Duke Researchers Find Second Gene Linked To Blood Vessel Disorder
...cquire mechanical damage to tinyblood vessels that need to be repaired, the disorder shows up." Marchuk has shown that families whose disease is linked to defects in theendoglin gene have an increased risk of developing lesions in their lungsthat can lead to serious, secondary neurological problems. Abo...Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...into rice. "Hundreds of millions of hungry people need this rice now, and the crop losses to insects, drought and increasing salinization of soils are devastating." According to Gary Toenniessen, deputy director for agricultural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, Wu and his colleagues "have made a s...Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...n chronology." To visualize such chronologies, one need only visit the Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, located on the ground floor of Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall. Pinned on the walls of a narrow lab cluttered with microscopes and maps, books and statue...Southern Pine Beetle Reaching Outbreak Levels In North Florida
...lantations. Forest owners throughout North Florida need to check their stands and begincontrol measures if...rybody works on it together.Across Florida, people need to keep an eye out for this beetle andunderstand the need to act quickly." Foltz points to an exampl...NADC Examines TB In Cattle and Swine
...culins from each country to determineif there is a need to standardize the tuberculins used in North Ameri.... Butthe research team concluded that there was no need to standardize the tuberculins. Plans are being made to use swine in studies by the NADC team to re...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
... direct application process would do away with the need to use chlorinein the chillers. Canada prohibits the import of products treated with chlorine."Even before the direct application process become commercially available,we are having a beneficial effect on the chiller with our recycling processbecause...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...f the type generated by ATOC. "There's so much we need to learn about whales, especially about their sensitivity and response to sounds," Frankel commented. "Unfortunately, you can't just call a sperm whale into the lab, put on a set of earphones and give it a hearing test. So we're proceeding very ...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
... the bacteria by damaging key proteinsthe bacteria need to survive. While the bacteria are busy trying to repairthemselves, the macrophages can attack and destroy them. But the scientists discovered that the bacteria have an additional defensesystem. SNO compounds also attach to a transcription ...Hibernation: The Opposite of Sleep?
...g their body temperature back up tonormal? Do they need to empty their kidneys? Restore their fluid balanc...ins cannot sleep. Although torpor may stave offthe need to sleep for days or even weeks, eventually the animal will grow so tired and sleepy that it must re...Low-Protein Diet May Reverse Kidney Disease
...od pressure or other causes and often leads to the need for dialysis or transplantation. Previous Hopkins studies have shown that a very low protein diet before dialysis may prolong the lives of some kidney failure patients after they start dialysis and may postpone the start of dialysis for others. The ......nowing anything about what's in a single cell, you need mass spectrometry," McLafferty said. "We don't even need to know that it's a protein." Electrospray is a method for ionizing relatively big molecules and get...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
... the bacteria by damaging key proteinsthe bacteria need to survive. While the bacteria are busy trying to repairthemselves, the macrophages can attack and destroy them. But the scientists discovered that the bacteria have an additional defensesystem. SNO compounds also attach to a transcription ...Study Shows Songbirds Switch From Bugs To Berries To Fuel Fall Migration
...age is rapidly growing. Conservation biologistsmay need to add loss of stopover sites to their list of concerns for migratingsongbirds. Parrish's study suggests that the importance of fruit-rich habitatsalong coastal migration routes should be considered in land-management andconservation decisions. But P...Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...ar after germination begins -- thatthe tiny shoots need open sunlight to make food through the photosyntheticprocess. At a study site in Belize as well as in Mexico, Snook is dropping mahoganyseeds onto cornfields to see if the species can also be regenerated andmanaged in conjunction with shifting agric...Major Plant Genome Research Project Underway
...ternational group of scientists who recognized the need for study of one plant with the basic properties of all plants. "During the past several years, Arabidopsis has become established worldwide as the species of choice for molecular genetic studies of plant biology," says Clutter. "Decoding ...Newly Discovered Gene Halts Cell Division and May Have Cancer Link
...ed daughter cells without all the chromosomes they need to function properly," says Dr. Robert Benezra, an investigator in the Cell Biology and Genetics Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and the study's lead author. MAD2 is the first human gene to be identified that serves as a checkpoint for cells to ...Researchers Find Genetic Clues To Intestinal Disease
...with medication, but two-thirds of people affected need surgery, usually because of a blockage in the intestine. And in half of these cases, the disease returns after the operation. In the study published in Lancet, Bayless and his co-workers studied the hospital records of 552 patients treated for Cro...'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
...onfor these animals, but they have no choice. They need the food the animalsprovide and the income from logging." The center's three-pronged approach of captive breeding, habitat protectionand education aims to preserve the animals and to encourage further ecotourismin certain areas, Glander said. The D...Animal Studies Indicate Aging Brain Responsive To Estrogen
... believe that such findings as theirs indicate the need formuch more study of the neurological effects of ...so said they believetheir findings demonstrate the need to take brain effects and the timingof doses into account when considering hormone replacement thera...Cornell Scientists Find Way To Boost Rice Crop Yield -- They'll Walk On The Wild Side
...d is only so big, the population is growing and we need to continue feeding that population." Tanksley and Susan R. McCouch, Cornell assistant professor of plant breeding, along with other Cornell researchers are announcing their research in the journal Nature, (Nov. 21, 1996) in an article, "Genes from t...