, the increase in ocean dead zones, scienti...

Africa's first large-scale HIV vaccine study launches

...gnized immunology laboratories, a well-established national vaccine initiative and experience in running clinical trials," said James Kublin, M.D., M.P.H., one of study's lead investigators, along with Glenda Gray, MBBCH, FCPaeds (SA), of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, based...

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