Researchers Pinpoint Site For Petit Mal Seizures In Brain
... them to develop a treatment that works as well as current drugs, but with fewer side effects....New 'Twist' In Proteins Offers Possible Route To Improved Antibiotics
...olution, since bacteria can so readily adapt tothe current generation of antibiotics. The researchers, who published their findings in the Nov. 10 issue of thejournal Science, are Christian Raetz, chairman and professor in the DukeUniversity Medical Center department of biochemistry, and Steven Roder......ion of theCeausescu regime, resuming in 1990. The current research is funded by the National ScienceFoundation with additional support through the Fulbright Program,the National Geographic Society, and the National SpeleologicalSociety....Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...nother use of ozone in the food safety process.The current rules allow application of ozone only when the water passesthrough the cylinders but not in the chiller tanks where the poultry isbeing cooled. Studies by Waldroup and Forsythe have shown that direct applicationof ozone to poultry during immersion ch...Core Spins Faster Than Earth, Scientists Find
...y that can now be observed. Abouta billion amps of current is flowing into and out of the innercore, across the boundary between the inner and outer cores. Thiscurrent, in the presence of a magnetic field, results in forcesbeing applied to the inner core, which then rotates. Essentially,the inner core rotate......asures have been undermined by the limitations in current sensor technology. Drivers have found that their s...spheric pollutants. US legislators have found that current car and sensor technology is unable to provide continuous monitoring of the extremely precise air p...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
...rch 21 in the British journal Nature. The current discovery was made when the researchers were studying why somebacteria escape attack by immune system cells called macrophages, whichare designed to disable and devour them. The question is of increasing importancein acute health care. When...Cooking And Salad Oils Could Lubricate Cars, Boats, Machines
...he environment and are cheaper to manufacture than current synthetic lubricants. Duda adds, "Vegetable oils offer Third World countries with a good farm base a real alternative to importing oil for lubricants." Highly saturated oils make the best lubricants because of their...Low-Protein Diet May Reverse Kidney Disease
...ay postpone the start of dialysis for others. The current study's other authors were Sylvia Hill, B.S. and Elizabeth A. Tomalis, M.P.H.......nfidence, something that is almost impossible with current analytical technologies, the researchers say. The technique could be used for molecular investigations about human medical disorders at the cellular level. "We have three orders of magnitude better sensitivity than what was possible before. The big...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
...rch 21 in the British journal Nature. The current discovery was made when the researchers were studying why somebacteria escape attack by immune system cells called macrophages, whichare designed to disable and devour them. The question is of increasing importancein acute health care. When...Major Plant Genome Research Project Underway
...h the three groups of researchers selected for the current research grants are supported by separate awards, each is part of a single project. "Their activities will be coordinated to maximize efficiency and usefulness," says Clutter, "and information from the project will be widely disseminated so that res...PET Project Helps Reduce Pollution Threat From Heavy Metals
...ial exfiltration trench. It's a modificationof the current systems used to improve drainage under highways,so it's expected to be easy to install and relativelyinexpensive. There are two key components to the system. The first is a bedof oxide-coated sand which attracts and holds onto heavy metalsin the stor...End Of World Population Growth Projected For 21st Century
...ration. By 2020, thepopulation could fall from its current 238 million to 224 million. By 2050, thepopulation...e and possibly triple over the next50 years due to current young age structures and high fertility levels. NorthAfrica's 1995 population level of 162 million ...New Software Provides Quick Analysis of ion-Channel Activity
...in structures that regulate the flow of electrical current in cells -- can be so difficult and time-consuming... to enhance the programs and to move them from the current UNIX environment to Windows. The current version of the software may be downloaded from the World W...Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
... "Cold water near the poles that is the source of current deep water formation dissolves large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere," says Bice. "It takes one to two thousand years for this carbon dioxide to be returned to the atmosphere through upwelling elsewhere." As in carbonated soft dr......ean-going ships is probably one of the most common current mechanisms by which species travel from port to port today, Cohen says. Over 68 million gallons of ballast water are released by ships in San Francisco Bay annually, yet there currently is no regulation of such dumping to prevent invasions by exotic ...Cornell Scientists Find Way To Boost Rice Crop Yield -- They'll Walk On The Wild Side
... 1995, the world's population doubled to reach its current size of 5.7 billion people. With global estimates of 8.9 billion people to feed by the year 2030, the Cornell scientists are looking for ways to improve production of staple food crops. "We've been breeding rice for 70 years, with the same set of ri...No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
...n -- the 1 to 5 gram range, which is comparable to current atmospheric deposition rates in eastern North America and northern Europe. Most of the lost nitrogen leaked into groundwater as nitrate, a pollutant and human health threat throughout the Midwest. The nitrogen-driven loss of diversity and ri...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
...assive outburst of food poisoning in Japan, and a current outbreak in Scotland that is linked to 10 deaths. ... Lab materials scientist Deborah Charych. All are current or former members of Berkeley Lab's Biomolecular Materials Program in its Center for Advanced Materi...