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SfN releases 'Best Practices for Protecting Researchers and Research'
02-06-2008 · EurekAlert!The Society for Neuroscience today released a new document to helpimprove the protection of academic researchers, including, but not limited to, those who faceintimidation, harassment and physical attack by fringe antianimal research extremists.
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- Researchers 'sniff out' emissions from feedyards
03-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Setting up an air quality trailer in the midst of cattlepens at a feedlot will help measure gaseous emissions, said a TexasAgricultural Experiment Station researcher. Dr. Ken Casey, Experiment Station air quality engineer in Amarillo,wants to measure ammonia and hydrogen sulfide emissions from feedyards. His research team is setting up two climate-controlled instrumenttrailers in different locations at a feedyard. The trailers will beequipped with two continuous emissions analyzers.
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- Self-monitoring helps reduce high-risk behavior among HIV-positive people
07-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
There are many effective, albeit expensive, intervention programs aimed at encouraging HIV-positive people to practice less risky behavior. But new research has found that self-monitoring by these patients is not only an effective strategy but is inexpensive and easy to implement as well. By simply having patients answer a series of questions about their sexual behavior while waiting for regularly scheduled medical examinations, researchers found that people living with HIV took steps to change their behavior.
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- Markets of biodiversity and equity in trade: An illusion?
01-30-2008 · EurekAlert!
The Convention on Biological Diversity, adopted at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992, bore the objective of providing a legal and political framework for the conservation of biodiversity. In order to assess how these recommendations have been put into practice over the past 15 years, a team of scientists from the IRD and other research organizations1 has conducted a review aiming to analyse the strategies, practices and representations of the different participants in the trade of living resources.
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- OHSU research suggests new strategy for protecting aging Americans against infectious disease
12-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
OHSU researchers have uncovered new information about the body's immune system in a study that suggests new strategies may be in order for protecting the country's aging population against disease. The scientists discovered an actual process by which naпve T-cells are lost later in life.
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- Biodegradable microspheres deliver time release vaccines, stimulate different immune response
02-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new vaccine delivery system using microspheres of a biodegradable polymer may not only reduce the need for booster shots in some cases, but also appears to stimulate an immune response that traditional vaccines do not. Researchers from Iowa State University report their findings today at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Disease Research Meeting.
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- Sea cucumber protein used to inhibit development of malaria parasite
12-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists have genetically engineered a mosquito to release a sea-cucumber protein into its gut which impairs the development of malaria parasites, according to research out today (Dec. 21) in PLoS Pathogens. Researchers say this development is a step towards developing future methods of preventing the transmission of malaria.
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- Autism Consortium releases data on genes involved in autism to researchers worldwide
10-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
The Autism Consortium, a group of researchers, clinicians and families dedicated to accelerating research and enhancing clinical care for autism, announced today that it has completed the first genome scan for Autism Spectrum Disorders through its Autism Gene Discovery Project and released the reference data set to a database that autism researchers around the world can use. The scan was conducted on genetic data from more than 3,000 children with ASD and their families.
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- Researchers show that veins stiffen as we age
10-31-2006 · EurekAlert!
As if creaking joints and hardening of the arteries weren't bad enough, a research team from the University of Delaware and the Christiana Care Health System has now confirmed that even our veins stiffen as we age.And that physiological change may be an important factor in the development of high blood pressure, or hypertension, which currently affects an estimated 65 million Americans, most of them older adults, according to UD researcher William Farquhar.
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- Home computers to help researchers better understand universe
10-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
Want to help unravel the mysteries of the universe? A new distributed computing project designed by a University of Illinois researcher allows people around the world to participate in cutting-edge cosmology research by donating their unused computing cycles.
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- UT Knoxville researcher links psychological research to practice
02-15-2008 · EurekAlert!
New research by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, psychology professor aims to bridge the gap between how psychotherapy is studied in laboratory research settings, and how it is actually conducted in real-world clinical practice, leading to better care for patients.
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