Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships
Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced the launch of MedScan?Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, a Natural Language Processing-based tool for automated extraction of biological facts from scientific literature, MEDLINE abstracts, and other text sources. A demo version of MedScan is available at www.ariadnegenomics.com. MedScan leverages hand-crafted dictionaries of protein and chemical names, and...Environment, not genes, key in family relationships
Nature or nurture? It's the eternal question for so many human interactions and personality traits. Now, it appears, nature may play a larger role than nurture when it comes to family relationships between adolescents and their parents. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and George Washington University in Washington, D.C., used data on 674 families, each with a same-sex ad...Relationship of brain and skull more than just packaging
People usually think of the skull as packaging for the brain and researchers usually investigate them separately, but a team of researchers now thinks that developmentally and evolutionarily that the two are incontrovertibly linked. The researchers, including biological anthropologists, physicians and a computer scientist, looked at the CT scans and MRIs of infants with particular types o...Study reveals classic symbiotic relationship between ants, bacteria
Ants that tend and harvest gardens of fungus have a secret weapon against the parasites that invade their crops: antibiotic-producing bacteria that the insects harbor on their bodies. Writing today in the journal Science, an international team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologist Cameron Currie illustrates the intricate and ancient nature of this mutualistic relationship....New study is first to link romantic relationships to genes
New research suggests that choosing a mate may be partially determined by your genes. A study published in Psychological Science has found a link between a set of genes involved with immune function and partner selection in humans. Vertebrate species and humans are inclined to prefer mates who have dissimilar MHC (major histocompatibility complex) genotypes, rather than similar ones. This...High taxes and low rates of entrepreneurship - is there a relationship?
Holding down taxes? That...Sun, TeraMedica solution aimed at doctor-patient relationship
The collaboration involves TeraMedic...University of South Florida expands GE Healthcare relationship
The upgrade is part of a $15 million program to create a national healthcare center at the university. It will make use of GE's web-based...Don't forget building relationships when building business
Relationships are very important to succeed both personally and professionally. You should make sure to spend time building alliances with other people in the business world and your community. Once these partnerships are built, you will be able leverage them to help you fulfill your needs and goals. At the same, make sure you reciprocate and allow your alliances to leverage you as well....Meriter IT team builds project performance through internal relationships
, a not-for-profit, 448-bed community hospital in Madison that provides medical care to southern Wisconsin. Meriter includes a hospital, clinic, retirement living facility, laboratories and a home health care service. Formed from a m...CDC reveals relationship between prepregnant weight and heart defects in infants
Keeping fit and in to be in shape is not only good for the individuals themselves but also for their siblings. Over weight, which is of course the predisposer of majority of the illness such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension etc., is now being studied in depth, the reason is to attain the destination of disease free environment, that are preventable.// Researchers from the US Cent...Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy
A major US study has found that women who have taken postmenopausal oestrogens for ten years or more are at substantially greater risk of fatal ovarian cancer. The risk persists for many years after therapy is discontinued, researchers from the American Cancer Society report// in the Journal of the American Medical Association.The study followed 201,681 postmenopausal women from 1982 t...Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ
A new study shows that smaller babies tend to have lower IQs.While the differences are too small to have any practical significance they might be of importance at a population level.// Researchers at Columbia University have examined over 2500 children at age seven to study the relationship between birth weight and intelligence.They found that on average, IQ at age seven is d...Unhappy relationships could result in more than just heart breaks!
Relationships are the key to survival on planet earth. Every one of us knows and understands that happy relationships can make for happy living. But how many of us know that the continuous //tension of a distressed intimate relationship can raise blood pressure, continuously over a 24 hour period? According to a new study by researchers in Canada, when intimate relationships become strained, ther...A Loving Relationship Found To Improve Heart Health
Doctors can now add one more factor to their prescription for subsequent heart attack prevention: a close relationship.// A new study shows having a close relationship with another person, whether it be a friend, lover or relative, lowers the risk of further heart attacks by 50 percent. This was true even after taking into account the severity of the first heart attack and other risk fa...