Atlanta - DNA provides the instruction manual for all life forms. Occasionally, instructions are not carried out properly, and bad messages are sent leading to the creation of mutant proteins and possible tumor development. Paul Doetsch, PhD, professor of radiation oncology and biochemistry and associate director for basic research at Emory's Winship Cancer Institute and Damien Brégeon, PhD, at Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie in Paris, have outlined the role this process – known as transcriptional mutagenesis – might play in tumor development in a Nature Reviews ...

Researchers have for decades hypothesized that negative emotions lead to inflated reports of common physical symptoms, like headaches or an upset stomach. But a new University of Iowa study suggests that two negative emotions –- depression and anxiety –- influence symptom reporting in different ways. Published in the latest issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the study indicates that people who feel depressed report experiencing a higher number of past symptoms. People who feel anxious, by contrast, report more symptoms in the present moment. Understanding ...

CHICAGO (March 4, 2011) – From its involvement in a healthy immune system to its role in cell growth, zinc is an essential mineral for the human body. Zinc deficiency is a worldwide problem that affects approximately 4 million people in the U.S. alone. Consumed naturally in the human diet, zinc can be found in food sources, such as beef, yogurt, eggs, and fish. Furthermore, zinc is widely used in dental products, specifically denture adhesives. However, as with any herb, vitamin, or mineral, excess intake of zinc could pose a potential health hazard. Denture wearers ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS or more popularly, Lou Gehrig's disease, is a notorious neurodegenerative condition characterized by the progressive deterioration of brain and spinal cord neurons, resulting in the gradual but catastrophic loss of muscle control and ultimately, death. In a new paper, published in the Feb. 27 advance online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience, a team of scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues describe the profound and pervasive role of a key protein in ALS pathology called ...

BINGHAMTON, NY – Lijun Yin wants computers to understand inputs from humans that go beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse. "Our research in computer graphics and computer vision tries to make using computers easier," says the Binghamton University computer scientist. "Can we find a more comfortable, intuitive and intelligent way to use the computer? It should feel like you're talking to a friend. This could also help disabled people use computers the way everyone else does." Yin's team has developed ways to provide information to the computer based on where a user ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Using a bone-creating protein to augment the maxillary sinus could improve dental implant success, according to Georgia Health Sciences University researchers. Dental implants, screws that anchor permanent prosthetic teeth, won't work if the bone in which they are anchored is too thin. Bone-thinning is a common cause and consequence following tooth loss. The current favored solution is to supplement the area with bone grafts to stabilize the implant base. But that technique is problematic "primarily because it involves additional surgeries to harvest the ...

Your family's involvement in your exercise therapy could significantly improve your function and recovery after stroke, according to a study in the March print issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers found that adding family-assisted exercise therapy to routine physical therapy after stroke improved motor function, balance, distance walked and ability to perform daily living activities. It also lowered the strain on the family member, who said participation lowered stress and was empowering. "It's a win-win situation for everyone," said ...

MADISON, WI MARCH 4, 2011 – North and South Carolina have seen a steady increase in swine production over the last 15 years. In North Carolina alone, swine production generates approximately a quarter of the state's gross farm receipts. The presence of so many large-scale pig farms leads to the problem of proper animal waste disposal. The most common practice in the Carolinas is storing animal waste in anaerobic lagoons. They are primarily used to concentrate and passively treat urine and feces but because of the widespread use of this practice, the environmental impact ...

"Bariatric surgery" refers to several different surgical procedures designed to assist weight loss by limiting the amount of food someone eats or the amount they absorb during digestion. It has been used for several years to treat obesity in adults. A new study published in the journal Clinical Obesity reveals that bariatric surgery can result in significant weight loss in severely obese adolescents. Led by Ange Aikenhead of the International Association for the Study of Obesity in London, England, researchers searched various databases for articles examining subjects ...

When a Rhode-Island-sized ice chunk separates from Greenland, is the calving due to typical seasonal variations or a long-term warmer world? A project called the Scalable, Efficient, and Accurate Community Ice Sheet Model, or SEACISM, on the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, aims to use state-of-the-art simulation to predict the behavior of ice sheets under a changing climate. ORNL computational Earth scientist Kate Evans leads the effort to develop scalable algorithms, which includes other researchers from ORNL as well as Los Alamos National Laboratory, ...

A process called gasification can turn carbonaceous fuels—coal, petroleum, or biomass—into syngas, a cleaner-burning fuel mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Scientists from the National Energy Technology Laboratory are concluding a three-year project using supercomputers at Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories for simulations to reduce the cost and time of building commercial-scale gasifiers. The efforts will inform the design of advanced technologies to supply clean, reliable and affordable electricity. NETL's Clean Coal Power Initiative, a cost-shared venture ...

Nuclear reactor technology research dwindled away when nuclear power fell out of favor several decades ago. Renewed interest in fission-based energy means knowledge gained in past research is relevant again. Researchers at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working with Idaho National Laboratory, revived work to fabricate high-quality coated-particle fuel for high-temperature gas reactors (HTGRs). The ORNL researchers coated uranium-based fuel kernels with carbon and silicon carbide, relying in part on techniques developed years ago by scientists, many of who have long ...

Alerts from an early warning system developed in part by DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help protect forests across the U.S. from the threats of insects, disease and wildfire. Led by the USDA Forest Service, the multi-agency project uses high-performance computing to incorporate remote sensing data from NASA satellites with other climate, soil and weather data to identify abnormal vegetation patterns and the timing of seasonal changes. "We can develop signatures of disturbance dynamics and teach the system to tell us not only where potential threats are, but ...

Operation: Western Front (OWF) - a very special initiative organized by mission commanders and philanthropists Warren M. Spitz and W. Brett Wilson to raise awareness and funds for military causes - has collected a stunning $1.5 million in sponsorship and donations. The funds will be donated to various military programs - including Outward Bound for Veterans and Canada Company, a charitable, non-partisan organization that builds a bridge between business and community leaders and the Canadian Military Forces, including providing scholarships to surviving offspring of fallen ...

Creomate.com announces the release of .NET Metadata Expert, a solution to explore metadata of .NET assemblies without disassembling or using the source code. By offering disassembler-free performance, the new .NET metadata analysis toolkit provides developers with blazing-fast visualizing of the most complex projects. .NET Metadata Expert offers developers a quick and easy way to visualize metadata dependencies of .NET assemblies. Supporting 32-bit and 64-bit versions of .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0, .NET Metadata Expert offers true cross-platform and cross-framework ...

Personal matchmaking and dating agency businesses are attracting a lot of people who failed to find partner at a regular dating site. Match making is just right for them: it provides personal approach, coaching and perfect match for potential couple. There's no doubt, that both professional and new matchmakers need to have their site online to attract more leads. You can write site from scratch and spend a lot of money, "lease" your site and share clients database with others (which is not very acceptable for many), or get an out-of-a-box matchmaking software and be ...

Great Britain has a wealth of interesting towns, cities and coastal curiosities to satisfy most discerning visitors, but there is one place that could be said to defy the norm and that's Bournemouth. The town, which was only founded in 1810, is situated directly to the east of what is known as the Jurassic Coast, a 95-mile section of stunningly beautiful beaches and rugged pre-historic coastline at the very southern most end of the country providing a rich and complete geological record of the Jurassic, Triassic and Cretaceous period - or Age of Reptiles for those that ...

Dr. Ava Frick has been called 'The Animal Whisperer who makes miracles happen' by KSDK-TV in St. Louis, and for good reason. Dr. Ava Frick is known in Union and the surrounding areas as the person to take one's pets to whenever the animals is in pain or is in need of physical therapy. No matter what breed of animal it is or what it is suffering from, Dr. Ava Frick will employ her love of animals and many therapeutic techniques to help the animal feel better. The services Dr. Frick offers include treatments for: • Animal chiropractic care • Animal joint pain • Animal ...

Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts, makers of the acclaimed CanIt-PRO, CanIt-Domain-PRO and Hosted CanIt anti-spam solutions, announced the release of the Advantage Interactive Case Study. Advantage Interactive is a UK-based ISP and Domain Hosting Solutions Provider. Advantage Interactive is the parent company to LCN.com and serverchoice.com. Advantage Interactive has been using Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-Domain-PRO anti-spam software to provide anti-spam services to their clients since 2007. Combined, Advantage Interactive's group of companies ...

Home Instead Senior Care focus on reliable non-medical service for your dear ones or elders. Their goal is to provide quality care, dedicated assistance and support with all the needs of daily life to their clients and their family. They proudly provide home care in Sacramento, CA and Surrounding Cities. They show their love in action and not only in words. Home Instead Senior Care surely makes your elders feel comfortable with their care and love. There are several good reasons for home care. Several old people prefer home care than any other option because home is ...

Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard's (http://www.lronhubbard.org) 100th birthday to be celebrated in Clearwater, FL March 11th through the 13th. Born March the 13th, 1911, Hubbard had a varied and exciting life. An International celebration of what would have been his hundredth birthday is being attended by thousands of guests from countries as far away as Hungary, Commonwealth of Independent States and South Africa. The weekend of events will include a special presentation about the life of Mr. Hubbard, a dinner for the Church membership and the grand opening of greatly ...

KPIs are today some of the most popular management tools. From the National Museum of Australia, to the First Bank of Nigeria, from the Panama Canal Authority to Rolls Royce, from the Ministry of Education in Brunei Darussalam to the American Medical Association, KPIs are used to understand, learn and improve performance across industries, departments and teams. A KPI is a selected indicator considered key for monitoring the performance of a strategic objective, outcome, or key result area important to the success of an activity and growth of the organization overall. The ...

In response to the severe flooding in the city, caused by the highest levels of torrential rainfall recorded for many years, BOLIVIA VOLUNTEERS has sent four of its volunteers currently in COCHABAMBA to help individual displaced families and the community. ´Just take a look around you - the place is devestated,´ says Tony Lee - in Cochabamba with Bolivia Volunteers on a three month Building Trades project - ´Nothing I´ve ever seen before has been anything like this.´ Tony, along with construction project volunteer Marston Adabaye, will be helping in the massive clean-up ...

InfoStreet Inc., Cloud pioneer and provider of business Cloud applications (apps) has expanded their flagship solution, StreetSmart, to now include both Employee Directory and Email Archiving at no extra cost to the users of the StreetSmart suite. This move to provide the expanded offering is in recognition of the growing importance of email archiving for protection against accidental or intentional deletion of emails. StreetSmart's automatic Email Archiving solution is easy to use, requires no setup for users, and is Cloud-based - providing convenient anytime, anywhere ...

Local arts and culture fans have been flocking to Carnival of Illusion, the exciting Vaudeville-inspired magical theater show presented by nationally award winning illusionists Roland Sarlot and Susan Eyed. After selling out over 100 shows with thousands of guests in just two seasons, Sarlot and Eyed have invited their first guest performer to the Carnival of Illusion theater. "We really wanted to treat our guests to someone special. Scott Hitchcock was house magician at Las Vegas Caesars Palace and Excalibur for years," said Roland Sarlot, "and has literally performed ...