Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
... "The Georgia Tech researchers certainlycould have gone in that direction. They could have made a cartoongorilla. But the whole point was to make it realistic." Students using the virtual reality system will be transported intothe zoo's Habitat 3 with a typical gorilla family. In reality, thishabitat is ...Nutrition Study Reshapes Strategies For Athletes
...an event is likely to have cleared the stomach and gone to the smallintestines ready to be absorbed. Houtkooper said most of the women and their coaches were skeptical at first.They look at it as more work, and something else to think about, she said.But like other athletes involved in intense competition...Honeybees In The Wild Nearly Gone In North America
...ll the routine problems facing bees thathave never gone away -- bee diseases, pesticide problems -- pushedhoneybees to the edge," Tew said. "The mites, however,wereclearly and definitively the last straw in causing this populationcollapse." Honeybee populations maintained by the nation's beekeepers haveal...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...cool the incoming water.Recycled water has already gone through the initial major cooling processand needs only to be reduced by a couple of degrees as it makes subsequenttrips through the process. Once a supply of water has been used, it passes through a mechanical pretreatmentand then four ozonation cy...Photosystem I -- An Intermediate Step -- May Not Be Necessary For Plants
...tudy reported today (July 19), that dogma may have gone for a walk, and scientists may have to rethink some aspects of how photosynthesis works. "Scientists have thought they understood photosynthesis for a long time, and this revelation flies in the face of what we know," said Thomas G. Owens, Cornell Un...Cornell Scientists Find Way To Boost Rice Crop Yield -- They'll Walk On The Wild Side
...me of the world's major agricultural crops. "We've gone back and found wild species that contain genes that may help us boost production," said Steven D. Tanksley, Cornell's Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and Biometry. "The world is only so big, the population is growing and we need to c...NIH Team Discovers Endocrine Tumor Gene
...tal or other random influences, all the brakes are gone and that cell can grow out of control, forming a tumor. That is what happens in MEN1, an inherited endocrine disorder that causes simultaneous, multiple tumors of the parathyroid and pituitary glands and of islet cells in the pancreas. Parathyroid a......ale is usually about two weeks. Then the female is gone on a food trip for about two weeks. Then the coupl...t 30 days of the chicks' life, each parent will be gone for no more than 36 hours at a time, returning with digested fish which is regurgitated for the offs...Couch Potatoes, Not French Fries, May Be To Blame For Obesity
...recent studies have found that fat consumption has gone down across the nation, yet obesity continues to increase," he says. "Right now, more and more people are pointing to decreasing physical activity as a reasonable explanation." Besides reduced activity and exercise, Gretebeck says, there may be other...Common Childhood Virus Poses Threat To Adults, Research Shows
...out adult RSV inmedical literature, but nobody has gone through it all and looked at itquite this way until now.” For a paper which appeared in a recent issue of the journal HospitalPractice , Murry and Scott F. Dowell, a medical epidemiologist for theCenters for Disease Control, pored over these m...Penn State Erie's Sea Grant To Focus On Ecology, Economic Development
...ture and mining. While most Sea Grant awards have gone tocoastal states, all of the other states bordering the Great Lakeshave received Sea Grants in the past. Pennsylvania now joinsOhio, New York and Michigan in research on Lake Erie. "Penn State Erie's Sea Grant will allow us to monitor theecolog......s in several of these cases --that substances have gone into widespread use without as much testing as, in retrospect, we wouldlike." The Interagency Committee for Chemical Evaluationand Coordination recommended study of: 2-Acetylpyridine, a fragrance material, direct food additive and constituent o...'Mean Gene' Found In Africanized Honey Bees
...ornia," Hunt says. "We don't know why they haven't gone there already." Even without further migration, the Africanized bees still could threaten the bee population throughout North America. "In the tropics the defensive behavior gives the bees an advantage; we don't know if it will be an advantage in tem......inkall we can say is that the procedure itself has gone fine." The effectiveness of the gene therapy was gauged by before and afterclinical assessments which included diagnostic angiogram, which produces animage that shows blood flow in vessels; magnetic resonance angiography;measurement of the an...Shuttle Mission's "Neurolab" To Study Nervous System
...nd fish willgo where only a few men and women have gone before: into outer space. Thesnails and fish will travel aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, as part of aresearch project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study thedevelopment of gravity sensors in space by animals in the early s...Composting Livestock Waste Provides Benefits
...oss the fields was causing soil compaction. "We've gone from spreading manure on a daily basis to spreading compost five or six days a year." Composting is also safer for the environment than stockpiling manure, according to Hawkins. "Stockpiled manure is not environmentally stable, which poses some safet...Monogamy Has Its Rewards For Flies
...rett Holland hoped to find out far fruit flieshave gone in this arms race. Holland divided a laboratory population of fliesinto four subpopulations in which females lived in individual vials. In two ofthe subpopulations, each female shared a vial with three males, which competedin the usual way to fertili...Antisense Therapy Prevents Burkitt's Lymphoma In Mice
...ic diseases. Gene-specific nucleicacid therapy has gone from theory to practical possibility in a short time. "It's clear that all disease results from incorrect gene expression, oneway or another," he notes. "By turning off some genes or correcting others, wemay be able to treat each disease at ...Transplanted Skeletal Muscle Mimics Heart Muscle; Helps Failing Heart Pump, Duke Researchers Say
... ever have. Once you damage the heartmuscle, it's gone forever." Yet as any body builder knows, if you strain your biceps pumping ironthey respond by building new muscle. In a deceptively simple idea, Taylordecided to try to recruit the services of individual skeletal muscle cells,called myoblast......fections and other bodily invaders. Butlike a hero gone awry, excessive TNF production stimulated by TNF itself cancause a host of inflammatory ills, such as those mentioned above, and thephysical wasting that accompanies many cancers and AIDS. Now, however, scientists at the National Institute of...