To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
The ones that stay and the ones that stray are biological puzzles among Pacific salmon, of whom the vast majority ?but not all ?travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched. There are chinook salmon populations in Idaho in which an occasional male stays put and matures when only 6 inches long ?that is, he's able to fertilize eggs at even that diminutive size,...Bugs expose underground carbon traffic system 10 times more important than fossil fuel burning
The flow of carbon through soil is ten times greater than the amount of carbon moved around by the burning of fossil fuel but until now how this happens was at best poorly understood. Soil was almost literally a black box to scientists interested in carbon. Now researchers at the University of Warwick have been able to shed light in that black box by getting a particular class of insects to expos...Data published in PNAS show antibodies can be made 10 times more toxic to cancer cells
Engineering the "Fc" region of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) increases their toxicity to cancer cells, potentially improving the utility of targeted cancer therapies, according to research conducted at Xencor, which will be published in the March 14 print issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Monoclonal antibodies have important advantages over chemotherapy a...Tyrannosaur survivorship -- tough times for teens
A massive dinosaur death bed in Alberta has helped map out the animal's life span and thrown doubt on long-held theories about how one species lived, says new research conducted in part at the University of Alberta. "One of the surprises to me was that the overall pattern of survivorship fits closer to an attritional model rather than the catastrophic model we were expecting," said world-...Immune system police learn early and sometimes badly
Regulatory T cells, which function like immune system police, learn early in life what to protect, and that may include viruses, bacteria and tumors, researchers have shown. Using genetically manipulated mice and technology that enables a snapshot of the repertoire of antigen receptors that determine what cells recognize, Medical College of Georgia researchers followed T cells as they spe...NY Times Reporter to give Tech Talk in Madison
E-COMMERCE 3.0 First the Boom, Then the Bust, Now the Third Incarnation Featuring Bob Tedeschi, The New York Times Award-winning Journalist to Address Madison Business, Technology Leaders; Bob Tedeschi of The New York Times to Discuss Dotcom and Technology Future. Bob Tedeschi's influential weekly "E-Commerce Report" column appears in the Monday Business section of The New York T...Sometimes, features can make a company
It's an apt enough description of some of the technologies on the DEMO stage. Yet I suspect there was criti...Challenging times for FDA and drug companies equals IT opportunities
One of the biggest challenges has been the pipeline problem, the slowdown instead of the expected acceleration in innovative...Venture-backed companies drive job creation, even in tough times
MADISON During last springs legislative debate on the pros and cons of a major venture capital bill, it was sadly apparent that more than a few Wisconsin lawmakers had their doubts about the merits of non-traditional investment capital. The next time this debate rolls around, lets hope members of the Senate and Assembly have read the latest study of venture capitals role in the growing...Fast Track: FDA User Fees: Do Faster Review Times Justify the Financial Burden?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently began requiring applicants to pay significant user fees when filing applications in connection with new medical devices and biologics. Such user fees have long been required for drug-related applications, and now also are required for applications related to devices and biologics. In theory, user fees enable FDA to speed up application review time,...No harm in reducing prenatal check up to 3 - 6 times says WHO report
A world health organisation report says that women with low risk pregnancies, who live in the developing nations, can safely cut down their vists to the doctor during pregnancy to 3 - 6 times during pregnancy instead of the prescribed 8 - 11 visits as in the developed nations. However, these women are not more at risk than women who had more prenatal visits to have a low birth weight bab...Smoking Increases The Risk Of Heart Disease By Three Times
Having one to four cigarettes can also be as disastrous to health as smoking more cigarettes. Smoking up to four cigarettes a day almost triples a smoker’s risk of heart disease and lung cancer, reveals a // large study in Tobacco Control. The study shows that the impact is stronger for women, and quashes the cherished notion that “light” smokers escape the serious health problems f...Mobile Operating Theater to Cut Waiting Times
A mobile hospital that is being started in the grounds of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at a cost of £1 million, aims to cut down the waiting times for patients//. The hospital is equipped with an operating theatre and health bosses hope that bout 200 operations can be carried out here. NHS Grampian said that this is the first Scottish theatre to employ a ward as well. The van has been l...37 times unlucky – Failure to Diagnose Cancer, Takes the Life of a 31 year old fathe
Can a perfect diagnosis elude a patient 37 times? In a pathetic culmination of a young father’s life, who’s left behind two really young children, died due to cancer of the kidney, after doctors missed the crucial diagnosis of cancer, not once or twice, but 37 times. // Peter Cura, a carpenter from Rainham ,was being examined many times over the last14 month period after suffering ex...Health Minister Promises New Benchmark for Wait Times
Federal Health Minister Tony Clement assured patients frustrated by long waiting lists. He said that they can take their health care providers to the court for not meeting its benchmarks. // He guaranteed that one can open the door to legal action if the promise was not met by the health care provider. By this the framework in place is maintained and a patient can demand if he is not g...Refrigerated Stem Cells Survive 12 Times Longer with ProtoKinetix's AAGP
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 7, 2007 - As afollow up to ProtoKinetix Inc.'s (OTCBB:PKTX) May 23, 2007 pressrelease related to cryopreserved (or frozen) cells treated withAAGP(TM), in collaboration with the University of Helsinki,Finland, ProtoKinetix has recently finished a set of trialsdesigned to determine whether AAGP(TM) treated cells could surviveafter preservation...