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'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes

...ood asthma and eczema. The clinicians leading each national disease collection are based in London, Exeter, Cardiff, Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Samples and data are managed at a robotic archive in the University of Manchester and in the Health Protection Agency's European ...

New book on rain forests, slash-and-burn agriculture

..., which was formed in 1992 by a group of concerned national and international researchers. Its authors include agronomists, foresters, economists, ecologists, soil scientists, anthropologists and representatives of many other disciplines. Vosti, formerly a research fellow at the International Food Policy Res...

Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

...nd care of children with birth defects. Establish national capacity for birth defects surveillance and monitoring. Some middle-income countries have infant mortality rates that approximate those of the United States in the early 1960s, when it began its systematic effort to strengthen medical genetics serv...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

...e may be close to three times higher than Mexico's national average. The United Nations AIDS Program considers an HIV epidemic to advance from a low level to a concentrated epidemic when more than 1% of the population is infected ?a figure that Tijuana may soon approach if preventive steps aren't taken, accor...

Sweetgum tree could help lessen shortage of bird flu drug

...ply of the drug, were described today at the 231st national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. Shikimic acid is used to make a generic drug called oseltamivir ?best known commercially as Tamiflu® ?which is used to fight many types of flu viruses. Some health exp...

Satellites show Amazon parks, indigenous reserves stop forest clearing

...forestation up to 400 years after contact with the national society. There was no correlation between population density in indigenous areas and inhibition of deforestation. In much of the Amazon, not only can protecting nature be reconciled with human habitation ?it wouldn't happen without the people. Ext...

Researchers reverse juvenile diabetes in animal model

...tant studies and also maintains a federally funded national bone marrow HLA typing center within his lab.With this funding, Dr. Trucco and his team are able to continue their landmark research into improving the prediction of type 1 diabetes and understanding and managing its complications. Building on his di...

Climate change: The rice genome to the rescue

...sed a severe drought, resulting in a sharp drop in national rice production. Other examples focused on the imp...ance on agriculture as one of the main drivers for national development," Dr. Zeigler said. "In turn, agriculture is very dependent on climate. "Another more ...

Light activated anticancer drug targeted to DNA using cisplatin like sub-units

...e presented at the 231st American Chemical Society national meeting in Atlanta on March 26-30. Chemistry professor Karen J. Brewer reports that the group has developed supramolecular complexes that combine light-absorbing PDT agents and cisplatin like units. Previous anticancer molecules created by the group...

Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health

...Arctic will affect policy at the international and national level," adds O'Hara. "Native populations have said, this is our food, our way of life, not just our wildlife." Getting the rest of the world to pay attention to the health of marine mammals may be the first step in mitigating potential human health...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

...ined the effects of anti-aging technologies on the national dependency ratio--the proportion of retired people (age 65 and over) to working people (age 20-65) in a population. This ratio is a crucial factor in determining Medicare and Social Security policies in the United States, he said. Current worries ov...

Medical experts: US unlikely to have enough vaccines to stop avian flu

A group of medical experts who attended a national avian flu conference last fall believe there is little chance the United States will be able to manufacture and stockpile enough vaccine or antiviral medication to stop a bird flu pandemic should the virus mutate into a form that can be spread easily...

Virginia Tech helping to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties

... lines. The genetic information will be stored in national databases and seed stocks deposited in USDA's Small Grain Collection, providing long-term public access to genetic information and resources for wheat breeders and researchers nationwide. Public sector researchers are primarily responsible for provi...

NJIT engineer poised to take stem cell research a step forward

...e the science of stem cell research has gained her national recognition. Two years ago, she earned the highest honor given to a young researcher by President Bush: The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Her research has also led to two major stem-cell discoveries: One showing that...

Rutgers researchers find fat gene

...ers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the national health objectives for the year 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of obesity among adults to less than 15 percent. ...

Researchers test new way to quit smoking

...o will work with 1100 people, enlisted through the national Quitline. Half the participants will be offered nicotine patches or gum two weeks before they attempt to quit; the other half will begin using the patches or gum on the day that they quit. "Using nicotine gum or patches while still smoking is very s...

Illinois pig to make history as source of first complete swine genome

...e USDA acknowledge the efforts of our LGSI and our national and international collaborators by selecting our proposal for funding," Beever said. "After many years of laying the foundation for sequencing of the pig genome, it is truly rewarding to see our dreams of a porcine sequence come true. This sequencing...

St. Jude projects 90 percent cure rate for ALL

...ldren, Pui noted. They still have poor outcomes in national studies, but studies at St. Jude have shown African-American children have the same high cure rates as white children when given access to the same effective treatments. "This reflects the ability of St. Jude to provide free treatment to all childre...

Variation in bitter-taste receptor gene increases risk for alcoholism

...c individuals. The families are participating in a national study called the Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA). COGA investigators report in the January issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics on the variation in a taste receptor gene on chromosome 7 called TAS2R16. "In earlie...

Drug-resistant bacteria patterns in intensive care units changing nationally

...evens said. The study summarized MRSA data at the national level, indicating general trends, but physicians need to know what is happening in their specific locations to help control the spread of infection. "We know that the prevalence of community MRSA varies widely in local geographic areas, so it is im...

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