While the research is preliminary, the scientists said that they were able to successfully identify the failure gene by studying the DNA of males in two generations of the same American family.
Both are getting favorable, if preliminary, reviews from scientists, dentists and consumer testers.
Likewise, preliminary results by scientists at the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented at the 2013 AGU meeting showed that higher sensitivity models do the best job simulating observed cloud changes.
The new findings are preliminary, and some scientists have expressed reservations about what they or other scanning results from the fast-moving field of behavioral neuroscience really mean.
And preliminary reports from scientists studying the effects on marshes, wildlife and the gulf itself suggest that the damage already done by the spill may also be significantly less than was feared — less, in fact, than the destruction from the much smaller Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989.
Preliminary results from scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Institute in Philadelphia indicate that humans also carry sequence variations in the gene, although whether those variations are responsible for differences in human sweet preferences awaits further study.
The VSSP research is so preliminary that Cuban scientists' documents still have to be translated from Spanish into English, says Dr. Kelvin Lee, chair of Roswell Park's department of immunology.
The preliminary findings -- from scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Public Health Service -- challenge experiments by the military that suggested that after spores had been released there was little threat of their becoming airborne again.
B2 THE DASCHLE LETTER -- Preliminary findings by federal scientists appear to confirm that the anthrax spores in the letter sent to the office of Senator Tom Daschle were highly refined and professionally produced.
Now NASA aims to tackle the hardest questions last, after years of preliminary work to help scientists understand if the environment of Mars was, or still is, conducive to life.
