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Researchers team up to provide new hope for childhood hunger

ST. LOUIS, MO, July 28, 2009 A St. Louis-based team of plant and physician-scientists with a vision of eradicating malnutrition throughout the developing world today announced the formation of the Global Harvest Alliance (GHA), a humanitarian effort involving St. Louis Children's Hospital, The Don...

Discovery may provide new treatments for alcohol dependence

Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered a new brain mechanism involved in alcohol addiction involving the stomach hormone ghrelin. When ghrelin's actions in the brain are blocked, alcohol's effects on the reward system are reduced. It is an importa...

Researcher finds Girl Scout meetings provide an opportunity to increase girls' physical activity

Girls typically are less physically active than boys, but a Kansas State University researcher has found that organizations like Girl Scouts provide an ideal setting to get girls moving early in life and to develop lifelong healthy habits. Richard Rosenkranz, assistant professor in human nutrit...

Tumor suppressor gene in flies may provide insights for human brain tumors

SINGAPORE and DURHAM, N.C. In the fruit fly's developing brain, stem cells called neuroblasts normally divide to create one self-renewing neuroblast and one cell that has a different fate. But neuroblast growth can sometimes spin out of control and become a brain tumor. Researchers at Duke-NU...

'Disordered' amino acids may really be there to provide wiggle room for signaling protein

Sections of proteins previously thought to be disordered may in fact have an unexpected biological role providing certain proteins room to move -- according to a study published by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center in this month's issue of the journal Structure (Cell Press). The resea...

Zebrafish provide a model for cancerous melanoma in humans

In a new study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms , scientists use the zebrafish to gain insight into the influence of known cancer genes on the development and progression of melanoma, an aggressive form of human skin cancer with limited treatment options. Inside the cell, signals are d...

River delta areas can provide clue to environmental changes, Texas A&M prof says

Sediments released by many of the world's largest river deltas to the global oceans have been changed drastically in the last 50 years, largely as a result of human activity, says a Texas A&M University researcher who emphasizes that the historical information that can be gathered from sediment co...

River delta areas can provide clue to environmental changes, Texas A&M prof says

Sediments released by many of the world's largest river deltas to the global oceans have been changed drastically in the last 50 years, largely as a result of human activity, says a Texas A&M University researcher who emphasizes that the historical information that can be gathered from sediment co...

Amniotic fluid may provide new source of stem cells for future therapies

(WASHINGTON, March 31, 2009) - For the first time, scientists have shown that amniotic fluid (the protective liquid surrounding an embryo) may be a potential new source of stem cells for therapeutic applications. The study was prepublished online on February 12, 2009, in Blood , the official jour...

New 'pollution radar' developed to provide unprecedented picture of urban smog

Scientists and industrialists have invented a sophisticated new air quality measuring device that can act as a pollution radar over cities. A team from the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, the University of Leicester and EADS Astrium are behind the technology that can be placed on satellites to...

Building strong bones: Running may provide more benefits than resistance training, MU study finds

COLUMBIA, Mo. Osteoporosis affects more than 200 million people worldwide and is a serious public health concern, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Resistance training often is recommended to increase and prevent loss of bone mineral density (BMD), although previous studies that...

European satellites provide new insight into ozone-depleting species

Using data from the satellite-based MIPAS and GOME-2 instruments, scientists have for the first time detected important bromine species in the atmosphere. These new measurements will help scientists to better understand sources of ozone-depleting species and to improve simulations of stratospheric...

Texas researchers provide emissions data for livestock industry

AMARILLO A group of Texas-based researchers provided answers for the nation's cattle feeding industry after it was given a very short window by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin reporting ammonia and hydrogen sulfide emissions. The EPA issued a final ruling on Dec. 18 that requ...

Biofuels can provide viable, sustainable solution to reducing petroleum dependence

LIVERMORE, Calif. An in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. has found that plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030. The goal of the "90-Billion Gallon Biofuel Deployment Stud...

Physics, math provide clues to unraveling cancer

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Biology exists in a physical world. That's a fact cancer researchers are beginning to recognize as they look to include concepts of physics and mathematics in their efforts to understand how cancer develops -- and how to stop it. The movement, led by researchers at the Univers...

Raytheon Chosen to Help Provide Department of Defense Biometrics Operations and Support Services

Raytheon one of 12 companies selected for BOSS-U $497 million award RESTON, Va., Jan. 27, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army Biometrics Task Force has selected Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN ) to provide biometric-related services and support to enhance the ability of the Department of Defense...

Biggest ever public investment in bioenergy to help provide clean, green and sustainable fuels

The biggest ever single UK public investment in bioenergy research has been announced today (27 January) by the main funding agency for the biosciences the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The 27M BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre has been launched to provide t...

CIC Teams With Industry Leader iPipeline to Provide Electronic Signature Platform to the Nation's Top Insurance Carriers

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., and EXTON, Pa., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC") (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry and the recognized leader in biome...

Loggerhead release to provide vital information to scientific community

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Thursday, November 6, 2008, Dr. Kirt Rusenko, Marine Conservationist, and staff from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton will release two juvenile loggerhead sea turtles raised in captivity into the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian Inlet. The loggerheads, dubbed Milton...

L-1 Identity Solutions Selected by the State of New York as the Winning Bidder to Provide Enrollment Services for a Contract Estimated at Up to $250 Million

L-1 to Open 75+ Centers and Expects to Process More than 200,000 Submissions Annually for State Jobs and Licenses Requiring Fingerprint-based Background Checks STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ID ), a leading provider of identity solutio...

JDRF to provide $1M in funding to SmartCells, Inc.

New York, NY and Beverly, MA [October 22, 2008] ~ The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and SmartCells, Inc. today announced a partnership to advance SmartCells' SmartInsulin for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. SmartInsulin will be a once-a-day, glucose-regulated insulin that is admin...

identiMetrics & BIO-key(R) Provide Biometric Finger Scanning for School Food Service Nationwide

Solution Enables Schools to Help Meet Federal Meal Reimbursement Requirements WALL, N.J. and FLOURTOWN, Pa., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless...

Anabolic steroids provide a competitive edge in power lifting years after doping has ended

HILTON HEAD, SCAnabolic steroids are synthetic hormones derived from the human male hormone testosterone. The use of steroids has been suspected in professional baseball and other sports where building muscle strength, rather than endurance, is paramount. Power lifting is such a sport. A team of r...

Entrust, 3M Collaborate to Provide End-to-End Secure ePassport Solution

ePassport leaders help governments move toward EAC standard by providing ePassport readers, PKI technology in a single platform DALLAS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As ePassport technology continues to be adopted by countries around the globe, many seek a method to deploy border ...

Entrust, 3M Collaborate to Provide End-to-End Secure ePassport Solution

ePassport leaders help governments move toward EAC standard by providing ePassport readers, PKI technology in a single platform DALLAS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As ePassport technology continues to be adopted by countries around the globe, many seek a method to deploy border ...

Hydrogels provide scaffolding for growth of bone cells

PHILADELPHIAHyaluronic hydrogels developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers may provide a suitable scaffolding to enable bone regeneration. The hydrogels, created by Newell Washburn, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Jeffrey Hollinger, have proven to encourage the growth of preosteoblast cells,...

Experts to provide peek of Smithsonian soils exhibit

Arizona's state soil, "Casa Grande," is featured in a new 5,000-square-foot exhibition, "Dig it! The Secrets of Soil," at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C. The exhibition will travel to museums across the country from 2010-2013. WHO: A three-person panel of experts, alo...

AMBER Alert Safety Centers to Provide Child Safety Precautions at the New Jersey State Fair at the Meadowlands

ROCKAWAY, N.J., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- AMBER Alert Safety Centers, Inc. announced today that the Company will provide child safety precautions at the upcoming New Jersey State Fair, to be held at the Meadowlands Sport Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The State Fair is an 18-day event f...

'Addicted' cells provide early cancer diagnosis

Scientists at the Institute of Food Research have detected subtle changes that may make the bowel more vulnerable to the development of tumours. With support from the Food Standards Agency and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council they are investigating whether diet could ...

Earthworm detectives provide genetic clues for dealing with soil pollution

The humble earthworm, famously acknowledged by Charles Darwin when he wrote "It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world", provides a new sensitive and detailed picture of what is going on in our contaminated soil ecosys...

Healthy parents provide clues to survival of young haddock on Georges Bank

In 2003, haddock on Georges Bank experienced the largest baby boom ever documented for the stock, with an estimated 800 million new young fish entering the population. With typical annual averages of 50 to 100 million new fish in the last few decades, fisheries biologists have been puzzled by the ...

Solving an avian scourge could also provide benefits to human health

The old adage a bird in hand is worth two in the bush may very well apply to a new vaccine project underway in the lab of ASU School of Life Sciences Professor Roy Curtiss, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at the Biodesign Institute. There, associate research scie...

Plant Physiology and TAIR partnership will provide genetic information to public database

A unique partnership has been formed between Plant Physiology and The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) to create an efficient mechanism that will ensure that genetic and molecular data on Arabidopsis published in the Journal are reliably captured in TAIRs public database. This collaboration...

Oldest Australian crayfish fossils provide missing evolutionary link

Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who headed up a study on the finds. "Studying the fossil bu...

Stevens researchers provide oversight for three-year mariculture program in Egypt and Israel

HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Researchers in the Center for Maritime Systems (CMS) at Stevens Institute of Technology have been awarded a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that is focused on enhancing mutual cooperation between scientists from Egypt and Israel through sc...

Genetically modified carrots provide more calcium

Genetically modifying carrots to express increased levels of a gene that enables the transport of calcium across membranes of plant cells can make the vegetables a better source of calcium, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center at ...

Wiggle room: Cornell researcher borrows idea from sperm to provide energy for nanoscale robots

ITHACA, N.Y. In order to deliver medicine inside the human body, nanoscale medical devices need energy to carry out tasks, such as releasing drugs. Alex Travis, Cornell assistant professor of veterinary medicine, suggests creating a system that generates power for nanoscale robots, based upon how...

RAND paper finds diesel, hybrid vehicles can provide more societal benefits than gas-powered autos

RAND PAPER FINDS DIESEL- AND HYBRID-POWERED VEHICLES CAN PROVIDE MORE SOCIETAL BENEFITS THAN GAS-POWERED AUTOS Cars and light trucks powered by advanced diesel technology or hybrid technology can provide larger societal benefits than traditional gasoline-powered automobiles, according to a RAND...

ESA to provide essential launch control services to EUMETSAT

ESA and EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, agreed today that ESA will provide essential launch control services for the last two Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites, MSG-3 and MSG-4. Under the agreement, ESA will provide control servic...

Antioxidants could provide all-purpose radiation protection

SINGAPORE -- Two common dietary molecules found in legumes and bran could protect DNA from the harmful effects of radiation, researchers from the University of Maryland report. Inositol and inositol hexaphosphate (IP6) protected both human skin cells and a skin cancer-prone mouse from exposure to ...