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Key: Meeting
Showing releases 1-25 out of 111.
Public Release: 15-Mar-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingBiologist's findings on fertility and status in monkeys generate scientific, media interest University of California, Riverside Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biology Wendy Saltzman's inquiries into the role social position plays in the fertility of female marmosets were the recent subject of a presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and on the BBC 4 radio show "Leading Edge." Contact: Ricardo Duran
Public Release: 21-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingFailing to aid Africa will lead to more terrorism If the developed world fails to invest more in African agriculture and rural infrastructure to benefit the poor, the world will become a much more dangerous place, Cornell University economist Per Pinstrup-Andersen will report at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Contact: Susan Lang
Public Release: 21-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingNew collaborations offer hope for HIV/AIDS vaccine Prospects for a safe, effective AIDS vaccine are improving as researchers from the public and private sectors begin to collaborate in new and creative ways, researchers said today at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Contact: Ginger Pinholster
Public Release: 21-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingMore than half of high school seniors employed, mostly in near minimum-wage jobs The common perception that most American teenagers go to school, engage in extracurricular activities such as sports and hang out with their friends is missing one and time-consuming element -- work. More than half of high school seniors, 56 percent, surveyed said they were working in the spring of their final year of school. 
Andrew Mellon Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Contact: Joel Schwarz
Public Release: 21-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingNew methods of solving 'hard' computer problems Researchers at Cornell University have developed tools to solve many so-called intractable computer problems, at least in certain practical situations, by using methods that avoid searching the lengthy paths that occur in "heavy tails" of a path distribution.
National Science Foundation, Others
Contact: Bill Steele
Public Release: 21-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingComputer model being developed at Stanford may help surgeons better predict patient outcomes On Feb. 21 at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., Taylor will present his latest accomplishment: factoring in the flexibility of veins and arteries to his model of the cardiovascular system. The realistic response of blood vessels adds more predictive ability to earlier versions of his simulation, which assumed rigid vessel walls for simplicity. Contact: Mitzi Baker
Public Release: 21-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingBird IQ test takes flight How smart is your parakeet or that crow in the back yard? Ask Dr. Louis Lefebvre, inventor of the world's only comprehensive avian IQ index. His intelligence index is not only separating the featherweights from the big bird brains, it's also providing clues about why some birds make great immigrants, as well as insight into the parallel evolution of primate and bird brains.
Science and Engineering Research Canada
Contact: Dr. Louis Lefebvre
Public Release: 21-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingMayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening A Mayo Clinic physician and researcher today reported that a combination of the latest technology and double-tiered analysis could improve genetic screening for newborns as much as forty-fold, while testing for dozens more diseases than is now performed in some states. Contact: Bob Nellis
Public Release: 21-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingEcological destruction fuels emerging diseases The destruction of habitat by human activity and the extinction of species around the world is more than a looming environmental catastrophe, warns a Canadian zoologist. This ecological damage also endangers human health by turning parasites into "evolutionary land mines."
Science and Engineering Research Canada
Contact: Dr. Daniel Brooks
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingNew approaches teach undergraduate students to think like researchers A UC Santa Cruz professor has developed a teaching exercise for undergraduate biology classes to give students a sense of how scientists proceed when valid data appear to conflict. It is just one example of the novel approaches to teaching science that are emerging from an experimental undergraduate research laboratory established at UCSC in 2002.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Tim Stephens
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingEl Nino forecasting could aid fisheries management, disease control, marine species protection Although predicting el Nino events months before they begin has become a major success story in climate prediction, a Duke University oceanographer who did early research in the field believes more could be done with the computer and satellite technology underlying these advances. Contact: Monte Basgall
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingClimate change to bring a wave of new health risks According to Jonathan A. Patz, as the world's climate warms, and as people make widespread alterations to the global landscape, human populations will become far more vulnerable to heat-related mortality, air pollution-related illnesses, infectious diseases and malnutrition. Contact: Jonathan Patz
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingStudy: Young adults can be motivated to eat fruits, veggies Young adults can be motivated to eat more servings of fruits and vegetables if they are exposed to tailored, practical messages about nutrition, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nutritional scientist announced today (Feb. 20) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Contact: Susan Nitzke
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingUltra-cold temperature physics opens way to understanding and applications Researchers doing ultra-cold temperature physics may not have to wear parkas, but they are producing the coldest temperatures ever and exploring model quantum systems that might lead to more accurate clocks and gyroscopes, quantum computers and communications as well as a better understanding of quantum physics phenomena. Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingGeorgia Tech research indicates immune complications associated with combination medical devices Research from Georgia Tech/ Emory University reveals that new combination medical devices may have potential immune complications, but findings could help with design solutions. Contact: Megan McRainey
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingGlobal warming led to atmospheric hydrogen sulfide and Permian extinction Volcanic eruptions in Siberia 251 million years ago may have started a cascade of events leading to high hydrogen sulfide levels in the oceans and atmosphere and precipitating the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, according to a Penn State geoscientist. Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingAnimal parenting, personality and pair-ups Parenting. Establishing life partnerships. Getting to know someone else's personality. These experiences feel profoundly human, but they have more in common with the animal world than one might think, researchers said today at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Contact: Ginger Pinholster
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingWe're here, we're warming, can we get used to it? Climate change-related losses to agriculture in Washington's Yakima Valley will be between $92 million and $163 million a year, according to a study by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., presented Sunday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. The study is one of the most detailed to date on global warming and its likely effect on human activity.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Bill Cannon
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingNew Georgia Tech micro-CT imaging technique to help tissue engineers improve bone regeneration A new technique developed at Georgia Tech can help reveal better ways to heal and regenerate bones using microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) imaging. The technique provides detailed 3-D images of both vascularization and mineralization in bone, giving researchers an unprecedented depth of data on how a bone implant is integrating into the body. Contact: Megan McRainey
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingThe thrill of discovery: Pitt professor reveals how he gets students interested in science Today at the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., University of Pittsburgh professor Graham Hatfull will illustrate how he piques students' curiosity about science. High school students often perceive the scientific community as inaccessible. To address this issue, Hatfull and colleagues are exploring ways to make research experiences available to students at all stages in their education. "You're never too young to make a genuine scientific contribution," said Hatfull.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Karen Hoffman
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingHow often should women get mammograms? Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have devised a mathematical tool that predicts how the frequency of mammograms affects the number of lives saved by detecting breast cancers at an earlier stage. With screening guidelines and financial coverage varying among health systems and insurers – sometimes dramatically – the model provides quantitative predictions of the mortality benefits, on average, in populations of women over the course of 40 years. Contact: Richard Saltus
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingLearning to fight an adversary that won't stay down New biomolecular technologies have largely failed to deliver the hoped-for knockout punch breakthrough against the defences of disease-causing bacteria, says a leading Canadian specialist in antibiotic resistance.
Science and Engineering Research Canada
Contact: Dr. Julian Davies
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingU-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS Scientists have a pretty good handle on how to teach human cells to do tricks in a laboratory -- things like getting soft cells from the mouth's lining to form bone. Contact: Colleen Newvine
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingScientists discuss future of science in the Bush administration "The future of science is precarious under President George Bush's administration in light of looming funding cuts," said Rosina Bierbaum, Dean of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. Contact: Laura Bailey
Public Release: 20-Feb-2005
AAAS 2005 Annual MeetingMultimedia teaching tools for neuroscience Neuroscience for high schoolers? Why not, says Cornell University neurobiologist Ron Hoy. He describes a suite of novel, interdisciplinary multimedia teaching tools for high school and college classes at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Susan S. Lang
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