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Published December 2, 2008, 9:28 pm, Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE – Asheville Parks and Recreation's Senior Treks program, a low-impact trekking club, will travel to the Grassy Mount Carl Sandburg trails on Dec. 12. The trek will be an easy, four-mile walk through the grounds of the Carl Sandburg Home. The day doesn't involve visiting the inside of the home, just the grounds.
Centre grants Rs 95 cr for pre-project study for man on Moon Mission
Published December 2, 2008, 6:50 pm, PharmaBiz
Union government has granted Rs 95 crore for the pre project feasibility study for the man on Moon Mission by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The study will provide considerable focus on life sciences research and medical technologies for the crew training and space medicine among other areas.
Request for Proposals for Analogue Research Studies in Canada and Abroad
Published December 2, 2008, 4:27 pm, SpaceRef
The Canadian Space Agency has a mandate to increase knowledge of space through science. Terrestrial analogue research studies are an important element of that mandate as it applies to the exploration of other planets and the Moon.
Vaccine and drug research aimed at ticks and mosquitoes to prevent disease transmission
Published December 2, 2008, 3:13 pm, PhysOrg
Most successful vaccines and drugs rely on protecting humans or animals by blocking certain bacteria from growing in their systems. But, a new theory actually hopes to take stopping infectious diseases such as West Nile virus and Malaria to the next level by disabling insects from transmitting these viruses. Research to be presented at the 57th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ...
Telcos, groups draw up national broadband strategy
Published December 2, 2008, 1:43 pm, CNET
A coalition of diverse groups join together to issue a "call to action" for the next administration and Congress to implement a national broadband plan.
Protein Attributed to Membrane Repair Identified - Mechanism May Revolutionize Therapy in Human Disease
Published December 2, 2008, 1:28 pm, Newswise
Researchers at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have identified the protein MG53, as a key initiator of membrane repair in damaged tissue. The study, released today in Nature Cell Biology, is the first to specifically pinpoint a protein responsible for promoting cell repair.
Telecoms, other groups draw up national broadband strategy
Published December 2, 2008, 1:19 pm, CNET via Yahoo! News
Telecom and tech companies joined with labor unions, public interest groups, and other organizations Tuesday to issue a "call to action" (PDF) for a national broadband strategy.
First study to examine rare injuries and conditions of US high school athletes
Published December 2, 2008, 1:12 pm, EurekAlert!
( Nationwide Children's Hospital ) Rare injuries accounted for 3.5 percent of high school athletes' injuries 2005 through 2007, according to the first study to examine rare injuries and conditions of US high school athletes. Rare injuries include eye injuries, dental injuries, neck and cervical injuries and dehydration and heat illness, which may result in high morbidity, costly surgeries and ...
Vaccine and drug research aimed at ticks and mosquitoes to prevent disease transmission
Published December 2, 2008, 12:34 pm, EurekAlert!
( American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ) Most successful vaccines and drugs rely on protecting humans or animals by blocking certain bacteria from growing in their systems. But a new theory actually hopes to take stopping infectious diseases such as West Nile virus and Malaria to the next level by disabling insects from transmitting these viruses.
Science Weekly podcast: Technologies to help stop climate change, war and medicine, drug classifications, plus lizards ...
Published December 2, 2008, 11:50 am, Guardian Unlimited
Writer and broadcaster Chris Goodall discusses his new book Ten Technologies To Save The Planet . We ask him whether Barack Obama will be the key. We also hear from Sir Gabriel Horn on why the government should not be involved in classifying drugs . Ken Arnold , from the Wellcome Collection , takes us around his new exhibition called War and Medicine . It looks at the paradoxical ...
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