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Premature births may be linked to seasonal levels of pesticides and nitrates in surface water

...ording to work conducted by Paul Winchester, M.D., professor of clinical pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He reports his findings May 7 at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting, a combined gathering of the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Am...

Scientists: As rainfall changes, tropical plants may acclimate

...climate changing," said Ted Schuur, a UF assistant professor of ecology and one of four authors of the paper. "But of course, we only studied one group of organisms and one mechanism in this study" and plants depend on many different mechanisms to coexist, some of which may also change with changing rainfall. ...

Newborn neurons like to hang with the 'in' crowd

...l over the place," explains Fred H. Gage, Ph.D., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and the Vi and J...omography expertise of Mark. H. Ellisman, Ph.D., a professor at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at the University of California, San Dieg...

New technique will produce a better chromosome map

...nes themselves." Cell and developmental biology professor and lead investigator Andrew S. Belmont and visiti...ologies under the supervision of Beckman Institute professor Thomas Huang to analyze the images. "Our system will give an impartial estimate of the band location...

Molecule that destroys bone also protects it, new research shows

...lood. Sarah L. Gaffen, Ph.D., associate professor of oral biology in the UB School of Dental Medicine and associate professor of microbiology and immunology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is senior autho...

New bacteria test could improve quality of fruit and vegetable juice

... and from around the world, Mengshi Lin, assistant professor of food science in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, has successfully used a new approach combining DNA sequencing technique with mid-infrared spectroscopy to rapidly and accurately identify Alicyclobacillus, a common bacterium ...

UCLA AIDS Institute researchers find a peptide that encourages HIV infection

... said study co-author Shen Pang, adjunct associate professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry and a member of th...us research by Dr. Robert I. Lehrer, distinguished professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA an...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...foremost scientists and environmentalists, Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University, "wished" for the establishment of the Encyclopedia of Life during his TED Conference address. Noting that "our knowledge of biodiversity is so incomplete that we are at risk of losing a great deal of it before it is e...

Study shows continued success for new HPV vaccine against virus responsible for cervical cancer

...ical cancer, according to Kevin Ault MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Emory University School of Medicine, and one of the study authors. But for the next generation of young women, a series of three shots of a new HPV vaccine marketed by Merck under the name Gardasil could make the ...

HIV survival improves if patients stay in care

...e is crucial," said Dr. Thomas Giordano, assistant professor of medicine ?infectious diseases at BCM and lead author of the report. "We know that adherence to medications is critically important," said Giordano. "Patients who have trouble taking their medicines regularly will do less well. But what about t...

High-dose anticlotting drug cuts heart attack, death risk in half

...said Giuseppe G. Biondi-Zoccai, M.D., an assistant professor of cardiology at the University of Turin, in Turin...SCAI meeting by Antonio Abbate, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Pauley Heart Center, Richmond, VA. ...

Slowing the racing heart

... said R. John Solaro, UIC distinguished university professor and principal investigator of the study. Curre...olaro worked with Yunbo Ke, UIC research assistant professor of physiology and biophysics and first author of the paper, and colleagues in England at Oxford and ...

Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize

...ther applications in biotechnology,?said Birchler, professor of biological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science. A minichromosome is an extremely small version of a chromosome, the threadlike linear strand of DNA and associated proteins that carry genes and functions in the transmission of heredit...

Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem

...Dartmouth College undergraduate, and UNH associate professor of zoology James Byers, working at the Shoals Marine Lab off the coast of New Hampshire, looks at parasitism by the trematode Cryptocotyle lingua in Littorina littorea, a snail known as the common periwinkle and the dominant herbivore in the intertid...

Sleepless for science: Flies show link between sleep, immune system in Stanford study

...op sleeping," said David Schneider, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology. "Disrupting sleep in turn disrupts the immune system, which makes them even more infected and it's downhill from there in a 'spiral of death.'" Schneider is the senior author of a study on the sleep patterns of flies t...

Palau's coral reefs show differential habitat recovery following the 1998 bleaching event

...ery of coral reefs." Van Woesik, a professor of biological sciences at Florida Institute of Technology, examined the recovery rates of reefs in Palau during three different periods following the 1998 bleaching ?in late 2001/early 2002, late 2002/early 2003, and late 2004/early 2005. Global clim...

Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

...estigator Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, Ph.D., an associate professor of biological psychiatry. "With metabolomics, we c...c medications, said Joseph McEvoy, M.D., associate professor of biological psychiatry and study co-investigator. "This technique allows us to identify the spe...

From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone

...specimens they collected to Meg Daly, an assistant professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at Ohio State University . Daly runs one of the very few laboratories in the world equipped to study sea anemones. "These creatures were so cool simply because we knew that no sea anemone had ever been ...

New study examines 'brain's own marijuana'

...tress-related mood disorders. Wood is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry in UB’s College of Arts and Sciences....

Effect on breast tumors of DNA alternations in 3 genes described

...ties," said Menghua Tao, Ph.D., research assistant professor of social and preventive medicine in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions and first author on the study. "In addition, it is now becoming clear that other changes in the DNA may also contribute to the development of cancer." T...

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