Gene variations contribute to aggression and anger in women
...rker we found for hostility also may be useful for predicting a person's predisposition to such diseases." ...New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza
...targets that might offer broader protection and in predicting how effective a new vaccine will be. Other analy...ols for analyzing and visualizing the data and for predicting immunity against different pathogens--all of which is publicly accessible on their Web site (see ht...UC Davis researchers use heated nanoprobes to destroy breast cancer cells in mice
... difficulty of confining heat within the tumor and predicting an effective heat dose has limited its use. The UC Davis research, carried out in collaboration with scientists from Triton BioSystems in Boston, seeks to solve this problem. The experimental system uses bioprobes created by wedding magnetized iro...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...ta and through comparison with existing models for predicting speech privacy. (1pAA9) SALT LAKE CITY SOUNDS Acoustical consultant Sarah Rollins ( sarahr@yantis.com ) will discuss interesting acoustical properties in the Salt Lake Tabernacle and Latter-day Saints (LDS) Conference Center. The elongated do...Corals -- More complex than you?
... "Four years ago researchers in this field were predicting that coral would be found to have about 10,000 genes ?but we’ve found almost that many already and clearly have a long way to go yet. "Based on the rate of gene discovery, we estimate that corals have as many as 20 or 25,000 genes, compared with t...Genetic factors are linked to fever following smallpox vaccination
...s, now available online, may have implications for predicting adverse events from other live vaccines. Immunization against infectious agents has been one of the greatest successes of modern medicine, and the eradication of smallpox from the world is considered by some to be the crowning event of the 20th cent...