• Registration for 2006 Chicago Biomarker Workshop is now open. Please contact Alicia Frasier <frasier-alicia@norc.org> for details.
• [Population_Biology]
Secondary sex ratios and male lifespan: Damaged or culle...
Population stressors reportedly reduce the human secondary sex ratio
(i.e., the
odds of a newborn's being male) by, among...
• [Anthropology]
Cortisol
levels and very early pregnancy loss in humans
Maternal stress is commonly cited as an important risk factor for
spontaneous
abortion. For humans, however, there is little physiological...
• [Psychology-BS]
Maternal
care effects on the hippocampal transcriptome and an...
Early-life experience has long-term consequences on behavior and stress
responsivity of the adult. We previously proposed that early-life
experience
results...
• [Psychology-BS]
Maternal
mediation, stress inoculation, and the development o...
The stress inoculation hypothesis presupposes that brief intermittent
stress
exposure early in life induces the development of subsequent stress
resistance...
• Cell biology. Ageing nucleus gets out
of shape
In certain premature-ageing syndromes, the architecture of the cell
nucleus is
abnormal. An animal model shows similar malformations during normal
ageing,
corroborating the idea that genome instability underlies ageing.
• [PERSPECTIVES]
BEHAVIOR: Who
Are More Helpful, Humans or Chimpanzees?
Humans, including infants, are more willing than closely-related
chimpanzees to
cooperate and behave altruistically and cooperatively, probably in part
accounting for their evolutionary success.
Change in Funding Opportunity Announcements That Use R03, R21, R33, and
R34 Grant Mechanisms: Transition to Electronic Submission Using SF424
(R&R) Grant Application Package
Health
Research with Diverse Populations (R01)
Program Announcement from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Sociobehavioral Data Analysis and Archiving in Aging (R03)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-102.html
Diet Composition and Energy Balance (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-173.html
Heterogeneity of Fat Depots: Underlying Basis and Association with
Morbidity
(R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-186.html
Announcing the NIA Primate Aging Database
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AG-06-006.html
Establishment of Multiple Principal Investigator Awards for the Support
of Team
Science Projects
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-036.html
Expert Meeting on the Future of the National Long-Term Care Survey:
Data Needs
for Disability Policy Making and Research for the Future
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AG-06-003.html
Research on Pathways Linking Environments, Behaviors and HIV/AIDS (R01)
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/funding-opps_pa.htm#PAR-06-114
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/funding-opps_pa.htm#PA-05-029
Research on Mind-Body Interactions and Health
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/funding-opps_pa.htm#PA-05-027
Population
Assocciation of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles March 29 -
April 1,
2006
Session 106: Using
Biomarkers to Validate Alternative Measures of Health in Developing
Countries
Session 124: Collection
and Methods for Analysis of Biomarker Data for Demographic Studies
2006
Chicago
Biomarker Workshop, Chicago, June 8-9, 2006
C2S
Summer Biomarker Institute, Chicago, June 19-21, 2006
Application deadline: April 7, 2006
2007
NICHD-NCES
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) First Release
Conference to be held March 31-April 1, 2007 in Bethesda, MD.
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