Cincinnati engineering study finds clue to Bangladesh's poisoned water
Irrigation pumping used to grow rice during dry seasons is one of the culprits in what has been called "the worst case of natural contamination in human history," a study led by University of Cincinnati engineering professor Shafiqul Islam has shown. ... ...An article in a special water-themed issue of the journal Nature focuses on Islam's work in Bangladesh, where naturally occurring arsenic is...University of Cincinnati researchers track climate changes in Arctic thaw lakes
If global warming occurs as scientists predict, it could be exacerbated by changes in Arctic thaw lakes and their basins, which make up the majority of the landscape on the Arctic Coastal Plain. That's why University of Cincinnati assistant professor of geography Wendy Eisner is leading a team that is developing ways to monitor these basins. ......... Eisner and the team are using radiocarbon da...University of Cincinnati geologist finds survival benefit to evolving after mass extinctions
Cincinnati - An evolutionary group has a significantly better chance of surviving for a long time in the geologic record if it first appears right after a mass extinction. ... ...University of Cincinnati geologist Arnold Miller will present his findings Tuesday morning Nov. 6 during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Boston. ...... ... ...Professor Miller used a database o...University of Cincinnati and Air Force use algal enzyme to create new silicon-based materials
A team of engineers and scientists from the University of Cincinnati and the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio have demonstrated that a portion an algal enzyme can be used to create novel new silica materials with wide-ranging potential applications. ... ...Their research results will be published in the Sept. 20 issue of the journal Nature. ...... .....A University of Cincinnati research team working to save Crete from the curse of massive tourism will expand its studies into the picturesque town of Arhanes this summer. The nine-member team begins work Thursday, June 28. .Each summer since 1999, UC planning professor Michael Romanos has led teams of cross-disciplinary scholars to Crete, the largest of the Greek islands and his native homelan...Cincinnati researchers document environmental problems caused by tourist trade in Crete
.Although wetlands might not be the first natural wonders that spring to mind.when you think of Crete and its spectacular beauty, they're one of the first things in nature to show signs of distress when the environment is under strain. . .That's why Frank Wray, a University of Cincinnati.biologist, grew alarmed when he returned for his.second summer field project in Hersonissos, Crete, as a memb...Cincinnati Children's researchers uncover critical food allergy pathway
...Researchers at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati have identified a critical pathway that plays a key role in the development of food allergy. ... ...The discovery, to be published in the June 6 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), could lead rapidly to clinical trials of new drugs that would block the protein eotaxin, thereby preventing allergic...Historical information available on Taq polymerase findings at the University of Cincinnati
. Cincinnati -- Background information and expert commentary concerning the Taq polymerase patent.ruling is available from the University of Cincinnati department of biological sciences.. . U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Tuesday that the 1990 patent involving Taq polymerase was.issued, in part, on misleading information and false claims by scientists with Cetus Corporation. The.ruling s...Cincinnati chemists develop microsensors for nuclear waste cleanup, medical applications
.A three-year effort to find a safe way to monitor the radioactive and hazardous.wastes inside.the giant tanks at the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in Washington has.resulted in a novel idea and.prototype for remote sensing. The results will be presented in a series of talks.and poster presentations.during the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans Aug..22-26. . ."They...University Of Cincinnati Geologists Analyzes Evolutionary Impact Of Mass Extinctions
. The dramatic effects of the mass extinctions recorded in Earth's geologic.record have.led many geologists to view them as a distinct class of events -- so powerful.that they swamp out.normal evolutionary processes. Others have argued the opposite, that over.geologic time, mass.extinctions have had little effect on global diversity trends. .University of Cincinnati geologist Arnold Miller argu...University Of Cincinnati Biologists Find Evidence For Unusual DNA Repair InArchaea
CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Microbes that survive in extreme environments might have a much.higher rate of DNA recombination than other prokaryotes according to research which will.be presented Wednesday, May 20 during the annual meeting of the American Society for.Microbiology.. grows optimally around.80 degrees Celsius and in hot, sulfur springs with a pH of about 3. They know very little.else about...CINCINNATI, Ohio -- An ancient Greek medical text edited and.translated for the first time by University of Cincinnati.associate professor of classics Holt Parker demonstrates once.again how little ancient Greeks knew about pregnancy.. Today, knowledge about conception and birth is so advanced,.we're accustomed to test-tube babies, multiple births like the.McCaughey septuplets and surrogate preg...An Equal Opportunity Extinction? Cincinnati Geologists Find Global Impact from Permian Die
. Cincinnati -- Whatever caused the world's largest mass.extinction event apparently did not play favorites.. University of Cincinnati graduate student Stewart .Ebersole and Arnold Miller, professor of geology at UC, will.report Wednesday,.Oct. 30 during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of.America that the Late Permian mass extinction was global in its.extent and hit all marine areas.... Cincinnati A team of University of Cincinnati biologists.reports in the June 28 issue of Science that an unusual Romanian.cave system survives and thrives without the benefit of the sun's.energy.. Every other terrestrial or land-based ecosystem known is based.on photosynthesis the conversion of solar energy into food..However, a detailed study of Romania's Movile Cave demonstrated.that the...