Its Not You, Its My DNA Sep 4, 2008
These findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where team members also revealed that men carrying a common variation of a gene involved in brain signaling is believed to interfere with mens ability to communicate openly. Team leader Hasse Walum said the study was not aimed at infidelity per-se, but at analysing the way men bond to their partners. (eFluxMedia)
Genetic Key To Longevity? Sep 4, 2008
It appears in September's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Kelley Colihan Reviewed by Louise Chang2005-2008 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved. (CBS News)
U.S. Approves Visa for Indian Scientist Sep 4, 2008
Wendy White, an official with the National Academy of Sciences, said targeting scientists based merely on their areas of expertise could make it harder to spot real threats. "If you are looking for the needle in the haystack, you have made the haystack bigger," she said. (Yahoo News -- Biological and Chemical Weapons)
Good night's sleep boosts long-term memory Sep 4, 2008
During a good night's rest, memories of recent events are shifted from one part of the brain to another, a process that is crucial for developing long-term memories, according to a report published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers, lead by Dr Philippe Peigneux at the University of Liege in Belgium, gave two teams the task of learning their way around a virtual 3D town by training them on a computer. (Yahoo News -- Sleep and Sleep Disorders)
Baby, my genes made me do it Sep 4, 2008
The findings, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, revealed men with one or more copies of allele 334 were twice as likely to struggle with relationships than men without the gene variant, says study co-author Paul Lichtenstein, a professor of genetics and epidemiology at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute. "It turned out that people with a specific allele and gene variant were less attached to their partners," he said. (Globe and Mail)
Riding the School Bus is as Safe as Ever Sep 4, 2008
By contrast, every year about 800 school aged children lose their lives on their way to school while either riding in private passenger vehicles, walking or biking, according to the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Long gone are the dubiously maintained and equipped school buses you might remember from your own childhood. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Bisphenol A may impair learning and memory Sep 4, 2008
The study, to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is a significant advance over previous rodent-based findings that BPA is able to impair synapses. That research was open to criticism that what happened in the brains of a mouse or a rat was of limited applicability to the more complex brains of humans. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Proud Is Proud, Sighted or Not, Researchers Find Sep 4, 2008
In an article in the Aug. 19 issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers reported that blind athletes behavior and gestures on winning and losing were remarkably similar to those of sighted athletes. Nonverbal expressions for pride like an expanded chest, a tilted head and raised hands are seen among primates, 4-year-olds and individuals from isolated and preliterate communities, suggesting that this behavioral attribute is universal, the researchers said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
4-H Offers Solution to America's Need For Future Scientific Leaders Sep 4, 2008
4-H, America s largest youth development organization serving 6 million young people worldwide, announced that its university-based, out-of-school programming, which includes hands-on science, engineering, and technology curriculum, offers a solution to challenges posed in the National Academy of Sciences report Rising Above the Gathering Storm (RAGS). The report calls for an ambitious national program to address the need for increased math and science education at all levels. (Agri-View, WI)
New research challenges long-held assumptions of flightless bird evolution Sep 4, 2008
The new research, which appears this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has several important implications. First, it means some ratites, like the emus, are much more closely related to their airborne cousins, the tinamous, than they are to other ratites, Braun said. (EurekAlert!)
Gene associated with pair-bonding in animals has similar effects in human males Sep 4, 2008
They report in this week's on-line issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that, in men, having allele 334 was inversely linked to measures of the strength of a person's bond to their mate. They also report that men who carried two copies of allele 334 were more than twice as likely to report serious marital or relationship problems, such as facing threat of divorce, as men who had did not carry it. (EurekAlert!)
Your Cheatin' Heart: It's Genetic Sep 4, 2008
The results of the study were published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 2008 Associated Press. (Newsmax)
Warming: High in 10 years Sep 3, 2008
These findings were published on Tuesday's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More Global Warming. (India Times, India)
Infidel? Blame it on genes Sep 3, 2008
The study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Also read. (India Times, India)
Unhappily married? His genes may be to blame Sep 3, 2008
Although they are not sure what the genetic changes do to a mans behavior, some other research suggests it has to do with the ability to communicate and empathize, the team reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Health)
Marriage problems? Husband's genes may be to blame Sep 3, 2008
Although they are not sure what the genetic changes do to a man's behaviour, some other research suggests it has to do with the ability to communicate and empathize, the team reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We never looked at infidelity in our study at all. What we have been focusing on is how strongly men bond to their partners," Karolinska's Hasse Walum, who led the study, said in a telephone interview. (Reuters UK)
Study: Fear of Commitment May Be in a Man's Genes Sep 3, 2008
The study, to appear in the medical journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to examine whether a hormone that encourages monogamy in animals plays a similar role in male humans, the magazine reports. Scientists studied gene variations in about 500 men who are in committed relationships. (Fox News)
Dying Frogs Sign Of A Biodiversity Crisis Sep 3, 2008
In a new article published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers argue that substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet ... The study, co-authored by Wake and Vance Vredenburg, research associate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley and assistant professor of biology at San Francisco State University, will appear in a special supplement to the journal... (Yahoo News -- Environment & Nature)
Gene raises odds of long life Sep 3, 2008
Findings of the team, led by Dr. Bradley Willcox, were published yesterday in the National Academy of Sciences' journal ... Bradley Willcox, J. David Curb, Tim Donlon and colleagues at the Kuakini Medical Center and Pacific Health Research Institute was published in yesterday's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life Sep 3, 2008
The new computational method will be described in a paper to be published in a future issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The journal also will post the paper on the early on-line section of its Web site sometime during the week ending 6 September 2008. (Science Daily)
B-vitamin Deficiency May Cause Vascular Cognitive Impairment Sep 3, 2008
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008; 105 (34): 12474 DOI. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS.. (Science Daily)
Earth Has Had Sharp Climatic Shifts In Past: Is Earth Nearing Another Tipping Point? Sep 3, 2008
In an article in the current online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the researcher now report that sharp climatic shifts in the past were systematically preceded by subtle alterations in fluctuation patterns. These alterations are proven to be characteristic of systems approaching tipping points. (Science Daily)
Bipartisan calls for new federal poverty measure Sep 3, 2008
In the 1990s, Blank and scholars at the National Academy of Sciences recommended making changes to the official measure. New York City used those recommendations to develop its own method of measuring poverty, which takes into account the cost of housing, child care and clothing and factors in government assistance. (International Herald Tribune)
The Mystery Behind Mens Commitment Problems: Bad Genes Sep 3, 2008
The study will appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week. 2007 - 2008 - eFluxMedia Tags: , , Share the News. (eFluxMedia)
Marital crisis? Blame the male Sep 3, 2008
The results of the study were published Tuesday in the US scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). AFP Digg | | | | | | Copyright 2002-2008 iafrica. (iAfrica.com)
Neuroscientist scans brain for clues on best time to multitask Sep 3, 2008
In the study "Neural predictors of moment-to-moment fluctuations in cognitive flexibility" published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Andrew Leber, assistant professor of psychology at UNH, explains how the brain can act as crystal ball to predict when people are efficient multitaskers. "We typically sacrifice efficiency when we multitask. However, there are times when we're quite good at it. Unfortunately, not much has been known about how to predict... (EurekAlert!)
Age-related memory loss tied to slip in filtering information quickly Sep 3, 2008
The finding, reported in the current online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, fuels the researchers' efforts, they say, to explore strategies for enhancing brain function in the healthy aging population, through mental training exercises and pharmaceutical treatments. The research, conducted by University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley scientists, builds on the team's seminal 2005 discovery ("Nature Neuroscience," October 2005)... (EurekAlert!)
Divorce gene lead to tensed marriage Sep 3, 2008
Those with two copies of it were twice as likely to report having had a marital crisis in the past year, the team reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. However, Walum said the gene could not be used to predict how someone is likely to behave in a future relationship. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
How much weight should women gain while pregnant? Sep 2, 2008
But in 1990, the gurus at the Institute of Medicine (part of the congressionally created National Academy of Sciences) got worried about low birth weight babies and came up with guidelines that said that skinny women (who have a BMI, or body mass index, of less than 19. 8) should gain 28 to 40 pounds. (Boston Globe)
Climate 'hockey stick' is revived Sep 2, 2008
Different analytical methods give the same result, they report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The 1998 hockey stick was a totem of debates over man-made global warming. (BBC News)
Earthweek: A diary of the planet Sep 2, 2008
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Begall notes that because the direction of wind and sunlight varied widely at the observed pastures, the only common factor that could have influenced the animals positioning was the magnetic field. Not Yet Rated. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Neurosciences Institute Discovers Drug Extends Stroke Treatment Time to 24 Hours, Repairs Brain Tissue Sep 2, 2008
In an article to be published in the September 3 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), BRNI Scientific Director and Toyota Chair Daniel Alkon, M.D. and Professor Miao-Kun Sun, PhD describe how this Alzheimer's candidate drug repairs the brain and improves memory. "Today's stroke patient has precious minutes to receive care without suffering irreversible damage or death. One of the greatest challenges in modern medical practice is finding an effective treatment that... (PR Newswire)
Study links genetics to marital fidelity Sep 2, 2008
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Young praised the study, saying it extends a remarkable series of animal experiments he and other scientists conducted some years ago. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Alzheimer's drugs 'help glaucoma' Sep 2, 2008
The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is welcomed by a leading eye charity. This doesn't mean that everyone with Alzheimer's will develop glaucoma or vice versa. (Yahoo News -- Alzheimer's Disease)
Long-life gene that triples chance of living to 100 found Sep 2, 2008
The findings from the Hawaii Lifespan Study will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Drs Bradley Willcox, Tim Donlon, David Curb and colleagues at the Kuakini Medical Centre, Honolulu, and colleagues in Japan. They conclude the link is "strong, highly significant.". (Telegraph.co.uk)
Link seen between men's gene variant, monogamy Sep 2, 2008
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists emphasized that more work needs to be done to replicate the finding, and to explore possible interactions between multiple genes and environmental factors. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Be sure his genes fit if you want Mr Right Sep 2, 2008
Those with two copies of it were twice as likely to report having had a marital crisis in the past year, the team reports in the Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences. "There are many reasons why a person might have relationship problems, but this is the first time that a specific gene variant has been associated with how men bond to their partners," said Mr Walum, a postgraduate student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function Sep 2, 2008
She is lead author of the paper, "Sports Experience Enhances the Neural Processing of Action Language," to be published Tuesday, September 2 in the on-line issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Experience playing and watching sports has enduring effects on language understanding by changing the neural networks that support comprehension to incorporate areas active in performing sports skills," she said. (EurekAlert!)
Global warming greatest in past decade Sep 2, 2008
2) online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers note, "Conclusions are less definitive for the Southern Hemisphere and globe, which we attribute to larger uncertainties arising from the sparser available proxy data in the Southern Hemisphere.". The research team included Mann; Ray Bradley, university distinguished professor, geosciences and director, Climate System Research Center, University of Massachusetts; Malcolm Hughes, regents' professor, and... (EurekAlert!)
September Ophthalmology research highlights Sep 2, 2008
The Institute of Medicine, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, considers electronic health records (EHR) key to improving health care, as medication and treatment errors and other adverse events would likely decrease significantly if EHR were in widespread use. EHR are particularly relevant to specialties that rely heavily on diagnostic images and technical data, such as ophthalmology. (EurekAlert!)
Public Involvement Usually Leads To Better Environmental Decision Making Sep 1, 2008
The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies ... The Research Council is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. (Science Daily)
More Genes Are Controlled By Biological Clocks Than Previously Thought Sep 1, 2008
In February 2007, Arnold s team reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the first working model that explains how biological clocks operate. The UGA scientists discovered how three genes in Neurospora make such a clock tick at the molecular level. (Science Daily)
Movers & Shakers (Sept. 1) Sep 1, 2008
Carrington, who earlier this year was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and has been on the OSU faculty since 2001, where he directs the university s Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing. People on the move. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Engineers Make Bone That Blends Into Tendons Aug 31, 2008
The research appears in the August 26, 2008, edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Variation Of Normal Protein Could Be Key To Resistance To Common Cancer Drug Aug 30, 2008
The scientists say that such findings, reported online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are important to understanding how personalized therapies may be developed for patients. In a series of experiments, Jean Wang, Ph. (Science Daily)
Rapid Changes In Key Alzheimer's Protein Described In Humans Aug 30, 2008
28, 2007) New research from Rockefeller University, published in the Feb. 26 online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has identified a therapeutic target, called casein kinase 1, that. (June 25, 2008) An anti-inflammatory drug may help restore brain function in patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to an animal study in the Journal of Experimental. (Science Daily)
Antarctic Clues To Martian Climate Change Aug 30, 2008
"These bowl-shaped depressions reflect the former location of relatively pure glacier ice," noted David R. Marchant, an Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at Boston University, and co-author of the study published in the August 25th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with James W. Head of Brown University, lead author, and Mikhail A. Kreslavsky of the University of California, Santa Cruz ... (Credit: National Academy of Sciences, PNAS (Copyright 2008)). (Science Daily)
Diversity among parasitic wasps is even greater than suspected Aug 30, 2008
The new analysis, which appeared online this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sheds new light on a group of insects that are already astounding in their diversity, Whitfield said. "The family Braconidae, to which the microgastrines belong, has about 15,000 described species in the world, and it's been estimated to have 50 to 60,000 species, which is about the same as all vertebrates all fish, birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles which is a lot!" Whitfield said. (EurekAlert!)
Shining Stars Aug 29, 2008
University of Hawaii planetary scientist Klaus Keil was reappointed as one of 23 members of the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences. The Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology scientist and former interim dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology has received international recognition for his work. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Heart Attack Prevention: Potential New Use For Viagra? Aug 29, 2008
The team s findings were recently published online in the international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Other members of the Queen s research team are Hisham Elbatarny and Brian Bennett (Pharmacology and Toxicology), and Scott Crawley (Biochemistry). (Science Daily)
Antarctic research helps shed light on climate change on Mars Aug 29, 2008
"These bowl-shaped depressions reflect the former location of relatively pure glacier ice," noted David R. Marchant, an Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at Boston University, and co-author of the study published in the August 25th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with James W. Head of Brown University, lead author, and Mikhail A. Kreslavsky of the University of California, Santa Cruz. As conditions on Mars shifted toward reduced snowfall at this site, clean ice... (EurekAlert!)
Why 'Mama' and 'Dada' are baby's first words Aug 28, 2008
The research, led by University of British Columbia post-doctoral fellow Judit Gervain, was published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "It's probably no coincidence that many languages around the world have repetitious syllables in their 'child words,'" Gervain said, citing "papa" in Italian and "tata" (grandpa) in Hungarian as examples. (MSNBC -- Health)
Riding the School Bus is as Safe as Ever Aug 28, 2008
By contrast, every year about 800 school aged children lose their lives on their way to school while either riding in private passenger vehicles, walking or biking, according to the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Long gone are the dubiously maintained and equipped school buses you might remember from your own childhood. (Pekin Times, IL)
Needham's Nobel Prize winner dies Aug 28, 2008
In 1964, he was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. He has held positions with the U.S. Public Health Service, World Health Organization and U.S. Agency for International Development. (Needham Tab, MA)
DNA Barcoding In Danger Of 'Ringing Up' Wrong Species Aug 28, 2008
It was funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. With the International Barcode of Life project seeking 150 million to build on the 400,000 species that have been "barcoded" to date, this worthy goal warrants more careful execution, the BYU team says. (Science Daily)
Why Are 'Mama' and 'Dada' a Baby's First Words? Aug 28, 2008
The research, led by University of British Columbia post-doctoral fellow Judit Gervain, was published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Yahoo News)
Heart Attack Risk Could Drop On Viagra Aug 28, 2008
The team's findings will be published on-line this week in the international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Distributed by Internet Broadcasting. (Click2Houston, TX)
Vaccine Cures Dangerous Yeast Infections in Mice Aug 28, 2008
"They recovered completely to the point where we can no longer detect the presence of the fungus in any of the tissues," said Cutler, who reported his findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He said they also tried the vaccine against a form of vaginal yeast infection and the antibodies protected these mice as well. (MEDLINEplus)
Who's poor? It depends on where you live, some say. Aug 27, 2008
"If you've been around long enough, then you're not overly surprised," says Sheldon Danziger, a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel of experts in the mid-1990s and now director of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan ... His administration relied heavily on the National Academy of Sciences 1995 report to draft the city's new measurement. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Dying Frogs Sign Of A Biodiversity Crisis Aug 27, 2008
In a new article published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers argue that substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet ... The study, co-authored by Wake and Vance Vredenburg, research associate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley and assistant professor of biology at San Francisco State University, will appear in a special supplement to the journal... (Yahoo News -- Environment & Nature)
Updates: Whatever Happened to Anesthesia and Pain? Aug 27, 2008
The work appears in the June 24 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. Nikhil Swaminathan. No DNA Reading Allowed Many researchers question the medical relevance of direct-to-consumer genetic tests, some of which are offered for as little as $1,000 [see ; SciAm, May 2008. (Scientific American)
* Charitable monkeys show empathy for others: researchers Aug 27, 2008
The research is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. When a monkey adopted the non-selfish option it spent more time engaging with the other monkey, suggesting that the charitable act is the product of genuine interest in another individual. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Rifamycin Antibiotics Attack Tuberculosis Bacteria With Walls, Not Signals Aug 27, 2008
The findings, which will appear soon online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, not only bring scientists closer to understanding how these antibiotics work but also how the bacteria become resistant to their effects. See also. (Science Daily)
Potential Diabetes Treatment Selectively Kills Autoimmune Cells From Human Patients Aug 27, 2008
The current study, which will appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and has been released online, is the first demonstration of this strategy in human cells and supports the viability of a clinical trial that is currently underway. "Our studies in mice showed that we could selectively kill the defective autoimmune cells that were destroying insulin-producing islets," says Faustman. (Science Daily)
Intensity Of Human Environmental Impact May Lessen As Incomes Rise, Analysis Suggests Aug 27, 2008
The results are published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For generations, people have lightened their environmental impact by multiplying their consumption less than their income, says Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment. (Science Daily)
