Environmental lessons from tsunami as world's coastal population doubles
Coastal populations and ecosystems are more likely to bounce back from extreme coastal disasters by protecting local environments and building on local knowledge, according to a report published in Science. And the aftermath of the Asian tsunami has given valuable insight into handling extreme coastal disasters - inevitable as the world's coastal population is set to double by 2030 and glo...How many genes does it take to learn? Lessons from sea slugs
Scientists analyzing the genomics of a marine snail have gotten an unprecedented look at brain mechanisms, discovering that the neural processes in even a simple sea creature are far from sluggish. At any given time within just a single brain cell of sea slug known as Aplysia, more than 10,000 genes are active, according to scientists writing in Friday's (Dec. 29, 2006) edition of the jo...Bitter taste identifies poisons in foods
Scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center report that bitter taste perception of vegetables is influenced by an interaction between variants of taste genes and the presence of naturally-occurring toxins in a given vegetable. The study appears in the September 19 issue of Current Biology. Scientists have long assumed that bitter taste evolved as a defense mechanism to detect potential...Household transmission of SARS: Lessons learned
In the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, Ontario, about 20% of cases resulted from household transmission (spread of the infection within a household). Wilson-Clark and colleagues studied the characteristics of these household transmissions and report on risk factors that contributed to the spread of infection. Primary risk factors for transmission fall...Monitoring poisons in the environment -- a woolly matter
Heavy metals are present in variable amounts in the natural environment in the UK. Dr Jennifer Sneddon (Liverpool John Moores University) will present the results of a pilot study assessing the use of upland sheep wool as a bio-monitoring device for natural levels of heavy metals in the Lake District and Wales at the Society for Experimental Biology’s Annual Meeting in Glasgow (31st March ?2nd Ap...PCR Performance Comparisons Between pfuturbo and Taq DNA Polymerases
pfuturbo DNA polymerase is the superior choice for robusthigh-fidelity PCR amplification Stratagene In this update, we compare the PCR performances of pfuturbo DNApolymerase * ,</...Performance Comparisons of Commercial RT-PCR Systems
Stratagene We compared Stratagenes prostar RT-PCR systems to othercommercially available RNA amplification kits to see how well they performed.The ProSTAR HF single-tube RT-PCR system, featurin...Madisons visionary plan for a healthy economy
MADISON - More than three hundred business and community leaders gathered at Monona Terrace Tuesday to hear Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewiczs plan for the citys future economic growth. a 38-page glossy and illustrative framework containing 110 a...CIO Leadership Series: Snap-On's Moreno offers lessons in IT transformation
Moreno certainly isn't the first chief information officer to join a large, global business organization and find herself in ch...On the case: Web lessons for connecting with customers
I thought it would be interesting to review some recent examples demonstrating these concepts and their perceived impact....Wine drinkers may have reasons to cheer
A recent study by researchers in the Institute of Preventive Medicine in Copenhagen suggests that drinking wine occasionally may be beneficial in countering dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Scientists, who found// that people who drank wine weekly or monthly were more than two times less likely to develop dementia, said that the findings are important because there may be substances in w...More compelling reasons to lower blood pressure
A recent study by British researchers who analyzed 61 previous studies of blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, which together included 1 million people, found that lowering blood pressure, regardless of age and even if readings are in the normal range, could// have significant pay off in terms of reducing risk of strokes and heart attacks. The study which included a 13 year follo...Abnormal Brain Structure One Of The Reasons For Depression in Adolescents
A new study shows the reason some adolescents experience depression could be abnormal brain structure.// The study states depressed teenagers tend to have a smaller hippocampus -- the part of the brain responsible for memory, learning, emotion and motivation. Researchers sampled nearly 30 adolescents between ages 13 to 18, half of who had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder.Mag...