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Assessing the Amazon River's sensitivity to deforestation

Understanding how the Amazon River varies in time, what causes those variations, and how sensitive it will be to ongoing, and accelerating, deforestation is a focus of study for scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center. Population and development pressures in the last several decades have led to significant areas of deforestation in the Amazon, most in the eastern and southern portion of the...

NIEHS launches website with information for assessing environmental hazards from Hurricane Katrina

A new website with a Global Information System will provide valuable information for assessing environmental hazards caused by Hurricane Katrina. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the National Institutes of Health, created the website to provide the most up-to-date data to public health and safety workers on contaminants in flood waters, infrastructure and in...
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Assessing Gene Function with siRNA Libraries

, Anne Grabner , Kathy Latham Ambion, Inc. Sets of siRNAs focused on a specifi...

Homogeneous, chemiluminescent kinase assay kits for assessing the functional activity of a broad range of serine-threonine and tyrosine kinases

<P >J. Turner GE Healthcare, The Maynard Centre, Cardiff, UK Competitive binding assays have been developed for measuring the functional activity of a range of serine-threonine and tyrosine kinases. Based on enzyme fragment complementation and the subsequent hydrolysis of chemiluminescent substrate, HitHunter™ Kinase Assay Kits gene...

Assessing UV damage of hair

The results of UV exposure of human hair can be quantified with fluorescence spectroscopy. This is of significant interest to cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies that manufacture hair creams, coloring, shampoos, and conditioners. For customers involved...
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Assessing Prostate Cancer Risk

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men, affecting about one in five men over their lifetimes. An estimated 220,000 new cases // of the disease are diagnosed every year and nearly 30,000 men die from prostate cancer every year. New research shows men who are diagnosed with abnormal cells in the lining of their prostate ducts run a high risk of developing prostate cancer withi...

New Tool Found to be Effective in Assessing Blunt Abdominal Trauma

According to a new study, contrast-enhanced sonography compared with sonography and CT proves to be a useful tool in the assessment of blunt abdominal trauma.// Massimo Valentino, MD, lead author of the study said “The objective of our study was to prospectively compare the diagnostic value of sonography, contrast-enhanced sonography, and CT for the detection of solid organ injuries in...

New Guidelines For Assessing Lymphoma Treatment

An international team of cancer specialists and imaging experts has developed standardized guidelines for assessing lymphoma response to treatment//. The guidelines will provide clinicians worldwide with uniform criteria to compare and interpret clinical trials of lymphoma treatments and should facilitate the development of new therapies. The new guidelines developed by the Internation...

Assessing Diet and Exercise Behaviors in Adolescents

Do adolescents get enough exercise and eat the right foods? Is there too much fat in their diets? Researchers analyzed the behavior of almost 900 11-to-15 year-olds and found// that nearly 80% had multiple physical activity and dietary risk behaviors, almost half had at least three risk behaviors, and only 2% met all four of the health guidelines in the study. Using both physical meas...
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