Plant Cold Hardiness: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Physiology. (Proceedings of the 5th International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar, Corvallis OR, 5-8 August 1996). Edited by PAUL H. LI and TONY H.H. CHEN. Plenum Press, 233 Spring St., New York, Plant Cold Hardiness: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and ...
INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular mechanics is a major descriptor of pathology of cardiovascular diseases, especially atherosclerosis, which is a major contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (1), (2). One of the major fields of research in cardiovascular biomechanics is study of the effects of mechanical parameters on endothelial damage leading...
"I see dead people" isn't something little kids should come home and tell their parents after a field trip, say state education officials. The Utah State Office of Education has issued a warning letter regarding the anatomical exhibit Body Worlds, currently showing at The Leonardo in downtown...
You eat well, do cardio, and crank out countless crunches, but you still don't have a flat belly? Add some Pilates moves to your routine. When researchers at Auburn University measured muscle activity in the abs during a hundred, double-leg stretch, crunch, and roll-up, they found that the first two...
Tip O'Neill, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, once said that all politics are local. He just didn't realize how local. Try genetically local or personality local. It seems that politics are biological. According to the Sept. 19 issue of Science, the journal of...
LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative droplet-based microfluidic solutions for human health and disease research, today dedicated its new headquarters and operations building and unveiled its new RDT 1000 instrument. Keynoting the event was Sir Richard Roberts, 2003 Nobel Prize...
New Adventures of Old Christine (7 p.m., Ch. 2): Christine marries Barb to keep her from being deported to the Bahamas. Season premiere Dancing With the Stars (7 p.m., Ch. 4): Another pair is eliminated. Killer Stress: A National Geographic Special (7 p.m., Ch....
University of Utah oncologist Susan E. Mango is among 25 MacArthur fellows announced Tuesday. Mango, who was recently named professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, will receive the five-year, $500,000 "no strings attached" award as one of the world's young geniuses designated in 2008...
It has no nutritional value, yet we consume pounds of it each year - much of it hidden in 'healthy' foods. Sophie Morris discovers ways we can kick the habit So much for Mary Poppins. All those spoonfuls of sugar are not only making us fat,...
WILMINGTON, Massachusetts, September 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Radi Medical Systems Inc. today announced at the VIVA conference in Las Vegas, NV, that it has received regulatory clearance for its PressureWireR Certus to measure physiological parameters inside the heart. PressureWireR has previously only been cleared for use in the...
ABSTRACT The clinical failure of Vytorin in the ENHANCE trial supports the need to reevaluate the efficacy of widespread use of statin drugs for the treatment and prevention of coronary artery disease CAD. Statins were marketed on the precept that lowering so-called "bad" cholesterol while raising...
Very often science is taught in schools devoid of the people and events behind the research. Yet there is much that can be discovered about the nature of science when we examine the lives of scientists. Recently I read James Watson's The Double Helix and Brenda Maddox's biography of Rosalind...
The polygraph lie detector may be an ideal vehicle for converting aspects of a physiology course into an interdisciplinary course, enabling discussion of interrelationships between science, technology and society STS and social dilemmas arising from technological developments. The authors present a way of incorporating the polygraph into a pre-service teacher...
TAKE YOUR TIME: OLAFUR ELIASSON Curated by Roxana Marcoci and Klaus Biesenbach, Museum of Modern Art and PSI Contemporary Art Center, New York Take your time is a grand staging of 38 Olafur Eliasson sculptures and installations at the Museum of Modern Art and PSI Contemporary...
One major cause of misunderstanding between men and women is the awkward fact that sexual intercourse, which we imagine will bring us closer together, is poorly designed to give pleasure to both parties. Jeremy Laurance goes back to physiological basics If we were designing men and...
Die-hard liberals and conservatives aren't made, they're born. It's literally in their DNA. That's the suggestion of a study by a group of researchers who wanted to see if there was a biological basis for peoples' political attitudes. They found to their surprise that...
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), announced that the Board of Directors at their meeting today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.13 per share on its Class A and Class B Common Stock, payable October 14, 2008 to shareholders of record on October 2, 2008....
It's a biological riddle. We think of our libidos as a force of nature beyond our control; yet we also complain, increasingly, that they are too weak. Cathy Holding investigates the enigma of sexual response Human sexual response is a complex combination of social, hormonal, physiological...
A KEY vitamin in meat, fish and milk may help protect the brain as it ages, researchers have said. Vitamin B12 could help stop the brain shrinking - possibly preventing memory loss and dementia. A study of 107 people, aged 61 to 87, found those with...
The art of love Kitagawa Utamaro 'Lovers'(from Uta makura / The Poem of the Pillow) 1788 British Museum "Sex, in so far as it is not a purely physiological reproductive mechanism, lies in the domain of aesthetics,"...
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