Second Breast Cancer Gene Located
...on to examine both the functionof the gene and the consequences of gene damage. Simultaneously, we willexplore the role of the gene in non-family breast cancers." Futreal has had a hand in the discovery of both breast cancer genes. Asa member of the Skolnick team, he cloned BRCA1 last year. "Th...Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
...ient oceans. "We have already seen some of the consequences of changing surface waterways," says Karen L. Bice, graduate student in geosciences. "The Colorado River barely flows to the ocean and the Aral Sea is drying up. We do have the capacity to alter the amounts of freshwater that run off into the oce...North America Hit Hard By Asteroid Strike In Yucatan 65 Million Years Ago
...ica. The study suggests one rationale for the dire consequences of such animpact: The severity of extinctions that...blique angle of impact may have more deadly global consequences than avertical impact, because an oblique impact should release a greater fraction ofimpact energy t...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...eninsula. The study may shed light on the possible consequences of global warming for land plants. Drilling an Ice Dome in West Antarctica Fast-flowing ice streams, analogous to rivers, drain part of West Antarctica's ice sheet out to the floating Ross Ice Shelf, and hence to the sea. How permanent is ......ndustry-funded R&D may shield the economy from the consequences of proposed cuts, the region's universities are likely to feel the impact. According to the report, universities in Washington and Oregon have contributed significantly to the region's growing biotechnology and medical industry. "Cuts to aca...Low Iron Levels Cause Weakness In Women Who Are Not Anemic
... without anemia, low iron stores can have dramatic consequences on a woman's ability to do physical work and make a living," said Haas, who studies the functional consequences of mild to moderate forms of malnutrition worldwide. With postdoctoral associate Y. Isabel Zhu of Ch...Subtle Biotic Changes Have Big Environmental Impact
... other ecosystems such as oceans. "Although the consequences ... are much less known for marine systems than for lakes, we should expect that the ecological responses to exploitation are similar in many ways," Schindler said. The work done by the Wisconsin scientists was funded by the National Science Fou...Early Menarche Puts Young Girls In Peril
...beralism without a feminist base can have negative consequences for girls, said Brumberg in an invited address to the American Psychological Association in August -- an unusual invitation for a historian. Her analysis on the paradigm shift in girls' self perception from the l9th to 20th century, however, is of p...Report Notes Difficulties In Eliminating E. Coli O157:H7 From Food Supply
...oodbornepathogens for reasons including the severe consequences of infection that affectall age groups, its low infectious dose, its unusual acid tolerance, and itsapparent special but inexplicable association with ruminants [cattle, deer, andsheep] that are used for food," wrote Robert L. Buchanan, Ph.D., and Mi...NIDR Supports Total Genome Studies Of Major Oral Pathogens
...untered human pathogens and hassignificant medical consequences for both oral and systemic disease. It causesa wide variety of infections ranging from mucosal infections in generallyhealthy persons to life-threatening systemic infections in individuals withimpaired immunity. Candidiasis is one of the earliest a...UF Researcher Designs Pill To Control Mosquitoes
...productive hormone that could have unknown adverse consequences for them as well. "We have to stay a step ahead of them or outsmart them all over again," Borovsky said. In the decade since he began work on the pill, Borovsky has made believers out of even the most ardent doubters. "Ten years ago, everybody was la...USGS 1999 Budget Emphasizes Clean Water, Disaster Information, Species And Habitat Research
...nd migratory birds. USGS biologists will study the consequences of fire use toimprove the ecosystem health of national wildlife refuges, and biologists will supply informationon wetlands and uplands in support of the population and habitat goals of the North AmericanWaterfowl Management Plan. Decision support sys...At Life's Most Sensitive Stage, Embryos Cope With Stress
...ion from environmental heat stress, the biological consequences of heatshock protein expression in early embryos, and the unpredictability oftemperature stress in the intertidal zone," Hofmann said. She said the embryos may have other protective factors as well that scientistshaven't discovered yet; or the action...Sexually Active Younger Women Are At Higher Risk For Infection With Human Papillomavirus
...ts, the more likely it was to persist. One of the consequences of HPV infection is the presence of various types ofabnormal cells. One such type, squamous intraepithelial lesion, a potentiallypre-cancerous condition, is causedby HPV infection of cervical cells, and is usually first detected as an abnormalPap sm...Population Growth Costs Include Global Warming Impact
... economy that integrates economicactivity with the consequences of greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change. The RICE model (Regional Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) is aversion of the DICE model that looks individually at 13 different countries ormajor regions of the world. The DICE an...Candidate Regulator Of The Temporal Component Of Neurotransmitter Release Identified
...interacting with NSF in vitro. To elucidate the consequences of perturbed NSF-function for an intact synapse, inhibitory peptides were then injected into the nerve terminal of a squid giant axon preparation, in a series of experiments performed at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole (M...Hultgren Receives Prestigious Eli Lilly Award
... host receptors. Second, theyare investigating the consequences of this interaction and the cross-talk thatswitches on genes in both pathogen and host. In the third program, Hultgren's team is studying the structure,function and assembly of E. coli P and type 1 pili, whose tips contain adhesinscalled Pap...Study Of Microbes May Hone Predictions Of Mining Impact
... better way to predict the potential environmental consequences of mining metal ores. Writing this week (March 6) ...of heavy metals into water, one of the most vexing consequences of sulfide mining. In nature, minerals exposed to oxygen and water form sulfuric acid. Around mines,...GCTE/LUCC Open Science Conference:
...ific community willre-examine: What will be the consequences of climate and atmospheric composition changeson the functioning of natural ecosystems and on the planet as a whole? Can the absorption of carbon by plants slow down the accumulation of carbondioxide in the atmosphere and the associated global warm...The Environmental Consequences Of Increasing Food Production
...environmental scientists are helping themstudy the consequences of land use changes. Powerful computer programs calledGeographical Information Systems (GIS) bring together a wide array of dataincluding topography, hydrology, population density and satellite images for usein models that determine the patterns of...