Met in Biological News

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

...surface. Dubbed "global dimming," this phenomenon has been countered in the past few decades by "global brightening" as pollution control efforts have met with success. Wild reviews the evidence surrounding global dimming and brightening, addressing a number of frequently asked questions such as how and ...

Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change

...Marine Science Center in Newport and lead author on the study. Any methodology that improves scientists' ability to estimate their past variability is met with interest in the research community. This new study has enabled scientists to develop an improved model of sea surface temperatures in the northea...

Researchers team up to provide new hope for childhood hunger

...scientists already in place. With support from the Gates Foundation's Global Challenges Program, the Center's cassava bio-fortification efforts have met or exceeded all targets: The levels of beta-carotene have been increased 30X. The levels of protein have been increased 10X. The levels of ir...

University has grand designs to build a house of straw

...erated by people." Craig White, Director of White Design and ModCell said: "The Zero Carbon Housing challenge the industry faces is not going to be met with conventional design and materials. "BaleHaus at Bath is an entirely new and renewable way to construct homes fit for the challenge. "Made...

Most older long-term cancer survivors have poor health habits

...te-to-vigorous exercise per week. This is far short of the national recommendation of more than 150 minutes of exercise per week. Also, only 7 percent met healthful eating recommendations set by national guidelines. Despite their suboptimal health behaviors, cancer survivors reported a level of mental an...

Possible drug target found for one of the most aggressive breast cancers

... of Sciences U.S.A. Researchers found that the met gene may play a critical role in the development o...nstitute demonstrated that inappropriate levels of met occur in human tumors, and that cells with inappropriate met signaling dramatically impact the spread of cancer...

Stanford researchers publish comprehensive model for medical device development

...at influence the manner in which medical devices are developed, approved, and brought to market. The pace at which such regulatory requirements can be met determines when the device will reach the clinic. Specifically, FDA's Quality System Regulation plays a substantial role in the development proces...

Singapore scientists elected into National Academy of Sciences

...ear. Drs. Copeland and Jenkins, who have co-authored over 750 papers and been cited over 30,000 times, have worked together for 30 years since they met as postdoctoral follows in Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining IMCB in 2006, Drs. Copeland and Jenkins were scientists at the National Cancer...

Study shows CGM devices also benefit people with type 1 diabetes

...ects in the control group were given blood glucose meters and test strips and asked to perform blood glucose monitoring at least four times daily, and met with study personnel as often as the CGM group. The study is the second major publication resulting from JDRF's groundbreaking CGM trials, establ...

Did the North Atlantic fisheries collapse due to fisheries-induced evolution?

...ue to the intense fisheries-induced selection. The cod fishery at Iceland is one of the world's few remaining cod fisheries. The study appears to have met all criteria for concern that this fishery is threatened. "Can anything be done to avert collapse?" the authors ask. A strategy that would remove s...

International team tracks clues to HIV

...Rice -- came together through e-mail contacts and conversations over many months, each working on facets of the problem. "Not all the groups have ever met in person," Barron said. Most remarkable, he said, is that their research to date has been completely unfunded. Using simulations to narrow down a ...

Scientists urge global action to preserve water supplies for billions worldwide

...ecially near the Himalayas in Asia and the Sierra Nevada Mountains of the western United States, according to an international group of scientists who met for three days at the University of California, San Diego. More than two dozen international water experts participating in the "Ice, Snow, and Wat...

Aerosol: A key piece of the climate change puzzle

... range of complex factors including weather patterns, so it is much harder to predict their climatic effect. The project, which also involves the met Office Hadley Centre and the University of Oxford, aims to design advanced global models of aerosols by identifying specific processes that lead to ae...

Searching for pollution in the Caribbean

...y March 2009, the main counterparts of countries participating in the project RLA/7/012, as well as representatives of Spain, GEF, UNEP, and the IAEA, met in Panama to review the overall status of the project. The review meeting assessed progress made so far and plotted next steps ahead. With its recent ...

Rumbaugh's theory links positions of Wilson, Skinner

...the level I had, if he had not been in Des Moines, this would have been a very different book, and not as forward-thinking." Through Rumbaugh, Naour met Dr. H. Carl Haywood, professor emeritus of psychology at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, who provides a vision for rational behaviorism as "t...

Biolex presents Locteron US Phase 2a hepatitis C data at EASL

... and PEG-Intron cohorts, although three of the four patients achieving undetectable virus were in the 640 g cohort. "The PLUS trial clearly met its objectives and sets the stage for extended evaluation of Locteron in larger patient populations," said Eric Lawitz, MD, Alamo Medical Research, Sa...

International climate change researchers meet, review latest findings

...t time in a decade that a U.S. scientist has headed the group. They're meeting at M-Square, UM's research park. It's also the first time the group has met in Maryland. The World Climate Research Programme has two overarching objectives: to determine the predictability of climate as well as the effe...

A little java makes it easier to jive, researcher says

...u haven't even considered. As a former competitive cyclist, University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Robert Motl routinely met his teammates at a coffee shop to fuel up on caffeine prior to hitting the pavement on long-distance training rides. "The notion was that caffeine ...

Eye cells believed to be retinal stem cells are misidentified

...ed," Dyer said. "Neural stem cells, in general, and retinal progenitor cells, in particular, are not pigmented. Nevertheless, the previous finding was met with a tremendous amount of enthusiasm because of the promise of introducing these cells into the eye to regenerate photoreceptors lost to blindness."...

New drug agent knocks out multiple enzymes in cancer pathway

...tein called Ras since nearly a third of all human cancers involve a mutation in the Ras gene that causes cell signaling to go awry. These efforts have met with limited success. Bisphosphonates act on other enzymes, called FPPS and GGPPS, which are upstream of Ras in the cell survival pathway. Inhibiti...

Young dinosaurs roamed together, died together

... A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the s...

Fighting global warming offers growth and development opportunities

...on technologies," he adds. "But global coordination is critical. Any single country's New Deal may fail if its extra demand for goods and services are met with imports. If we act together, everyone's exports will increase and we can recover employment much quicker". The prospect of extra growth for t...

Doctors endorse vegan and vegetarian diets for healthy pregnancies

... for pregnant women and their children, and vitamin B12 needs can be easily met with fortified foods or any common multivitamin, say doctors and dietitians...n milk are much lower than in non-vegetarians. Vitamin B12 needs can be met easily with fortified breakfast cereals and soymilk, which are low in fat a...

USC researchers identify gene variant associated with both autism and gastrointestinal dysfunction

...e findings suggest that disrupted signaling of the met gene may contribute to a syndrome that includes au... are seen together so often." In the brain, the met gene is expressed in developing circuits that are ...social behavior and communication. Disturbances in met expression result in alterations in how these crit...

Many middle-aged and older Americans not getting adequate nutrition

...a study published in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association , researchers examined how well different ethnic groups met the recommended daily allowances (RDAs) through food intake and supplement consumption. The study determined that many middle-aged and older Americans...

40 minority scientists receive travel fellowships to Experimental Biology 2009 in New Orleans

...l sessions during the conference. Past fellows have praised the program, saying they received advice concerning their research from scientists they met through the program and also learned the ins and outs of interviewing for a postdoctoral or faculty position. The 2009 Minority Travel Fellows are ...

American Institute of Physics announces awards for best science writing

...les a secretive group of some of the country's smartest scientists who have met every summer for the last 45 years to work on mostly classified problems fo...physicists who tackle problems that are at times no less arduous. They have met for six weeks each summer for the last 45 years to address complicated prob...

Portable kit may 1 day detect plant disease before disastrous outbreak

...tigator Dr. Arum Han, a Texas A&M University electrical engineer who specializes in nanotechnology where things are measured in billionths. The two met almost accidentally at a social for professors. Shim recalls that as each asked the other about their research efforts, the notion clicked that one's ...

Dealing with taxonomic uncertainty for threatened and endangered species

...pecies or sub-species. The petition to list Southern Resident killer whales under the ESA revolved not around risk but rather on whether these whales met the definition of Distinct Population Segment used as the smallest unit to conserve under the ESA. Taylor discusses the potential of incorporating ...

Results of the third school nutrition dietary assessment study published

...or example, that few schools provided lunches that met the recommendations in the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for fiber and none of the schools met the recommended sodium limitations. Also, she disc...tribute to healthful diets, few schools (6% to 7%) met all nutrition standards in school year 2004-2005, ...

University of Leicester archaeologist uncovers evidence of ancient chemical warfare

...er archaeologist Simon James presented CSI-style arguments that about twenty Roman soldiers, found in a siege-mine at the city of Dura-Europos, Syria, met their deaths not as a result of sword or spear, but through asphyxiation. Dura-Europos on the Euphrates was conquered by the Romans who installed a...

Eating habits and exercise behaviors in children can deteriorate early

... Knoxville, states, "Although preschool-aged children engaged in more healthful behaviors according to parent recall, the preschool-aged children only met 2 dietary recommendations, fruit and low-fat dairy intake. All other parent-reported eating and leisure-time activity patterns did not meet current re...

Growth of new brain cells requires 'epigenetic' switch

..., also depends on a protein that is involved in changing epigenetic marks in the cell's genetic material. "How is it that when you see someone you met ten years ago, you still recognize them? How do these transient events become long lasting in the brain, and what potential role does the birth of ne...

Finalists announced in the Elsevier Grand Challenge

...ive Technologies and co-organizer of the Challenge. "There is a community of people out there interested in tackling these issues, and some of us have met through this event in the next iterations of the challenge, we hope to build on and stay in touch with this community". Elsevier Grand Challenge F...

AGU journal highlights -- Dec. 31, 2008

...isciplinary Analysis Special Observing Period-0 Authors: J. M. Haywood, M. Brooks, G. Greed, M. Harrison, B. Johnson, S. Milton, and S. R. Osborne: met Office, Exeter, U.K.; J. Pelon: Service de Aronomie, IPSL, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; P. Formenti, C. Chou, K. Desboeufs, a...

The effect of parental education on the heritability of children's reading disability

...Act of 2001 requires that all children reach "grade level" performance on reading and other academic skills by 2014, and assumes that this goal can be met through appropriate education. However, the authors of this study suggest that a more beneficial policy would acknowledge genetic constraints on meeti...

Italy's geologic history becomes a personal tale in Walter Alvarez's new book

... and quarries - and even a wine cellar - to sketch this history, weaving in affectionate portraits of the geologists Alvarez and his wife, Milly, have met since first visiting Italy in 1968. "I thought it would be fun to write a book that had a lot of human interest in it as well as geology," Alvarez ...

Rice's James Tour wins Feynman Prize

...ayed a role in Tour's arrival at Rice from the University of South Carolina, where he taught for 11 years. "It was at a Foresight conference that I met (Rice nanotech pioneer) Rick Smalley in 1997 or '98," he said. "Rick told me he'd stayed at the conference a couple of extra days just to hear me spea...

ESA tests laser to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide

...as retrieved particularly strong signals. This is very encouraging since it demonstrates that the required precision of the measurements could even be met above the ocean, which was thought to be the most problematic area. The campaign successfully demonstrated that changes in ground reflectance would...

News from the December 2008 Journal of the American Dietetic Association

... food group analysis for each target menu indicated that small, incremental changes in food choices dramatically improved the quality of the menus and met current dietary recommendations for key nutrients when averaged over seven days." The researchers concluded: "With awareness of how small changes m...