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Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Nanotech safety high on Congress' priority list
The House Science and Technology Committee today introduced legislation that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.
Pew Charitable Trusts
Contact: Colin Finan
colin.finan@wilsoncenter.org
202-841-5605
Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Journal of Environmental Quality
Prairie soil organic matter shown to be resilient under intensive agriculture
A recent study has confirmed that although there was a large reduction of organic carbon and total nitrogen pools when prairies were first cultivated and drained, there has been no consistent pattern in these organic matter pools during the period of synthetic fertilizer use, that is, from 1957-2002.
State of Illinois, Water Quality Strategic Research Initiative
Contact: Debra Levey Larson
dlarson@illinois.edu
217-244-2880
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Journal of Biological Chemistry
New family of antibacterial agents uncovered
In this week's JBC, researchers have found a potential new antibiotic agent in the tiny freshwater animal Hydra.
Contact: Nick Zagorski
nzagorski@asbmb.org
301-634-7366
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Environmental Science & Technology
Biofuel carbon footprint not as big as feared, Michigan State University research says
Some researchers have blasted biofuels' potential to increase greenhouse gas emissions, calling into question the environmental benefits of making fuel from plant material. But a new analysis by Michigan State University scientists says these dire predictions are based on a set of assumptions that may not be correct.
Contact: Bruce Dale
bdale@egr.msu.edu
517-353-6777
Michigan State University
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Science
A fantastic voyage brought to life
Tel Aviv University scientists develop a medical "mini-submarine" to blast diseased cells in the body.
Contact: George Hunka
ghunka@aftau.org
212-742-9070
American Friends of Tel Aviv University
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Discovery of methane reveals Mars is not a dead planet
A team of NASA and university scientists has achieved the first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. This discovery indicates the planet is either biologically or geologically active.
NASA
Contact: Dwayne Brown
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov
202-358-1726
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
High-tech solutions ease inaugural challenges
Transportation and security officials on Inauguration Day will have a centralized, consolidated stream of traffic information and other data displayed on a single screen using software developed by the University of Maryland. The Regional Integrated Transportation Information System gives officials a single real-time view far more comprehensive than previously available. The idea is to enhance officials' ability to monitor vehicular traffic, accidents, incidents, response plans, air space, weather conditions and more.
Contact: Lee Tune
ltune@umd.edu
301-405-4679
University of Maryland
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
The Science Coalition applauds House economic stimulus package proposal
The Science Coalition applauds the House for recognizing the vital need to include research funding in the economic stimulus and recovery efforts. Funding for targeted federal research programs will have the immediate impact of creating jobs and stimulating economic activity in communities across the country. This is an example that we hope the Senate will eventually follow.
Contact: Ashley Prime
aprime@qga.com
202-429-4002
The Science Coalition
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Science Express
Scientists solve longstanding astronomy mystery
New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley has shown how a massive star can grow despite outward-flowing radiation pressure that exceeds the gravitational force pulling material inward. The study appears in the Jan. 15 online edition of Science Express.
Contact: Anne Stark
stark8@llnl.gov
925-422-9799
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences
Now you see it, now you don't: MBL scientists unraveling the mystery of camouflage
Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, has discovered three broad classes of camouflage body patterns. This study of cephalopod camouflage has implications for analyzing camouflage tactics throughout the animal kingdom.
Sholley Foundation, National Geographic Society, US Office of Naval Research
Contact: Diana Kenney
dkenney@mbl.edu
508-289-7139
Marine Biological Laboratory
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Cancer Research
Scripps Florida scientists find novel use for old compound in cancer treatment
Scientists from the Scripps Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have found a potentially beneficial use for a once-abandoned compound in the prevention and treatment of neuroblastoma, one of the most devastating cancers among young children.
National Institutes of Health, State of Florida
Contact: Keith McKeown
kmckeown@scripps.edu
858-784-8134
Scripps Research Institute
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Scripps research team develops new technique to tap full potential of antibody libraries
Antibodies are the attack dogs of the immune system, fighting off bacterial and other invaders. Massive libraries of synthetic antibodies that mimic this natural response, for instance to attack proteins critical to a particular cancer, are also available, but current techniques have allowed scientists to screen these antibodies for effectiveness against only a very limited number of disease-causing agents.
Scripps Research Institute, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, Pfizer, Inc.
Contact: Keith McKeown
kmckeown@scripps.edu
858-784-8134
Scripps Research Institute
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Science
E. coli persists against antibiotics through HipA-induced dormancy
Bacteria hunker down and survive antibiotic attack when a protein flips a chemical switch that throws them into a dormant state until treatment abates, researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Jan. 16 edition of Science.
Contact: Scott Merville
smerville@mdanderson.org
713-792-0661
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Health provisions among public's top priorities for economic stimulus
The public ranks action on health care highly as part of efforts to stem the impact of the economic recession and also views reforming health care as one of the top priorities for President-elect Obama and Congress, according to a new national survey.
Contact: Todd Datz
tdatz@hsph.harvard.edu
617-432-3952
Harvard School of Public Health
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Does universal health care affect attitude toward dementia?
In spite of their universal health care system which facilitates access to free dementia care, older adults in the United Kingdom are less willing to undergo dementia screening than their counterparts in the US because the Britons perceive greater societal stigma from diagnosis of the disease than do Americans according to researches from Indiana University and the Universities of Kent and London.
NIH/National Institute on Aging
Contact: Cindy Fox Aisen
caisen@iupui.edu
317-274-7722
Indiana University
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Addiction
Alcohol taxes have clear effect on drinking
A new study published online today finds that the more alcoholic beverages cost, the less likely people are to drink.
Contact: Molly Jarvis
molly@addictionjournal.org
44-020-784-80014
Wiley-Blackwell
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
Reduced breast cancer risk: Physical activity after menopause pays off
The breast cancer risk of women who are regularly physically active in the postmenopausal phase is reduced by about one third compared to relatively inactive women. This is the result of a study of the German Cancer Research Center and the University Hospitals of Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Contact: Dr. Sibylle Kohlstädt
s.kohlstaedt@dkfz.de
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
Researchers detail how aging undermines bone healing
Researchers have unraveled crucial details of how aging causes broken bones to heal slowly, or not at all, according to study results published today in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. The research team also successfully conducted preclinical tests on a potential new class of treatments designed to "rescue" healing capability lost to aging.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Greg Williams
Greg_Williams@urmc.rochester.edu
585-267-7557
University of Rochester Medical Center
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
PLoS Genetics
Why domestic animals changed coat
A new study on pigs, published Jan. 16 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, reveals that the prime explanation for the bewildering diversity in coat color among our pigs, dogs and other domestic animals, is that humans have actively changed the coat color of domestic animals by cherry-picking and actively selecting for rare mutations. This process that has been going on for thousands of years.
Contact: Leif Andersson
leif.andersson@imbim.uu.se
46-184-714-904
Uppsala University
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Nature
New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins
In an article in today's Nature, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. The study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and thus ultimately our own evolution.
Contact: Martin Brazeau
martin.brazeau@ebc.uu.se
018-471-2635
Uppsala University
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Current Biology
DREAM: 1 gene regulates pain, learning and memory
The DREAM-gene which is crucial in regulating pain perception seems to also influence learning and memory. This is the result of studies carried out by researchers in Seville, Spain, and Vienna, Austria. The new findings could help explain the mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and yield a potential new therapeutic target.
Junta de Andalucia, Direccion General de Investigacion Ciencia y Tecnica, FPU fellowship program, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Ministry of Science
Contact: Dr. Heidemarie Hurtl
hurtl@imp.ac.at
43-179-730-3625
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Applied Physics Letters
Spin-polarized electrons on demand
In the future spintronics could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Scientists of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Germany have developed a a single electron pump, in which electrons can be injected successively, and which is able to manipulate the spin of the single electrons.
Contact: Bernd Kästner
bernd.kaestner@ptb.de
49-531-592-2245
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Lancet
Countries undergoing economic change urged to limit social and health costs for populations
Countries seeking to make massive changes in the way their economies are run, for example by privatizing formerly state-run sectors, must take into account the potential impact of such changes on people's health, experts warn today.
Contact: Gemma Howe
gemma.howe@lshtm.ac.uk
020-792-72802
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
International Journal of Health Geographics
Global warming linked to European viral epidemic
An epidemic of the viral disease nephropathia epidemica has been linked to increases in the vole population caused by hotter summers, milder winters and increased seedcrop production by broadleaf trees. Research published in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Health Geographics links outbreaks of this rodent-borne disease to known effects of global warming.
Contact: Graeme Baldwin
graeme.baldwin@biomedcentral.com
44-020-707-94804
BioMed Central
Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
British Medical Journal
Postnatal depression can be effectively treated and possibly prevented
Health visitors can be trained to identify women with postnatal depression and offer effective treatment, while telephone peer support (mother to mother) may halve the risk of developing postnatal depression, suggests research published on bmj.com today.
Contact: Emma Dickinson
edickinson@bmj.com
44-020-738-36529
BMJ-British Medical Journal
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