New Study from Affymetrix Laboratories Points to Changing View of How Genome Works
Scientists at Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFFX) reported today in Science magazine online that they have completed a high-resolution scan of structure and function for nearly 30 percent of the human genome sequence. In collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, the research team used high-density GeneChip(R) microarrays to study every fifth base, on average, of 10 human chromosomes; they fou...Changing ecosystems throw scientists mega-challenges
Accelerating environmental changes have presented humanity with some significant scientific and engineering challenges, according to the new National Science Foundation (NSF) report, Pathways to the Future: Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life and Society in the 21st Century. Among the changes the report cites are rapid shifts in climate and ecosystems, the degradation...Scientists must offer solutions for conserving tropical forests in a rapidly changing world
As the future of the tropics unfolds, scientists must explain the dimensions and mechanisms of forest responses to rapid human-population increase and environmental changesAs human populations and their impacts on the world increase, tropical forests are changing in many different ways. Forests are being cleared, burned, logged, fragmented, and overhunted and an unprecedented pace, and they are...Drug-resistant bacteria patterns in intensive care units changing nationally
A dangerous drug-resistant bacterium is becoming more prevalent in many intensive care units, according to an article in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is responsible for a variety of infections that patients often acquire in the hospital. Skin infections are the most common, but MRSA can also infec...Beekeepers work hard for the honey, despite changing tupelo forest
Van Morrison sang about it, Peter Fonda starred in a movie about it, and people from all over the world will pay top dollar just to get some of it. Florida State University geography Professor J. Anthony Stallin...State's investment in early-stage businesses is changing perceptions
Attorney Joe Hildebrandt has been a part of many deals connecting promising young Wisconsin companies with investors, some close at home and others in the financial centers of the nations East and West coasts. Over the years, Hildebrandt told a legislative committee last week, he's battled the notion that Wisconsin is a "flyover state" that nei...Emergence of Internet video is changing the regulatory landscape
This homegrown series may not be Stars...Technology changing for better, Coburn says
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"Plant buyouts hit home: GM, Delphi workers take buyouts" "About 260 at Briggs & Stratton to retire to secure health deal" "Walworth County loses bid as Honda picks Indiana site for plant." But if you read these news stories,...Voice-changing software could make you a troll online
"Gamers can now change their voice to sound like a troll, giant, dwarf or dark lord," said Mark Ramirez, CEO of Screaming Bee, in a p...Changing stem cells to liver cells
According to researchers, this new study shows, for the first time, that stem cells from humans, mice and rats can be turned into functioning liver cells. A team at the University of Texas have been able to treat adult bone marrow stem cells so that they become liver cells.// These cells look, stain and function like authentic liver cells. They produce albumin, the most abundant protein made by l...Changing Partners may put Expectant Mothers at Risk
New research finds that women who change partners between the births of their first two children are more likely to deliver pre-term babies with a low birth weight than women who have the same partner.// These babies are also more likely to die within the first year of life. The results are the same even when researchers take into account the mother’s age and education, the interval bet...Changing Trends Regarding Insurance Cover For Weight Reduction Surgery
Bariatric surgery is a term derived from the Greek words: ''weight'' and ''treatment.'' Bariatric surgical procedures are major gastrointestinal operations that either seal off most of the stomach to reduce// the amount of food one can eat or rearrange the small intestine to reduce the calories the bodies can absorb. It is a collective term given to the various surgical options available for trea...Stem Cell Research - Changing Wishes to Possibilities and Possibilities to Reality
The first International symposium on Stem cell Research and Therapy was conducted in Chennai, on the 6th of January. The programme was organized by LifeCell//, a pioneer in stem cell banking in association with Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, one of the reputed medical institutions in the country. Dr. Mammen Chandy, a leading hematologist, CMC, Vellore, headed...Weight-Loss Surgeries Changing Lives
Sisters Lorena Garcia, 39, and Alma Garcia, 41, were well aware of the toll that morbid obesity had taken on their health. Alma was suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes and thyroid disease and Lorena had developed degenerative bone disease.// When they scheduled their gastric bypass surgeries at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on the same day in February 2006, they joined a growin...