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Molecular biology fills gaps in knowledge of bat evolution

One in five mammals living on Earth is a bat, yet their evolutionary history is largely unknown because of a limited fossil record and conflicting or incomplete theories about their origins and divergence. Now, a research team including University of California, Riverside Biology Professor Mark Springer, has published a paper in the Jan. 28 issue of the journal Science that uses molecular...

Quantum Dots Research Leads to New Knowledge about Protein Binding in Plants

UC Riverside researchers from the Departmentsof Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering andBotany and Plant Sciences have worked together to discover a way toutilize to uncover new knowledge about the binding of a protein at the growingpollen tube tip. This protein plays a critic...

Scientists Propose Sweeping Changes to Naming of Bird Neurosystems to Acknowledge Their True Brainpower

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Mylan Technologies, Inc., for the first generic version of Alza Corporation's Duragesic Patch (Fentanyl Transdermal System) used to treat patients suffering from severe chronic pain that cannot be managed with alternative analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is s...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

An international team worked on the verge of the Sahara to gather data on the ground and in the air, to be compared with imagery of the same region acquired by ESA satellites. The results will be used in support of an ambitious project to apply satellite remote sensing to improve monitoring and management of vast water aquifers concealed beneath the desert. High-resolution radar as well as...

World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise

Almost 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015. That commitment is now looking like an empty promise -- all talk and no action -- according to a Cornell University expert on world hunger. If business proceeds as usual, just as many people will be hungry in the world -- 800 million -- in 2015 as there were 16 years ago, said Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell's Babc...

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Carl Christensen says Marshfield Clinic's history gives it an IT edge

In the last decade, technology applied to medical records and other information has become hot enough to raise a new term, "medical informatics," to more common usage. At the <a href="http:...

Governor Doyle Pledges Support for Stem Cell Research and Biotechnology Advancements

Madison, WI Governor James Doyle was joined by University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley along with leaders from Wisconsins biotechnology industry in pledging their full support for the continued growth and development of Wisconsin s biotechnology industry. The Governor, addressing a special meeting of the Wisconsin Biotechnology Association, proclaimed his full support for the con...

To be a player in the "Knowledge Economy," Wisconsin needs more tech workers

Wisconsin's assets in the 21st century knowledge economy are impressive when compared with other states of its size. But its weaknesses are intimidating, especially when it comes to training and retaining a skill...

Wisconsin firms pledge to support healthcare IT standards

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State pledges $50K to NovaScan, Platypus

NovaScan, a Milwaukee-based company developing technology to measure the electrical properties of materials used to identify different tissue types, will recei...

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George Bush pledges 200 million dollars for AIDS relief

American president George .W. Bush has pledged 200 million dollars to fight AIDS. The money will be directed toward a United Nations fund designed to pay for treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, as well as malaria and tuberculosis. Those three diseases together killed some 5.5 million people last year, the bulk of them in Africa,according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The shee...

Spreading knowledge to doctors about herbal medicine

Recently an internet-based learning exercise has helped a group of doctors increase their knowledge of herbal remedies and food supplements. Many people take herbs and other dietary supplements, but find their doctors are lacking in knowledge// about these complementary medicines. A group called the Longwood Herbal Task Force, drawn from health professionals of the Harvard Medical School...

Knowledge Of Infertility Gets New Inputs

Women who may lack a gene called estrogen receptor beta and not react to medications that can cure infertility.// In a research funded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reported that the gene called estrogen receptor beta plays an important role in moving the egg outside the ovary to be fertilized. If women are lacking in this particular gene, which is found otherw...

Knowledge Of Asthma For Teachers Can Help Children

The teacher’s knowledge of asthma and how to deal with an asthmatic attack// in children can go a long way in making life comfortable for the children who suffer from asthma. Asthma is a leading cause of death and disability in children younger than 17 years old. It is one of the leading causes of hospitalization in school-age children. Since children spend up to 30 percent of their da...

"Defeat AIDS Pledge" by Andhra CM

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Saturday administered a "defeat AIDS pledge"// to people in a major effort to create awareness on HIV/AIDS,. India has 5.13 million people infected with HIV/AIDS. Andhra Pradesh has the highest prevalence of HIV cases in the country with more than 400,000 affected people. According to the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), the...

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Women Well-Informed About Breast Cancer, Yet Lacking Knowledge About Current Treatments, New Survey Finds

-- CancerCare offers five questions to help womenlearn about breast cancer therapy advances -- NEW YORK, June 12, 2007 – According to a newGfK Roper Public Affairs survey sponsored by CancerCare, a nationalnonprofit cancer support organization, while the majority (76percent) of women surveyed said they know at least a fair amountabout breast cancer...

Curis Announces Hedgehog and Wnt Antagonist Data Presentation at AACR

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 17, 2007 - Curis, Inc.(NASDAQ:CRIS), a drug development company focused on novel targetedmedicines primarily for cancer treatment, today announced that itsdata was included in two presentations at the 98th Annual Meetingof the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). At AACR, Curis also disclosed that its April 2005 discoverycollaboration agr...

Abbott Researchers Focus on New Cutting-Edge Approaches in the Fight Against Cancer

Scientists to Present Data on Innovative Oncology Compounds at theAmerican Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting ABBOTT PARK, Ill., April 13, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fordecades, scientists have looked for new therapies that targetcancer. Researchers now know that cancer cells have several uniquecharacteristics -- they require new blood vessels to deliver oxygenand nutrient...