Fireflies' glow helps UT Southwestern researchers track cancer drug's effectiveness
... see. Dr. Mason said the device is essentially an astronomy kit. When youre looking at the stars, youre trying to assess very weak light signals, he said. Were using the same type...Homeless youth need more than treatment for substance abuse, study says
...r of human development and family science at Ohio State University. When youre homeless and youre entrenched in the homeless lifestyle, without housing and without stabiliza...Social form of bullying linked to depression, anxiety in adults
...aid. While it certainly does happen to most kids, its not acceptable. And while I think it would be difficult to completely curtail it, by reducing it youre going to help someone a tremendous amount to not have to go to school and be plagued by this environment of being tortured day in and day out. Thi...Cells on path to becoming mature T-cells more flexible than commonly thought
...ls take to mature to T cells, says lead author Jeremiah Bell, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Whether youre trying to understand T-cell immunodeficiencies, T-cell cancers, or other T-cell-related disorders, you first need to know the steps in T-cell developm...Humor plays an important role in healthcare even when patients are terminally ill
...ns. As one interviewee commented: When youve had the most stressful day and youre ready to cry, sometimes its easier to bring out humour and take it in the o...alking but I dont ask you whats bugging you...Im not really finding out why youre upset. It wasnt just the healthcare staff who used humour to alleviate d...Research to lead to brain tumor therapies
...tely rushed to Bristol for surgery to remove it. Said Tom: I had the operation, and then they told me afterwards that I had neurofibromatosis. When youre young you just take these things on board, which is what I did at the time. But it has had a huge effect on my life since. Tom lives with his mothe...Hissing cockroaches are popular, but they also host potent mold allergens
...y at Ohio State University. We are not criticizing their use. We are just saying that if you handle these cockroaches, you should wash your hands when youre done. Its also best to maintain the cage. Its not a pet you can ignore, he said. Without regular cleaning, feces will build up, and the old exoskel...Minorities, whites get equal care in hospitals
...y a few hospitals provide lower quality care to minorities than to whites. The good news, said Gaskin, is that if you come to the hospital for care, youre probably getting the same quality as everyone else in that hospital. The study also may help pinpoint where improvements need to be made to reduce t...On a 'roll': MIT researchers devise new cell-sorting system
...external conditions, so this system could allow them to be concentrated with much less damage than with conventional multi-stage lab techniques. If youre out in the field and you want to diagnose something, you dont want to have to do several steps, Karnik says. With the new system, you can sort cells ...U of I scientists aim to overcome allergic reactions to soy
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...ent of genetic influences. Body type is one such example. There is some genetic component to body size, but if you eat more nutritious food as a child youre probably going to grow taller than someone who has the same genes but may not have had as good of a diet growing up, Peichel said. Our findings challe...Atmosphere threatened by pollutants entering ocean, prof says
...he atmosphere as a powerful greenhouse gas, he added. If you dont consider the impact of human-caused nitrogen when trying to model climate change, youre missing a possibly significant part of the overall carbon cycle as well as the nitrogen cycle, Duce said. So nitrogen deposition is potentially a very...Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic calls
... to one male or whether she lets a bunch of males come and compete, or whether there is any kind of dueting session during which she then decides: OK, youre my guy. Hop on my back and Ill take you to the creek! Feng said. These studies likely have implications for human health. Earlier research into the...Texas A&M testing oral contraceptives for animals
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...n of the population dynamics of the pest species its seed and growth cycle, stressors, etc. Then you can introduce the biological control agents that youre considering one at a time and see whether you can get away with just introducing one agent, said Davis. I collected data from field experiments and en...Cigarette after Valentine snuggle deadlier for some
...s not smoke. Moss added that the research also helps explain why some heavy smokers appear to beat the odds when it comes to heart disease. If youre a smoker and you dont carry the CETP variation, you have the same risk for heart disease as a non-smoker carrying the same gene, he said. These smoker...Moss protein plays role in Alzheimer's disease
...mic Age can do. Today, sitting at your computer, you can data mine genomes from hundreds of microorganisms, animals, fungi, insects and plants, and youre seeing more evidence of genes being conserved in widely different organisms, Quatrano said. This collaboration is a perfect example of bringing two l...Mummy lice found in Peru may give new clues about human migration
...he time exists, he said. Being able to chart these early migration patterns would give insight into how these early immigrants lived, Reed said. If youre skirting the edge of glaciers, its obviously a very cold time period and humans would have needed certain creature comforts just to stay alive, such a...Impoverished areas of Africa and Asia face severe crop losses from climate change in 20 years
...oss regions and at a wide range of crops of importance to the poor, we hope to provide a way to prioritize investments in adaptation, Lobell said. Say youre an organization with finite resources thats interested in alleviating hunger and concerned about the effects of climate change. Our study asks, given ...In nature -- and maybe the corner office -- scientists find that generalists can thrive
...it initially because you have to invest in training this person. You might even train all three people. But if you have even just one generalist, then youre safeguarded against the possibility that the specialists dont complement each other. For Waite, the findings reinforce his broader world view. We s...Whats in a name? Quite a bit, when youre competing in biotech
SAN FRANCISCO The sign hanging over the Badger state pavilion at the annual BIO convention proclaimed, Wisconsin Room to Breathe. But you had to visit the New York State exhibit to breathe gardenia-scented oxygen at that states oxygen bar. In a business that has grown to be as competitive as b...Molecules line up to make the tiniest of wires
...these things in" said Dr. Jillian Buriak, University of Alberta professor and senior research officer at the National Institute for Nanotechnology. If youre going to make something on the order of 22 or even 18 nanometres, then youd better have a plug thats about that size, too. A team of NINT researche...Microfluidic chambers advance the science of growing neurons
...s, because these releasates are less dilute. If you bring the walls in and you make an environment thats cell-sized, the channels now are such that youre constraining the releasates to physiological concentrations, even at the level of a single cell, Sweedler said. Second, the researchers increased t...Lowering the fear factor for entrepreneurs, intra-preneurs
...e dont have a good reason for their fear. When youre innovating, youre breaking rules both real and implied, he said. Bei... creative is being a professional malcontent. When youre breaking rules, it is threatening to someones way ...Growth: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
...s. At best, capital can give you the flexibility to grow your business dramatically, but you can expect new problems to take the place of old ones. If youre going to take risk capital for growth purposes, make sure youve got the people and systems in place, or in development, to help manage the process. Ri...Better living through software
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..., out to lunch, whatever; they could be trying to sell junk bonds to Michael Milken, and they believe they can make it work. Life is exciting when youre around that kind of person. But put 300 of them in the same space for a couple of days, and you get a genuine buzz going, even without the free beer. ...Corona Optical Systems continues to excite investors
...kman. Theres a great technology base in Eau Claire thats kind of hidden. If youre inside the industry, there arent that many [people there] who know, either....e customers who have designed your product into theirs. (In this market, if youre looking for investment opportunities, people are less and less willing to t...