Engineers create 3-D model to help biologists combat blue tongue virus
Jun 23, 2008 |
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A large 3D model of the Blue Tongue virus has been created by WMG engineering researchers at the University of Warwick that will help biologists devise new ways to combat the virus and protect millions of ...
Dry Tortugas show positive trends: Protected area slowly rebounding
Jun 23, 2008 |
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[B]Multi-agency effort a collaborative success in integrated ecosystem assessment[/B] A team of 38 research divers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, NOA ...
New paradigm for cell-specific gene delivery
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Researchers from Northwestern University and Texas A & M University have discovered a new way to limit gene transfer and expression to specific tissues in animals. In studies to determine how plasmids enter the nuclei of ...
Understanding the migration of cancer cells
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[B]Activity of regulatory proteins for the growth of filopodia and lamelopodia clarified[/B] Lamellipodia are veil-shaped protrusions of the plasma membrane, that can turn into upward-curled ruffles if they fail to adhere to ...
Refusal of suicide order: Why tumor cells become resistant
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Cells with irreparable DNA damage normally induce programmed cell death, or apoptosis. However, this mechanism often fails in tumor cells so that transformed cells are able to multiply and spread throughout the body. Scientists ...
Research required urgently to control planthopper pests
Jun 23, 2008 |
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[B]June 23-25 conference to address major threat to Asian rice production[/B] A small insect that has devastated millions of hectares of rice in southern China and Vietnam over the past few years—causing the loss of tho ...
Neurological assessment of older adults: A crystal ball to the future
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Standard neurological exams of older adults are good predictors of future brain health and quality of life. These tests should become part of the physician's routine examination of older adults say faculty from the Indiana ...
Study shows single insecticide application can kill 3 cockroach generations
Jun 23, 2008 |
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One dose of an insecticide can kill three generations of cockroaches as they feed off of each other and transfer the poison, according to Purdue University entomologists who tested the effectiveness of a ...
Database shows effects of acid rain on microorganisms in Adirondack Lakes
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Prior to the federal Clean Air Act, unhindered industrial emissions were released into the air throughout the Midwestern and Eastern United States for decades. Many of those harmful chemicals came right back down to earth ...
Electrical A-G Ratings may be on the way out
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Plans to scrap the A-G electrical rating system – the equivalent of HIPS in the electrical sector – may be on the cards according to a new report out today in the Society of Chemical Industry’s (SCI) magazine, Chemistry & ...
Reliance on unverifiable observations hinders successful conservation of wildlife species
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Nearly any evidence of the occurrence of a rare or elusive wildlife species has the tendency to generate a stir. Case in point: in February 2008, remote cameras unexpectedly captured the images of a wolverine ...
Increased cancer risk following the use of radioactive Radium-224 in the therapy
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Ankylosing Spondylitis (Bechterew's Disease) is a painful chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease, associated with stiffening of the vertrebral column. Between 100,000 and 150,000 cases have already been diagnosed in Germany, ...
US Pharmacopeia announces revised heparin monographs and reference standards
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 23, 2008 |
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[B]Standards updated in response to public health threat associated with blood-thinning drug's adulteration with over-sulfated chondroitin[/B] The U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention announces that revised monographs for ...
Newly approved ocular safety methods reduce animal testing
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Federal regulatory agencies have accepted recommendations of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) for two methods that can reduce live animal use for ocular safety testing, ...
Study evaluates factors associated with racial disparities in colon cancer screening
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Blacks and Hispanics appear less likely to undergo colorectal cancer screening than whites because of socioeconomic, health care access and language barriers, according to a report in the June 23 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...
