Archive for December, 2009
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Sunday, December 13, 2009, 7:05 pm No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
RTP Wrapup 12/11
Friday, December 11, 2009, 12:11 am No Comments | Post a CommentTranzyme Pharma signs on to help Bristol-Myers Squibb fight generic competition, RTI International receives a $101 million contract to fight malaria in Africa and a drug safety expert at the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences teams up with a geneticist at N.C. State University to find out why some patients have serious liver reactions to otherwise safe drugs. Read more…
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 10:46 pm No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
RTI study: The cost of mandatory emissions controls
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 10:03 pm 1 Comment | Post a CommentDuring a week of climate discussions in Copenhagen and Washington, RTI International released results from a study that looks at the costs of mandatory emissions controls.
The RTI analysis is based on the “Blueprint for Legislative Action,” a plan by the U.S. Climate Action Partnership that includes mandatory reductions of CO2 emissions. The partnership, which is a group of businesses and environmental organizations, recommended emissions reductions of 80 percent to 89 percent by 2020 and a 58 percent by 2030. Read more…
RTI study: 27 percent of adult health-care spending due to disability
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 3:53 pm No Comments | Post a CommentThe 15 percent of American adults who report a disability account for about 27 percent of U.S. adult health-care spending, according to a recently released study by RTI International and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more…
Hibernation devastation: White-nose syndrome and our bats
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 12:53 pm 3 Comments | Post a Comment
Little brown bat showing characteristic fungus growth associated with WNS. (Credit: USGS)
A video camera pans the mouth of Aeolus Cave in Vermont. Limestone rock slabs angle downward into knee-deep snow pack. It zooms in on a handful of bats huddled in a crevice, then descends into the cave. Leaf litter is piled up in drifts on the cave floor. The camera zooms in, and suddenly you realize these are not leaves… they are bats: hundreds and hundreds of dead bats. The footage is all the sadder because this cave houses the largest colony of hibernating bats in the northeast.
This video clip, filmed by CBS news on a Nature Conservancy property last February, was shown at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences yesterday during a public lecture on white nose syndrome, an emerging pathogen affecting northeastern cave-hibernating bats. Lisa Gatens, curator of mammals at the museum spoke to colleagues, students and interested public about the documented occurrences of WNS and the extent of current research. Read more…
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 10:19 am No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Digging for the roots of diabetes
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7:58 pm No Comments | Post a CommentEvery year, the number of Americans with diabetes rises by about 1 million and genetic risk factors alone can be blamed for only a small portion of the cases. The 30 to 35 known diabetes genes, as researchers have dubbed them, account for only about 10 percent of the risk that a brother or sister of a diabetic will also develop the disease.
Dr. Ronald Kahn
To better understand the other 90 percent, said Dr. Ronald Kahn, a Harvard University medical professor and vice chairman of the Joslin Diabetes Center, “we have to look at the environment.” Read more…
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 9:27 am No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 12:09 pm No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
